Alice and Friends in a Tiny Book

Was inspired by Kate Crane to make some gelli prints and a tiny 3" book. I love anything "Alice" and finally was able to get some newly released stamps from Miss Ink Stamps and had a blast playing with all kinds of mixed media for this tiny book of Alice!

Closed Book

Open Book

I often wonder if anyone at all looks at this blog. I have another on for my cardmaking and coloring that a lot of people visit, but I don't thing anyone can ever see this since Facebook has deemed this site "not following community standards", whatever that means. So, if you're looking. Thank you. I really hope I'm not blogging for absolutely no one, LOL!

Laugh the Pain Away

The Documented Life Project: May Theme = Touchy Feely (Texture) May 9 Art Challenge:  Stitching
Journal Prompt:  "All that I'm after is life full of laughter."

Great lessons. Lots of ideas! It made me think of a photo that was taken by a friend. (A bit fuzzy, but just look at that joy!) We both realized, at the same time, that we were taking pictures of each other with our iPads. We got to laughing so hard. It was a special moment. I truly believe that laughter IS the best medicine!

 Sewed the two added pieces randomly around the edges in black. Added stamping in black and white with a bit of scrawled journaling and some faux stitching.

Photo for Page

Gelli Printed Background

Coming Into Focus

The Documented Life March Theme is Making Your Mark (Doodles & Mark Making). This week the Art Challenge: As a Focal Point, and the Journal Prompt: Coming into Focus.

 I started with a page that was covered with Tim Holtz tissue and gesso. I added some Distress Inks. Then I grabbed some Gelli prints that I made with my new circular gelli plate. I cut out many circles and used two different punches to cut out the Gelli printed papers. The main flower, or focal point, is layered. I also played with some Payons, or water color crayons that I have had for probably 30 years LOL!

 

Sentiments are from Hero Arts and stamped with Ranger Archival Ink. The white stamping is also Hero Arts. The stamped edges and smaller stamps came from Oriental Trader, and the bright yellow centers are Silks that I added with my fingers. White gel pen adds accents and Pitt pens add shadows.

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The Documented Life Project Week Two

 The Documented Life Project challenge for this week is Gesso. I threw down a bit of yellow, orange, and green acrylics and several dollops of gesso and used a brayer to cover the pages. Then I used my Faded Text Background from Stampabilities with some black ink.  Added some gesso stencil leaves and more stamping in black. Made some flowers, described below and used gel medium to attach them, the quote, and tags. Used my finger to stamp green circles and added details with a white gel pen. Finishing touch was to ink the edges. The prompt this week was: “The beginning is always today.” -Mary Shelley

 Sandi Keene left a link on how to make her deli paper flowers. It is free and I highly recommend watching it if you like these fun flowers on my page.I used a gelli plate to color some book pages and deli wrap that were then used to make the flowers.

The tag, you may recognize, was made a few days ago. Just click back to the last post to see details on the tag. The white strips were leftovers (waste not) from punching out some squares for the Inchie challenge that I contribute to every Monday. (You can check out my Copics and Paper Fun tab on the top bar to see some of them too.)

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Another Good Day Gelli Printing, Inktense Watercoloring and More

I got a new stamp this weekend by Julie Nutting for Prima called Keira. I stamped her on cardstock and made a mask. First, I used the leftover cardstock that the image was used for and taped that down to my journal page. I put down a dot mask and sprayed with green. I removed that and taped, with easy remove double sided tape, the real mask. Then I added acrylic paints over a variety of stamps and left over cut outs from previous projects. A nice spray of yellow and orange on top of that. Then, I removed the mask and stamped the image down. I grabbed some Inktense blocks to color the girl and discovered that Inktense can be used like watercolors by using a waterbrush directly on the sticks! Did everybody but me know that???? Goodness she looked happy, and so was I, so "another good day"!

On to some Gelli printing. I LOVE the new small sized one. I can print on file cards and have perfect pieces to cut for my cardmaking, or layer them for a different background to an art journal page!

 

And, finally, some fun with molding paste and a stencil with something I learned from a Carolyn Dube video. It is a pay for video, very short, but with some fun techniques that I don't feel right sharing, but I just wanted to show my page, ready for more!

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I Love Pancakes

I found that stencils are a whole lot less expensive when you buy them from the paint department at places like Home Depot. This was one I picked up yesterday for less than two dollars by Tracy Moreau from Americana that I sprayed with Dylusions in Pink Fuchsia into my Paperblanks journal. Then I added the background color with Neocolor crayons and blended with a baby wipe. I added the bird and flower with a stencil, Everyday Fun by Show-Offs, and heavy-body white acrylic, then a blue Gelato. I added some cutouts over the wing, flower and tailfeathers from some paper I had done Gelli printing on. Stamped notes (Stampendous) and butterfly (Sarah Beise), words with green Faber-Castell green Pitt pen and white accents with Molotow Pen.

Sing Like There's No Tomorrow Art Journal Page

Sing Like There's No Tomorrow was done in an 8 x 11 Inch Paper Blanks Journal.

Sing Like There's No Tomorrow FINISHED PAGE

Journey:

Gelli printed big book and leftovers on smaller journals.

I started by doing a gelli print on the right hand side with its ghost print on the right. I think I am partial to ghost prints as there is more white left on the paper. I used orange and yellow acrylics and a fabric flower stamp that I picked up at Hobby Lobby. I kept a couple of journals open so I could wipe off my brayer and use up ink from the stamp.
I added some Gelatos to the top and bottom, sprayed with water and created drips. Then, I stamped from a flower stencil using purple Versa Magic. I added a bird and small white flowers using a stencil and a finger dauber with Craftsmart White Ink. Colored these with Koi coloring brush pens. Then, added words stamped with Stazon Brown and white Molotow pen. I was happy up to here. Then I messed with the flowers and added stems and HATED (well, that's probably too strong of a word for something on paper, so shall we say "disappointed?") it.

Unhappy with results for this part.

 I went to bed and all night long, different options kept waking me up. Finally, I simply burried the offending parts with a White Pitt Artist Pen and restamped with the purple and white. Sometimes I should leave things alone. I loved the page before I added color to the white flowers. The finished page is okay but I lost some of the clear colors of the gelli print that I thought was so beautiful.