My Art Journal For March - Happier At Home

Hi friends!

At the moment I am doing a lot of art journaling and am really starting to love mixed media.  I am doing an art journal project where I create my pages for each month of the year in the book "Happier At Home"  I had some catching up to do and this was my project for March.

Turquoise is one of my favorite colors so I like to use it a lot on my pages.  I like to combine it with brown and gold as well.  Here are some closeups:

I used some film strip and melted it with my heat gun and also a butterfly cut from a transparency and used my heat gun to melt the edges of the butterfly and flowers as well.

Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day!

Live In Colour - A Mixed Media Layout

Hello friends!

Today I am so honoured to be guest designing for Susan Weckesser and excited to share my layout.

I love Susan's bright colours and whimsical papers.  For this layout I used some Liquitex Modeling Paste and a stencil and added some designs to the background as well as some ink splatters with Heidi Swapp's Color Shine Mists in Primrose, and Mint Green.

I then misted a piece of corrugated cardboard.

I fussy cut the sun, a quote card and the bird and house from Susan's patterned papers.  For the sun I adhered some yellow twine and used the stencil to add more texture to the roof of the house.

I stamped with Susan's Unity Heart Stamp with a pink Pitt Big Brush Pen and cut out the heart and layered it underneath my diecut and misted title that I cut with my Silhouette Cameo.

Finally, I journaled and embellished with a cute camera paper clip from Prima and some flair buttons from The Paper Bakery.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope you have a wonderful day!

Art Journal For July

Hello scrappy friends!  I am back from vacation and it's time to get busy with creating again.  I have missed creating as the past month my time has been taken up helping out, where I can, with all the devastating flooding that hit my area and then last week I was on vacation.

Today I wanted to share with you my art journal page for July.  This is a class I have been taking this year taught by the talented Lynn Thune.  I love her shabby chic style so much.

I created inside the actual book "Happier At Home" after reading the chapter.  The distress inks are Stormy Sky, Faded Jeans, Brushed Corduroy and Walnut Stain by Tim Holtz.

It's always fun to create in my "Happier At Home" art journal.  Now to get back in the groove of scrapbooking as I have a ton of design team assignments to get busy with but looking forward to it.

Have a creative day and happy Friday!

Scrap It With A Song - Cruise By Florida Georgia Line & Nelly

Today at Scrap It With A Song, the Rock Chicks are rocking to the tune of Cruise by Florida Georgia Line & Nelly.

My layout for this song is of my hubby's Camaro.  My husband and I go cruising almost every day in the summer on our days off.  I chose the Farmhouse Paper Company Market Square Barber Shop Collection for this collection.  I also used some stencils and modeling paste for the arrows and the circular design below the photo.  The sketch is from Kristine Davidson's Sketchbook Volume 2.

I hope you are inspired to create a layout to the tune "Cruise".  It can be the title of the song, or a word or lyric.  Don't forget to upload it to the Scrap It With A Song website by June 30 to have a chance at being guest designer for August.  Scrap It With A Song is also having a DT call so now is your chance to apply!

Thanks for stopping by!

Sharing A Layout With Graffiti Stencil Art

Hello scrappy friends!  Today is Friday and I wanted to share a layout I created with some new stencils from Graffiti Stencil Art.  I was very honored to be asked to design with these stencils.  There are some really cool designs to play with for your layouts, cards, mixed media projects and art journals.

I used the Decorative Circle Background Stencil and created a layout of my hubby on his birthday.  To give the layout more texture and dimension, I applied some Liquitex Flexible Modeling Paste and sprayed some Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mist in Tinsel into the modeling paste and gave it a good stir.  This gave it more color and then I went over the raised design with some Tim Holtz Distress Stain in Picket Fence and also around the outside edges.  The papers and stickers are from the Note To Self Collection and the Family Man Mini Collection by Echo Park.

Buttons - October Afternoon
Distress Stain - Tim Holtz (Picket Fence)
Flair Button - Evalicious
Pen - Marvy Uchida (Black)
Mists - Heidi Swapp Color Shine (Tinsel, Midnight Black)
Modeling Paste - Liquitex Flexible Modeling Paste
Patterned Paper - Echo Park Note To Self Collection
Stencil - Graffiti Stencil Art (Decorative Circle Background)
Stickers - Echo Park Family Man Mini Collection
Washi Tape - Recollections

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out the Graffiti Stencil Art website here.

Have a great Friday!