I have been making so many cards lately. I'm good at making them, but not very good at sending them. So now I'm stuck with a gigantic box full of cards. That also reminds me that I *really* need to send a few cards which are long overdue. Anyhow, after being inspired by Meihsia's amazing Art Journal Page over at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge, I thought I would dust off my long abandoned Art Journal and try making a mixed media page. The theme for the challenge over at Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is Don't abandon coral, and although I don't have the new Abandoned Coral distress ink (yet, but it's in the mail...) I thought I would use the Stampin' Up Calypso Coral instead. My art journal page is also inspired by the beautiful greens and bright flowers out there in the garden right now. I'm still not much of a mixed media artist, but I did love playing with the paints, watercolours and my Tim Holtz Spritzer tool. It is nice to mix it up from time to time.
I used green, coral and pink inks to watercolour the background. I then added various stencils and stamps for the background, and inked the edges in Vintage Photo. I also got out my Tim Holtz spritzer tool and spritzed the page with green, coral, pink and brown markers. I stamped flowers from the Stampin' Up Bloom with Hope set, coloured them with markers and smudged the colour with a watercolour brush. For the tag, I inked it with coral, pink and vintage photo ink, and coloured some gesso with Peeled Paint distress ink and applied it thorough a hexagon stencil. Then I stamped the Stampin' Up En Francais script stamp on the tag in black archival ink. Last, I stamped a Tim Holtz floral stamp in Mowed Lawn and Picked Raspberry distress paint. Finally I attached the flowers, the tag onto the page, and sprayed everything with a water mist with . Last, I added some coloured lace and added some Gorgeous Grunge spots and blotches in white ink.
In would also like to link up with the following challenges:
All Crafts Challenge - Anything but a card
Addicted to Stamps - Flowers
Dragonfly Dreams - How does your garden grow
Stamping Sensations - Flower Power
The Artistic Stamper - Journaling your heART out
Our Creative Corner - April Showers Bring May Flowers
This is such a lovely card - love all the mix of patterns and colors - just perfect. Thanks so much for joining us this time at the Dragonfly Dreams Challenge, Elizabeth (DT)
ReplyDeleteFabulous art journal page Miss Pink Unicorn! :) (love that!) :)
ReplyDeleteFabulous colors, fabulous blooms, love your inclusion of the tag on the page--Spring Flower Power, indeed!! :) Thank you for bringing this aj page over to my challenge-April Showers Bring May Flower, this month at Our Creative Corner! Just Fab :) XOXO-Shari
What a gorgeous riot of colour and flowers.
ReplyDeleteMany thanks for sharing your pretty card with us at Stamping Sensations challenge.
B x
Wow this is just perfect for the OCC challenge. I loved everything about it, the colours are beautiful and the arrangement of all the elements are just so wonderful together, makes you want to look and look and look. thanks for sharing with us on Our Creative Corner. -Candice-
ReplyDeleteGorgeous page, love the colours, thanks for entering The Artisitc Stamper Challenge.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful card, love the colours. Thanks for joining us at Stamping Sensations.
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This is wonderful! Thanks so much for linking up with us at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog!!! - Ashli :)
ReplyDeleteBeautiful stamps used... Gorgeous Color theme!! FAB put together.. Great Creation!!
ReplyDeleteThank you for joining us at ATSC! Hugs Sol
I so love this project! Beautiful stamps and fabulous composition!
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for joining us at Dragonfly Dreams and I hope we see you again soon!
Hugz
Laurian
Owner Dragonfly Dreams