May Tag Swap

The May swap at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group is a rubber stamped tag swap, meaning to use at least one rubber stamped image in the art.  I made my usual background on vintage text or sheet music using stencils and acrylic paint. I used a text stamp in the background as well.  I used glitter bead gel through stencils as the final background layer, but it's hard to see in the photos.  The stamped images are from Dylusions colored with glaze pens, metallic gelly roll pens and colored pencils.  The stamped image are popped up.  The little flowers are old chipboard buttons from Maya Road embellished with a white Signo pen.  Thanks for coming by my blog today!

Bird Note Cards

I got these new Dylusions bird stamps this week and I love them!  I made the card base using acrylic paints and stencils from Stencil Girl, Tim Holtz, and Joggles.  The birds are stamped on white cardstock with black ink and clear embossed.  I colored them with Posca paint pens. Thanks for coming by to see my new bird cards!

August Art Journal Page Swap

For my August art journal page, the recipient's theme is "silly birds".  On this page, I glued down an old dictionary page, and used a circle stencil with Dylusions green and orange paint.  The yellow is Dina Media paint.  I used a Stencil Girl word stencil here and there.  I applied a light orange washi tape in several places.  The birds are from the Tim Holtz Bird Crazy stamp set.  I colored them with watercolors.  I used a Dina Media stencil with glitter bead gel.  Love that stuff!  The saying is from Dylusions.

This page is all Dina Media - stamps, paint and stencils.  The hearts are cut from a vintage book.  I used an orange inktense pencil and a yellow china marker for highlighting some of the elements. The birds are painted with the Dina Media paints.  I used an alphabet stamp that is NOT Dina Media for a little texture.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

walk on the wild side art journal spread

This is another spread in my own art journal.  I used some geli printed paper at the right and left sides.  I glued down a page from a vintage music book in the center and used a Stencil Girl stencil to apply the green paint over the music.  The stamped images are all Dylusions colored with a variety of sparkly pens and glaze pens.  I stamped out the words with a small alphabet stamp set.  I added more stenciling over the gelli print papers.  I had fun making these pages.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Standards Art Journal Spread

This is another art journal spread in Lin's journal.  The base of the pages are vintage phone book pages.  I added some stenciled deli paper done in red tones with glitter bead gel added for texture.  It was too bright, so I toned it down with white paint.  In the middle of spread, I used a flower stencil with red paint, toned down the red with white paint, stamped in black and more white paint over the black stamping.  The woman image is from Tim Holtz.  The woman images were colored with Copic markers and a red glitter gel pen.  The words are a Dylusions stamp.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Be Bold Art Journal Spread

Here's another spread in Lin's art journal.  I believe the sentiment on this page.  Never be regular!  It's boring! The background is all spray inks and gesso - many layers.  Vintage ledger pages were used as part of the background. The stencil is from Stencil Girl.  The stamps are all from Dylusions. I colored in the women with various sparkly markers.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Numbers Theme for Art Journal Page Swap

At the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, I'm hosting an art journal page swap.  The theme for my March page is numbers.  For the top photo, I started out using Colorbox Spritzers to add the base colors.  Next came stencils with paint, and then a number stencil with modeling paste.  I colored in the Dylusions stamped image with Starlight pens and used the vintage ticket to ground the image.  I added the Dylusions quote and outlined the stamped images with a Stabilio All Pencil.  I sprayed the page with workable fixative to seal the pencil markings.  For the bottom photo, I started out with a vintage ledger page for the background.  I used a Tim Holtz layering stencil with red spray ink.  I stenciled the numbers with brown paint.  I added a Tim Holtz Found Relatives image, Tim Holtz vellum ephemera, vintage phone book strip, washi tape, vintage tickets and a dictionary page with holes cut out.  I painted the holey dictionary page with brown paint. Thanks for coming by my blog!

Fantasy Art Journal Page

I'm hosting an art journal page swap this year at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group.  I had to make a replacement page for one of the participants.  Her theme is fantasy.  For the first photo, I sketched a face in the Jane Davenport style - sort of!  I didn't intend to have the pink drips under the eyes, but art happens!  I was using a Posca paint pen to put dots around the eyes and ended up with a blob instead.  I pulled the blob down and made the same paint blob on the other eye.  I rather like it!  The bottom photo uses Dylsuions stamps.  I tend to overdo on the backgrounds, so I painted gesso in the middle of the page and overstamped with a text stamp.  This way my "mermaid" stands out from the background a little.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

Make a Wish art journal page

This is an art journal page I finished last night.  I used Dylusions stamps, stencils from the Crafter's Workshop  and Stencil Girl, acrylic paints, glaze pens, stamper's white big brush pen, modeling paste and remnant rubs.  Thanks for coming by my blog!

2015 handmade calendar covers

Every year at the Collage Stuff Yahoo Group, we do a handmade calendar swap.  I'm doing the covers again this year.  Here are two of them! Very different, but both very me!  Thanks for coming by my blog!  Leave a comment if you would please!

Of Two Minds and Guarded Hearts Art Journal Page

For this spread, I used one of the new Dylusions stamps.  I applied watercolor to two #8 tags and stamped the part of the image on both tags.  I cut out  both images and trimmed them.  I used a palette knife to spread acrylic paints to make the background.  I used a Stencil Girl stencil to apply the modeling paste.  I followed that up with some black circles and slash lines made with an old key card.  I cut some washi tape circles to put inside the black paint circles.  I also shook some diluted black paint from a brush to make the splatters.  I cut the hearts out of this grid material and painted them with the yellow paint.  I cut smaller hearts out of a vintage dictionary and applied buttercup glass glitter.  I glued the grid hearts on top of the glitter hearts and glued the whole constructed image down.  The pink butterflies were applied last.  I had fun making this!  Thanks for stopping by!