Art Journal: Just BE yourself (in love and friendship) - StencilGirl®

I hope you all had a wonderful start in the new year so far.

With the holidays last month I've taken some time to spend with friends and family & deepen the bond we have during this time of festivities and renewal. My hope is that you did the same.

On the StencilGirl® blog we are extending the focus on love and friendship as a theme this month and I wanted to share this art journal page I made while contemplating this theme. It's an intuitive art journal page for which I used minimal products and a few wonderful ATC format stencils from StencilGirl® Products which also are the perfect size for pocket sized journals like I am using.

Hop over to the blog post HERE to see a little video and more close up pictures as well as my views on this month's theme, LOVE and Friendship. 

 If you feel like playing along with the theme and share your creations, check out StencilGirl® Instagram for the details.

Thank you for stopping by!
Have an awesome day and talk to you again soon.

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Micro Art Journal: Tiny Collages

A collage of my collages I made in september in my micro art journal inside my tiny KeyPer from Jot. The collages are made with bits and pieces left over from projects. 

It's been quiet on the blog, but definitely not quiet art wise. I've been sharing art daily on my instagram and facebook, if you want to see what I have been up to lately. 

Have a wonderful weekend and thanks for stopping by!

WIP: Left Over Art Collage clean up session

Today I wanted to share a little bit what happens behind the scenes at my creative station. Usually when I create something the left over scraps bits, trims and pieces gets piled up to the left hand side. And when it gets a little out of control (like migrating to the middle of the desk) I take my Junk Mail Art Journal and have what I like to call a "Left-Over Art Collage clean up session" and take my jar of Modge Podge, a brush and use my scraps to create some fun collage style journal pages. And yes, mostly they are supervised by my kitty Meesha :)

Usually I just continue to fill pages until I feel like the left over pile is manageable again, like so. And when I'm done with a session like this, I'm always glad that I just didn't chuck all the scraps into the bin like I am always tempted to do when that mess just gets out of control. It's a peaceful and meditative process and oh yeah, I totally get distracted by looking at the utter adorableness sleeping in that basket :) 

Close up of a spread from this session. Just randomly slapped together pages, but I do try to look for composition and color. Not sure if they are "done" I might just come back to a page, gesso all over it and completely transform the look of it. I have dome that with a few which I will share at a later time. 

What do you do with your left over scraps? Bin them right away or are you also hoarding them to use later? Let me know your thoughts in the comments below. 

Sharing this post with the fellow deskers at Julia's WOYWW454 - glad to be playing along again, hope you all are doing well and will say hi to you all shortly :) 

Thanks for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Art Journal: She left a Sparkle (+ new process video!)

Today I wanted to share a page from my Junk Mail Art Journal. I have also filmed the process and would love to share that with you here as well. I wanted to use the stamps I had bought a while back but not used at all which were the dress form stamps you see in the back. Also a few new to me ARTploration stencils from STAMPlorations were used. The focal point is the woman stamped on the gelli printed paper. Well, you can see how it all came together here:

There were some bits I was struggling with, I wanted to have the dress form popping out and that took a few tries but got there in the end. I also muted the colors down a bit because I didn't want to take away from my focal point as she was very bright and colorful too. With these art journal pages I create I learn something new every time. Glad I can share this journey with you :) 

Materials used:

The Crafter's Workshop; Gold Gesso, Light and fluffy modeling paste, Script stencil

Finnabair soft matte gel

Artplorations Square Links stencil  

Dylusions, perfect pearl and Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays 

Deco Arts Tradition black; fluids interference magenta, turquoise and gold

Golden glazing medium

Marianne stamps in sewing theme 

Impression obsession dress form stamp

Viva Las VegasStamp! everywhere she went  

Dylusions Couture clear stamps 

Caran d'Ache neocolor oil markers 

Staz-on rubber stamp inks 

Dina Wakley Scrible sticks 

Distress Crayons 

Liquitex inks in gold and white

Modge Podge gols shimmer varnish

I would like to enter this page in the following challenges;

Stamplorations anything goes challenge 

Used the ARTploration stencil as listed above

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge "Get in Shape" 

So these dress forms are showing a shape of the "ideal" female figure. Most women feel compelled to "get into shape" and working towards having these hourglass figures. Believe me you don't need to, you have your sparkle no matter what shape you are built in. 

The challenge for this two weeks is Let is shine 

Thank you for stopping by and have a wonderful day!

Art Journal: Imagine (+ process video)

I've recently found a little Junk Mail Art journal back which a friend from Swap-Bot sent me for swap a while back. It's the perfect journal to help me get rid of left over pieces I am forever seem to be collecting! I've managed to record the process of this page and I'm doing a little flip through of the empty journal in the beginning as well.

I've used a lot of texture and spray paints for this one.

Some home made sprays with Lindy's magicals. They have such a wonderful shimmer to them!

The focal point of the page is a silhouette stamp from Visible Image and text stamp from Impression Obsession. A list of supplies is below the video...

Hope you enjoyed the process video :)

Supplies used:

Art Basics Soft Matte Gel Medium 

Liquitex Flexible Molding paste 

Claudine Helmut Studio gesso 

Lindy's Magicals made in spray form: hi Maintenance Magenta, Turbine Teal, Guten tag Teal

Kipper's hobby shunshine burst 

Tissue paper

left over scraps and pieces 

Stencils from the dollar store Action

Tim holtz reflection stamp

Visible image head full of dreams stamps

Imagine text stamp from impression obsession

Stabilo ALL pencil in blue

Pentel Water brush

Pentel white gel pen

Caran d'Ache Neocolor Oil pastels

Black pearl rub ons 

I would like to enter this piece in the following challenges:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Touchy Feely

STAMPlorations Mixed Media Challenge June

 Art Journal Journey June - Circles theme
you can see recycling as a circular process, right? :)

Thanks so much for stopping by today and have a wonderful weekend!