Biohazard

Hello everyone,

I am so happy to announce that I was invited to join the Creative Team of the lovely DeeDee Catron's UmWow Studio !  Of course I accepted. It is really nice to extend my creative journey to other things like these lovely chipboards. The are fabulous to combine with rubber stamps!! 

For my first post I have created an art journal page:

I started with a piece of manilla card stock and painted a layer of gesso on it. After that dried I painted over the gesso with some Silks. I used a blue and a green. It gives a lovely shimmer. 

Because I thought it was not dark enough I used Distress Crayons over the top and sealed them with Distress Collage Medium, which is just gel medium I think. It makes the crayons go streaky which I liked. Next I used a Prima Marketing 'Finnabair' stencil called 'Bubbles' to create, well, the bubbles... lol. I used white paint and a blending tool for this.

I then used some VivaLasVegaStamps! to stamp the background and add some more interest. I used several colours of Archival Inks for this, always making sure they blend in. 

The jar, jar label and sentiment are also rubber stamps by VivaLasVegas!

The chipboards I were painted with gesso and coloured with Distress Crayons. I heat embossed both to add interest but also to make the Crayons permanent. I used a holographic powder for the fish and a clear powder for the seaweed. 

After colouring everything I arranged it on the background until I was happy and glued everything down. Lastly I used a small piece of 7Dots Studio pattern paper (Destination Unknown by DeeDee Catron) at the bottom to make the sand at the bottom of the sea. 

I have used these chipboard pieces:

Fishbones

Seaweed

Thank you so much for stopping by today ! 

When we believe in ourselves..

Hello everyone,

I had a play with my art journal today. I used one of my new Dina Wakley stamps and some old favourites..

The background was started with white gesso. I then painted it with 2 colours of Silks Acrylic paints. They have a lovely shimmer, it almost looks metallic. Next I stamped the background randomly; I used Prima stamps designed by Finnabair and a green, a grey and a blue Archival ink. 

I also added some model paste through a stencil to add more interest. It took on some of the colour of the background which I like. I also rubbed my black Archival Inkpad along the edges of the pages. Unfortunately most of this got cropped off the photo as my book is so wonky that I can't take a decent photo anymore... 

Next I stamped the lady (by Dina Wakley) with black Archival Ink. I found the two hearts lying on my desk. They too are by Dina Wakley and I stamped them on vellum and heat embossed them with black embossing powder. I decided to use them on this page. I added some washi tape, some white spatters and finally the sentiment which is from Stampingback. This was stamped on white card stock, cut apart,  glued on the page and doodled around.

Here are some detailed photos.

Thank you so much for stopping by today !