I'm on top of the world - art journaling

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Happy Mixed Media Monday!!  Norma here with you today to share my art journaling featuring lots of great PWP stamps and all different types mediums.   Mixed media art journaling is a really fun way of learning through play.  So if you're afraid of dabbling in mixed media, don't be.  There are no rules, you can mix any type of medium and element that you'd like.  You could use paint, ink, crayons, pens, markers, recycled materials, ephemera and of course stamps.

 

I used a wide variety of materials on this page such as acrylic paint, oil pastels, india ink, clip art, stamps, pens, chipboard and twine.

I began with this page.  It already had the acrylic painted background with India ink splatters, oil pastel circles and paint splatters.

So I used the Art Textures stamps to highlight the circles.  I stamped them in black and then again with white.  I also added the smaller grouped circles and the Paris postcard stamp from the Royal Melange stamp set.

I wanted to add some clip art but I still wanted the background to show through so I decided to add it using a transfer technique.  Now there are lots of great transfer techniques out there but I like using Gel Medium.  For this technique, you want to apply a generous layer of gel medium to your image then place it face down where you want to transfer the image.  Next, give it a good rub with a bone folder or whatever else you have on hand.  The idea is to burnish the image to ensure contact.

Let it sit for a couple of minutes then begin to peel off the paper.  The image I had was on heavy paper so I had to gently rub it off.  When it became too dry, I spritzed it with water to help dissolve the paper.

Here is a closer look at the transferred image.

I decided to use the fairy from the Vintage Creative New Year clip art sheet.  To ground her, I added a twine tight rope.  She has wonderful balance don't you think, lol.

All fairies need sparkle so I added Stickles to her wings and headdress.  The sentiment I used can be found on the World cling stamp set.

I used the Royal Melange stamp set to add depth to the background.  I also added painted and stamped chipboard chains to finish of my page.  I hope I've inspired you to use your stamps in a mixed media project.  If you're interested in picking up the Royal Melange stamp set that I used, this month is the perfect time to do it because it's on sale!  That's right, it's this month's Pick of the Month so you can pick it up for just $10.80 and that my friends is a GREAT deal!!  While you're there, check out this month's stamp release Big Textures:

But wait, there's more!!!  We've already kicked off the March challenge!  This month's theme is CELEBRATE in honor of our two year anniversary.   CLICK HERE to join in on the fun, I hope you'll celebrate with us :D

Last but not least, join us this Friday for our March hop!!  It's gonna be a ton of fun, we even have guest designers joining us to CELEBRATE!!  Thanks so much for joining me, have a wonderful day!!!

Art Textures Cling Stamp Set Distress Circles Cling Stamp Set Royal Melange Cling Stamp Set Earth & Sky Melange Cling Stamp Set April in Paris Clip Art Sheet Uniball Pen - Black Chipboard Page Chains

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Creative Playtime!

Hello & Welcome to all of the new PWP followers!!  Norma here with you today to share the results of my last creative session.  Summer has been real busy for me and I've been spending most of my time with my family.  So I was really craving a little creative playtime.  I dug into my stash of Paper Wings goodness and created this art journal page:

Whenever I get new stamps, I like to stamp them in my art journal just to get a feel for them and that's exactly what this page was full of when I started.

 

Here is a look at my art journal page when I started.  It was stamped with the beautiful Wildflowers sentiment, "there's always hope" up top and "indian paintbrush" down on the bottom.  There was also random stenciling all over the page.

I covered the doodled heart with a mask, then stamped the flower from the Flower Power stamp set using Tim Holtz Distress Markers.  I embossed the flowers to seal in the color so that I could continue to add layers of colors on top of the distress inks.

I added color with Faber-Castell Gelatos.  All I did was scribble with the gelato and then used a wet brush to blend the color out.

I colored in the Indian Paintbrush flower with Prismacolor pencils and then darkened my doodles with black India ink.

To add more color, I pulled out the stencil from the Aug Nesting Components kit and Dylusions ink.

I continued to build layers using the Perfect Numbers stamp set and rubons from the May Nesting Components kit.

This beautiful little lady is also from the May Nesting Components kit.

To finish it off, I added some of the smaller flowers from the Flower Power stamp set.  I love that I was able to mix so many wonderful Paper Wings products into this one page. 

 Have you visited the online store lately?!  Carrie has added new items like the gelatos I used on this project.  You should really go check it out ;D

Thanks so much for stopping by & have a beautiful day!!!

Feature Friday - May Nesting Components kit Fun!

Happy Friday Bloggie Friends!!  Norma here to share the fun I've been having with the May Nesting Components kit.

I have two quick and easy projects to share with you today.  First up, I have this super cute altered block of wood.  

If you visit my blog, then you probably saw the video tour I shared of my creative space and remember the scrap piece of wood I had on my desk.  I save all kinds of things to either incorporate into a project or to alter.  It makes me SO happy when I finally use one of the things I've been holding onto because then I feel like less of a hoarder, lol.

I started out by prepping the wood with a coat of gesso.  You could skip this step and you would just have a darker undertone on your background.  

Next I covered the block with the Christy Tomlinson Coffee Filter Text Sheet.  To adhere, I just used a homemade mixture of decoupage (50% Elmers Glue & 50% Water).

I used the misting canvas flower but instead of misting, I actually painted it with gouache.  In case you're not familiar with gouache, it's a water soluble paint just like watercolors except it gives a more opaque finish.  All of the resist details showed through but I wanted them to be brighter so I just went over them with a white Signo pen. Then I added some dyed burlap for leaves.

I used a scrap of clear packaging from my hoard stash to stamp "thankful".  I wanted to make sure that it would standout against the background and not cover it up like a piece of cardstock would.  To finish up, I added some of the Pink Paislee paper goods.  Easy Peasy right?!!  Since this was so quick and easy, I decided to play around in my art journal.

This is a background that was already halfway done in my art journal.  I like to use up paints and inks left on my stencils by putting them in my art journal.  It helps clean them off without wasting my precious products and also saves time on future art journaling.

I added some scraps of the coffee filter text sheet, Pink Paislee journaling tags and used one of the circle frames from the paper goods pack as a mask.

To complete my design, I randomly stamped "so very thankful for you", added more paper goods and outlined the circles with india ink.  Another quick and easy project using this very versatile kit!

Thanks so much for joining me today! I hope I've inspired you to get creative and MESSY with your May Nesting Components kit.  If you don't have one yet, you can pick one up HERE but don't wait to long because they're going fast!!

Enjoy your weekend!!!