May long weekend project!

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Diana

i worked hard crafting all weekend…. not in my craft room but outside!!

i started with this:

and went to this!

it was alot of work.. i mean a lot but oh so much fun. i love doing stuff like this.. this is me. half way through i called my dad just to let him know how thankful i am that he raised me, his daughter, to believe i could do anything i put my mind too. well i put my mind to replacing the front step, MOVING THAT TREE, and creating a welcoming entry to all who visit. i truly am thankful, grateful for each and every moment of my life.

so as you can see a lot of my time was spent outside, even in the rain and not much spent inside BUT if you look closely you can see that some of my craft room was indeed used to create this welcoming spot using my new distress paints, wendi vecchi embossing paste, a couple of squirts of my dylusions black and white sprays and finished off with perfect pearls:

i still have a few finishing touches to do in and around the front yard but today was a full scale rain day so i spent my day in my pj’s in the craft room working on class samples for next weekend as well as a page all for me.

tomorrow it is back to work…

diana

art journalling – happy mothers day

Posted on May 12, 2013 by Diana

i had a good day weekend in the craft room.

i had planned on doing a step by step of this page but alas i have run out of time as i wanted to get it posted before Mother’s day was over.

i have used lots of distress paints and inks, rub ons and embossing paste and a whole lot of heart

hard to believe.. 25 years gone but i know with me every single second of every single day. miss you mom. Happy Mother’s Day to you!!

diana

art journalling – if i am not i

Posted on May 11, 2013 by Diana

so i spent last night and this morning just playing.. nothing in mind except using up some stuff on my desk. i was reminded again this week of how the sun and warm, hence laying out on the deck, seems to take over this time of year. as much as i love my studio and the great joy it gives to me, the deck seems to win out each and every time.

i started out with covering my journal page with bits and pieces of paper, maps, embossed tags etc that were hanging around my desk. i then put a couple of squirts of distress paint on my craft mat and using bubble wrap covered my papers to give it a more unified look.

my next step was to dig out some of those foam stamps that i have collected and forgot about and i stamped flowers on my page with once again distress paint

to clean my stamps i just sprayed them with water and stamped them off in the background… waste not want not they say!

once the distress paints were dry i took out the matching acrylic stamps and my trusty archival ink and i then stamped the flowers on top of the complimentary backgrounds

then i sort of kind of lost myself in the whole making of a girl. i only knew i wanted to use washi tape on her. you see i may or may not have a bit of an addiction to collecting said tapes and hoarding them… i thought since i have now collected oh i don’t know about 90 different rolls it is definitely time to start using them for different projects.

so i completely dressed my girl in different washi tapes, added some birds and accents with my distress paints and a bit of accenting with my faber castell markers; added a suzi kitty stamp and ta da!! a finished page for my journal.

thanks for stopping by on this rainy weekend. i wonder what i can play with next.

diana

Art Journalling – the real deal

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Diana

it’s been a crazy beautiful week here. my ‘real’ job has kept me quite busy and when i get home at night i want to sleep in the sun and enjoy the moments before the cooking of dinner and clean up. so i have been working slowly on a page… and i mean slowly… it hasn’t taken me this long to do a page ever before. i could just keep going.

the page originally started with me playing with my Wendy Vecchi embossing paste.. i so LOVE this product.. like truly love it!! i had done one side of my dyan journal and really had no idea what i was going to do with it after that and then it hit me.. GRAFFITI!!! and then that is where it all began… the chose of words, attempting at drawing, what to do and with what..

okay enough writing and time for pictures right!!

so this is what started the two pages

so you can see how much texture and depth can be obtained with this paste. wonderful i say.. simply truly wonderful

and then the whole graffiti idea hit and i started creating. i started out trying the aquamarkers that a sweet soul had given me.. thank you susan!

but it really wasn’t bright enough…. so then out came the wonderful bottles of heaven.. my distress paints:

and i loved how my words were starting to pop..

love them!!!!

then it was time to do a little bit more doodling

and finally.. here is what i have spent hours on and i am quite pleased with how it turned out

i am entering this into the ‘inspired by’ challenge over at Simon Says (http://www NULL.simonsaysstampandshow NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/2013/05/challenge-inspired-by NULL.html). i am inspired by so many products and so many people such as Linda Ledbetter (http://studiol3 NULL.blogspot NULL.ca), Marjie Kemper (http://www NULL.marjiekemper NULL.com/artjournalingandclassupdates/) and Linda Cain (http://cain81art NULL.blogspot NULL.ca) to name but a few of the uber talented folks out that that share with us each day. but my ‘inspired by’ product i believe shines through in most everything i do. Ranger products truly rock and all i need to do is walk into my craft room and start playing.

diana

twelve tags of 2013 – May

Posted on May 5, 2013 by Diana

i was so excited to get into the craft room friday night.. it seems it has been forever since i was in there
but then again it is the first of the month and that of course means it was time for the Tim’s Twelve Tags of 2013 (http://timholtz NULL.com) monthly challenge. so of course i was off and running!!

so i did start by taking pictures of the process.. the rub ons,

the sanding of the edges, the applying of the distress stain and the stamping

and then really didn’t like how it was turning out so i started another tag of which of course i didn’t take pictures of !! but i basically started with my mop up tag that i had created with the left over ink that was on the craft mat from the above tag.. the only pictures that i do have are of the snapshots i took attempting to make the hole bigger on the enameled tag in order to be able to use the hitch fastener! that little piece of heavenly metal, the drill punch, is truly a cool tool to have around!!

and another picture is of my first time play creating using crinkle ribbon.. i love that stuff though i think i require a bit more practise on how to match it to my tag…

if i had remembered to take pictures you would have seen that my mop up tag at first glance reminded me of a tree in the middle of a field so i added some ‘wild life’ type of rubons on top of the ink and then i the stamped one of my all time favourite quotes onto my tag, added some tissue tape which i outlined with my faber castell pitt pen. i was loving how it was turning out. oh and speaking of my pens, when i added the tissue tape some of the stamp and rub ons were covered. no problem.. just recreate them with your pen!! looks like then it is on top.. know what i mean! the splotches of white are from me shaking my pearl alcohol ink with the cover off.. a happy accident if i do say so myself!

so all i really have to show you is the finished tag

besides linking up this tag to Tim’s May tags challenge, i am also linking to Simon Says Stamp & Show (http://www NULL.simonsaysstampandshow NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/2013/04/challenge-passport-to-fun NULL.html) passport to fun challenge. and to inspiration emporium’s (http://blog NULL.inspirationemporium NULL.com/?p=1628) ‘don’t quote me’ challenge. the quote on this tag is so very true on how i like to thing of travel. everything is an adventure, the every day life, the going and seeing new places, meeting new people, experiencing everything; the journey truly is what life is all about no?

i will so try harder next time to do the step by steps pictures but sometimes it is just hard once i start my journey and my soul just takes over!!

diana

art journalling calendar – May

Posted on April 30, 2013 by Diana

just a quick update and a posting of my May calendar page!!
i have been crazy busy at work, which is a good thing as makes my days go by fast but on the other hand a bad thing because my life is flying by but a good thing because it makes for interesting updates on my calendar pages… hope that makes sense.
life is good for me. i am anxious for summer to get here. fighting with trying to get the pool open and then with the help of my brother in law in a round a bout way realized i should just hire someone whose specialty is opening pools and i will stick with things that i know how to do. of course the decision was made even quicker when i discovered the stupid hose scratched me!!!
so here is my May calendar page. i can’t wait to start filling it in tomorrow!

background was done with gesso and a mixture of dylusions and color wash. the prima bling was coloured with my distress markers with a spritz of glimmer mist! i love that even though i used the same stamp over and over that each one has a different ‘flaw’.

i can just tell it is going to be an interesting month!

diana

Art Journalling – family

Posted on April 21, 2013 by Diana

getting this in by the skin of my teeth!!
it has been a nice relaxing day here. got a bit of yard work done, a relax on the deck and a bit of play time. a good day.

today my main thing i wanted to finish was the seasonal color palette put forth by Ranger (http://rangerink NULL.com/seasonal-color-palette-april/#more-11992)

so here is my take:

i started out using my distress inks in my dylusion’s journal. i applied them with the blending tool and then flicked water on the page and heat set.

next i took out some of my stamps and my archival inks and applied them to the backgrounds using various colours

then it was time to colour the flowers and birds with my distress markers

and so here is my submission.
it was my first attempt at using my distress inks and markers in my art journal! thanks for the challenge Ranger!!

and speaking of challenges over at Simon Says Stamp and Show (http://www NULL.simonsaysstampandshow NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/2013/04/challenge-background NULL.html) they have a background stamp challenge going on! i am so entering this in that challenge as well!

Diana

my paints and i….

