Art Journal: Life is a Cabaret

I’ve been hoping to do an art journal page using a stage for a while and I’ve used Craftwork Cards papers – as always!  I am happy with the depth of this layout, and the simplicity by going back to paper punches and scissors!

Ingredients

• Craftwork Cards 6” paper pad and die cut tickets: Bon Bon
• Distress inks: Walnut Stain and Gathered Twigs
• Faber Castell Gelatos
• Faber Castell pitt pen: Walnut
• White Gesso
• Gloss Medium
• Tim Holtz Photo Booth
• Paper punches: small flower and stamp
• Embossing folder: wood grain
• 2mm foam pads
• Liquid Pearls: Rose Gold and Ballerina
• Stickles Glitter

Art Journal: Music of the Night

Using the word “Music” as a prompt I have created this art journal entry drawing on inspiration from YouTube crafter Vicky Papaioannou https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbtWi24JfohnP-sNaVGv-LQ who created a music themed page by doing these rips but with cute piano keys behind.

The quote is from The Phantom of the Opera because of the chandelier and the music notation I copied from searching ‘victorian music scores’.

Ingredients

• Pebeo high viscosity acrylics in blues including dyna black/blue
• Distress Ink in chipped sapphire and faded jeans (old paper mixed with gesso)
• Stamps: craftwork cards
• Tim Holtz Tissue Wrap (link below)
• Gold gilding wax (cosmic shimmer)
• Ranger archival ink black
• Pebeo texture paste
• Stencil by Sheena Douglass
• Navy blue organza ribbon from craftwork cards.

Art Journal: The Rose

Using the prompt ‘raindrops on roses’ I’ve made a pretty journal spread using a shortened version of the lyric from Bette Midler’s The Rose.

Ingredients

• Papers: Craftwork Cards Cottage Garden
• Distress Inks: Tea Dye, Spun Sugar, Antique Linen, Milled Lavender, Tattered Rose
• Stamps: Craftwork Cards More Than Words and Boho, Dovecrafts alpha
• Twinkling H2Os: Pearl Red, Pearl Violet, Just Peachy
• Gilding Flakes: Artcoe ‘Autumn Rose’
• Embossing Powder: Cosmic Shimmer ‘Lapis Pearl Lustre’
• Holtz Ideaology: Plastic Fragment, Ephermera, Memo Pin, Big Chat Words
• Liquid Pearls, antique key charm, perfect medium, brad, alcohol ink misty lake, matt medium
• Cosmic Shimmer flake glue

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