... how lovely are your branches!
I love twiggy trees like this and would be quite happy with this as a Christmas tree, I'd just add white lights and some silver baubles.
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Showing posts with label france papillon. Show all posts
Friday, 5 December 2014
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree...
... how lovely are your branches!
I love twiggy trees like this and would be quite happy with this as a Christmas tree, I'd just add white lights and some silver baubles.
Friday, 7 November 2014
art journaling on the train
It might look like it ..
but this isn't quite the same journal that I've been enjoying working in recently. I took a baggie of art journaling supplies away with me on our recent trip to London, including my little Daler Rowney journal (which is about 4"x 6" in size, a nominal A6) but when it came to the journey home I realised I'd accidentally packed it into my suitcase!
Fortunately we'd happened to shop at the Chelsea School of Art and Design shop (next to the Tate Britain, open to the public, very very cheap :) ) and that journal I did have in my bag! It's a proper square but similar in size to my Daler Rowney (Sea White chunky small, approx 5.5" square)
What I LoVe about working in artist quality sketchbooks is that the paper is heavy enough to take wet media so no gessoing, no gluing of pages together to make them thick enough etc
Having said that, I did glue in a brusho background before collaging on top (with more brusho backgrounds, letraset and those gorgeous stamped numerals!!) !
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Friday, 31 October 2014
circles on a journal page
I am very happy with this journal page spread!
It started off as a bit of a rubbish gelli print which I painted over with some turquoise brusho, thinking it might lift it - it did!!
Then I started playing around with Daniel's circles cube from Stampotique
and lots of variety in text and numerals. The background numeral piece is from my scratch paper on my worktable; it's how I clean my stamps - by stamping them repeatedly on scrap paper!!
Add some doodling ... and Sarah is a happy art journaller!!
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Friday, 24 October 2014
a discombobulated pony
I know I've said this before ...
... but I just love how Roc Nicholas' images lend themselves so beautifully to paper piecing!! And her new ponytail is no exception!
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Friday, 17 October 2014
brusho in my journal
I have been playing ...
... with my latest toys - the brusho inks that everyone is using! Who knew that this stock item in every primary school art cupboard could be so much fun!!
Whenever I use something new I start with my favourite colours - just lovin' that turquoise!! Because it's an ink powder, splashing spots of water on the page and dabbing it off (one of my favourite techniques of the moment) doesn't work once the ink is dry, but I managed to catch it before it dried and got a lovely effect. I'm happier splashing water on my pages than bleach!
I think Nina looks right at home on this double spread journal page, and Daniel's circles give lots of choice for a sun!
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Friday, 10 October 2014
an art journal page with a french influence!
This journal page just kind of evolved; it started off as a scrap piece of paper but the sponged ink through the stencil took over and I love how many of France Papillon's new release for Stampotique made it onto the page!
I was also thrilled to discover that France's romantic text refers to a visit to a chateau, which I thought co-ordinated brilliantly with her chandelier and made for a great collection of collage images.
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Friday, 26 September 2014
dreams
Just fancied making a tag featuring Midge and some stars!
Love how it came together :)
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Friday, 12 September 2014
back to my art journal
Been playing in my journal again :)
I used some 'scratch paper' as the background for my page then played with my Stampotique stamps.
This is in my 'paperback book' sized journal which I got from Paperchase aaaaaages ago but love for it's different size.
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Friday, 22 August 2014
Meet Cinth and say Hi!
Although she's a touch un-seasonal she's a jolly, good-natured little person who lives very happily, just the kind of person you want to be around!
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Friday, 23 May 2014
Congratulations!!
I love CAS cards but rarely make them these days as it involves having clean hands and I end up forgetting and getting smudgy inky marks on the card! But that's what little birds are for right?!!
I suddenly remembered the other day that I'd not made a congratulations card for a friend who had a beautiful baby girl so I got out what I'd call 'bunting' and my sewing machine and set to work.
I stamped 'baby girl' using a variety of stamps before free machining 'hello' above it.
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Friday, 16 May 2014
luxuriant moustaches
I mentioned in my last Stampotique post that I was itching to colour in these cheeky monsters, so that's exactly what I did for this week's project.
I love the idea of boring beige coloured monsters sprouting (or maybe they dye them, maybe it's all a ruse?!!!) fantastically coloured moustaches. The inspiration for the background came from a paper gift bag ...
.. so I started by pasting down strips of brown paper then added some simple pencil lines.
I used watercolour paints to add colour to my monsters ...
... and created some coloured strips of watercolour paper whilst I had the paints out.
After colouring my monsters and cutting them out, I stamped them a number of times so I could cut out the moustaches.
There was a lot of fussy cutting involved with this page, but then, that's ideal when you've got your feet up post op!!
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"French Journal Page?!!!!!" I hear you ask? Yes, it's on there, can you spot it?
Friday, 9 May 2014
smitten moustache monsters
I just LoVe Kira Nichols' smitten moustache monsters so decided to have a play around with them in one of my journals. They have so much potential though that I know I'll be using them again!! [I so want to colour in their moustaches but decided this page had enough colour!!]
I appear to have a good collection of love-themed stampotique stamps! After spraying my page with Dylusions inks, and splashing some water on them and dabbing it off, I stamped 'metal love' three times, thinking of the Beatles song 'all you need is love'! I then repeatedly stamped the heart from the top of 'Oh...Tree' because I couldn't find my 'Daniel's hearts' stamp ...
... then found it and went to town with looooooooooooooads more hearts!! I had a good time colouring some of them in with my watercolour pencils.
The smitten moustache monsters have been stamped on top of the words and then I stamped them onto paper too and cut them out - it's just a good way of keeping the little details that are impossible to cut out (like the curly ends of moustaches!!)
For those of you in the UK, the new release stampotique stamps are on their way and you can pre-order smitten moustache monsters, amongst others, at The Stamp Attic.
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Friday, 2 May 2014
inlayed die cut honeycomb tag
I won some blog candy!! And it arrived in the cutest little parcel earlier this week. Thanks so much Neet,
I got the large bee stamp from Stampotique so I could use the wings to create fairies but now I own the Tim Holtz - Sizzix frameworks honeycomb die I just had to try out the whole bee!!
I used the die to cut out the honeycomb from a tag, inked up the pieces then laid it all down on a second tag which effectively creates an inlay from the die cut. I saw this idea on Jennifer McGuire's blog here
I seem to be playing with really bright colours at the minute! I started out with orange inks on the honeycomb, had some overspray of lime Dylusions on my work mat and decided that would be the colour to use for the background! Lots of different text stamps as the background and ....
...I have another inky tag to add to my growing collection!
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Don't forget to visit the Stampotique Designers' Blog where there's daily inspiration for using your Stampotique stamps.
Friday, 25 April 2014
Stampotique art journaled tag
I love making tags. I don't know what it is about them, but I love them!
I also love Roc Nicholas' Stampotique images. 'Dog', one of the latest release, stars on this tag. Roc's designs are so open that you can stamp them onto pre-painted paper for a different effect each time.
I played around with a paintbrush (a bit of a shock for me as I prefer the unpredictability of a baby wipe to apply paint usually, it's a way of getting around my perfectionism) and some watercolour paints for this background. I did add a hint of orange with a Ranger archival pad and a Primark makeup sponge though.
One day I'll get around to displaying all my tags in my craft room. For now they live in a box or in a pile on my desk and I enjoy browsing through them every now and again.
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