Tag: … Art Journals

Can I Kiss You?

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It’s Saturday and you know what that means…. another Make it Colourful challenge!! This week’s challenge is sponsored by Crissy’s Art ‘n Heart and our challenge is to color dark skin. This one is going to be a simple one but if you looking for color choices, make sure you visit the challenge blog for several other combinations.


For my project I merged three images… and yes, I merged instead of cut! LOL My inspiration is centered around Can I Kiss You from Whimsy stamps (also one of Crissy’s images) and thought he would be perfect sitting on the Victorian Chaise from Make it Crafty. Now the next thing I needed was a sweet girl for her to kiss…


… but as you can see, as soon as he kissed that sweet girl she turned into a frog!! (Froggy Thoughts from Tiddly Inks.) They’re too young to be kissing so it’s all his fault that happened. 😀 Now they’ll just have to wait until they’re both much, much older to break the spell. So if my daughters are reading this…. better watch out and save those kisses for later!!


To give this image the magical effect I tried drawing in some pixie dust and stars. Then I colored them with my white gel pen and squeezed some glitter glue in the area for some sparkle. I’d probably do it differently next time but this at least conveys the story well enough that I left it be.


The skin tone combination is E00, E11, E13, E25, E29, E59 and E49 and I like how it turned out. I was also trying for extreme lights and darks in the clothes and frog but gave up on that idea by time I started coloring the chaise. I need to practice more with that but luckily that wasn’t *this* challenge. ;D Have a great weekend!

Quinceañera Daydream

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Here it is… the start of a new art journal… even though this isn’t the first page it is the first to be previewed! This one features a new release from Little Miss Muffet Stamps called Quinceañera Daydream and she has been merged with Rise and Shine from Make it Crafty.


The two images weren’t designed for each other but it turns out they play nicely together! LOL For embellishments, I used more Make it Crafty chippies, pearls, wide twill tape and some ribbon flowers I had in my stash. I also distressed some edges and drew in some faux stitching.


With these two images together it looks like this princess had the night of her life! She still has her shoes so I’m assuming she has the prince’s phone number for later. ;D


The ribbon flowers are actually rather thick and after gluing them onto the page I had to press them down with a dictionary and my Cuttlebug machine! They compressed to half their size with was more than I thought possible. I’ll have to keep that dictionary handy!

I’d like to enter this into the following challenges:
Cardmadfairy’s Digi Days Challenge #13 – Oh So Girly
Crafts 4 Eternity Challenge #30 – Anything but a card
Inspire Me Friday – Anything goes
Pattie’s Creations Challenge – Stitching, faux
Sew Many Cards Challenge #62 – Anything goes

Genevieve

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Welcome to another Saturday and challenge at Make it Colourful! This week we’re challenging you to change the colors of your embellishment… any of your embellishments. So get out your markers, ink refills, paints and whatnot and come along to join in the challenge. ;D


I colored three of my embellishments… (1) Colored the ivory lace ribbon with my YR18 Copic marker, (2) colored the white Prima flowers with YR18, YR14, YR12 and Y23; and lastly (3) painted the chippies (Filigree Jewels from Make it Crafty) with Silver Adirondack Acrylic Paint Dabber.


The images used are Genevieve from Kraftin’ Kimmy Stamps and in the background I used the Steampunk Flying Machine from Make it Crafty. For some reason orange and green always goes well together so with all the green on the project, I chose a bright orange for the hair. I think I used Y32, YR12, YR14 and Y18 – the same colors as the flowers.


This is the eleveth page in my journal and as you can see there is no way this book is ever closing flat again! It’s even to the point that it props itself up from the other pages… as you can see. ;D But just as well… the journal will look better opened than closed. LOL


I used a type set alphabet to create the sentiment… “Adventure”. I wasn’t sure how to attach them because the prongs would go through the paper and thought I must be missing a tool or something. So I just bent all the prongs in then attached them with glue dots – an easy fix for now. ;D

Hope you enjoy this project and have a great weekend full of coloring! 😀

Oh I forgot to mention that I have all the these journal pages labeled with “… Art Journal” so you can click on that and see all the pages in the book. And those clouds were colored with B52, B21, C3, C1, B00, and B000.

