Art Journaling

Hello, it's Ann from the Design Team here at Linnie Blooms and from the blog at http://annmakes.blogspot.com.  Today I am showing you a couple of pages I have played with in my Linnie Blooms Journal.

I used some bright colours that make me happy and feel like summer:

I covered the first page with a coat of white Gesso, let that dry and then had fun with some spritzes of colour.  I sprayed on some colour ,added a few sprays of water and let it drip!   I just played with that technique until i was happy with the result.  I let the paints dry and then used a stencil with some black craft paint for the silhouette.   I stamped the quote onto a scrap of vellum and adhered it to the page with some sealer.

The second page was actually done first and I left the canvas unprimed.  I dabbed some fluid acrylics through a stencil for the background.  Then I played with a damp brush through the remaining paint on the stencil.  When the paint was dry I used a rubber stamp with some black ink and stamped the cat.  I went over the cat image with a black pen to cover any spots that were too light.  The eyes were coloured with a metallic green marker.  The quote is a clear sticker that I had in my stash for the longest time.  I used some extra sealer to make sure it would stay stuck to the page.

I hope that you are inspired to play along in a journal too.

Thanks for stopping by.
Please come over to my Blog at: http://annmakes.blogspot.com and my YouTube channel to see the other projects I am working on.

Supplies:
Linnie Blooms Mini Mixed-Stitched Book
Page 1:
DecoArt® Media™Misters in: Primary Magenta, Primary Cyan, and Primary Yellow
DecoArt® Crafter's Acrylic ™Paint  in Black
DecoArt® Stencil Andy Skinnner 6"x6" "Vogue"
Stamper's Anonymous Tim Holtz stamp "City-Central"
Page2:
DecoArt® Media Fluid Acrylics™in:  Cobalt Teal Hue, Quinacridone Magenta, Hansa Yellow Light
Stamp (my stash)
Ranger's Archival Black Ink(used ion both pages)
Faber Castell Black Pitt Pen
DecoArt®Americana stencil 6"x8" "Daisy Chain
Quote Sticker (my stash)
Respect Green Metallic pen
Decoupage by DecoArt® glue-Sealer-finish (used on both pages)

More Mixing and Stitching in my Book

Hello, Ann here today from the Linnie Blooms Design Team and the blog:  Annmakes at (http://annmakes.blogspot.com).  I have a couple of pages from inside my Mini Mixed Stitched Book to share with you that I had a lot of fun working on:

I went to town with some fluid acrylics and  spritzing of beautiful colours from DecoArt and one of their stencils to create the background on the two pages.  Once those layers were dry I used the Feather Stencil by Linnie Blooms to trace onto some pieces of Decou Page Papers several feathers that I cut out with some sharp scissors.  I used DecouPage sealer to glue the feathers to the pages, and I also glued the other embellishments with the same medium.

On a scrap of scrapbook paper I sprayed some more colours and then stamped the sentiment.  That piece was also glued down with the DecouPage.  When everything was dry I used a black permanent ink marker to add the doodles.

I hope that you are inspired to make something.  You can also see my other projects over at my blog.http://annmakes.blogspot.com/2015/07/how-to-make-cute-pages-in-journal-made.html

Thank you so much for stopping by.




Supplies:
Mini Mixed Stitched Book from Linnie Blooms
Feather Stencil Mask from Linnie Blooms
Gold Stag DecouPage paper from DecoArt®
Daisy Chain Stencil from DecoArt
DecouPage™ Sealer-Glue-Finish from DecoArt®
Media Fluid Acrylics from DecoArt® (Cadmium Red Hue, Hansa Yellow Medium, and Metallic Gold)
StazOn Jet Black Solvent Ink from Tsukineko
Stamp  "What I'm Looking For Is a Blessing In Disguise" from Hampton Art--7Gypsies
Black Permanent pen from Sharpie
Archival Seeds in Pistachio and Cherry Kisses from The Robin's Nest
Media Mister from DecoArt® (Orange, Yellow Primary, and Yellow Green)