A gentle heart.

Hello everyone, 

and welcome to today's post for UmWow Studio. 

I have been playing with some more muted colours in the last few days. Maybe because I am sad that summer is over? Who knows. What I do know is that I thoroughly enjoyed my experimenting. 

This art journal spread is an example of this experiment. 

The base of this journal spread is a piece of Pattern paper from the Nature Walk series designed by DeeDee Catron. She is so very talented ! 

Here's how I did it:

I cut the 12 x 12 to size (I actually changed this later as I cut off the white from the left page. Later I decided I wanted the pattern of the splatters to continue... 

Next I used some modelling paste through a piece of punchinelle (sequin waste) and dried it gently with my heat gun.. 

Next I thought it would be fun to use some gilding flakes. I usually avoid using them at all cost as they go everywhere... lol 

I think the result was worth it though. 

How fab is that ?

Another look...

Next I used some black embossing glitter to colour and coat the heart. It is not really a glitter, more a glint... 

After did all that, I started stamping the background, of course I forgot to take more photos... All stamps I used are by VivaLasVegaStamps! (What else?) and I used different colours of Archival ink. The sentiment was stamped on the page directly but I messed up so I stamped it again on a piece of the same paper but turned around; I inked the edges and added some brads and then added it on top of the one I messed up. The flowers in the heart were a piece of ribbon that I was given. It was pink and I coloured it with inks to match the rest of the page. 

I glued the pages in my journal and that was that ! I really like how it came out.  

I used this chipboard:

Scribble heart and you'll find it HERE

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

tis near Halloween

Hello everyone,

I have worked so far ahead for my DT's that I actually have time to play ! It is great too... It gave me time to get my head around the YouTube thing, yes, I am on YouTube; 3 videos up to now !

I also love to play in some of the many challenges that are around and the one on the VivaLasVegaStamps blog is one I really like. Even though I am on the DT, I am still allowed to play, how cool is that !

So here is my interpretation of the inspiration board.. (photo of the inspiration board is below)

I really like how it came out. I used a piece of 7Dots Studio paper from the Nature Walk collection designed by DeeDee Catron. I added some Distress Ink around the edges and some randome stamping. I used part of the birds on a wire stamp and part of the sentiment. Dracula was just stamped on the page. I added some text from the book by Ray Bradbury called "Something wicked this way comes". I tried to read it once but thought not much of it so it ended up in my stash which is great when Halloween is around the corner... 

I used a lid of a pot of gel medium and red acrylic paint for the ring and my finger and the same paint to go around the sentiment. 

This art journal page is based on this inspiration board :

and the following words:

bones, skeletons, garden gnomes, nymphs, goblins, ghouls, bats, creatures, critters, vampires, graveyards, catacombs, dead, death, halloween, spooky, creepy, and more.

So, there you have it ! 

Thank you so much for stopping by today !