Peppermint as Red Riding Hood

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Welcome to another challenge day at Little Miss Muffet Challenges where our theme for this fortnight is “Summer!” There is also a DT Call going on… so if you like Little Miss Muffet Stamps then head on over to submit an entry! Challenge and DT Call closes on Tuesday, August 2nd.


On my project I used “Peppermint as Red Riding Hood” from Little Miss Muffet Stamps and Spring Meadow from Whiff of Joy. What? I know, can you believe I didn’t use a Make it Crafty background this time!! But don’t worry, I made up for it with the chippies. ;D Plus I’ve got to get *some* mileage out of the Spring Kit before it collects too much dust. LOL


I think the papers are Sugar Rish from Basic Gray and the twill ribbon and pearls are from Stampin’ Up. I had this image colored up a while ago and so it was fun to be able to grab something and create a page in my journal right away. Although I did have to pause to color the background – but that wasn’t so bad.


I love the deep reds I was able to get with the hood. Usually reds show up too bright on film so this is a new combination I tried out. I starts with the expected reds, R22, R24, and R27, but then I jumped down and used R46 and R59 to darken it up. Another combination I find successful is R21, R14, R24, R37, R46 and R59.


I also used a new combination with the lighter color greens in the background – this time I used G40, G82, G85 and G99 which I like better than the G20s range.

I’d like to enter into the following challenges:
Scrapalicious USA Challenge #12 – anything summer
Flutter By Wednesday’s #163 – open theme
Craft-room Challenge – butterflies (just for fun)
Deep Ocean Challenge #4 – ribbons
Simon Says Stamp – newspaper (framing background image)

Hope you’ve enjoyed this page in the summer journal and come on over to check out the other girl’s inspiration for the Summer challenge!

Across the Bridge

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All good things come to an end and so sadly this is my last post as a Little Darlings Design Team member. I had such a wonderful time that I decided to go all out and created this summer scene! I used several images to create this page in my journal:


I used two images from Love to Stamp, Little Darlings Croquet and Nice to Meet You. In the background I used Across the Bridge plus some chippies from Make it Crafty. The paper is Oliver from Basic Gray and the pearl brads are from Whiff of Joy.


I started coloring in the background then worked on the two kids – and if you can believe it, I picked my paper *after* I colored! I’m usually the other way around so this was a new adventure. However, because it was a scene with lots of natural colors, I figured I was pretty safe in doing so. ;D


Here’s a better view of the background before it started to blend into the background of the project. LOL One of the clouds I had colored in blue but then changed my mind and wanted to go with gray. At that point, everything else was colored so I printed out a second copy and paper pieced in a new cloud colored gray! Works every time!


This is the eight page in my project journal and I’m starting to think I need to make a statement with each page! Ha ha… I’ll save that for the next book. ;D For those who want to start your own book… I found this spiral bound journal with watercolor paper. The paper is thicker and provides a great base to start building on.


This was a fun summer time page and I like cool colors with a splash of yellow. It actually wasn’t planned that way but it turned out great – like a nice cool spring day. Hope you enjoyed this page and that you’re sufficiently inspired … for now! LOL

Girl’s Best Friend

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Welcome to another Tiddly Ink Tuesday Challenge where the theme this week is to create a project inspired by a Nature Movie. My movie isn’t all about nature but it fit the images I wanted to use… “Must Love Dogs” and highlight the park scenes.


And speaking of movies, it’s not helping much to write this post while I’m watching Rango. I’m not sure about the plot yet but the textures on characters are amazing! Anyway, I decorated another page in the journal and this time I went with a very girlie pastel theme.


It’s been a long time since I’ve used my button stash so I grabbed a few coordinating colors and scattered them around with a few pearls. I also found some old ribbon that worked well and finally used another one of those Ranger tags.


The images I used was Girl’s Best Friend from Tiddly Inks and Rainbow Meadow from Make it Crafty. I think the paper I used was Sugar Rush from Basic Gray. Here’s a close up of the colored image… the girl was colored separate and then I used foam dots to give it dimension from the background.


Did you see the post from yesterday about the “green” faces? This is another one of my attempts and I’m not sure how it turned out – different. This time I had colored the all the skin areas with Y000 and G20 before applying any other color. I’m sure to try it again so we’ll see what comes around. ;D