Ink Splatter & Blow

Like I stated before I've been all about taking 30 minutes to myself and just playing in my journals. Sometimes ubber messy and takes 2 days to dry out and sometimes just something simple to express myself and feel like I've done something. This is one of those journal pages, just screwing around, playing with some india inks and gesso and of course masking tape! Not going to say I'm a huge fan of the page however, it's a page and let me be creative if only for 30 minutes. After looking at these pictures I'm even thinking I was to go in and do some writting with the ole pen, hmm we shall see. 

Bare Journal Update

So, a month or so ago I created a bare journal, a knock off of some of the great bare products out there. I loved it as well did many of you. I got the covers done to this book, well okay their not done but I got more done on them. Little by little it's coming together. The cover isn't completely finished but it's going in that direction for sure. If you missed the making of this great journal check it out here. http://craftdonkey.blogspot.com/2012/03/tutorial-thursday-bare-stuff.html

One Very Messy Layout

I love tags. Of all sorts, kraft tags, shipping tags, tags of all colors and sizes. I just really adore them. I decided to play with some tags on a layout. I will say it's rare that I sit down and just make a tag. I'm not even sure why just never been a real tag maker.  

I began by laying all of the tags out and then applying some blue Pan Pastels to it. It really helped bring out the textures of the tags. I left a gap there in the center knowing there would be a picture centered there.

I used some gelattos on this as well just making streaks with them and then sprayed them with some water and dried them out. I then mixed up some paint with some Golden Light Molding Paste. I spread it here and there on the layout for no rhyme or reason. Just added some texture to it.

I then placed some 7-gypsies tissue tape around the layout. I also altered a chipboard clock and placed some hands on it.

Wet embossed a fun dress form and did some stamps and playing with paint and mist. Some bling and a tag and i have a very delightfully messy layout!

Brick Art Journal Page

So, I've been having a ton of fun with my art journals recently. I can't even tell you why but it's just been where I have been going when I want to craft. Enjoy.

I first covered the enture page in a nice thick coat of gesso.  I love the Prima brick stencils I picked up. I have both the positive and the negative of the bricks and I just adore them for using as a stencil with panpastels as well as with texture. Just wonderful.

I applied brown pan pastels and then sealed them off with a fixative. This enables me to be able to work on it without smearing it.

I then got a little messy. I did a few sprays of mists onto the page and then smeared them with a cloth. Then I sprayed soem watered down gesso onto the page and when it was tacky.. almost dry but not quite I took a cloth and rubbed hard. This smeared all the way through and gave me some bare spots in the brick wall.

Printed a quote I liked and inked it up with some pan pastel, die cut, painted and sanded a bird cage and put them down on the page

I then added a few quotes I also like.

Very sorry if the "F" word offends anyone, but afterall a journal can't very well be censored.

Nice picture of how gritty my poor hands got for this page.

Art Journal Page

I loved the latest prompt at A Year In The Life Of An Art Journal, so much so that I used the same prompt for a different journal as well. Everything I did is pretty self explanatory.

THE PROMPT: Nature is a wondrous thing
ie: use pics of nature
THE STUFF: Don't quote me on it
ie: use a quote or quotes
THE TECHNIQUE: Gesso & stencils ie: try something different and use Gesso on your stencils for texture!

Want to see what others came up with? http://oneyearartjournal.blogspot.com/

 

This page was something else i began sketching on but then didn't like where it was going, so it's a great thing to just cover with some layers.

love the texture and this will dry clear!

Gelatto fun of course. The gel acts as a resist which I loved playing with.

spray with some water and then brushed out and then blotted with a cloth to get it off all of the letters.

I then sprayed the entire page with some watered down gesso. And added a tag.