Art Journal: If Only I Could Write It

This spread is shimmery and has ultra shiny gold accents thanks to Pebeo's Gilding Wax.  The quote is about all the things that happen in my life (good and bad) that I wish I could get round to writing about... but it all happens so fast and continuous!  The only idea in my mind was to play with a way to colour over texture medium.  Scroll down for close up photos, speed video and list of ingredients.

Ingredients

• Pebeo white gesso
• Stamp: Tim Holtz School Desk
• Stencil: Tim Holtz Lace
• Tissue tapes (collected from Hobbycraft)
• Distress inks: Victorian Velvet, Wilted Violet, Tumbled Glass and Broken China
• Pebeo Modelling Paste
• Spectrum Noir Aquatints (inc. Gold to make a purple/gold mica spray bottle)
• Alphabet stamps (various)
• White and gold ribbon
• Pebeo Gilding Wax: Empire Gold
• White Gel Pen
• Black Archival Ink 

 

Colouring: Gabbie Halloween Witchfire

I’ve missed doing some proper Spectrum Noir colouring lately and didn’t quite know where to pick it back up… so along came Kit and Clowder!  A monthly subscription colouring tutorial.  This is the result of this October’s class and as you can see from my attempts there’s a plethora of techniques!  The cat is fabric and alcohol solution lifting, two tone colouring and check out the glow reflecting about!  I loved this!  The digital stamp is by Faery Ink over here: http://faeryink.com/product/gabbie-halloween-witchfire-digital-stamp/ 

You can find Kit and Clowder here: http://kitandclowder.ning.com/ 

Bird Crazy Picture Book 2 (HALLOWEEN)–Part 2: Assembling the Birds

Welcome back to part 2 of the Bird Crazy Picture Book Series (Halloween). In this part we are going to stamp the Tim Holtz stamps and use the Crazy Things to dress them up. Everything is coloured with distress inks and a bit of liquid pearls.  Scroll down for a video Talk and Walk through and a full list of ingredients and full close up photos.

If you need to catch up on Part 1 (creating the backgrounds) you can find it here.

Ingredients:

• Stamps by Stampers Anonymous / Tim Holtz: Bird Crazy and Crazy Things
• Sizzix Dies: Bird Crazy (I don’t have the dies for Crazy Things but you can use them here too)
• Distress Inks in lots and lots of colours (in the video I am named the colours as I go)
• White Stamping Card (Sheena Douglass)
• Ink Daubers and Mini Round Ink Tool
• Googly Eyes in various shapes and sizes (I found mine in a garden centre)
• Black sharpie pen or Spectrum Noir pen
• Black fine line pen
• Liquid Pearls – Onyx, Pumpkin and Mint
• Stickles glitter – Stardust
• Copper chain off cut or Scrap
• Orange vegetable sack
• Crafting or beading sting
• Black foam pads by Stix2
• Cosmic Shimmer Acrylic Glue
• Crackle Accents by Ranger

Art Journal: You Say Witch Like it’s a Bad Thing

Halloween/Samhain is my favourite time of year and this was a fun page to make using Halloween stamps from Tim Holtz, distress inks, stencils and a bit of old veg sack!  Scroll down for video, ingredients and pics…

Ingredients

• Spider web decoupage paper
• Stamps – Tim Holtz (Halloween Sillouettes)
• Alpha stamps – Craftwork Cards
• Distress Inks – Wilted Violet, Spiced Marmalade, Black soot, Smoked hickory, Ground Espressp 
• Distress Paint – Fossilized Amber and Picket Fence
• Stencil – Tim Holtz Lace
• Recycled packaging from Holtz stencil and sweet potatoes!
• Ranger black archival ink 
• Stickles glitter – black diamond
• Twinkling H2Os – Mango Mamba and Mango Freeze
• Halloween Ribbon (from Hobbycraft)
• White gel pens
• Sand paper
• Sparkly brads from stash
• White Gesso

Bird Crazy Picture Book 2 (HALLOWEEN): Part 1–Backgrounds

I've started my second Tim Holtz Bird Crazy picture book because I finally had my Crazy Things stamps delivered!  Scroll down list of ingredients.  My first bird crazy picture book starts at this post.  In the next part I will stamp the birds and build them up with their crazy things!  The final and third part will be assembling the mini book.

Ingredients

• White Stamping Card cut to 10 x 14cm (I am using Sheena Douglass stamping card)
• Matt Black cardstock (crafter’s Companion)
• Extra paper for layering and inking such as manilla cardstock or chamois cropping block
• Doflex (optional – stencil) and Large circle punch (Martha Stewart)
• Distress Inks – Various
• Fine liner black pen
• Cut and dry foam / inking and blending tools
• Scissors and guillotine
• Stencil – tree scape (Sheena Douglass)
• Textures embossing folder (Crafter’s Companion)
• Stamps – Crazy Things
• Large metal jump rings
• Alcohol pen (optional)