Happy Halloween

The theme for October over at the Oddball Art Challenge is Happy Horrors. Perfect for this time of year! The sweet girl, fussy cut after coloring with Prismacolor colored pencils, came from Oddball Art. (Big Eye Girl Eve Has Something To Say) The rest of the images came from a set by Hampton Art. The sentiment is from Taylored Expressions, Tomb Sweet Tomb. (Out of stock.)

I did a journal page in my Paper Blanks book with lots of Distress Oxide inks, some splatters, stamping, and gel pen. The dark shadows were created with a Stabillo pencil. I popped the sentiment up for some dimension and added a few heart embellishments.

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Happy Horrors

The theme for October over at the Oddball Art Challenge is Happy Horrors. Perfect for this time of year! All of the images came from Oddball Art.

I love using the PNG images as it is easy to combine several images to create a pleasing layout. I lightened the background image and set the others on top in the right sizes. Then I created a sentiment and added it to the word bubble. I colored with Copics and edged with Distress Inks. Then, I distressed the edges and added just a bit of clear gel pen to the eyes and blood.

Copic Colors

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Open if you Dare!

I am so happy to have completed another journal page. Oddball Art is really responsible for that. I normally created "pretty" things for cards, but these images really lend themselves to larger spreads.

Both of these images, Bride of Chucky & Bride of Franky, are free if you sign up for the creepy cute chronicles. Just go HERE to join and subscribe. The wall and sentiments are from other sets. Everything was colored with Copic markers.

I colored everything on Copic friendly paper and then glued to 61/2 x 81/2 journal. The coffin was created separately to make for an interactive page.

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Happy Hauntings

It's been forever since I've completed a journal spread. I certainly have started many, but this was a two day marathon. I got the idea that I wanted to do an image transfer and some printing on tracing paper. With my Oddball Art Co, by Lizzy Love images, I was able to do just that.

This is how the transfer started:

In progress

After removing paper.

Here are close-ups of the two pages:

Left side

Right Side

The mummy was colored with Copic Gray markers and fussy cut to glue to the page. The trees, also from Oddball Art, were printed on to tracing paper. That worked better that I could have imagined. The background color was from Distress Oxide Inks, the images were watercolored after dry with regular Distress Inks. I used a few stamps from Hampton Arts as accent pieces.

A bit of a better explanation:
I looked up several of them, got confused, and did them all at the same time, LOL! I did the full colored background first, resized/flipped and ran the image with my laser printer. I added some gel medium to the page and set the image on top, and smoothed the best I could. Then, after it dried, I added some gel medium over the top, then added another layer when that was dry. I waited overnight to be sure it was totally dry to add water on top. It didn't budge and I was feeling that I had ruined it. However, adding water many times and letting it soak, I found that if I used my fingernail, I could get it started. It is just a bit time consuming, LOL!

I've seldom had anyone visit my journal page, so if you have, please leave me a little note so I will know if I should "re-awaken" this blog. My main blog is TangleStreetColorway where I mainly do coloring for cardmaking. Feel free to pop over there as well.

Art Journal Fairy Wishes

So, where have I been you might ask? Well, it looks like nobody visits this blog, so my focus has been on cards. Yet, the most popular blog of the three I have was my Zentangle blog. Loads of visitors, but I tired of doing it. I have done many art journal pages over the past year, just not posted. But, today, I thought I might just start putting them here again.

I got a set with stencil and stamps with some magazine a long time ago. Sorry, I don't remember which magazine or the issue, but I wanted to play with some gold embossing through a stencil. The background and stamping were done with Distress Oxide inks. I added paint pens, shimmer pen, and white gel pen to liven things up a bit.

If you found your way here, thanks for the visit!