Julie's Craft Haven

 Hi everyone, today I'm sharing a bright and cheery rainbow art journal page using Colour Blast Artist Inks and a stencil and stamp set from the Arty Farty Collection by Michelle Grant. With the world the way it is at the moment, we can all use a little extra colour to brighten our days.

Swipe some Artist Inks onto a scrap piece of plastic and add a few drops of water to dilute. Smoosh onto the page. Repeat each step with every colour overlapping as you go. The order of colours used is: Citrus, Cider, Sunburnt, Cranberry, Slipper, Berry, Marine, Mermaid, Glass, Lime. I repeated the process without diluting the Artist Inks to give a little more depth and dimension to the colours.

When the page is dry, stencil the paint brushes and "Live Life in Full Colour" quote using the Beautiful Mess stencil and black archival ink as shown. 

 

Random stamp the paint brushes and "doodle" stamp from the Live Your Art stamp set and black archival ink. Stencil random paint blotches as shown. I've traced over the quote, paint brushes and stencils with a white paint pen, then scribbled over the doodles with a black pen.

To finish, outline the whole page using a black pen or ink to frame the page.

Note: I haven't used any gesso on my page as I wanted the ink to "grip" onto the paper. You can of course gesso your page first but if you're using white gesso it will dilute the intensity of the artist inks.

 A4 Journal

Black Archival Ink

white paint pen

black pen

 

I hope you enjoyed this project. Thanks for stopping by.

Until next time, happy crafting.

Julie xx

Today I'm sharing a layout created using the gorgeous Steampunk Safari collection and a few other products from Uniquely Creative. I haven't done a full on layered layout in a while, but couldn't resist with this collection. With so many elements, layering was easy. I had to stop before I ran out of room lol.

 

Here is my layout plus close ups so you can see how I created and embellished the page.

 

 

 

 

Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari Collection - Powerful 12x12 paper (B side)

Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari Collection - Awesome 12x12 paper

Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari Collection - Unique 12x12 paper

Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari Collection - Ephemera King 12x12 paper

Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari - Creative Cuts

 Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari Collection - Nature Stencil

Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari Collection - Arithmetic Mini Stamp

Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari Collection - Cut-A-Part Sheet

Uniquely Creative Steampunk Safari Collection - Laser Cut Chipboard

Uniquely Creative Flourish Die

Uniquely Creative Mixed Cogs

Uniquely Creative - Text Mark Making Stamp

Brown wax paper (from kit)

Hessian trim (from kit)

Rose Gold cardstock (from kit)

Uniquely Creative Ice Sequins

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Abandoned Coral

Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Vintage Photo

Hi everyone, today I'm sharing my entry into Scrappying Clearly's August Mood Board Challenge. The mood board this month has a cute grey cat which looked a lot like my boy Possum.

 

I've used some papers and embellishments from Cocoa Vanilla's Legendary Collection, stencils from Colour Blast by Bee Arty, stamps from Uniquely Creative and 49&Market and Tim Holtz Distress Inks. The title is from Cocoa Vanilla's Boy's Rule Collection.  

 

Here is my layout plus the mood board.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by, happy crafting. Julie xx