Art journaling with a magazine picture.

Very occasionally I make a page for my art journal.

This time I followed an online workshop by Willie Duit.

Super fun to do and with the clear explanation and photos not difficult to do.

If you are interested follow this link.

https://www.bewustdoen.com/

 

# 159 "Winged things" over at lost Coast Designs/ Carmens Veranda

 Hello, yes there is a new challenge at, 

Lost Coast designs and Carmens Veranda stamps.

"Winged things"

I really like challenges, 

they put your brain to work and stimulate creativity. 

So if you're interested, come join the fun and join the challenge.

You have a chance to win new stamps, and who wouldn't want that. 

You can even participate with stamps from other brands, 

but you prefer our stamps.

Please read the rules to avoid disappointment.

Today my contribution to the challenge.

I drew a mixed media portrait.

 And with my red-haired granddaughter in mind, this came out.

I worked with Van Gogh watercolor paint and Derwent inktense pencils.

Everything has been done with the watercolor except her hair.

I colored it with the inktense pencils.

I stamped the background with 

LCD Brushstrokes, Pieces of calligraphy and Pieces of architecture.

And the butterflies are from LCD Butterfly set.

The beautiful text "Art gives my soul wings to fly" is from Carmens Veranda.

These are the inks I used for stamping.

Versafine onyx black for the butterfly.

Archivel ink coffee.

Distressink Rusty hinge, Twisted citron and Evergreen bough.

I hope you will join the challenge, it is for everyone and it doesn't matter if you are beginner or advanced.

That's it for now, I wish you a nice day.

Lost Coast designs challenge #153, 31 days of Halloween.

Hi everyone, do you also like a challenge, I do.

Especially with a Halloween theme.

Join the Lost Coast Designs and carmens Veranda Halloween challenge and you might win a prize.

Now my DT contribution.

I chose to make a Halloween spool.

I used these stamps from Lost Coast designs.

Goth shrine, 

Spiderwebs background, 

Long swirl, 

Dancing skeletons

 Checkerboard rustic border.

I also used a number of dies such as the fence and the bats.

And with a circle die with a scalloped edge I made the circles with green paper.

I stamped the circels with black ink and the Long swirl stamp.

I colored the Goth shrine with Tombow markers.

Then stamped the spiderwebs background with black ink on orange paper.

On a transparent sheet I stamped the dancing skeletons with stazon jet black.

Then I colored the skeletons with a white posca marker.

I colored the fence and the bats with tombow markers.

I decorated the rest with some moss, spider web, pumpkins, spiders and a skull.

I had a lot of fun making this Halloween spool.

 Now the LCD team would love to see your work on the Lost Coast Designs blog.

So maybe until next time. 

Click here for the challenge.

Tag swap with Stamping friend

Hannie Hokke (stamp friend) sent me a bag with a tag and all kinds of embellishments.

We each made a tag with it and sent it to each other. Very nice to see how different they are. Hannie has used beautiful colors on her beautiful background. I used a stamp from Deep Red Stamps, American boy for my tag.

Lady's night over at Lost Coast Designs challenge.

#106 Lady’s nigth

Lost Coast Designs Challenge.

You can still participate until the 15th
And have a chance to win some rubberstamps.

Stamps I used. 

Show girls, Dictionary- Imagine-Destiny.

Distress oxide- speckled egg-dusty concord-antique linen.

NeocolorII - 010 yellow-100 purple violet­-099 aubergine-729 dark green

White Gesso

Modelingpaste

Paperlace

Chipboard

Sizzix bigs die, border.

Chipboard heart

Little pieces printed paper

White an black acrylic paint.

Gleu

Versa magic eggplant

 Hello Lady’s, this is our theme, Lady’s night.

This time I took a completely different path. 

Mixed media is not my thing, but I really enjoy trying new things. 

So I started to paste the papers with glue. 

Then applied the gesso diluted with water. 

I die cut the chipboard strip with the sizzix border.

Made the swirl with modeling paste and a mask/stencil

I also did that on the strip of chipboard.  

With the oxides I applied color to the paper, the modeling paste and the chipboard. 

Colored the edges of the torn paper with the neocolor II, 

stamped the text and showgirls with the Versa magic eggplant. 

Glued everything on and splattered white and black paint.

Hope you enjoyd it. 

If you like you can come over and join our challenge.

You are so welcome.

Challenge #100 Celebrate, at Lost Coast designs blog.

# 100 Party clowns in orange and green.

 

Hello everyone, come and join the challenge at Lost Coast Designs blog.

And what a fun challenge team leader Gail has chosen.
Celebrate, yes let's celebrate life, especially now in corona time.

Join our challenge and lets celebrate and party all together.

You can still join untill the 14^th, on the 15^th there is a new challenge.

Take a chance in winning some rubber.

 

This is my take on this theme.

 

 

What I used:

LCD stamps Fantocci big nose clown and Pope clown.

Black stazon and black distressink.

Dylusion paints and spray’s,

Freshe lime, squeezed orange, polished jade, lemon zest.

 

In the background I used some Dutch Doobadoo masks.

Wyber, metall 2 and bubbles.

 

The cutting die’s are from Joy Crafts,  lets party and flags.

 

Color pencils, or what color medium you like to use.

 

And now to work, dear stampers, have fun.

I first sprayed the 4 dylusion colors and let it dry. I used  an a4 so that I had some paper for the baloons and flags. I cut the flags twice and the baloons once.

Then used the DDBD masks with the paints. And cut a piece of paper 12cm x 20cm.

In the time it is drying I stamped with black stazon the clowns and colored them.

Now the background has dried I used a black and white color pencil

Around the bubbles and wyber masks.With some black distress I made the shadows on the flags and baloons. Now cut out the clowns and glue them on with the flags and baloons. I always matt my work, but it is not necessary.

 

Hope you enjoyed this little tutorial.

And please show as your work and join the challenge.

There are some nice prices to win.

Lost coast designs challenge "spring has sprung"

 Hello everyone.

Today I want to tell you how I made this art journal card.  First I took a piece of sturdy cardboard and pasted on a page from an old music book.  I kept the music paper a bit smaller than the cardboard so that you can see the edges.After I smeared the paper with Gesso I colored it with Gelato's.

Then I added the diamond's with a stencil and Gelato stick. I drew edges around it with a pencil and scratched it with a knife. I stamped the top edge with Versa magic and the Hearts and Curls Border.  With a brush with water I went over the hearts so that they are a bit lighter in color.

I wrote the text and added the dashes with a Posca marker.

Well that was the background, and then for the beautiful dragonfly stamp from the More Bugz sheet. Take a piece of watercolor paper. Stamp with a waterproof ink.

I colored the dragonfly with Tombo markers, but you can color it with whatever you want. Then here and there some white paint splatters and you're done.

I hope you enjoy this little tutorial.
And join our Spring Has Sprung challenge, its fun.