Cry me a river… of lies ~ Art Journal

Hello from my craft table again!

Here is another page for this art journal journey. My pages are busy, I like them that way 😀

I’m adding this project to the Desing by Ryn’s February Customer Creation Challenge

 

Once again I started with the distress ink.

 

Then my table got really crowded.

    

 

I kept adding.

 

And I could not resist this last touch.

 

Blue on blue was the result of this one.

 

Materials used:

• Distress ink: broken china, salty ocean, blueprint sketch, faded jeans and chipped sapphire
• Archival ink: cobalt
• Stamp sets: ‘water effects 2’ (by Designs by Ryn), ‘it is written’, ‘distressed textures’ and ‘stained textures’ (by BoBunny), ‘miniabc2stamp’ (by TSOL), and the eye is from a Tim Holtz stamp set that I do not know the name.

 

In Love & Gratitude,
Denise

Trust is the key ~ Art Journal

Here is another art journal page on red and hearts.

 

Materials used:

• Distress ink: festive berries, black soot and embossing ink.
• Die-cuts: hearts, keys & tags (Sizzix thinlits). Hardware findings (Sizzix Tim Holtz). Swirls die-cuts.
• Stamp sets: ‘Slight Alterations’ and ‘Slight Alterations’ (by Tim Holtz). Boxes4abc (by TSOL)
• Other materials: Jet black archival ink. Black and red embossing powder.

 

In Love & Gratitude,
Denise

I Am Board ~ Art Journal

Hi,
This art journal thing was more difficult than I ever thought and after two pages failures, I had to give up, for now, on acrylic paints and gesso and return to my distress ink. I can’t work on the book format, it’s difficult to stamp, to use stencils… The thing wasn’t just working for me, so I repeated the two pages I had done but this time in loose sheets and with my beloved distress ink.
For now I’m going to keep it at A5 size, then I will eventually bind it all.

I am so not showing you the piece of crap I made with the acrylic paint, but here is the distress ink version.

Material used:

• Distress ink: Chipped sapphire, broken china, mustard seed, salty ocean.
• Stamps: summer4fun (by TSOL)
• Stencils: Woodgrain (by Tim Holtz) and texturized (TCW)

 

In Love & Gratitude,
Denise

The Natural Path ~ Art Journal

Hello everyone,

So I decided to venture in this Art Journal thing, it seemed to be the natural path as I suck at card making and many things that I want to try don’t fit into my scrapbook albums, however, my struggle started on my first attempt. I love the distress inks and blending tool as much as I resist the brush but here I am… Trying. Leaning. Practicing.

After just half a page I had to get my distress inks and the blending tool, but I’ve tried.

Here is the thing, I can’t get the Gelatos thing right and I have tried, like, really hard. I can’t make myself like the result. Am I that addicted to distress ink?

When I saw the Gelatos I thought they were just perfect, the videos that I’ve watched make them look like so easy to use, so beautiful. The only thing I could master so far with Gelatos was how to make mud and a big mess. So in this first project, the cover of my journal, I had to start all over again, it seems that lately I can’t get it right at the first… So, at the second attempt I used the Gelatos on the top half of the page, then I just gave up and used the distress ink for the rest. Maybe I should just learn how to dance instead of blaming the floor.

If that wasn’t enough, here I am completely out of my comfort zone. Colour. Lots of it. Scary. But done!

Here is my first Art Journal project.

Materials used: 

• Promarkers pens: Mediterranean, yellow Y657, cocktail pink R438, pink carnation M328, orchid V528, bluebell V127, Mauve.
•  Brilliance pearlescent ink: Purple, orchid, lavender, sunflower, sky blue, mediterranean blue, ivy.
• Distress ink: Twisted citron, seedless preserves, picked raspberry.
• Archival ink: Black jet (By Ranger)
• Stamp sets: Swirls4words, list2write, boxes4abc (by TSOL). World of dreams, papillon potpourri (by Stampin’ Up!)
• Punches: Bitty Butterfly Punch, Elegant Butterfly Punch (by Stampin’ Up!)
• Gelatos: Baby blue, yellow, orange, pink, lilac.
• Gesso, mate medium and tissue paper.

Some close-ups

  

Until next time, have a great day!

In Love & Gratitude,

Denise

Book Of Shadows ~ Covers

Oppsy, I can’t believe that I’m sharing this project with you, but I am.

As you know by now, I do not blog in a professional way, meaning that I don’t earn any money here. For that reason, I only share the projects that I make for myself, so I’m never worried in creating content for the sake of selling anything to anyone or just to keep this space active, it will always be as active as I can. With that said, here is the project I’m working on now. It could be called “My Book Of Magick”, maybe I’ll save that title for another project.

Yes, I’m talking about magick with a K. We are all alchemists, whether we know it or not. But I’m not going to expand on my spiritual beliefs in this space 😉 instead, I’m just sharing with you the covers I’ve made for this project.

By the way, the stack of books was totally stolen from Vicky. I absolutely love her artwork.

