Step Off the Path ~ Mixed Media Canvas

Hi there! It's Bonnie here today sharing a little 5x7" mixed media I created to feature this sweet Dina Wakley Scribbly Birds. I stamped the birds onto white mixed media paper using Jet Black Archival ink. Then I spritzed my water colours and painted in some base colour and shading to give me that washy look I wanted. The birds were then fussy cut leaving a narrow white border for contrast. Foam tape was placed on the backs of the birds and they were set aside.

The pre-gessoed canvas board was sponged with three colours of Fresco Finish ( Claret, Cotton Candy, and Blush) working wet on wet and applying the paint with a piece of Cut n Dry foam. Once dry, white gesso was pounced through Prima's Stone Wall III stencil. Magenta Archival ink was sponged through Dina Wakley's plastic mesh stencil. Old book pages from Michelle Hill's Vintage Ephemera bundle was torn and  adhered to the canvas with gel medium. More white gesso was spread across the background including the text using both a brush and my finger.

Tangerine Gelato was used to edge the canvas and was spread with a dry finger. Black embossing paste was added to the canvas through TCW's Mini Texturized stencil. Extra texture and pattern were added by randomly and imperfectly stamping a TH script stamp using Jet Black Archival ink. Pieces of cork ribbon were added to the base to ground the birds and to the top left to carry the cork through the piece.

Party hats were cut from yellow scraps of designer paper and small colourful circles were punched and added to make them more fun. The sentiment, from Studio 490 Seriously Art set, was stamped with Jet Black onto mixed media paper, cut out with a Spellbinders die, and inked with Spiced Marmalade and Picked Raspberry Distress inks. The same inks were used on a chipboard heart. Punched semi-circles were adhered to both sides of the canvas and black enamel dots were added to the cork bits. To complete the piece, black doodling was added as well as Black Big Brush pen on the edges.

The party birds and I thank you for hanging out with us today. Hope we made you smile!
Bonnie

Archival Ink - Jet Black Ink Pad	Scotch Foam Mounting Tape	Dina Wakley - White Gesso - 2 oz.	Dina Wakley - Gel Medium - 2oz.
Wendy Vecchi - Studio 490 - Embossing Paste - Black	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Claret (Translucent)	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Blush (Semi-Opaque)	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Candy Floss (Opaque)
Vintage Paper Ephemera Bundles	Prima - 6x6 inch Stencil - Stone Wall III	TCW - Mini Texturized 6x6 Stencil	Ranger - Cut n′ Dry Foam Pads
Faber Castell - Gelatos - Yellow Colors	Tim Holtz Distress Ink Reinker - Spiced Marmalade	Distress Ink Pad - Picked Raspberry	Faber Castell - Big Brush Pen - Black

Wait and See ~ Art Journal page

Hi Everyone. It's Bonnie here today with an art journal page to share. I've been playing around lately with leaving white on my art journal spreads because it's something that really stretches my comfort zone. I am a colour gal through and through so I tend to feel uncomfortable leaving large expanses of white on the background. Just to shake things up, I've been consciously trying to do that now and again.

I began by spraying Patience and Glorious Art Anthology Colorations Sprays onto my ungessoed page, spritzing water on top. I added more water with a brush and began to splash, flick, and drip from the puddles. I love how the pink and yellow created a third colour, orange...so pretty.

Out came the stencils! I used Studio 490 Black Embossing Paste through TCW Mini Harlequin Circles and Bingo stencils. Fresco Finish Beach Hut and Inky pool  were pounced through TCW's Tile Texture stencil. White gesso was pounced through TCW's Mini Texturized stencil over the more solid sprayed area. Black gesso was used to create lines with the edge of a gift card and more was scraped onto the page edges.

Some torn dictionary paper from the Michelle Hill Ephemera Pack was layered onto the page using matte medium. White gesso was spread over the text with my finger to knock it back. Beach Hut was spread over the top of the dried gesso. Washi tape was torn and layered over the text as well, More Beach Hut was pounced through the circles from the Harlequin stencil. Once dry, black doodling and white dots were doodled onto those.

A flower was cut from designer paper, matted in black, and given a center created with Crafty Individuals Imagine stamp. A little colour was added to the sweet face with Prismacolor pencils.Doodling was added to the flower to separate the petals. White gesso and Autumn Fire Fresco Finish were scuffed onto a few petals to bring in more of the other colours from the background and add my own mark to the flower. To create the stem, Art Anthology Pesto spray was spritzed onto the craft sheet, picked up with a wet brush, and dripped onto the page where the flower would sit.

The page was finished black doodling, edging the pages with Black Soot Distress ink, and Black Big Brush pen. Three black cardstock inchies were punched and given white doodled words before being popped up on foam tape. The flower was also popped up on foam tape and a sliver of a punched black circle was added to the top text along with small punched circles.

Thanks for dropping by today. This is another project which would fit the current ePlay Challenge, Embossing. Have you entered yet? You still have twelve days to play along...hope to see you there.

Bonnie
Here are links to  products used from the eclectic Paperie store:

Art Anthology - Coloration Color Spray - Glorious	Art Anthology - Coloration Color Spray - Patience	Art Anthology - Coloration Color Spray - Pesto	Dina Wakley - White Gesso - 2 oz.
Dina Wakley - Black Gesso - 2 oz.	Dina Wakley - Gel Medium - 2oz.	Wendy Vecchi - Studio 490 - Embossing Paste - Black	TCW - 6x6" Stencil - Harlequin Circles
TCW - Mini Texturized 6x6 Stencil	Vintage Paper Ephemera Bundles	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Beach Hut (Translucent)	PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Inky Pool (Translucent)
PaperArtsy - Fresco Finish Acrylic Paint - Tango (Translucent)	Uni-Ball White Gel Pen	Faber Castell - Big Brush Pen - Black	Distress Ink Pad - Black Soot

Embossed Butterfly page

Hello, it's Sue C here and today I'm sharing a journal page which is also my piece for the current ePlay challenge which is Embossing.

I loved one of Wendy Vecchi's recent journal pages and it prompted me to have a play with the Tim Holtz Layered Butterfly die and embossing folder.

I started by die cutting the butterfly from white card and then using the embossing folder that comes with the die.

I used a mixtue of Dandelion, Orange Blossom, Red Geranium and Potting Soil Archival inks to colour the butterfly. I then put it to one side as I wasn't sure where I was going yet but getting ink onto card is always a good first step !

I then cut a piece of white card to the size of my journal and used my brayer with Fresco Finish paints.

I felt it was a little too orange so I added some London Bus Fresco Finish and a little Tikka too.

I then took the negative of the die cut and taped it onto my journal page. I don't usually tape my stencils down but card can start to warp when it gets damp and this helps to keep it flat to the surface your stencilling on. I used Chutney and French Roast Fresco Finish paints but only around the edge of the butterfly.

This is what you're left with !

I then stuck 2 Post-it Notes together and die cut the butterfly again, this made the perfect mask for me to stencil over. I layered up the colours of the stencilling in the corners of the page, starting with white as the colour that followed was translucent and stencilling onto white lets the true colour show.

I then went back to my original butterfly and rubbed some Treasure Gold around the lower wings and on the top half I used Sticky Embossing Powder with Distress Rock Candy glitter.

Before I stuck the butterfly down I added a little more stencilling using the numbers from Wendy Vecchi's Classic Words stencil. The sentiment is from the Purpose of Art set and is stamped using Potting Soil Archival ink onto a piece of card that's been brayered with Fresco Finish paint.

You can see the Distress Glitter a little more on the above photo.

I hope you've enjoyed today's journal page.
Sue
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