Posted on April 16, 2013 by Diana

well we had a meeting and i am not sure who won.

i had so much fun playing with them and as you can see i simply could not chose which to use first so i dumped them all in a basket and took one out at a time and splatted them right on my journal page:

step-one-splat

then it was time to get out some stencils, inks and some stamps

then it was time to stamp out a focus word with my foam stamps and distress paint. then once dry i outlined my ‘worrying’ with white stablio pencil… but it still wasn’t want i wanted….

this is what i came up with…..

but because i couldn’t really see ‘squat’….out came my white pen to do a bit of highlighting…

which prolly would have been okay but it wasn’t what i was looking for… so a bit more doodling…..

so.. that was much better but is it complete.. hmmm .. i am not going to ‘worry’ about it today!!

diana

Canvas – family

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Diana

okay.. so i am addicted.. i knew i would be and am going to enjoy making them until i run out of ‘stuff’.
i have feelers out to see if anyone is willing to share some of theirs with me… here is hoping!!!

i am linking this one up to Snazzy (http://snazzysdesignteamblog NULL.blogspot NULL.co NULL.uk/2013/04/be-inspired-by-anna-dawbrowska-challenge NULL.html) who are having a ‘be inspired by Anna Dawbrowska challenge’. this piece is my second one totally inspired by the great Finnabair (http://tworzysko NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/).

so i started with a 12×12 canvas and covered it with music note paper, tissue paper, paint and paper. i added some chicken wire (thanks for the suggestion Vicki in a round a bout way!) i also added as you can see a picture of my son and his girlie but later decided it wasn’t big enough for this piece so changed it for one on my desk that was.

i then covered the whole thing with gesso followed by bits and bobs from the junk bag and trinket drawer. this makes the perfect submission into the challenge Mou is having over at design memory craft (http:/http://designmemorycraft NULL.typepad NULL.com/design-memory-craft/2013/04/april-take-the-challenge-with-mou- NULL.html)

then it was time to cover everything with gesso. i think going forward i will do this bit by bit instead of in all one sweep. sometimes i find it hard to get full coverage.

then it was time to spray… oh how i loved how this turned out. the aged look of the sprays … be still my heart. i am missing one piece which i wanted to add but couldn’t find and i meant to put a ‘title’ on it in the upper right hand corner but just couldn’t find the exact thing i wanted. so maybe sometime i will add to this. but in the meantime i consider this a finished piece.i am going to start working on another this week for a very special person. i hope they will like it! thanks for stopping by.
diana

twelve tags of 2013 – april

Posted on April 14, 2013 by Diana

okay so i have been out of making tags as of late but this weekend when all 27 of these babies arrived in my mailbox (inspiration emporium (http://www NULL.inspirationemporium NULL.com/) rocks) i had no chose but to dig out my tags and start playing…. oh and speaking of Inspiration Emporium, this months challenge on their blog (http://blog NULL.inspirationemporium NULL.com/?p=1554) is using masks and stencils.. give it a try and be sure to link up for your chance to win!!

so here is how it started.. i chose three random paints and applied them directly to my craft mat and swiped, dried and swiped again.
with-second-layer-paint

spectacular aren’t they!!! so once the paint was driied i took my new most favorite paste EVER…embossing paste (http://studio490art NULL.blogspot NULL.ca/2012/11/introducingstudio-490-embossing-paste NULL.html) from Wendy Vecchi and applied it over the distress paints using a crafters workshop stencil

pretty cool stuff!! love the texture on this!!! speaking of texture over at The Artistic Stamper (http://www NULL.theartisticstampercreativeteam NULL.blogspot NULL.co NULL.uk/2013/04/april-challenge-texture NULL.html) their theme this month is texture so i am adding this to their link.. hope you drop by and see all the other works of art there!!

then i laid another stencil on it and sprayed with dylusions

sprayed-with-dylusions

didn’t quite like what it looked like so then added water and wiped it off which was a bonus ‘mistake’ because it allowed me to darken the embossing paste a bit to better suit my style (in case you didn’t know i am not a ‘clean’ girlie!!

so then it was time to do a bit of masking.
these are the three techniques i tried…. distress paint direct to mask/doilies; distress paint applied to craft mat and finger used to apply to mask/doilies and the final one was using my blending tool and distress ink
then i must of gotten lost in the process because before i knew it the tag was finished.

so what i did and forgot to take pics of was stamp my butterflies onto Wendy’s Clearly for Art , cut them out and applied them to my tag with the tiny attacher. and then added a bit of bling, a stamped quote and a bit of highlighting a last but not least bit of heat to shape the butterflies and done!

sure hope you enjoyed stopping by today now i must go and do january – march’s tags!!

diana

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sharing my love of scrapbooking, art journalling and altered art projects

May long weekend project!

art journalling – happy mothers day

art journalling – if i am not i

Art Journalling – the real deal

twelve tags of 2013 – May

art journalling calendar – May

Art Journalling – family

my paints and i….

Canvas – family

twelve tags of 2013 – april