2 page Art Journal - Travel, Blue Dream

 Hi, Today I`m sharing a double page layout and it`s my first time playing in my small Dylusion art journal. I`m actually working on the secon page, since I have something special in mind for my first page wich I will share with you soon.

I`m totally in love with how this layout turned out. I used papers from the beautiful Blue Dream collection from Stamperia. I`m just so in love with this paper collection, and I actually bought it to make a mini album from a trip to Gran Canaria with my dear friend but I couldt help myself from diving a tiny bit into the beautiful papers already, making a travel, sea and summer themed journal page.

The borders and most of the elements are cut outs from the 12x12 paper pack, and and some elements are from the ephemera pack.  

For my background I used Distress Inks from Tim Holtz and I must admit this is kind of alian territory for me since I mostley used to copic color images and finnished of the card with pattern paper. I don`t have many colors, I have one round and one square old blending tool and for my vintage photo color I just held the foam with my fingers. Still, just playing around with different techneques like spraying water on the page, lifting color using stencil and dabbing on some ink in the two darkest color through my stencil. I`m super happy with how my background turned out. 

I did however get a dark color transfer smear just over the travel word when I was nearly finished, but I`m not going to let it bother me and take away the joy I feel from this layout. It`s part of my learning prosess, and remember- it`s just creative fun with beautiful colors, papers and ink. Don`t let small mistakes like that discourage you :)

And here are a few close ups showing the bautiful paper and the lovely background. I used wild honey, spiced marmalade and vintage photo distress inks. The stencil I used is called Compass and is from the Welcome home collection from Stamperia.

I finished of my project with my white Sakura pen to add some highlights.

I would like to enter this in:

Simon Says: Anything Goes | (simonsaysstampblog.com) 

Simon Says: Make Your Mark | (simonsaysstampblog.com) second entry

Do you like to travel? I hope you got inspired to create yourself a happy day and enjoy some crafting time. Thank you for stopping by.

-Christine

Gorjuss - I gave you my heart

 Hi everyone,

Today I`m finally back with a Copic colored card. It`s been several years since I got to sit down and play with my beloved Copics and I had a really fun time coloring up this super cute Gorjuss girl image from Santoro. Need to practice to get back on track with my coloring again, but hopefully it will come back at no time if I color up regularly in the future. Anyway, I remembered why and how much I fell in love with my markers years ago and will for shure spend more time with them in the future :)

So, here she is - Gorjuss girl no 9 "I gave you my heart" stamp colored with Copic markers.

The beautiful papers are from Peon design. I love their papers, they are just so pretty. The one I used is from the old "Sagan om våren" collection and is devided in four 6x6 squares you cut out from a 12x12 sheet.

The sentiment stamp is something I had forever and I don`t remember where it`s from anymore.            I stamped the image and my sentiment with Momento Espresso since I just couldt find my black one, but I think it worked out great on this card.

I gave my Gorjuss girls wings by cutting off wings from a butterfly I had and popped her up on foam dots to make her pop up more from the background. I also put foam dots under the sentement.

COPIC MARKERS I USED:

Skin: E000-E00-E11-E21 -E04 and R20 for blush

Hair: E43-E47-E49

Dress: YR04-YR14-YR15-E15-E18 ( I think, I changed it up as I colored)

Socks: Grey W:03-W05-W07

On the rest of the white details: Grey C: C01-C03

I like to enter this card to Copic Marker Norge  #142 anything goes or find inspiration on the blog. I got inspired from the Tutorial on bright colors and dark shadows CopicMarkerNorge: Sterke farger og mørke skygger but ended up coloring the dress a bit more toned down.

I`m entering this card to 

Simon Says: Things With Wings | (simonsaysstampblog.com) and

Simon Says: Make Your Mark | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Crafty Catz: Crafty Catz Challenge #634 - ANYTHING GOES with optional twist (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com)

Thank you for stopping by,                                                                                                                           I hope you liked my card and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting. 

-Christine

Enjoy life - mixed media layout

 Hi everyone,

Today I`m sharing a mixed media layout with a sweet and fun picture of my friend that I made for her birthday yesterday. We had such a fun day celebrating her with her family and friends.

She had posted her picture on FB a while back and I love the playful and flowery feeling this picture has. She also just has the most stunning eyes and the background really made her eyecolor pop beautifully. I`m so happy she let me post her picture here on my blog and I love how this turned out,

Sorry for the bad lighting in some of the pictures. 

I slightly cut down a 12*12 sheet and distressed and inked up the edges before backing it on to black chipboard. This both framed the layout and made the hole thing sturdy.

The background I actually made two times since I managed to tip my open bottle of my Lindys spay all over. So I had to layer up with gesso with both my spatula and a brush to push back the green from all over my sheet. So I lost some of the details in my stenciling, but just made a few more layers on top and I think I managde to save my background well, what do you think? 

I also stamped randomly to add some interest on my background and I applyed gesso to my honeycomb chipbord that I had in my stash. Flowers are from Prima and the glassbeads and glass glitter I added here and there to finnish everything off is from Finnabair.

I added some more texture and dimention behind the photo adding layers with corrugated chipboard, cardstock and some cheesecloth under the photo.

She actually has some flowers in her hair in the picture so I thouht it was a fun detail to play on and placed a pale blue bigger flower on her hair for decoration. The junkjard finding lightbulb from Prima with Enjoy and the chipbord with life makes the perfect positiv sayings for this layout Enjoy life. 

I hope that you liked my project and that you got inspired to create something yourself.

I`m entering this layout in Simon Says: Add Texture | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

-Christine