Song Birds - Mini Art Journal

Today I have sweet little journal page in the mini journal I made using my memorydex dies.

First, I did some fun but simple background texture with distress oxides, the leaf branch stencil, and Spotted and the "rain" from Puddle Jumpers and then I toned it down a bit with watered down white acrylic paint. I stamped one of the birds from Song Birds on top of this and colored it with my Polychromos colored pencils. They work great - easily coloring over other things! Finally I used Versa Clair Nocturne ink for the sentiment/verse.

I hope you like it and are inspired. Sometime a little canvas is just what you need to keep creative!

Thanks for stopping by!!
Lyn

Spread Your Wings Mixed Media

 Hi sweet friends! It's Julee popping in today with a little mixed-media inspiration using the new Spread Your Wings and Spotted stamp sets. I've been in a bit of a creative slump lately, just having a hard time getting into the creative mood and staying there long enough to make a card. I know it's just the normal ebb and flow of the creative process, but I sure wish there was an instant fix!

Here's what I did to try to break out of the cycle. I found a pad of paper at Ross that was $1.99. It was 8.5 x 11" 300 gsm mixed media paper and I was intrigued by the thickness. So even though I have a ton of other cardstock, I bought this pad expressly giving myself permission to just play with it. See how well it worked, play with inks and paints, and see where the process took me. 

So I tore out one of the pages and got my fingers inky blending distress inks, oxides, and sprays to my heart's content. Next I pulled out the Spotted stamp set and stamped the different stamps randomly over the paper in archival ink.  I then added a bit of texture with the Script Background stamp here and there.  I watercolored some of the open circles with distress crayons and a waterbrush, then added gel pen accents to others.  When I was satisfied with the page, I cut it into six 3 x 4" panels and inked around the edges with black soot ink. I took two of the panels and stamped them randomly with the butterflies from Spread Your Wings.

Next I stamped the larger monarch butterfly several times and watercolored with distress inks.  When it was dry, I fussy cut the butterflies, then coated with Versarmark and embossed with sparkle embossing powder. This makes them not only sparkly, but have a little less fragile when you add them to your card.

For my first card I went with a simple HOPE sentiment from the God is Sovereign set, embossed in white on black cardstock.  I added a panel dry embossed with an embossing folder behind, then accented with some shiny sequins and distressed edges to finish it off.

For the second panel, I stamped out the quote, then cut with my paper trimmer to add to the side of the panel.  I then added a couple of the butterflies.  The background is from a second mixed media page I did with some similar colors, usiing tissue paper, paints, and gel crayons. I tied it all together with some black around the edges and two cards are done.  I still have four more panels for next time I need a little jump start getting created!

Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope you're inspired to just play a little in your studio and see where it leads.

-Julee

 

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Hello Sweet Friends! Sheri here with a Thank You card featuring the March 2022 Stamp of the Month! The stamp set is called Spotted and is FREE with any $65 order. This is a perfect set to create backgrounds or add texture to your cards. I LOVE polka dots so it has become a fast favorite.

 

Do you ever think about customizing your pattern paper? Well I took a piece of plain black & white stripped pattern paper and stamped the Solid Polka Dot stamp from the SOTM to create a more dramatic backdrop. Depending on where your focal image is placed, you can get away with just stamping around the outer edges of the paper. I think the bold polka dots add a huge impact to the design. What do you think? Hope you will consider giving this technique a try!

Now onto the card design. I stamped images from the Forever Loved and a butterfly from the Made New stamp sets with alcohol friendly ink and used copic markers to color them. Next I took the coordinating dies sets and cut all the images out. Don't have the dies, they can easily be fussy cut out. I then cut a rectangle strip to stamp the sentiment on and arrange all my stamped pieces. For embellishment I added a few rhinestones.

Card Measurements:

Mini Slimline Card Base: 3 1/2" x 6" (7" x 6", scored at 3 1/2" on the 7" side)

Black Panel: 3 1/4" x 5 3/4"

White Scallop Panel: 3 1/8" x 5 5/8"

Pattern Paper Panel: 2 13/16" x 5 5/16"

Black Rectangle Mat: 2" x 4 1/2"

White Stamped Panel: 1 7/8" x 4 3/8"

 

 

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Spring Lamb

 

Hello friend, Esther here today with this sweet little square card that features the Stamp-of-the-Month, Spotted.
I stamped the little lamb from Sweet Little Lamb  in Versafine Clair Nocturne Ink  and colored it with my Arteza Real Brush Pens. Next I stamped the Grunge Stripe Background in Yeti Ink (Lawn Fawn) on a piece of purple cardstock and added some grunge using a stamp from Texture Tiles 1. I die cut a circle using circle dies from Spellbinders and layered it on a black doily cut with the Doily Die from Sizzix. The sentiment is from the Script Sentiments stamp set.

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