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Crew Member Wednesday With Marsha!

Hello! It's Crew Member Wednesday again and today it's Marsha's turn with a colourful art journal spread. This month's theme was alphabet soup and I love how Marsha used scraps of text paper from a magazine as a base for her pages!

 

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Hi there! It’s Marsha Valk here today, sharing a colourful art journal page!

 

The theme this month is Alphabet Soup, so I decided to start by tearing loads of letters and words out of magazines and pasting them into my art journal using matte medium.

 

Once the collage was dry, I added one coat of white gesso on top and covered the page with acrylic paint in yellow and pink shades.

 

Next, I stencilled another layer with white, light blue and green acrylic paint and I also stamped a couple of circles from the ‘Scribbled Leafs & Textured Circles’ set using three shades of waterproof stamping ink.

 

Some of the original collage was still shining through, and I traced random words and letters with pencil and paint marker.

 

I also added words and phrases from a couple of Birgit’s stamp sets with black waterproof ink.

 

The Mixed Media Flowers were first stamped on pattern paper (for dressmaking) and then adhered to the page with matte medium.

 

I painted around the flowers with white, yellow and pink acrylic paint, to make them blend into the page.

 

The next step was to add doodling, more stamping, more stencilling, more marks and at last some lyrics to finish it off.

 

 Products used in this project:

              

 

Other: Magazines, Matte medium, Gesso, Acrylic paint, StazOn, Paint marker, Watercolour brush pen, Pencil

Happy Wednesday!

Marsha

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Crew Member Wednesday With Femke

Hello and welcome to Crew Member Wednesday! Today we have Femke with a beautiful scrapbooking spread in her art journal! I love how she uses her Dina Wakley Media Journal as a scrapbook combining mixed media with photo's and embellishments. And isn't it clever how she used the burlap as her titel page?!

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Maybe you remember my scrapbooking layout in my art journal I made in june? Well, I liked it very much! So I made a layout in my art journal again.

And this time I used this beautiful stamp “Stitched Mixed Media background” by Birgit Koopsen and a lot of Colorburst by Ken Oliver.

 

 

I first strawed some of the pigment powder on my paper and then activated it with water. I love the effect of that!! And after putting in some paperwork and some embellishments it was a very quick and easy project. But I really love the result, if I may say so myself :)

 

And here are some details:

 

And as always I also made a process video of my project: 

 

I hope you enjoy my project and the video. Thank you for watching! And If you like my work? Don’t forget to subscribe! Or follow me on facebook.

Stamp used for this project:

Femke

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Crew Member Wednesday With Hermien

Hello! Today's Crew Member project is a cute, colourful little mini journal made by Hermien. Such a clever idea to use hair bands to bind the little book and I love the stitching to around the pages!!

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The theme of this month is For the love of color and I decided to make a small booklet from gelli prints.

I unwrapped my Gelli Arts® minis and used stamps on the small square, carefully pressing down en lifting up, I like the effect it gave! Also used stencils (triangle and flowers) ... those colors..♥♥♥

The paper I used to clean my brayer seemed made to be the cover of my booklet...! I cut two pieces and glued them back to back for extra sturdiness. I made 2 folds to create a spine so I could insert some pages (made far to many :-) ) The gelli prints were cut into small squares and then glued onto black rectangle sheets of cardstock (2 on both sides so each sheet holds 4 prints). Then I folded the black sheets in the middle creating 2 pages for my little book.

I cut the words from a magazine and made the word COLOR from my pile of die cut letters. The heart stamps was embossed with black embossing powder.  I used some washi tape to cover the spine. Than took my gelpen and wrote color names on the front.. The sewing machine did its work making a outline.

For the back of the cover I took a stencil and black distress ink and rubbed with a make up sponge. Then I took (my newest♥) stamp set from Carabelle by Birgit and embossed those beautiful circles at the other side.

I colored in some little details with my orange and white gelpen and wrote the same words as on the front cover. Then I took the folded pages and used hair bands to bind the book (this will be handy when I want to stamp, paint or scribble on the pages, I can simply remove them and put them back after finishing).

And finished!

Products used for this project:

       

Hope you enjoyed!

Hermien

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Crew Member Wednesday With Linda

Happy Wednesday and welcome to the blog! Today we have Linda with a beautiful mixed media collage piece. Don't you just love all those stitched layers and the cute tea bag labels she included?! Watch the video to see how Linda prepared her papers and created the collage with them.

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Hello there, this is Linda!

It’s “For the love of colour” this month and I want to show how I add colour and marks to various pale coloured surfaces. I love how tea beautifully makes marks on used tea bags and every tea creates a different colour. And what about the great effect white and black ink marks have on recycled craft paper.

On this collage project I wanted to try out a new product. I’ve had it for a while, but never used it. It’s Lutradur – a non-woven stabilizer. I used two different kinds I wanted to try. I had a great Gelli® print left over from my first project with BMMAC and wanted to use it for this project.

I scanned it and then printed it on to the thickest kind of Lutradur 100g. The thinner variant I covered with a thin layer of gel medium before stamping on it. Not sure if I had to do it, but I did. The vintage photo is scanned and then printed on a sheet of canvas, I then glued it down with gel medium and added colour to it with Oil pastels.

There where so many different processes here so it was easier for me to take pictures during the process and then make a video with text and pictures. I hope you like it and of course any feedback or questions are welcome.

The collage is mounted to a black background. I thought it looked better than on a white background. It made the colours and texture pop. Love the text on the hanging teabag labels so I used them as they were.

The paper behind the photo is a paper I used to clean of the brayer when creating collage paper for another project.

Here you can see the stitches and how I coloured the photo with oil pastels.

Here you can see the 3 layers of the heart in three different materials and colours.

Love the colour of the used teabags and it looks great with the pink and purple.

Products used for this project:

     

Linda

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Crew Member Wednesday With Karin

Hello there! It's Crew member Wednesday already again and today Karin is back with one of her beautiful colourful art journal pages. Oh my, look at all the little details here! Follow along with Karin as explains how she created this spread.

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Hello, Karin here! 

 I love to create colorful pages in my Art Journal and I want to share with you how I created this one:

First I stamped the flowers on a piece of paper and cut them out.

Then I colored them with ink.

 I scraped some pink paint over the pages in my journal using a (bank)card.

I made some colored background paper using my Gelli Arts® gel printing plate and silk paper.

Because I love some texture on my pages I wrinkled the silk paper.

I tore the paper in pieces and I glued it on the white parts in my journal.

Then I gave it a white wash with some paint and made some marks with a background stamp.

After that I apllied some black texture paste through a stencil.

I also stamped some branches over the pages and colored them with a white pen.

I glued the cut out flowers on my background, used a white pen to add details and finally I sprinkled some gold ecoline over the pages and added the quote.

Products used for this project:

       

Karin

Thank you so much for stopping by!!

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