Card Making: Country Garden

These cards were made using Cottage Garden by Craftwork Cards, matching candi, sentiments and flowers from previous bundles and distress inks: dusty concord, peacock feathers and victorian velvet.

Art Journal: Magic

Here is another art journal entry featuring exclusively only Sheena Douglass stamps from her A Little Bit Magical range.  I hope you enjoy the video and that it inspires you

Ingredients

• Sheena Douglass: A Little Bit Magical Stamps,  script background stamp and stencil
• Tim Holtz: Distress inks
• Twinkling H2Os
• Pebeo Mixtion relief and gold mirror foil, modelling paste, white gesso
• Ranger: archival ink, stickles
• Faber Castell: pitt pen

Pebeo Mixed Media Canvas: Heart Flower

So I had a lot of fun playing with the Pebeo goods that I’ve been collecting and wanted to put the fantasy paints to good use!  Here’s some crazy heart shaped flower I painted, plus I then went on to make another two to match!

Ingredients

• Pebeo acrylic high viscosity
• Pebeo Vitae Black Outliner
• Pebeo Vitrail Paints
• Pebeo Fantasy Prisme
• Pebeo Fantasy Moon
• Pebeo Mixtion Relief
• Pebeo Mirror Foil Gold

The honeycombs of Fantasy Prisme

The pearliness of Fantasy Moon

Art Journal: In Every Sunshine There is Hope

This was briefed as “a time of the day” and my favourite has to be sunrise in the morning.  Aquatints were the best choice for getting a nice background down.  I then used stencils by Sheena Douglass to build up a line of trees that the sky could shine through.  At first I wasn’t sure what to stencil with and thought about modelling paste, acrylic paint, etc.  In the end I remembered I had these nice embossing powders that are sort of black but one shines green and the other shines red making a lovely effect for this. 

Ingredients

• Aquatints
• Distress inks: Gathered twigs and wild honey
• Stamps (script and cracks) by Sheena Douglass
• Twinkling H2o in Pearl Gold
• Stencils by Sheena Douglass
• Embossing powders by Cosmic Shimmer in malachite and volcanic aurora

  The pearlescent H2O for the sunrays catches the light.

Art Journal: My Life in Art

My challenge today was “your favourite colour” but I don’t really have a favourite.  Sometimes it’s purple so I went with that and also I wanted to include a cheeky picture of me.  This layout features Aqua Tints, gelatos, distress ink, modelling paste, gilding wax, liquid pearls, liquid glass, papers by Craftwork Cards, stencil by Sheena Douglass, clear hologram embossing powder by Wow and more.

The sparkly hologram embossing powder creates a resist from the water colours but stamping with distress ink instead of embossing ink accents the purples in the sparkles.

I am liking this liquid glass but I still like glossy accents.