Another Art Journal Page

Here is another page from my art journal.  A Crafter's Workshop was used as a base for my lady and then I made changes especially to her hair.  The words on the top say "I am not afraid, I was born to do this"

 

An Art Journal Page

Here is an art page journal I made using a Gecko Galz image.  There are many layers of acrylic paint on this page.  I am entering this in Unruly Paper Arts.

A Little Bit of Change

This is the same art journal page as the one below.  However, I decided to make a few changes.  I think it really helped.  What do you think?

Together for a Cause

I call this "Together for a Cause"  I took Carolyn;s advice if you are going blank with a blank page.  I started with circles.  I like this, but I wish I could change the colors of the two girls to make them stand out More.  I may add some more paint to change the color of the girls. 
 

A Desire For Sunshine

I felt in the mood to really put some sunshine on an art journal page.  This is what I came up with....Sunburst with a Message.  On this page I used stencils from Crafter's Workshop and my acrylic paints.

This is a close-up of the message.

Gelli Plate Designs

Here are three art journal pages I recently created.  Which of the three do you like?   I really like the third one, but my hubby said he thought it didn't look finished.   I am wondering if so much white space should be left.   What do you think?

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Bathing Beauties

Here are some additional cards and a tag using the theme "Bathing Beauties" from Lunagirl Moonbeans. Their challenge will end in seven and one-half days, so look through your stash of images and stamps for some bathing beauties and enter.  You still have plenty of time and the winner will receive one of the wonderful collage sheets from Karen's site.

This card was very simple to make.  I let my designer paper do all the work. It show the ocean in the background, the sand and a windbreaker fence on the beach.  My sentiment is "Laughter is an instant vacation" by Melton Berle.  I found it in the Quote Garden on the net.  I like the simplicity of this card. 

This card shows more of my personality.  The background is an old paperback book on which I cleaned my brayer of acrylic paint when I used my Gelli Plate.  I then tore the edges of my Lunagirl image, distress the edges with cranberry ink.  Finally I added the little acrylic fish around and on top of her to give you the feel that she was underwater.

 

Finally, my tag uses a Lunagirl image also  The blue background on the tag is another piece of a book page that I used to clean my brayer.  This time I printed my image and the lottery sheet on grey paper to give it a little of distressed look.  I torn the image out, but did not do any highlighting or distressing since the grey color came forward on the tear.  A couple of stones finishes the tag.

Gelli Green

Here is another art page made with my Gelli Plate.  I think this will make an amazing background for a card.

Another Art Journal Page

I haven't had very much time to work with my Gelli Plate lately, but here is a page I made not too long ago.  I am pleased with how it turned out.  I think the colors of the bridge and the building pop fairly well.

I can't wait until I have a chance to pull that Gelli Plate out again and get messy.

 

I am linking this to Carolyn Dube's June Gelli Party at a Colorful Journey.

Art Journal Page

Here is another page made with my Gelli Plate. This page has a wild combination of colors.  Working with a Gelli Plate is so much fun and so relaxing.  You can't do anything wrong; it is just some pages are more appealing to the eye than others.  I am not sure how I want to use this one yet.

Just Some Lines' Challenge

Just Some Lines now has a new challenge theme, "Mother's Day".  I created this card using another part of the art journal page shown in the previous post.  At first I wasn't sure I really liked my art page, but after cutting it into pieces I am really pleased.  I love it as a background on this card.  The green  is just a piece of cardstock I put behind the card so you can see the base card. 

The background is watercolor paper so it is a little on the heavy side, but I don't think it is too heavy too use.  The image is Just Some Lines' Love Roses.  They are colored with Copic markers.  In the corner I put the word "Love" with the letters at a slight angle.

Don't forget to come over to Just Some Lines and enter your Mother's Day project.

I Am So Excited!

I am so excited to be on Lunagirl's first Design Team.  Lunagirl Vintage Images are wonderfully unique and I love working with them.  Karen, the owner of Lunagirl has a blog called Lunagirl Moonbeams.  The blog is for lovers of vintage Edwardian Victorian Retro Antique stuff.

The first projects of the Design Team is "Birds".  She has loads of bird images to choose from and below are the projects I created.

This is the wall hanging I made with three of the images.  I used a canvass board for my base and put  as the background some sheet music which I distressed by applying a watered-down coat of yellow acrylic paint.

  

Next I took a piece of my art journal page which I had made with a Gelli Plate.  I wasn't sure how to use my paper at first.  I finally decided to make slide mounts with it.  Inside the three mounts I placed images of 3 Lunagirl birds.

 

 

 I think the colors of the slide mounts really bring out the coloring of the images.

 

I finished off the wall hanging with an array of flowers at the bottom in the same color scheme as the slide mounts and birds.  Completing the wall hanging is some lace I had in my stash.

 

Below is a card I made using another Lunagirl image.  This bird is surrounded by a Cherry Lynn die.  Flowers are from Petaloo and above them is the sentiment "True Bliss" as an additional embellishment.

 

I do hope you will drop over for a visit as there are lots of great things planned for the blog.

Another Art Journal Page

Here is a Art Journal page I made the other day.  I really like how this turned out.  I think it shouts "Spring"  I used a base of yellow acrylic paint and used two different stencils for the dots in the two sizes.  When I started I didn't know what I was going to use nor what colors I was going to put on the paper.  It just happened.  But I am pleased.  As you can tell, I am having a blast with my Gelli Plate.   Now I have to decide how to use it.

Just Some Lines' Challenge

Just Some Lines has an Earth Day challenge going on.   Everyone should drop by and submit an entry.  I added a religious slant to the challenge so I could send my card to some one who needed a friendly reminder.

First of all, I made my  background using my Gelli Plate. 

Then I created my card with a piece of it and used Just Some Lines' tulip image.

 

 

 

Art Journal Page

The past couple of days I have been working on some art journal pages.  This is one of my favorite.  The picture does not show it, but the purple has a sheen / glimmer / metal appearance.  I think that is why I like this one the best.  The page has many layers and is topped with a layer of green paint used as a fern.

I will show some of the others in additional posts later.