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Hi Everyone, I prefer making my own Art Journal as I can then choose my own paper, journal size and amount of pages.
I am not going into too much detail of stitching and binding the journal. Sea Lemon on Youtube has detailed instructions on any kind of bookbinding. I used this tutorial to bind my pages:
After I have bound my signatures I adhere Cotton Wrapping Plaster (from Dischem) to the spine.
How to make the flowers and leaves for the cover:
1. Sprinkle Brusho Crystals on the white Kraft-Tex and spray with water - Greens & Yellows for the leaves and Reds &Yellows for the flowers. Leave overnight to dry naturally.
2. Stamp Flowers & Leaves with permanent black ink onto the Kraft-Tex sheets.
3. Colour the flowers and leaves with colouring pencils.
4. Seal with Dorland's Wax Medium.
5. Cut out the flowers, and make stitching holes with a piercing tool. The Kraft-Tex is to thick to stitch directly. Stitch with embroidery thread and add beads.
6. Add a dot of Aleene's Quick Dry Tacky Glue in the middle of each flower and leave and again poke stitching holes around each one and stitch.
Faber-Castel Albrecht Dürer Watercolour pencils behave in the same way as classic watercolour paints. Depending on the paper being used, the pigments can be completely dissolved. It is available in 120 colours and is fast becoming one of my favourite pencils.
Head over to Stencil-Art Facebook Page, answer the question posted and stand a chance to win a set of 36 Faber-Castel Albrecht Dürer Watercolour pencils, Faber-Castel waterbrush and a pad of 12 pages of Daler-Rowney Aquafine Smooth Watercolour Paper to the value of R1540.
1. I am working in my Stencil-Art Art Journal with 200gsm Modigliani paper. Roughly sketch flowers and stems with 263 Caput Mortuum Violet.
2. Activate the pencil with Tim Holtz Detail Waterbrush filled with water. Tip: fill the
refillable squeeze writer bottle with water to refill the waterbrush - the long plastic nozzle
fits perfectly into the water chamber of the brush.
Add colour to stems using :
173 Olive Green Yellowish
165 Juniper Green
177 Walnut Brown
107 Cadmium Yellow
3. Add colour to the flowers using:
160 Manganese Violet
137 Blue Violet
140 Light Ultramarine
120 Ultramarine
119 Light Magenta
123 Fuchsia
191 Pompeian Red
111 Cadmium Orange
4. Add water to the centres of the flowers and use sandpaper to shave pigment from
175 Sepia.
5. Outline the petals and stems with Pigma Micron 03 black pen and add dots to the
centres of the flowers.
6. Use a pencil and softly write the quote making use of the Stencil-Art Typo Quotes 1
(STNL00805) stencil. Use the black Posca PC-1M paint marker to finish off the quote.
A great review comparing Albrecht Dürer & Goldfaber Aqua Watercolour pencils:
Join me today as I create this fun journal cover with Sculpey Polymer Clay. I love working with Polymer Clay as it is only cured when baked in your home oven. This means that there is no time frame to complete a project as with air-dry clay.
PRODUCT USED: (Click on the product name to view in the shop)
I get so many customers asking how to use Faber-Castell Gelatos. Faber-Castell Gelatos are acid-free pigment sticks that glide on creamy smooth for vibrant colour and coverage. It can be used with or without water.
Can you believe that February is almost gone? For some reason I am always more creative when the weather is slightly cooler. With the chill in the early mornings, autumn is definately on its way. The technique I am sharing today, is so simple! So simple that I decided to rather post a Youtube tutorial.
Products Used: Ranger Distress Inks Pads - Pumice Stone & Iced Spruce Ranger Distress Marker - Pumice Stone Altenew Cotton Comfort Stamp Set ALT1873 Ranger Archival Ink Pad - Jet Black Stencil-Art Stencil A5 stencil - Texture 1 STBP035
Visible Image from the UK produces high quality clear photopolymer stamps, their designs are unique, original and great for any craft project! My project was inspired by the "Create Your Calm" stamp set from their new releases for 2018.
Working on a ceramic tile , I stamped the seahorse with Ranger Archival Ink Sepia into a rolled out piece of white DAS Air-Dry clay.
Cut out the stamped image with a craft knife.
Smooth all the edges with a rubber tip tool and place the ceramic tile with the seahorse in the oven to speed up the drying time. I baked it at 70 Degrees Celsius until dry. I turned it over a couple of times and baked it for about 1 -2 hours.
After the clay has cooled I sprinkled Brusho Crystals (Sandstone) onto the seahorse and sprayed with water.
I used a heat tool to dry the Brusho and stamped with Jet Black Archival Ink.
Prime the MDF Plaque with Gesso and as I am using watercolours I also painted with Golden Absorbant Ground.
Sprinkle Sea Green and Turquoise Brusho Crystals and spray with water. I dried in between the layers with a heat tool.
Spread Ranger Transparent Matte Texture Paste through the Bubbly stencil with a palette knife and use a heat tool to dry.
Use the circle stamps included in this stamp set and stamp randomly on the background with Ranger Archival Ink in Manganese Blue and Cornflower Blue.
Seal the background with Dorlands Wax Medium.
Stamp the sentiment included in the stamp set with Jet Black Archival Ink.
Use Diamond Glaze and add pieces of string to the background. Also add dots with Ranger Stickles (Turquoise & Mermaid) and Ranger Liquid Pearls (White Opal).
I used iCraft Mixed Media Adhesive to adhere the seahorse. I glazed the Seahorse with Diamond Glaze and added Stickles and Liquid Pearls.
Hi everyone. I’m using my
Distress Crayons for today’s page.I've had them forever and never used them. The smooth water-reactive pigments
are ideal for creating brilliant backgrounds, watercoloring, smudge effects and
more!
To start I glued down dictionary
pages, then covered with Gesso. When dry I scribbled over the page using distress
crayons in mustard seed, twisted citrus and picked raspberry smudging each
colour. I sprayed the surface using the Ranger Distress sprayer and turned the
page to allow drips to run down the page.
......... and then for some reason I changed my
mind and continued to cover the page with distress crayons smudging to blend
them.
I applied some Gesso using a pallet knife and cut some scallops from
dictionary paper then added them to the page. I squiggled some Dayler Rowney Acrylic Artist Ink in two places. Mmmmmm
didn’t like it very much.
I covered up some of the white with distress crayons and used Distress Crayons through various stencils as well as applying the crayon to a stamp, spraying with water and stamping.
I punched some circles from left
over gelli prints to which I had already added some stamping and glued them down, coloured
in some petals, the stem and some leaves using a Faber Castel Pitt pen through
a Stencil-Art flower stencil and another stencil.
I used a wet baby wipe to wipe
away some crayon in various places; love the effect.
Now to the mess at the top of the
page; I covered the black squiggles with Gesso, but being the impatient person
I am, I tried to apply more Distress Crayon before it had dried. I then applied
another layer of Gesso and when that dried I reverted to my acrylic paints in an attempt to
cover it up.
I used by finger and some pink acrylic paint inside the scallops
and outlined them with a Posca black pen. Used a dried up Ranger paint
applicator for the white circles.
Last but not least I used a
stencil for the word “believe”.
Supplies: Ranger Distress Crayons Dictionary paper Circle Punch Various Stencils Black and White Posca pens Faber Castel Black Pitt Artist pen Pink and White Acrylic paint
Hi everyone. I bought some Digi
stamps from Vera Lane Studio and have been wanting to share how I used them in an art journal page. They can easily be used for cards as well, so
here goes.
A digi stamp is an image you can
buy (or occasionally download for free) from craft websites. They may also be
called digital stamps, or more affectionately ‘digis’. Once you’ve bought your
stamp, you can simply print it off and colour it in as you would with a traditional
stamped image.
Depending on what software you have, it is also possible
to resize and even flip (create a mirror image of) the digital images to make
them appropriate for cards of any shape or size. You can do this on Paint
(which should already be installed if you have Windows) or Photoshop. Picasa and Gimp
are image manipulation programmes
you can download for free. It is
easy to resize images in Word too and many computers will have this programme already-installed.
To create the background I cut
off two 1” pieces from an Inkssentials Cut-N-Dry Stamp Pad Foam sheet and used
the black side to sparingly apply Dylusions Fresh Lime and Calipso Teal paints to
my art journal page. Just apply a little bead at a time and use a circular motion to
apply the paint. It gives a slightly different look than when I use the foam
side. It uses far less paint than using the spongy side. I didn't invent this technique.
Next I stencilled in a few places
using the Stencil – Numbers Mix stencil and Dylusions Fresh Lime, this time
using the spongy side of the cut and dry. Used Ranger Aquamarine Archival ink
and stamped a couple of times in other places, then added splatters in Calipso Teal and white
watered down paints. I love splatters – to me they lift the page.
I used a black and White Posca
pen to do the border.
I resized the images in my
software programme and printed them out then fussy cut them. Coloured them using Jane Davenport
mermaid markers.Tip:I used the tiniest little drop on an acrylic
block and a water brush to colour them. I used a glue
stick to attach to the page as the mermaid markers are reactive to water and
might have run if I had used wet glue. Added some Silver Stickles to the crowns and wings. I
used a white Posca pen to add some extra detail to the images.
My sentiment reads……………..”No
ordinary love story”.
Last but not least Vera Lane Digi
stamps are “quirky” which I love.
Supplies:
Resized and Printed Vera Lane
“Kiss the Frog” digi stamps Inkssentials Cut-N-Dry Stamp Pad
Foam sheet Scissors Dylusions Fresh Lime and Calipso
Teal paints Stencil Art Stencil – Numbers Mix
stencil A5 Stamps Ranger Aquamarine Archival ink Black and White Posca pens Silver Stickles Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers Waterbrush Acrylic block Glue Stick
