Free Your Dreams

I got messy today with some paint and, boy was it fun :)  Here's the art journal page I came up with:

I guess I was feeling pretty butterfly-y today as well.  So I found a great quote - 'Free your dreams and take flight - that I thought would go well with it.  The pages are covered with some 7Gypsies tissue paper and sealed with a matte medium.  Then I added some watered down acrylic paints.  Added some Tim Holtz butterfly stamps, some painted sencils.  The butterfly on the right page is a Martha Stewart stamp black embossed on watercolor paper then colored with Distress Markers.  I added some of the purple acrylic paint to an embossing past for the flight pattern.

For the quote, on the left page, I painted in two different butterfly stencils and wrote in the saying.  I started with a white gel pen, but couldn't get a good ink flow, so ended up tracing the letters with some white enamel accents.  

Any crafty plans for this weekend??

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

Watercolored Mae

Today, I put away the Copics and pulled out my new Distress Markers to play along with some challenges.  I'm really liking the new markers ;)  Here's my card:

And a close-up of the watercoloring:

It's really hard to see in the pics, but I added some glitter to the yellow with a Spica pen for a littler shimmer.

This card is for:

Some Odd Girl March Sketch Challenge

  

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS - Some Odd Girl Thank You Mae

INK - Stazon Jet Black, Versamark, Distress Markers in Tattered Rose, Mustard Seed, Black Soot, Tumbled Glass, and Faded Jeans

PAPER - Fluid Coldpress Watercolor pad, Stampin' Up! Daffodil Delight and Night of Navy, Origami Paper

OTHER - water brush, Spica Buttermilk pen, white embossing powder, light blue ribbon

Life is a Song

Just popping in to share another art journal page I came up with using one of my favorite Some Odd Girl Digi Stamps, Dancing Mae...

So Mae is colored with Copics and then fussy cut.  I painted the pages with some red and silver glitter acrylic paint, added some music themed tissue tape, spritzed a little red dylusions spray over everything, then added some stamping and white gel pen.  I printed the saying out on my computer then added that to finish it all off.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

Safari Smile

My desk was still littered with my Paper Smooches stamps from my last card (which made me the PS Pro Stamper!!) so I decided to use them again to play along with this weeks Paper Smooches Sparks trend watch....

So many of the little critters from the stamps have great smiles, so I cut the word 'SMILE' out of a card base and had some of the smiley creatures popping through the letters.

I LOVE the laughing hippo.  And the toucan is so cheery.  The monkey is adorable - I thought about cutting him down so that he wouldn't stick out past the edge of the card, but realized that he makes the card look like it's saying, 'Smile, I Love You.' so I left him in one piece (so happy I did!).

Once I got all of their placements figured out, I stamped the chevrons onto a piece of cardstock and popped the smile piece on top.  Then finished it off by layering it on a piece of black cardstock.

Thanks for stopping by!

Angie

SUPPLIES:

STAMPS - Papers Smooches Zoo Crew, Flap Happy, My Peeps, Smoocheroos, Geo-Graphic

INK - Memento Tuxedo Black and Stampin' Up! Island Indigo

PAPER - Stampin' Up! Basic Black, Island Indigo, Neenah Solar White, Copic XPress It

COPICS - hippo C3, R20, monkey E39, E53, toucan FYG2, FRV1, FYR1, FY1, FB2, 110, butterfly BV08, BV34, R22

OTHER - Silhouette, foam adhesive

Kiss Me Giraffes

It's been awhile since I've played with my Paper Smooches stamps (especially since I got some new ones for Christmas!) and when I saw this weeks challenge, an idea immediately popped in my mind.  This weeks is a Picture Perfect challenge:

Such a cute picture.  So here's what I came up with:

I took the giraffe from Zoo Crew, bent the neck slightly then stamped it.  I tried a reverse stamp for the first time to get the mirrored giraffe on the left.  It took a few tries, but I finally got one that I liked.  I did some really simple copic coloring then popped it on the houndstooth background from Debonair that I white heat embossed then covered with an ombre of Distress Inks.

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES - 

STAMPS: Paper Smooches Zoo Crew, Debonair, and A Little Lovin

INK: Memento Tuxedo Black, Versafine Onyx Black, Distress Inks - Spun SUgar, Worn Lipstick, Festive Berries and Aged Mahogany, versamark

PAPER: Stampin' Up! Read Red, Neenah Solar White, Copic Xpress It Blending Card

COPICS: R24 (heart), Y13, Y15, YR14, YR24, YR27, 0.5 multiliner

OTHER: Black Floss, Glossy Accents, Xmas Red Stickles, Heart Punch, Mini Label Punch, 1/16" circle punch, white embossing powder

You Color My World - layered!

Last week I shared a journal page I created using an adorable Tiddly Inks image.  (You can see that here.)  I colored the image again and did some layering with her to make a great card...

I had printed her kind of large so I knew the card would be fairly plain.  To add a little more color to it, I inked a piece of glossy paper with Copic various inks and put that behind the white panel.  I punched a little hole towards the bottom and white embossed the sentiment in the window.  Then to add a little more to fill some of the white space, I added some little mini buttons I had in my stash.

I love how she turned out :)  I'm playing along with MarkerPop#17 this week:

Thanks for stopping by,

Angie

SUPPLIES -

PAPER: Copic Xpress It Blending Card, Neenah Solar White, Glossy cardstock

STAMPS: Tiddly Inks Little Artist Digi, Paper Smooches Word Salad

INK: Versamark, Memento Tuxedo Black

COPICS: Skin - E00, E01, E11, E13, R20, BV20; Hair - E35, E37, E39, E29; Clothes - B93, B95, B97, B99, 0 on scrap of denim, BV01, BV08, BV04, C6, C8, C10, 110; Brush - E71, E74, E77, W5, W6, W7, Spica Silver, R32, R89; Background - BG23, V09, V12

OTHER: Mini Purple Buttons, Stampin' Up! Word Window Punch, white embossing powder, Glossy Accents, Crystal Stickles, foam squares

The Creative Life

So I saw this quote a few weeks back and thought it would be great on an art journal page. And since the quote was about living a creative life, I thought the Tiddly Ink's Little Artist was perfect for it:

 The quote is a little hard to rid in that shot, so here it is up close...

I think you can see behind the quote that there is some beautiful papers, stamping, misting/masking, some white gel pen.  Before putting anything down though, I knew the papers wouldn't cover the whole page (the pages are 5.5x8.5 each so the two pages was 11" wide and I used a 6x6 pad!), so I covered both pages with some lavendar and indigo acrylic paint (plus it hides the seems where the papers didn't line up perfectly ;))

The adorable little artist is colored with copics then fussy cut and adhered with multi medium - as are the rest of the papers and stickers.  While coloring her, I thought she'd be super fun to layer like the fairy I did a couple weeks ago (you can see that post here) so stay tuned... ;)

--Angie

SUPPLIES:
Mixed Media art journal, Paper from Authentique, Copic Xpress It Blending Card, Uniball Signo White Gel Pen, Dylusions Stamps, Archival Ink, Multi Medium Matte, Stickers, Acryllic Paint