Cards and Creativity: Making Faces

zondag 28 juli 2019

WE LOVE TO CREATE CHALLENGE #8 ANYTHING CREATIVE MIXED MEDIUM GOES WITH POLKADOODLES XXX

Hey there crafters out there......

Welcome to our new challenge, A fabulous challenge sponsored by the amazingly talented Polkadoodles!!

So what do I have in store for you for this challenge...
I have played with some art journal pages for your inspiration

Are you ready for it.....

This is what I made for you .....

This time I made a couple of Art Journal Pages, just love to play around with stamps on the background, started with Distress inks,

What I did first is take 2 art journal pages out of my Art Journal....I colored the background with distress inks

After the pages were dried up I played with the Texture Galore Stampset, they are absolutely amazing to use on art journal pages and also lots of other projects offcourse.....so I stamped all over my project to give it some vintage feel

Then I stamped the Believe in Angels stampset on one side and used the Creative Angel stencil too to give the girl a whole body.

I colored her with Distress inks and with my polychromos pencils

I used the heart from the stencil in the middle of her skirt and stamped some more with the Texture Galore to give the dress some texture.

As I was saying I colored her with my Polychromos

The background could use some more texture and "filling up" so I took the swirl stencil and used Gesso and some orange acrylic paint to give it some color

Then I stamped the making faces girl number 2 on the other art journal page. At first I used the stencil and made another heart on the girls skirt but then I thought why not put something different on her skirt. So I decided to place a butterfly.....you can see it 2 images below.....

So I am happy with how she turned out and the background on the art journal page....

And here is girl number 2 with lots of butterflies, sentiments and colored her skirt and placed tiny hearts on it.

I stamped some sentiments on the art journal pages.

So there was still not enough different stencils, stamps etc on the background. after that I played with all kinds of smaller stamps, from the Honey Daisy, Stampsoup Lemonade Fizz, Texture Gallore, Lavender Tea, Making Faces, Believe in Angels, Creative Angel, Papillon. Bella Fleur, Regal Peacock and Funky Alphabet Stampset,

Now I was happy with it. Last but not least I placed some sentiments on both pages.......

So if you want to play along with the DT from We Love To Create, I suggest you come on over to the challenge blog and join into the fun and while your there check out my amazing teamies creations guys. They made fabulous projects for your inspiration check it out.

I played with the following products from Polkadoodles:

Textures Galore stamp set - 11 clear Polymer stamps

Texture Galore Stamp set

Stamp Soup -Lemonade Fizz Polymer Stamp Collection

Stampsoup Lemonade Fizz stamp set

Stamp Soup - Regal Peacock Large A5 Stamp Set

Regal Peacock stamp set

Creative Angel - 6 x 6" creative craft mixed media stencil

Creative Angel Stencil

Believe in Angels

Making Faces Stamp set

Honey Daisy Stamp set

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and if you would like to purchase your products for making an art journal page or 2, then you can click the IMAGE of the products and it will take you to the store.

Have fun shopping.....

Hugs Terry xxx

I would like to join into the following challenges:

A Place To Start, Anything Goes, July 2019

Colour Crazy Craft Challenge Week #29, Anyting Goes

Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge #51

Creative Fingers Challenge Blog, #168

Crafty Creations, Challenge #395 Anything Goes

Addicted to stamps and more, challenge #351 Anything Goes

maandag 24 juni 2019

POLKADOODLES UNIQUE STAMPING AND PAPERCRAFTS, TUTORIAL WITH LOTS OF STAMPS AND STENCILS IN MY ART JOURNAL XXX

Hey there, it is my turn, Terry, to give you some inspiration with the Stampsoup stamps, stencils and Flowerstamps from Polkadoodles....

Here I go...

What I did was, having loads of fun making 2 art journal pages,

I started out with 2 art journal pages and worked with different colors of distress ink, magical powders and water, I sprayed the papers untill I was happy with it. I played with the butterfly stencil and colored the butterflies with distress ink....not to bright and not too much ink, but just enough....

I then stamped some flowers in random order onto my art journal page and colored it with distress inks and acrylic paints. I used yellow, orange, gesso and the red color.

I took the dutch doobadoo stencil out and I was drawing the branches and leaves.

Then I thought I would use my polychromos pencils and the leaves and branches myself how much fun is that. And I took the Graph'It white marker and placed some lines in the centre of the flowers

A black pen was used to place some lines aswell.

At first I did not know what to place on the 2nd page but it did not take me long to decide to stamp the flowers overthere aswell. So the same ritual took place and I colored the flowers with distress inks and with acrylic paints. I must say that I am happier with the flowers on the right side. I think they turned out better then my first page. lol.....but oh well it is oke, cause it is in my art journal and you can play along in that and make whatever you want....that's the fun of working in an art journal

So I took the Hello Friend stampset out and stamped the leaves from the Heart Sing Clear Stamp Set on top of the art journal page after that the Regal Peacock stampset and played with some flowers, Then I colored lots of different butterflies from different kind of Clear Stamp Sets and colored them with different colors so they would pop out of the pages....I think I did make them pop....

So after I stamped my flowers I played a bit further with the black pen and the white Graph'It marker, you keep on adding on to the pages when you are playing in it. It is so much fun, you really should try it.

I added a stamp from the Honey Daisy stampset after I finished my background, I thought the honey combe stamp would make it look even better....

So this is page 1 with loads of colorfull flowers, flowers on top, butterflies and some sentiments that I stamped from the Heart Sing Stamp Set and I placed some lines all around the sentiments with a black pen. So much fun......

So this is Page number 2 and this one also has lots of flowers, nice vibrant ones, flowers on top and some butterflies colored with distress inks, polychromos pencils and some hearts from the Making Faces Clear Stamp Set, for this project it was all about how many stamps can I use to create 2 Art Journal Pages, I think I succeede my mission lol.....

And there ya go, my project that I made for your inspiration is finished, I can tell you I had such fun to figure out what stamps, colors etc. I would use and where to place them. It was a fun puzzle for me and I enjoyed myself a lot. I sure hope that I have given you lots of inspiration and hope that it will give you some Ideas HOW to work in your Art Journal.....let's get creative guys......

HAVE FUN XXX

The products that I have worked with are: