Texture and More Texture

Happy Wednesday everyone, thank you so much for stopping by. I appreciate your support of my work and my blog.

Today is my turn to show a project on Stampotique's Designer Blog

This week the Fabulous and wonderful Kay Wallace has challenged us to use some Texture in our backgrounds.

Be sure to stop by the Designer's Challenge blog to check out the wonderful creations by the design team.

For my project I did an art journal page. Texture is one thing that I love, love, love... so this challenge was right up my alley.

I have used the following Stampotique stamps on this page:

Prom Queen - By Jill Penney and Daniel Torrent

Mela - By Daniel Torrent

Topknot - Daniel Torrent

Blocks - Maryse Carrier

I started with an art journal page that was sort of a wipe off page. I brushed some paint onto this page awhile back and just left it.

I love the two colors of blue here and wanted to add upon those.

I got this wonderful Stencil from Jessica Sporn and was itching to use it.

I applied gesso over it to add a little texture to my page, I then set aside to dry

I then added some more color to the page with Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions Sprays

I added some stenciling with black Archival ink

To add more texture I applied Liquitex modeling paste over a brick wall stencil

I also added some stamping around the edges with the Block stamp

I stamped my girls onto a separate piece of paper and colored them, cut them out and glued them onto my page

I then added some white gel pen to some of the blocks around the edges

Lastely I added my sentiment onto a separate sheet of paper that I sprayed with Dylusions sprays as well

Notice how the texture paste takes on some of the color underneath. I love that effect...

Thanks for stopping by once again, have a wonderful Wednesday!!!

Cheers!!

Pan Pastels - Oh My

Hello everyone, thanks for stopping by on this weekend. 

Last month I won some pan pastels from a drawing on the wonderful Marjie Kemper's blog and I was so excited. I haven't been able to really sit down and use them until the other day. I was thrilled to pieces to have won them because I have wanted to try pan pastels for a very long time. They are a little pricey so I put it off. 

I decided that I wanted to work in my Dyan Reaveley art journal and do a two page spread. Since I have never used them before I decided that I better go online and research them a bit prior to using them.

The first thing I did was cover some of my journal pages with Tim Holtz tissue paper and tissue tape. 

Then I wanted something to give my page some dimension so I used Liquitex modeling paste and a stencil.

I started with some make-up sponges and covered my page with a few of the pan pastels colors. These go on so smooth and the color is amazing

I then added some red color to the modeling paste stencil area and also added some stenciling here and there by using versamark ink and dabbing on more of the same colors

Lastly I added some black stenciling and some Dina Wakley and Donna Downey journaling words and some tissue tape

I also added a bit of white paint and went around the entire edge with red pan pastel

I'm not sure if this page is quite done yet but this is where I stopped for now. I really love the way it looks but I almost feel like it needs something more. Maybe something will come to me eventually, sometimes these pages just need to "sit" for awhile and I revisit them later

Using Texture Mediums and Stencils

Good Morning everyone, today I have a tutorial for you over at 

Unruly PaperArts.

This month at Unruly it's all about stencils and using your stencils in different ways and on different surfaces. 

I have put together a journal page for you using my stencils and  Liquitex Modeling paste.

I hope you will go on over and check it out.

Here is a link:

Liquitex and Stencils

And here is a sneaky peak....

A House For A Friend (and one for me)

Heidi Ho bloggies! Ok, I feel a little giddy today. I just finished up a project that I got to do for a friend of mine named Val. She is actually the one that designed this fantastic art on my blog. I'm am SO excited that I can give back to her and make this house for her Cabin wall. Thanks again Val for all your help with my blog. :)
So for this project, I wanted to make one for Val and one for myself and since Val send me the template I simply cut out one for me as well. The houses I created are almost exactly the same but mine has a different saying and hers has a few different elements. 
I also would like to enter this project into the following challenges:
Stampotique Designers Challenge - This week they are doing "Song Inspiration" I used the song "Home Sweet Home" by Carrie Underwood on my house.
Our Creative Corner - Their Challenge is "Shabby Chic" and they wanted you to include a crown on your project. I used the beautiful colors from the photo on their blog and added a crown to the charm
Eclectic Paperie - Their Get Altered Challenge this week is to use some sort of fabric in your project.
Here are my finished projects:

This one is my friend Val's House

(Hers says Be A Designer Of Dreams, the ribbon was blocking part of it)

I will show a picture of mine at the end.....

Here is how I did the houses

Using the cardboard cut out I first painted them with cream colored paint.

 I then used the Liquitex modeling paste and a brick stencil to make the brick on the roof.

Laying that aside to dry I then used burlap and muslin to cut out some flowers with Tim Holtz Tattered flowers die

I sprayed the muslin flowers with Ranger's Color wash sprays in cranberry and Stream I also sprayed the ribbon on Val's house in the cranberry color as well.

(sorry, forgot to picture this)

While those were drying I went back to the house and used distress inks in Vintage Photo and Aged Mahogany and a distress tool to color the brick.

I also stamped the house background with one of Wendy Vecchi background stamps and a Memento stampin spot in the color Desert Sand. It all blended in nicely.

Once that was done I edged the houses with black marker to make them pop a little more and put them all together.

The little Stampotique girl with purse is by designers Jill Penney and Daniel Torrente.

This is Val's house, I like the way it turned out, I hope she likes it.

These are pictures of my house (which I used the Song Title)

I took the pictures before I added the ribbon to mine.

Hope you have enjoyed my little house post. :) I was running short on time but will definitely add finishing touches to mine tomorrow :)

Good Night!

Texture Journal Page

I have been in my room today working on a journal page. I actually used a stencil yesterday for the texture. I had to give it time to dry so I used Liquitex modeling paste and a Crafters Workshop stencil on the page.  The triangles in the background were already on this page, I took a white gel pen and wrote around some so that they would stand out. It's funny because the triangle stencil part was light pink and blue before I painted over them. Now they are a hue in the background. I love that!! 
I used acrylic paint for most of this page except the rock, wish I had more of that distress paint, I would have used it instead, alas, i must budget!! haha!!. For the rock I used Tim Holtz distress paint in the color Broken China, I wanted it to be a little muted and not so bright because it's supposed to look like rock so I dabbed some out onto my craft sheet and used my finger to apply it. I then used a distress tool to lightly wipe distress ink in black soot over the top. You can really see the texture. I also stamped the sentiment onto a white piece of paper and swiped that through the paint on the craft sheet to give it a blue hue. I love using the distress paints in different ways. It's so versatile. 
The flowers are the new stencils from Wendy Vecchi, I love them, they are really awesome! I see myself using them a ton in the future. 
The sentiment and black bird are from Dyan Reaveley's stamps sets. 
I am entering this page into this week's Stampotique Designer Challenge which is Triangles. The girl on the page is a stamp from Stampotique (love all their stamps) The Prom Queen Image is by Daniel Torrent & Jill Penney, two of my favorite designers.
I'm also going to add this to Hel's Blog for her Sunday Stamper challenge. This week it's "You Raise Me Up" use texture! I love that song! 

Thanks for coming by again :) I hope you all are getting some inspiration from my blog.