Because Ryn allows up tp three projects per month on her Customer Creation Challenge I am submitting this one in addition to the last two already submitted.

 

Binder Cover

 

 

Divider 1

 

 

Divider 2

 

Divider 3

 

Divider 4

 

 

Divider 5

 

Materials used:

• Tumbled glass, faded jeans, chipped sapphire, scattered straw, tea dye, vintage photo, and black soot distress inks.
• Potting soil archival ink.
• Vintage photo and Walnut stain distress paint.
• Gesso
• Sizzix  Tim Holtz Bigz Die – Hardware Findings, Apothecary Bottles, Sizzix Tim Holtz Mini Feather & Inkwell die-cut, Sizzix Hero Arts 657777 stamp & die-cut, Stampin’ Up! Four Feathers die-cut.
• Mini time travel and Mini ledger stencils (by The  crafters workshop), Dot Fade stencil (by stampersanonymous/Tim Holtz), 12×12 Butterfly Collage Stencil (Janene Meyerowitz for The Crafters Workshop).
• Literary Owl (by Stampendous).
• Crayonletters2stamp, alpha4monogram, jar4candy, pb&j2enjoy, bubblegum4me, and cake2build stamp sets (by TSOL)
• Vintage stamp set (by Crelando)
• Water Effects 2 stamp set (by Designs by Ryn
• It is written stamp set (by Bo Bunny)
• A Little Bit Magical – Knowledge stamp set (by Sheena Douglass)
• World of Dreams (by Stampin’ Up!)

 

As always,

In Love & Gratitude,

Denise

2016 Planner Covers ~ Part 1

Hello everyone and Happy New Year!

2015 was a hell of a year for me, and not in a good way… So let’s see what 2016 will bring.

Last year around this time I started working on a personal planner as a business project,  but life decided to snatch it away from me, and only in December, I could return to it. It’s a beta test at this point and will be for the entire year.

Apart from that, craft wise, I wasn’t t too active last year and what you saw on the blog was pretty much what I did, with the exception of one or two scrapbook layouts that I didn’t find it worth of sharing. But I’m all over the place and you can also find me here, here, here and here.

So, today I’m sharing some of the covers for my planner. Because at this point I’m the only one using this planner and it is still in a test phase when I printed out the covers I forgot to remove the line of my table… With the exception of February… Guess what? I messed up the February cover and had to start all over again, that’s why that is the only one that doesn’t have the box highlighted. Oh, and I still need to add the tabs…

This is the cover for the planner itself, I might change it for I Am Creating… 2017?, not sure yet.

For this one, I used milled lavender and wilted violet distress ink (by Tim Holtz), and swirls2build stamp set (by TSOL)

 

For January, I used tumbled glass and blueprint sketch distress ink (by Tim Holtz), Elegant Eggplant Ink (by Stampin’ Up!) and Flowering Flourishes stamp set (by Stampin’ Up!)

 

For February, I used victorian velvet and aged mahogany distress ink (by Tim Holtz), Seasonally Scattered stamp set (by Stampin’ Up!) and Celtic Heart (CM-C8 by Designs by Ryn)

 

For March, I used spun sugar and picked raspberry distress ink (by Tim Holtz) and Gorgeous Grunge stamp set (by Stampin’ Up!)

 

For April, I used dusty concord and seedless preserves distress ink (by Tim Holtz) and Sea Bubbles stamp set (CM-S15 by Designs by Ryn)

 

For May, I used shaded lilac and wilted violet distress ink (by Tim Holtz), Fine Feathers and Four Feathers stamp sets (by Stampin’ Up!)

 

And for June, I used mustard seed and fossilized amber distress ink (by Tim Holtz), and Work of Art stamp set (by Stampin’ Up!)

Because my photography skills didn’t improve much, and the weather around here has been on the dark side (for photography purposes) this time I decided to scan my work… Between a cheap scanner and bad lighting combined with poor photography skills… You choose wich one is worse, but I can assure you that they look much better in person. They actually look gorgeous 😀

By the way, am I the only one who hates the changes they make on stuff that is working just fine? Every time I need to make a new post everything has changed, which drives me crazy! Is like learning how to use the bloody thing all over again… Never mind my rant…

I’ll have to come back with more covers in another post. Until then, have a nice time.

In Love & Gratitude,
Denise

Update

I entered this post on the Designs by Ryn January Customer Creation Challenge.

Stinging Cute ~ Scrapbook layout

Another attempt on the green and orange, this time me like it 😀

 

Materials used:

• Background4Bees, and hive4bes stamp sets by TSOL
• Distressed Textures stamp set by Bo Bunny
• Mini chinkenwire stencil by The Crafters Worshop
• Vanilla Shimmer Smooch Spritz by Stampin’ Up!
• Glitter alphabet stickers
• Shabby Shutters, Bundled Sage, Peeled Paint, and Forest Moss distress ink
• Lightning Black ink by Brilliance

 

In Love & Gratitude,

Denise