Playing around and making backgrounds

 

There is a ustreamer called Rach0113 whose style I love… I love how she experiment and just think outside of the box and comes up with some fun art journaling page..

I watched her last Saturday night using pan pastel and stamps doing a great blending design..

Taking her concept I tried the same thing with eco-crafts acrylic as I am not a fan of chalks, although I know I will try them eventually…

but back to the page – I am in a sort of opposite colour space sort of mood and went with the colours sky blue, moss,  blue patina and sunflower..

Loves how it turned out – using the gears stencils and paper artsy stamps I ma liking it alot…

This was fun…

It has begun–UKS art Journey

 

The UKS Art Journal first prompt has gone out.. and it’s just to have fun with a colour of my choice..

To be honest other than green which I adore – I also love colour mix, and layering of colours..

So I went with what I loved and always wanted to try – I sprayed, misted, inked and had fun..

 

 

The process to getting there…

So the first page on my cereal box is done…

I think I am going to prep a few pages to make it a bit easier for me when I need to do more pages

Have fun today …

Sometimes even a mess can be saved

I made a total mess of this page by adding dye ink and all manner of products that don’t work together…

Needless to say it became a runny mess – but with art journal everything can be saved and while I haven’t gotten the right quote to place inside- I am pleased with how much of the background I was able to save..

Love it…

A six month journey–UKS Art Journey

 

One of the forum sites that I frequent ALOT is running a six month journey into Art Journal (AJ) HERE – as this is an area that I love and as you can never have enough info or inspiration when it comes to getting mucky , I am in.

One of the first things being talked about or introduced might be a better term as a lot of the ladies are newbies to AJ is the journal itself..

At the moment I have at least three journal going – they range from a tiny 4x4 which is just fun (simply fun to AJ in) to a A3 size journal - at first that size was this big spread of white paper when I first got it – but as I go through the book and make it my own the challenge is now finding the time to put all the ideas I have in my head down – so I am not going to go out and buy another one

This is what I have done, at the beginning of the New Year I went on some sort of tangent to wrangle my overflowing pile of scrap paper into some sort of order and one of the things I did with the cereal boxes, the old envelope, corrugated cardboard, larger size bits of paper and those half finished project was to toss them together and placed them in a ring binder..

So this project just came along at the right time for me to use this book..

There is all kinda sizes and colour schemes going on in this book – but you know – it works for me.

One of the half finished project from last year,

Die cuts, old card and even a jiffy envelope is in this book  -I am looking forward to fun times with this album.

 

At the moment until the first prompt is given

• I am saving all the negatives from my die cuts

• I have invested in a bigger tube of gesso and even made my own in one case
• I have added more stuff to my already overflowing bin of art supplies

• And I am leaving myself open to learning more and having fun…

 

Find more info HERE

Find out more about UKScrappers HERE

Something quick

This is another entry in my tiny journal – So quick and easy to do..

 

Some Journal pages in a tiny book

Sometimes the inspiration strike when I least expect it….

I treated myself to a tiny art journaling book and it had been so much fun doing quick pages in it…

I normally work in an A4 book or A3 or at least have one of each on the go at the same time, so this tiny book was a different path for me and it is so much fun to work in…

Everything is just quick and the inspiration just fly onto the pages…

I saw this lovely set of stamps no Ebay the other day and treated myself – Love them ALOT…

Art Journaling and having fun

 

Drag out those paint and brushes and have fun…..

My Pages up to weekend of 16-17

Still more background

My Pages up to weekend of 09 -10

All background – will journal eventually..

July 05th – Laugh, Love, Live

I have always wondered what people wrote in their art journal – and after all the mucking about with medium, how do they find space to write..

Well I found out today – free flow writing can be a thing of beauty.

This was a fun page to create…  I went with acrylic paint today and some templates for my flowers.

Green is my all time favourite colour – Hunter Green to be specific, however I am slowly falling in love with blue. I am in the process of hunting down all the shades I have.

July 03 – First hurdle passed

After reading a bunch of blogs and other blogger’s attempt at this art journal adventure – I am seeing that first pages are a little bit of a journey for most people – it’s a little bit of what to do (start with) as well as that feeling of first page jitter – breaking in a new books.

I have it  and it’s not nice

So following some sage advice from more experience and old hand at this art thing – I jumps the first page and pressed on.

and hellooooo – I am in…

My first completed page – simply but very please.

July 2 – Just putting the stash together

Looking for my and find my essentials to take part in my Art Challenges wasn’t all that hard as they were right there on my desk . It really is surprising how much loot we as crafters accurate around us.

Other than the inks, glue, my sketch book and my chalks my best find in my rummage are my calligraphy pens.  I bought these in Living ( an arm of Asda) about a year ago and never really used them – but they are perfect to used over chalk or acrylic – loving the finds so far..

 

I’m off to get creative – I hope.

 

Some focus to my July

This July I am determined to make more of a mess on my desk than I normally would by getting involved in two projects that i have recently found.

 

 

Firstly I am starting the this July a daily art journal – I have been thinking of getting a more structured angle on my doodling and bits and pieces of paper that  I muck up  than I have at the moment and I think this just might help.

With some essential that I have lying around my desk I am already to explore..

I am going slowly though –probably will start of with some chalks as i have some EK Success chalklets hanging around my desk for the longest while – it‘s time I used them up.

Find the Start off Post HERE

The July Link HERE

 

 

 

 

I have also decided to take part in Traci Bunker 30 day Art challenge… it not really a challenge of such but more like earmarking the crafty things I get up in my day..

From the little things to the big things…

I find I like this format alot, as creativity comes in all form- from simply stacking my threads to projects that I am constantly changing and making a mess of.

From Traci’s website

Here are my rules:

• I’ll make art every day for 30 days and post what I have done.
• I don’t have to finish what ever I’m working on that day, I just have to work on something.
• I have to work for 30 minutes, but can work longer if time permits.
• It doesn’t matter what I do for the art making, as long as I work on art.
• I won’t feel guilty for taking the time to work on art and I won’t have to justify why I’m doing it.
• I don’t have to go into detail in my post about how I did anything or what tools, materials I used (unless I want to).

See Traci explanation HERE