A small tag book for AALL & Create

Hello everyone,

For today's Guest Designpost for AALL & Create I have made a small book out or a tag that I cut out of Mixed Media paper.

Here is how:

This is the outside of the tag, I used my sewing machine to add a piece of MM paper on the inside. You can't see that here. I painted the outside with turquoise and white paint and then added some printing with this fab stencil ! 

I did the same to the inside of the tag. For the little piece of paper inside I used different colours. This is a combination of inks and paint. 

I added stamping, birds at the top and a little train at the bottom. I later coloured these of course. I used Faber Castell Big Brush Markers for this because they work fabulously on painted backgrounds.  

I stamped these little 'Dog toys' to colour and use as my main images. 

All finished colouring; I used Copic Markers to colour these, I then cut them out. 

I added a little background stamping and glued this little cutie on the front. 

On the inside page, I placed the other three dog toys and added some stamping and some hearts. 

The sentiment is on the outside of the page that I put in the tag. 

Close ups of the right hand page. 

And the left hand page. 

I have used :

Stamp set #249 - Dog toys by Janet Klein

Stamp set #76 - Classic Caravan by Bipasha Bk

Stamp set #144 - Farmhouse tales by Bipasha Bk

Stamp set #234 - Brush Flower by Tracy Evans

Stencil #45 - Digital Bubbles by Autour de Maw

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Edison's latest wonder

Hello everyone,

welcome to my blogpost for AALL & Create for which today I have made an art journal page. I have used all Bipasha Bk stamps and some old favourite materials to make the background and to colour the images.

and here's how:

First I stamped the bits and pieces of the stamp sets that I wanted to use to collage. I didn't use everything in the end. 

I wanted to use the pylon from this set so I stamped it on tissue paper so I could cut out exactly the part I wanted and glue it where I wanted without it being visible. 

I chose the lightbulb moment stamp to use as a base for my page and stamped it on a square piece of card stock.

I added the pylon on the left and added some of the wires at the top with a black pen. I then sealed everything with clear gesso.  I used Dylusions ink sprays to colour my background. I did use a brush to put it on though. After it dried I used a brayer and white acrylic paint to roll over some of the colour and tone it down. I did some more of that later. I also used a white pen and added some detail and some splatters. 

Next I coloured the collage pieces; these were also painted with clear gesso so I could use my Big Brush Markers by Faber Castell to colour them. 

Here is the finished piece. I added more white details and splatters, glued my collage pieces in place and replaced the protractor with a lightbulb. The eye and both lightbulbs big and small have glossy accents on them so they are nice and shiny. I still wasn't happy though and decided at the last minute to add some modelling paste through a stencil. I had to brayer over some white paint though as Dylusions keep coming through everything and I ended up with yellow and blue modelling paste. 

I have used the following stamps:

#227 - Masculine Miscellaneous by Bipasha Bk

#228 - Phonebox and Phonelines by Bipasha Bk

#23 by Bipasha Bk

Stencil:

#27 by Karen Haselden

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Thank you for stopping by today !