Autumn

I have recently made a birthday card for my Grandson's birthday but forgot to make a picture of it so there's no point in describing how I did it.  

 Instead I wil show you my latest mixed media journal.This is my submission to the Artful Evidence challenge. I coloured the under page using a few Distress Oxides then I used some old flower stamps  with Stazon brown, red and green inks. The next layer was also colours with Stazon inks but slightly lighter colours and stamps. I ripped the edges of this layer to give the page more dimension and interest. I used walnut stain for the edges so the page would stand out.  I then adhered that layer to the page.

While the glue was drying I printed and cut the chestnut leaf and squirrel using my Cameo. I embossed the leaf with a crackled effect embossing folder and rubbed over some distress oxide to create veins. The leaf was then adhered to the page in a way that was uneven making it look as if the leaf was not flat in places.

I adhered the squirrel and then added colour and fur effects  using my Pitt Pens.

I tore some pages, with the meaning of Autumn and Fall, from an old dictionary and adhered them to the page. I used peeled paint Distress inks to colour the pieces and edged with a black pen. 

That is my page finished!

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Sunset

This page is an artful evidence  challenge. This is a page I have done before but is one that was ruined by water damage in my old journal.

I downloaded the curls background from Shutterstock, the palm trees from Freepik and the sun hat from Kisspng. I already had the drink and bag but can't remember from where I got them.

Many years ago a friend gave me a load of paper from which  teabags are made. It's consistency is like a very strong tissue paper. I cut it into an A4 size and adhered it to a lightly glued piece of copy paper and printed out the curly design on to it. I removed the copy paper and adhered the printed teabag paper onto my journal page with Mod Podge.

Once it was dry I painted the sun, sky, sea and sand with Dylusions paints, blue, orange, yellow and purpleI touched the page up with my Posca pen (white) and Pitt Pens to give a feel of waves and tone down the sand.

While the background was drying I turned my attention to the elements. I used my Cameo and Silhouette software to trace and cut out the trees, bag, hat and glass. I continued to use Mod Podge to adhere the elements to the page. I then added some edging, highlights and shadow to the objects with my pens. I printed off my sentiment and finished off the page by adding it and colouring it to blend in with the picture.
I'm really enjoying the challenges, its getting me back into mixed media journalling.

I have started another non challenge page but it's not finished yet. Thats for a future post so keep watching!

Doors

This page is not a challenge but an inspiration from a quote I saw online. The quote said " Old ways don't open new doors". It coincided with me finding some cut up doors in my ephemera box.

I covered the page with grey brick patterned paper using Mod Podge. Next I used two stencils, one brick and one dots, and modelling paste to add texture.  Once dry I used green and orange Pebeo ink to create drip effects. I widened the effect by spritzing with water as the drips fell down the page. This gave a more overall coverage of colour which I like.

Next I turned my attention to the doors. I wanted them suspended  on the walls.
They were already cut out so I simply backed them with scraps of paper from my stash and ahered them tot he page using matte medium. One door I adhered it so it would open. Inside that door I wrote out the quote. I decorated the doors with handles and knockers using sequins. I created shadows with grey and green Pitt pens.

Speak up.

I used to be a very shy person who wouldn't say Boo to a goose but as I've got older I've learned to speak up for myself so I decided to create an journal page to show that.

I sprayed the page with Dylusions sprays in yellow, purple, green and red then spritzed with water. I then dabbed the page with a paper towel.

I downloaded the image of the face from kisspng and cut it out using my Cameo to create a  stencil. I drew around the stencil and coloured the shape with a black Pasca pen. I coloured her lips in red.
I cut out the quote from red card and edged them with a thin black pen. Simple but effective.... well I think so anyway! LOL

Books

This page is another one inspired by the prompt from Artful Evidence challenge.

A quick easy page.
I took two pages from an old book and adhered them to the page. I lightly coated the page with gesso to fade the text slightly.

I obtained the  centre focus from "get drawings" website I cut it out  using my cameo and black card. I then adhered it to the page. I also cut out the text (Jedi) from the same black card. I added some shadow with a grey Pitt pen and lines using a fine black Posca pen. I edged the page with black soot Distress Ink and the page was finished.

Numbers challenge

I've joined a Facebook Group called "artful evidence" run by a very talented lady called Rachel Black. She also uses Youtube under the name of Rach013.
Rachel runs challenges for art journaling. She gives a prompt and people have to submit their interpretation of their page from that prompt. The beauty of this is  how wide  and creative people are!
My last post showed my submission for the prompt "quotes". I'm trying to catch up on some past prompts so this one is the prompt "numbers".

I used Tim Holtz tissue paper to create the background pattern including the numbers. I coloured the background using Distress Oxides antique lined, worn lipstick and blue. I used the pink and blue on the tags as well.
I found the post card and stamp print in my box of ephemera so I'm unable to say where it originally came from. I printed of the tags from a Pinterest page and stamped happy mail using Stazon.
I adhered all the elements onto the age with Mod Podge and edged the elements with black pen.

Define Yourself

I'm slowly familiarising myself with mixed media techniques as I get back into journaling.
For this page I used various colours by Dylusions sprays and Cosmic Shimmer. I did try a stencil with text but it was not very successful so I sprayed over it, which gave a more muted set of colours. I liked this effect because it meant the girl standing alone gave a more prominent  focus point.

I used a script stamp with white and black ink to add depth to the background.
Next I used rub ons to give more layers I also added a few scribbles as well.

The ladies are angel stamps by Chloe that I coloured using my Touch alcohol markers and Posca pens and rub ons.
Once I adhered the ladies to the page using matt medium gel ( Golden) I splattered the page with white acrylic paint. I printed, sprayed it with more dylusions ink and cut out the quote and adhered the words to the page. I  added dots around the edge of the words and page with black and white Posca pens.

I finally sprayed the whole page with gold cosmic shimmer which as given it a lovely shiny sheen. This doesn't show up on the photo.

Friends mixed media Journal

I recently bought  Dyan Reavley  border colouring sheet book and one of the pages had these legs with shoes on it. I just loved this page so decided to use them in my journal.
I painted the background with orange and green Dylusions paints. I sponged the green section of the  page and splattered the orange with yellow paint to give different effects. I used my new Touch marker pans to colour the legs and shoes. I then adhered the leas to the page using matt medium gel.

I found this lovely multicoloured strip of material in my stash cut a strip and adhered to to the middle section of the page using Mod Podge. I also used Mod Podge to cut the two thin strips of plain black card to separate the sections. I added red and orange dots to the strips to give them more interest. Finally I printed off the quote using Rainbow font, cut the words into strips and adhered them onto the page edging them with a black pen.
Page complete. I seem to be getting my mojo back as I have a couple of ideas for some other pages.......... what will they be?