Art Journal: Makes You Pirate

I recently bought my first digital stamp – hurrah yay me!  I saw this pirate lady from The East Wind and just had to have it!  I coloured her in my Spectrum Noir Pencils.  The rest of the layout is a book page and distress ink sea and a homemade sand texture paint… don’t spend lots of artist sand texture gels, etc, if you have a child that you can get some play sand take a pot full and mix some with texture paste.  I also mixed sand with some magnolia paint to decorate the outside of my dolls’ house many years ago so it’s always handy to have for lots of textures.  The method on this spread also kept the natural sand colours.  Additional stamps were from Sheena Douglass (bottle and tree stamped onto acetate) but I think The Sea is Calling Me is Hampton Art’s.  Oh and before I forget, I applied clear gesso onto my pirate so that I could add distress inks.

Art Journal: Que Que Natura

I’ve been really inspired lately by art journalists drawing their own images so I wanted to challenge myself to give it a go.  Here’s the result and is supposed to be my doppelganger as Pocahontas!  The quote is from the Disney movie.  I drew the outline with watercolour pencils and then coloured in with Spectrum Aqua pens.

 

Art Journal: Path Least Travelled

This features stamps from Sheena Douglass’s magical collection.  I coloured the lady with Spectrum Noir pencils.

 

Art Journal: Butterflies

Another post where I wish we had sparkle-vision!  Right page has vintage map paper in the background, pages have texture past stencilled on.  The colours used are Evergreen Bough and Victorian Velvet Distress Inks.  Butterflies were heat embossed separately using white iridescent embossing powder and the edge is silvery gilding flakes.  Both butterflies and the burst stencil used are by Sheena Douglass.

Craftwork Card Making: Fab Fabrics and Chalkboard and More

Here’s a selection of some of the cards I recently made for my honesty display where I teach dance:

      

And finally a few bits I made for my daughter, a doodle book and a MDF heart: