One Bad Ass Art Journal 2017 week 7

Hello and happy hump day peeps!

Today I'm sharing another page (or in this case, pages), completed for

my Bad Ass Art Journal class.

I completed week 7! Woo Hoo!

This week's instructor is none other than

Tracy Weinzapfel of Tracy Weinzapfel Studios blog!

Here are the pages I created following her tutorial:

I didn't have the weathered wood medium, but I do have crackle paste, and that's what

I used for this project. I layed it on thick in some areas, and thinner in others to 

achieve different sized crackle. I just used a paint brush to apply it, and I love the

added texture that left on my pages!

I also happen to own this awesome stamp set by Tracy called Wine Time,

so of course I needed to use it. I masked the grape bunch to make it look

like they were hanging off the edge of the page. Using DecoArt Americana and Media Fluid

acrylic paints, I painted the images. Once dry, I went over the outlines using

both a small and bold F-C Artist PITT pens.

My sentiment was not my first choice. I had printed and cut out the quote,

"Wine is bottled poetry" by Robert Louis Stevenson. But when I adhered it

with matte medium, it smeared so bad! Lucky for me, I happen to

have accrued almost a dozen various stamp sets all to do with

drinking alcohol of some type, and found one large enough to cover

my oops. Crisis averted.

Here are some close ups:

So that's it for now. Thanks for visiting, and thanks to Tracy Weinzapfel

again for such a fun tutorial!

Have a great day!

I'd like to enter this at:

Craft Stamper Magazine - Take It Make It September challenge

Mixed Media World #29 - ATG

 

Supplies:

hand made art journal

DecoArt Americana acrylic paint - Irish Moss, Ultra Blue Deep, Holly Green, Raw Umber, Napa Red, Dioxazine Purple, Purple Pizzazz

DecoArt Media acrylic paint - Carbon Black, Titanium White

Golden Gesso

various paint brushes

water mister

Delta - Metallic 14K Gold acrylic paint

Dreamweaver - Crackle embossing paste

Ranger- Adirondack acrylic paint - Stream

Dare2BArtzy/Totally Tracy stamps - Wine Time

STAMPlorations - Mixed Media Grunge stamps

Hampton Arts - LOL stamps - Wine On

Staz On - Jet Black ink

Faber Castell - PITT Artist pens, bold & small

General's black pastel chalk pencil

Strathmore - mixed media paper

heat gun

Inkadinkado masking paper

DecoArt - Americana gloss sealer spray

SHOPPING OUR STASH #321 - Apple of My Eye

Hello crafty friends!

This week at

SHOPPING OUR STASH

we'd like to see apples of some sort on your projects.

That could be apple images, paper, pies, etc. Some of my

teammies got creative and used pineapples on their projects!

Very clever! Here's my card:

 And the inside:

I remembered that I had this apple stamp from

The Alleyway Stamps. It's the first time this image was inked!

(sadly I have many images like that - non inked yet)

I even found some paper with apples on it. Score!

Now it's your turn! Simply create something with some type of apple(s) on it

and be sure to link up at Shopping Our Stash so we can admire it!

For more ideas, please check out what my teammies created.

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this at:

Case This Sketch #239

Seize the Birthday - ATG

 

Supplies:

Stamps: The Alleyway Stamps - It's Fall About You; Taylored Expressions - Taylor; Paper Smooches - Happy Birthday

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

DP: DCWV - Simply Autumn Stack

CS: TE; Recollections

Accessories: MISTI; Inkadinkado - black EP; heat gun; Recollections - vellum

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D & Thin 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #93 L is for Lost and Found

Hey there snarky peeps!

So I guess my Sisters and I at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS

have been stumping you all with the last couple of challenges.

(But isn't that the point of a challenge?)

So hopefully with this new one: L is for Lost and Found, we 

can get you to come back to the fold, as it were. LOL!

This fortnight, we challenge you to resurrect

something you used to do or use. Perhaps a technique you loved

to do, but haven't done it in years. Or maybe you bought

that "must have crafting tool" but it's been sitting neglected 

in a drawer for a few years. Now is a perfect time to

try your hand at it again!

(Please be sure to let us know what your Lost and Found thing is!)

For my card, I dug in a drawer and found my Sew Easy tool.

Remember those?

I used the blanket stitch piercer around the edge of my main panel.

(Obviously, I still need to master this tool, as seen by the crappy

sewing all around, especially at the corners. LOL!)

I tried this paint swiping tutorial from Splitcoast Stampers and love it! The

image was one that I colored when I was on vacation a couple weeks ago. I really

like how the purple background makes this doggy walking faerie pop.

So, now it's your turn. Break out those long lost tools, that paper collection

you had to have and never used, that one technique you did all the time but 

haven't tried in ages. We'd love to see what you create. Just link up

at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers so we can admire it!

Thanks for visiting. Now go forth and get your craft on!

I'd like to enter this at:

Craft Stamper Magazine Take It Make It September challenge

Mix It Up challenge #5 - ATG (no twist this time)

Supplies:

Stamps: Viva Las Vegas Stamps - faerie from plate 1474, She was a freaky little thing #19684

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black

CS: Crafter's Companion; Strathmore Mixed Media paper; Taylored Expressions

Accessories: Spectrum Noir markers; Ranger - Glossy Accents & Crystal Stickles; DecoArt - Americana Acrylic paints - dioxazine purple, purple pizzazz; DecoArt Media - carbon black acrylic

paint & Modeling Paste; TH - sponge tool; TH- burlap stencil; paint brush; water mister; DMC floss; 

WRMK- Sew Easy tool; MISTI

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D foam squares; Scotch foam tape

SHOPPING OUR STASH #320 - Emboss Like A Boss

Hello and welcome friends!

This week at

SHOPPING OUR STASH

we have an easy challenge for you:

Use heat embossing AND dry embossing on your projects!

For my card, I heat embossed the floral background stamp in gold, then

water colored it using various Memento inks smooshed onto my craft mat,

and a water brush. (as always, my supply list is at the end of my post)

This particular stamp also came with a matching embossing folder (bonus!)

so I used it for the dry embossing:

 You can see the some of the dry embossed areas better here:

 and the inside:

I did use 5 inks on this card. Tangelo (mandarin), Elderberry (verve violet), Teal Zeal (turquish),

Summer Sky (resonant blue) and Nautical Blue (honorable blue). Tangelo and Elderberry for the flowers, Teal Zeal for the flourishes, and Summer Sky for the background with Nautical Blue around

the edges, using a water brush. Water coloring is not my strength. LOL! After everything was dry, I used a couple PrismaColor pencils to add dimension to the flowers, then I ran the panel through my Grand Calibur using the accompanying embossing folder. I stamped and heat embossed the sentiment onto vellum and attached it to the main panel, then die cut a stitched frame to adhere over it. 

Another stamped sentiment finishes the inside.

I hope you get a chance to play along this week at Shopping Our Stash! We'd love

to see your take on our challenge! If you need more ideas, then simply

visit the blogs of my teammies to see their amazing creations!

Thanks for visiting!

I'd like to enter this card at:

Sunday Stamps #161 - Autumn Rainbow

The Flower Challenge #12 - tic tac toe (embossing, water color, blue)

Naughty or Nice #43 - framed (I went Nice this time around. LOL!)

 

Supplies:
Stamps: Hero Arts/Sizzix - floral background stamp & matching EF; Gina K - Sweet Thing;  Stampendous - Wishing you many...
Ink: VersaMark; Memento - Tangelo, Teal Zeal, Elderberry, Nautical Blue, Summer Sky
CS: TE; Strathmore Mixed Media paper
Accessories: MISTI; Kuretake water brush; Stampendous - champagne EP; Inkadinkado - black EP;
heat gun; PrismaColor pencils; GC; MFT - Stitched Rectangle Frame die; Recollections - Vellum;
Hampton Arts - rhinestones
Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner; Recollections - tacky tape

Trick or Treat (or whatever)

Hello crafty friends!

Boy, it's been almost a month since I've blogged! Hubs and I went on vacation from August 19th

through September 3rd, driving back to Illinois and Wisconsin to visit with

both our families. In there was a 50th Wedding Anniversary party, my 

niece got married, and my great niece and nephew (twins) had a party to 

celebrate their 5th birthday. Lots to do!

Most of my posts from August until the beginning of September were scheduled.

This is a rare post: it will go live as soon as I hit the publish button - not scheduled!

While on vacation, I was able to get a little coloring in.

(I can't leave on vacation without SOME type of craft supplies, so I took

my pencils and markers along with a bunch of images to color)

Since it's getting on to my favorite holiday - Halloween, I took

along some Grumplings in Costume stamps. Here's one of

the images made into a card:

 and the inside:

This grumpy cat-o-lantern was colored with PrismaColor pencils on kraft card stock.

I used a Faber-Castell PITT artist pen to re-draw the outline, since

the pencils tend to make them fade.

You know what I realized? I don't have a Halloween

themed embossing folder. Not one.

I need to fix that.

And I will. (wink)

It was great to get back to my craft room again. So I'll

be making more cards soon.

But not sure when.

Hubby and I just started binge watching Game of Thrones so....

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you have a fantastic day!

I'd like to enter this card at:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge - Stamp It

Freshly Made Sketches #304

CAS on Friday #116 - Color me Pretty

 

Supplies:

Stamps: Taylored Expressions - Grumplings in Costume; SSS - Trick or Treat

Ink: Memento - Tuxedo Black, Tangelo

DP: DCWV - Spooky Delight Stack

CS: Recollections, scraps

Accessories: GC; Taylored Expressions - Grumplings in Costume die; SB - Sm & Lg Std Circle

Nesties; PrismaColor Pencils; Faber-Castell Artist PITT pen; MISTI; Cuttlebug EF; Jolee's 

Boutique rhinestones

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, Thin 3D foam squares

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS #92 J is for Jumble

Greetings Snarky peeps!

Edna and the Sisters welcome you to our new challenge at the

SISTERHOOD OF SNARKY STAMPERS:

J is for Jumble!

What's that mean? We want you to try your hand at a collage! 

Whether it be on a card, layout, canvas, whatever, we want to see it!

I created a mixed media canvas board:

As usual, I stalked Pinterest for inspiration, and came across this lovely collage by Pamela Towns.

(Thank you Pamela for being my muse!) Of course, I took the bones of her

gorgeous creation and went off on a mixed media tangent. 

I really intended to take pictures along the way, but I only got so far, and then 

I got so in the creative zone, I forgot to take more pictures. 

watered down acrylic paint - still wet.

I let this dry overnight.

Once the paint dried, I attached the long strip of ephemera with matte medium.

After that dried, I used a stencil and embossing paste in a couple corners.

I left this to air dry overnight.

At this point, I totally forgot to take pictures.

The hemp cord I braided myself. Except for the flower, sentiment and cord, all

the bits and pieces came from one ephemera pack. The flower was stamped

and fussy cut, and the swirl stamp is from the same stamp set.

 I thought it needed some bling, so I found some

ancient pearls to stick to the center of the flowers.

I'm actually quite pleased by how well this turned out. Collage is

not my strength, so I really fussed about placement of items forever on this.

I hope you find some time to play along in our Jumble challenge at the 

Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers! I can't wait to see what you create!

Need more ideas? Then do check out what my Sisters and our newest

Guest Designer - Ike have made to inspire you!

Thanks for visiting!

Supplies:

US Art Supply - 5" x 7" canvas panel

DecoArt Americana Acrylic paint - Ultra Blue Deep, Berry Red, Purple Pizzazz

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paint - Carbon Black

water mister; various paint brushes

K & Co. - ephemera pack; Words & Phrases stickers

Dreamweaver - embossing paste; pallet knife

TCW - stencil

Golden - Matte Medium

Herschberg Schultz - hemp cord

Dare 2B Artzy/Totally Tracey stamps - Power of Flowers

Recollections - card stock

Staz-On - black ink

Ranger - Multi Medium Matte

SA by 3L - 3D & Thin  3D foam squares

Studio 112 - pearls

BLOOMTANGLED Blog Hop & Linky Party at STAMPlorations!

Hello crafty friends!

I'm excited to be hopping along with the STAMPloration Girls for the

BLOOMTANGLED Blog Hop & Linky Party! 

