Abyssimo Style Abstract

Modelling paste anchored down with cotton scrim.

Once dry, edges cut off and tidied up.

Colour pallet chosen.

Paint applied. 

I wanted mine to be bright, bold and vivid.

There is a FREE tutorial by Abyssimo here which I followed to create the above.

Journal Pages TM Style

A couple of weeks ago I cut out some magazine images and stuck them in my book. I used gelatos on this page with white pen.

I used zig pens for the background on this page.

I used zig pens and decoart translucent yellow iron oxide media on this page with black pen.

The yellow background is gelato and I used zig pens over the top.

I used sharpie pens on the background for this page.

And this one I just stuck the images down and left it, until today.

And this morning I added the background using a wash of cerulean blue premium decoart paint and then in a darker shade I used Kate Cranes hand carved stamp for the circles. Once dry I added some white paint dots. And after seeing it here, I think I am going to add the word, floating to the page.

Again, this was another page where I just stuck some images down and left it.

And I simply added a strip of red and blue gelato to finish it.

This is another page which needed finishing.

 A wash of primary magenta premium acrylics and some stamping with black stazon using Seths border stamps and some white dots with a pen.

Then this one I made this morning using an old credit card and decoart premium paints which I scraped on the page. I used bubble wrap with the pink and then white paint and pen tops for the circles. The pink and white lines were created using the edge of the credit card. The words were stamped in black stazon.

A Couple of Quick Pages

A couple of quick journal pages as I fancied a play been as though all the food shopping was done yesterday.  This page is just literally panels of pictures because the page was mostly black around the top half because of what was on the previous page, so I needed something to cover it up. Still enjoyed putting it all together though.

And this page is made up of magazine pieces and printed pages. As you can see I attempted some lettering as I've not done any for a while.

That's Crafty have an anything goes challenge for the last one of the year, so I'm entering these pages.

Inside Change

Over on the PA blog there is a new guest designer called Seth Apter, now you may of heard of him as he has designed some of the Stencil Girls stencils. He made a project, which you can see here using his new ones and fresco paints.

I didn't have any cold press water colour paper so I used a piece of hammered card and scraped chartreuse over the top with a credit card. I stamped the grungy background images in seaweed and snowflake and added tikka to the grunge paste before applying it through the stencil.

Close up of the seaweed and snowflake stamping.

I added black fresco through the only one of Seth's stencils that I have, outlined in black and white posca pen, added parts of my new PTP stencil (dangles) and this is how it ended up.

In a spin doodles

Over at the That's Crafty Challenge blog they are asking to see circles of some sort. Whilst at the show in Paris, I picked up a fab set of doodling stamps, which Emma still keeps teasing me about saying they are flowers!! I also picked up the circles background stamp there too. The quote is from a TH stamp plate.

Also over at Stampotique they have a challenge of use pen or paint and both have been used on the above make.

Ellen Vargo Project

Over on the PA blog Ellen Vargo has been building up to an art journal page over the last 3 nights with her fab videos, which you can see here.

I pretty much followed what she did, using a sheet of card and a large tag, fresco paints and the stamp from EEV03.

Stamped the same image in black stazon over the scrap piece I'd used with the brayer. 

Cut them out and decided where I wanted to place them. Added a couple of strips of number text paper.

Added strips of a map to this page.

Stuck them down and added the black lines to the map strips

And the text paper. 

The next stage of the project was to WRITE some words, so I had a practise!!

So I bottled it a bit as I sketched out a square to write the words of the Picasso quote. I used the triangle way of lettering but think my pen was too thick. The white outline came out pretty good on this one though.

So I got brave and sketched out a circle, but could of done with starting the lettering a bit higher up. I used a different pen and it wasn't as black, so it doesn't look as bold as the lettering on the tag, but all was good!!

Another great fun project Ellen - thanks.

Abstract Collage

I loved what Ellen Vargo did on a recent blog post with dimensional paint which you can see here, so I decided to give it a go after picking up some Tulip paint from Hobby Lobby. So I started off creating a background by brayering some paints.

And adding some stamped images in black stazon ink and white acrylic paint using Ellens PA stamps.

Scribbled with the tulip paints in both black and white. I only had the matte soft gel so had to use that and it doesn't dry as transparent as the gloss alternative.

I added some more details with a black sharpie, black and white posca pens, but forgot to take a photo before I cut them all up and added the pieces of scribbled dimensional paint.

Close up of the scribbled piece adhered to the background.

And I did exactly the same for this one but used the white dimensional paint scribbles.

Close up of the white scribbles on the background.

Thanks Ellen, this was great fun to do.