SOAR

A journal page - the mauve and blue section is H2O's painted on Tyvek. The slide is smooshed with Alcohol Inks. The bird is a stamped image from Stubby Stampers.

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SPRINGY TIME

Another page in my art journal

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NATURAL BALANCE

I really enjoyed creating this page, it came together rather easily.
The left page is simply layers of acrylic paints; the right background is, once again, painted used dryer sheets.
These sheets come in many varieties, giving lots of variations for altering.
Over the word Natural is a piece of wall repair tape. It is sticky back and the color can be changed simply by smooshing with a stamp pad. Gauze ribbon covers 'Balance'.

PLAY EXPLOSION

Experience Explosive Fun

This spread is another attempt at playing with layers. On the right side you can see the newspaper transfer using light colored acrylic paint. All of the ‘stamps’ are embossed wallpaper used as stamps, using a variety of inks and paints. The lady image is in a metal frame and covered with Diamond Glaze.

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YOU AND ME TOGETHER

This background is made by ironing crumpled wax paper over the pages, and then smooshing the page with three colours of Distress Inks. I still love this technique!
The vine is stencilled using Distress Ink in Chipped Sapphire.
All diecuts and the image outlined with markers.

BUTTER CHURN CARD

Here is a card I made to send a wee note off to a friend.
The background uses the shaving cream technique, and the stamped image was colored with permanent markers - on a piece of transparency.

HAPPINESS FOIL

This is me playing with backgrounds and newspaper transfers (the man on the left page) again! The foil on the right side is from a cottage cheese container, which I dry embossed then brushed with inks.

THREE LADIES TAG

This tag features Stubby Stamps and Distress Inks.

The image is embossed with brass powder. The oval is embossed grungeboard.

PROSPERITY

The left page is covered with an ink-dyed fabric softener sheet. One image is attached, paper flowers, and several rubons, which I Love. Ribbons finish the page. The right page is background of Distress Inks, Rubons, an image, bird stamp from Stubby Stampers, more ribbons.

THE CAT

This is a page that features Stubby Stamps.
Stamp Cat with black Versafine Ink - what a fabulous stamp that is.

Below that, stamp the Criss-cross stamp. Glue some dyed lace at the bottom of that. Stamp the Arch Border onto twill ribbon...glue that down as shown.
Color twill with stamp pad, I used Distress Ink in Victorian Velvet.
Glue a strip of scrapbooking paper border to left of page, and Voila – finished. Easy Peasy!

100 POSTS

WOOHOO!! 1OO POSTS!! Who knew??
For my 101st post I am showing my first contributions to a Calendar Journal Round Robin that I am involved in. Here are my first four pages done in Patty's journal, for March 2010.

TECHNIQUE TAGS

These are tags I made using techniques from Tim Holtz's book Compendium of Curiosities.

This is the spread I made with one of the tags