On August 2nd, I showed you a little sneak peek of the 

pages I colored. Both pages are colored with PrismaColor pencils.

Here are the projects I've made with them:

First up is a birthday card using this page:

 and the inside:

Once the Bloomtangled coloring page was colored, I added a Stick It adhesive sheet to

the back of it, and die cut a section out using one of the Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting dies.  The card base was lightly stenciled using the ARTplorations Delicate Links stencil

before I adhered the coloring book panel. I die cut the Dragonfly laying dies, added Stickles and rhinestones and adhered once dry. The Enchanting word die was cut three times, stacked and glued, and 

more Stickles added before adhering to the card base. On the inside, I used a sentiment from

the Faerie Door stamp set.

For my second project, I created a mixed media wall hanging using the

second page I colored:

Here are some close ups:

I started with a thick piece of cardboard that I already had gessoed and punched holes for

hanging a while back. I used matte medium to adhere the colored page to the board. (I brushed too

much in some areas and the coloring started to bleed. Grrrr! Oh well, I covered most

of the spots up with the die cuts. LOL!)

I painted yellow acrylic paint around the edges. Once dry I used a white paint pen and made

stripes around the yellow area. When that dried I drew in black lines using a Faber Castell Artist PITT pen. At this point I sprayed an acrylic sealer onto the board. I found some beaded fringe and some bright pink rose ribbon in my stash and glued them on the bottom. I die cut two of the Dragonfly layering dies and one of the Flutter Zen layering dies, and added Stickles to them. I also cut three Enchanting word dies, stacked and glued and also added Stickles. It occurred to me when I was placing the sentiment die that it got lost in the background. So I die cut two more in black card stock and glued them on the back, offsetting one top left and the other bottom right so there was a shadow around the word. After all the die cuts were adhered, I added more Stickles to the flower centers, because you can never have too much sparkle! All that was left to do was string some beads onto wire and attach. I also added a few tassels on one side for some more whimsical fun.

Congratulations! You made to the end of my photo heavy and long winded post! LOL!

Don't forget to leave a comment here and on the STAMPlorations blog for your chance to win!


Simply comment on all our blogs and feel free to download the sampler page, color it, create something with it (card, ATC, bookmark, anything) and then link it up to the linky for a chance at the prizes.

Commenting and linking up closes on Tuesday, September 5.

Prizes:

- one commenter randomly drawn from the STAMP blog and designers blogs will win a $10 gift certificate to the store

- one participant randomly drawn from the linky party entries will win a copy of Bloomtangled and a $15 gift certificate to the store

Winners will be announced on Sunday, September 10.

Thanks for visiting! Have a great day!

Supplies for card:

Stamps: STAMPlorations - Faerie Door

Ink: Memento - Angel Pink, Tuxedo Black

CS: TE; Recollections, scrap

Accessories: STAMPlorations - Bloomtangled coloring book; ARTplorations - Delicate Links stencil; CUTplorations - Dragonfly layering dies, Enchanting word die, Crazy Double Running Stitch Rectangle Nesting die; PrismaColor pencils; Ranger - Crystal Stickles; GC; MISTI; Nicole - rhinestones; Faber Castell - bold black Artist PITT pen

Adhesives: SA by 3L - tape runner, 3D & Thin 3D foam squares; Ranger - Multi Medium Matte

Supplies for wall hanging:

STAMPlorations - Bloomtangled coloring book;

CUTplorations - Dragonfly layering dies, Flutter Zen 1 layering dies, Enchanting word die

Card stock scraps

Substrate: recycled thick card board

Golden Gesso & Matte Medium

PrismaColor pencils

DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic paint - Primary Yellow

Marvy Uchida - Acrylic white paint marker

Faber Castell - bold black Artist PITT pen

DecoArt Americana acrylic spray sealer

Fiskars hole punch

Webster's Pages - pink rose ribbon

Hirschberg Schultz & Co. - beaded fringe

Darice - 20 gauge wire; wire cutting tools

Cousin - acrylic beads

Ranger - Crystal Stickles & Multi Medium Matte

Fray Check

Beacon 3 in 1 glue

Michael's - jump rings

Jesse James beads - tassels