Art Journal - Adventure, Sir Vagabond in Japan

 Hi, 

Today I`m so excited to share my latest mixed media art journal layout. I totally love how it turned out and it`s definitely among my top favorites. 

This time I have been playing in my new A5 stone paper journal from Vicky Papaioannou`s Create Happiness collection from Stamperia and this is the first time I came across stonepaper. I was very facinated with the properties of this paper. 

I used the gorgeous collection Sir Vagabon in Japan also from Stamperia and this layout actually goes over 3 pages. I love that this beautiful girl sits by the window and looking through you can see the samurai from the next page. For my backgrounds I used distress oxide sprays in Lost shadow and Stormy sky and then I very light handed went over with some Tumbled glass. I also added some splatters with white, black and gold paint. This is my first time trying my oxide sprays, or any distress oxide product, and I do understand the love for these products. The stone paper was also very impressive to work on. It does not tear but you can easily cut it. It takes water, sprays, modelingpaste and heat beautifully and the pages stay flat. 

On my first page I used a small script stamps from the Create Happiness collection and a small lace circle from and old Prima stamp set to add some interest on my background. The stencil is Bricked from Tim Holtz. On all my pages I went around the edges with Vintage photo and Black soot. I love how the modeling paste pickes up some of the colors from the beackground and makes everything look so coordinated.

My window is actually from the Stamperia Blue Dream collection and I have used acetate on it. I used my craft knife to cut out the window without any problem. I went with the title Adventure as I think its a perfect start for an Art journal and its also from the in Japan papers. I love to travel and I really want to travel to Japan some day.

On my next pages both my stencil and the two stamps are from Vicky`s Create Happiness collection. I keep using these again and again as I find them very versatile. Then I added some splatters using Lindys Moon shadow mist. 

I had to work some on my window on this side since its actually two smaller windows cut apart and then glues togeter using one window from the Blue Dream  8*8" papers and the other from the ephemera. So there are some overlapping and difference in texture but I really don`t mind and I focus more on how happy I am to have made it fit my project.

On all my images I traced the edges with a black pen to avoide any white on the edges. I also used Vintage Photo and Black soot on all the pieces befor gluing them down. As always I added some finishing thouches with my white sakura gel pen.

I am so pleased with how this turned out and I had such fun creating this project.

Here a link to my IG reel on this project if you want to take a look 💖

CKN Design- create happy days crafting (@ckndesign_craft) • Instagram-bilder og -videoer

I`m entering this to:

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge Blog: Welcome to Creative Artiste Challenge #97

Simon Says: Anything Goes | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge

Classic Design Challenge Blog : Classic design Challenge September # 9

So excited to be among the best technique winners!

Hope you liked it and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too.

Thank you for stopping by,

-Christine💮

Masculine card - Sir Vagabond in Japan

 Hi,

Today I`m sharing a masculine card made out of the amazing papers Sir Vagabond in Japan from Stamperia. I fussy cut my focal point from the Collectables pack and I just love the look of the samurai used on this card. 

The background is also from the same collectable paper pad. I stamped the film strip using Stamperias Create happiness leaves and movie stamp set and cut out the pictures from the papers. The circular birthday sentiment stamp is from Papirdesign. To finish of my card I used some black glitter stickles from Ranger but the sparkle doesn`t show up that well on the pictures I think.

I love how this card turned out and I hope you like it as much as I do.

I`m entering this card to 

Simon Says: Anything Goes | (simonsaysstampblog.com) 2nd entry

Crafty Catz: Crafty Catz Challenge #648 (craftycatzweeklychallenge.blogspot.com)

Polkadoodles Cardmaking, Craft & Scrapbooking Challenge: Wk 30 - Card making & paper craft challenge - Anything Goes creative craft challenge at Polkadoodles

The Male Room: Challenge 176 - Travel (themaleroomchallengeblog.blogspot.com)

So happy my card is among the Honourable mention 

I hope you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too 😊

Thank you so much for stopping by,

-Christine💮

Feels like summer - Art journal with magazine cut outs

 Hello everyone,

I hope you are doing well 😊

Today I`m sharing a quick update with you on a new art journal page. This time created with magazine cut outs from some old magazines here from our cabin. We were expecting some rainy days so I was going through what we had of old magazines and newspapers so that my 6 year old son and I could play and create during these days.

When I saw  this week "We`re going around in circles" challenge over at Simon Says Stamp I actually cheated and made this page while we still had some good weather because I think all the slices with kiwi fits the theme perfectly in a summer vibe way. CKN Design- create happy days crafting (@ckndesign_craft) • Instagram-bilder og -videoer

The background is made with distress inks in tumbled glass, peacock feathers and faded jeans applyed randomly. I then sprayed with some water to lift off some ink with a paper towel to create some texture. Then I used Tim Holtz stencil dod fade, that I absolutely love, with faded jeans ink.

Next I stamped randomly around my page using two different stamps from Stamperias Create happiness stamp set in faded jeans and peacock feathers.

I used modpodge to glue down my magazine cut outs also covering everything with a thin layer so that everything got the same finnish and it also makes it possible to play with different inks ontop. 

Then I used a letter stamp set from Papirdesign (PD 2100365) and stamped "summer" with jet black Archival ink from Ranger. I wrote "time" with a black pen doodling in the letters using Tim Holtz Bubble stencil. You can just freehand this but I was enjoying myself and went with the stencil and filling in with my black pen. I used a black marker to add a frame to the pages and also added some white gel pen and added some black outline here and there on my page.

I`m entering this to Simon Says: We’re Going Around In Circles | (simonsaysstampblog.com)

I hope you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting too. 

Thank you for stopping by,

-Christine💮

Forever by my side - Art Journal

Hi everyone,

I`m so excited to share this art journal page with you today. I`m totally in love with how this one turned out, even though it might be on the darker side for some of you. For my focal point I used an image I colored up myself, combining two of my favorit things, Copic coloring and art journaling. I just love the outcome and you will see me doing this more often in the future.

I`m sorry for the poor photo quality. The bright daylight wased out the colors a bit, I will try to take better pictures when I have time during this week. Hope you still like it :)  

The beautiful image is actually cut out from a coloring book I have from Mitzi-Sato Wiuff called Midnight Gardens. She is the artist behind Aurora Wings stamp. I don`t think the coloring book is still available anymore, but there are many stunning digital stamps on her Etzy shop. 

I used quite a lot of markers on her dress and I may have used hintes of markers not mention here as I was looking for the color combination I wanted, but here are the once I mainly used:

Skin: E50-51-11 - BV20 - R20

Gold: Y15- YR24-27-E15

Red: R20-22-24-29- Grey T7 for deeper shading 

Orange dress: YR000-00-31-38-16

Flowers: RV00-55-66-69 - R22

Green: YG03-17

Skull: Grey C:0-1-3-5

For my background I used some blue shaded distressinks on a plastic sheet, spritsing it with water and then dabbing the plastic sheet on y pages. Then I used a background stamp from Stamperias Create happiness stamps and stamped randomly with Tumbled glass and Faded Jeans. Then I used black Archival ink for the text stamp and the cute flowers I stamped along the bottom of my pages, also from the same collection. I decided to color my flowers with gold acrylic paint to get a more ancient Japan feel to my pages. As a finishing thouch I splattered with gold acrylic paint, used my white Sakura gelpen for some highlights and my black Copic multiliner for some black details and I also wrote my text for hand since I was crafting at the cabin and didn`t have anything else to use for my quote. 

I love the contrast of the beautiful lady with her stunning kimono holding a skull in her hand as she looks back at you. I think the words " Always by my side" fits the image well as she walks holding the skull, but I guess it also has to do with the date as today was my wedding day. This summer it will be 8 years since ha suddenly past away and he would also have had his birthday the 23th. So I guess you could say that these days every year he is in my thoughts more often.

I`m entering this in :Simon Says: Art Journal | (simonsaysstampblog.com) (second entry)

I hope you like todays art journal, and that you got inspired to create yourself a happy day crafting.

-Christine

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