Art Journal: Find your courage to journey the great unknown

This is an art journal page I made while experimenting with different media and techniques. The main focus was to use my new materials; paints from DecoArts Media  and Neopastels from Caran d' Ache.

I stared with an A5 sized advertisement flyer on which I created some texture with a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop and heavy gel medium. Then I dabbed some DecoArts media traditions paints on them in Magenta, Teal and yellow. Sprayed with water to get them running and spattered some yellow on the page as well. The background was done.

Then I gathered some elements I wanted to use and played around with composition.

After I decided which elements I wanted to use, I glued them down in a composition, added some more stenciling on the right under the word journey and intensified some colors with caran d'ache neopastels. The colors I used are corresponding with the butterfly which is going to me placed over on the number at the right side. 

Added the last few elements and created some shading in various aria's with a Stabilo Marks all pencil and a water brush.

The sentiment is made from various text stamps from Viva las VegaStamps!, Paper Artsy and Lost Coast Designs. I spattered some liquitex inks in magenta, teal and white over it and called it done. 

Here's the page adhered in my black spiral bound journal. I love how vibrant the colors are! It was a fun experiment to layer layer pastels over paint and I'm definitely going to use this technique again. 

I would like to enter this art journal page in the following challenges:

The STAMPlorations Mixed Media June challenge 

The Craft Stamper Take it make it challenge June

Art Journal Journey June - 

theme is circles and my page does have a few circular elements

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge #37 - A year of choices 

#32 - put a stencil on it was one of my favorites as I love using stencils in my work.

Stamps and Stencils; Words with meaning June 2017 challenge

Hope you all will find your courage to journey the great unknown as well :) 

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

You stand in your own light, make it shine

Yesterday I took out some my new supplies from my Art Specially haul this year and made the above card. I used my Lindy's magical shaker's on the text background (vintage typewriter text), Tim Holtz Alterations dies, Patio Lights and Alice from Stampotique Originals. I also used some fabulous caran d'ache Neopastels which I got at La Couronne du Comte and I absolutely LOVE working with them on my projects!

They are so bright and colorful to work with! I used the die from the TH mixed media set on heavy 200gms card stock, applied a good amount of white gesso and when that was dry, I rubbed all the oil pastels over the edges of the design. The colors really pop! The images were stamped on neenah classic white cardstock and colored with Letraset promarkers. I fussy cut them out and adhered with ZIG 2way glue pen. I applied a heavy amount of yellow pastel's around the lights so it looked like they shines brightly. Then outlined the sires and bulbs with a black uni posca marker. on the inside, I added a quote;

It's a quote I got in a fortune cookies once and it's been in my wallet ever since. A reminder to let your light shine brightly! The lettering is done with tombow markers and outlined with faber castell pitt marker.

Wanted to show you how the card looks on a white background, but the lights really shine on the black background in the first picture above :)  The Stampotique text background challenge is still on until tomorrow, so do link up your projects :)

I also would like to enter this card in the following other challenges:

Try it on Tuesday - use a quote 

Craft Stamper's Take it Make it Challenge April

Love to create - #7 anything mixed media goes

Mixed Media Monthly Challenge - What's your super power?

With this post I hope to convey my power to use and blend color in various mediums and have it POP! 

Thanks for stopping by and hope you'll come by tomorrow to see what I've made for the new challenge theme for Stampotique which goes live then :)

Have an awesome day!