Art Journal - It's So Me

Hello friends!  Is the weekend really over?  Yikes!

I have a great project to share today to enter into a challenge.

I'm also entering my tag into the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

 

I had leftover from an experiment where I mixed Liquitex Gesso, Liquitex Bright Aqua Green, and Ranger Gel Medium and pushed the mixture through my Dylusions Trees stencil. I need to get some sleep, so I will update tomorrow, but please enjoy!

And if there's something you want to see me try or do, please leave me a note in the comments!

Underpaper peek

I wanted to give everyone a peek at my underpaper, at least a previous sheet of my underpaper.  As you can see, it can carry a lot of different marks, from paint, sprays, stamps, and pens or markers.

 

 

 

 

As you can also see, I had my palette knife nearby.  I use my palette knife for several things, including spreading gesso, mixing paint colors and/or mediums together, and swiping paint or mediums through stencils.  My current underpaper looks different and that's what make it so unique.  Also, you can see a tool I used quite frequently.  For those of you not familiar with it, it's called a palette knife.  There's several different shapes, and designs.  I have at least three, and they're all plastic.  One issue I run into, which isn't really an issue, if the buildup.  As you use them they hold onto remnants of whatever mediums you use them with, meaning paint, gel, texture paste, etc.  I really love the color combinations that build up on the palette knives, so I don't want to use the knife for the project I'm currently working on.  I try to keep a camera ready to take pictures to remember the colors so I can use it to see another combination after more crafting.

I wanted to give a small list of items you can look for, including palette knife sets.

Stainless Steel 5-Piece Palette Knife Set

Arrtx Stainless Steel 5-Piece Palette Knife Set

Plastic 5- Piece Palette Knife Set

 

 

I hope you enjoyed this little peek and that you can find a palette knife set which you can use to kelp you decide which et to get for yourself.  Enjoy your crafting!

A Tag Full of Fun

 I wanted to share a quick post to give you some ideas for the holidays...

An important aspect these tags have in common is Dylusions.  I really love Dylusions, especially the color sprays.  They react with water, so spraying the paper before or after you use the sprays causes different effects and some really fun stuff.

Dylusions Postbox Red

Dylusions Calypso Teal

Dylusions London Blue

Dylusions Fresh Lime

Dylusions Bordering on the Edge Stamp Set

Dylusions Stars Stencil 

Enjoy and check these out!  Enjoy your crafting and let me know what you think or what products you love!

Another visit

Sometimes things deserve another visit.  That's this guy. 

And that includes a crafty wishlist.  Something on my wishlist? A Cricut 3.

And to remind you of some great products, the same picture below of the beginnins g my underpaper shwong an amazing supply, is Dylusions Calypso Teal, a delicious color if I do say so myself.  And I do.

 What's on your wishlist?

Deck the Halls

Hi friends! How's your weekend going?  It always goes by so quickly right?  That's what I find bittersweet about the weekends.  They're brief, but usually very enjoyable.

I also realized that I don't have a ton of art creations for the Christmas season.  So I'm hoping to change that.  And I'm doing pretty good so far.  In that vein, I have an ATC for Christmas that I gave a sneak peek of a day or two ago.

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I'm also entering my tag into the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge

 

I used an Octopode Factory girl in Christmas gear, and grabbed an ATC the play with.  I added a file label, some ribbon and red thread, letter stickers, a button and brad from my stash, along with a little bit of punchinella.  You could say I grabbed a bunch of my stash and round out this ATC.

Something else in the background that I did was an experiment.  I mixed Liquitex Gesso, Liquitex Bright Aqua Green, and Ranger Gel Medium and pushed the mixture through my Dylusions Trees stencil. 

I also added a bright green paper clip as well.

ATCs may be small, but they are mighty!  Please let me know what you think in the comments!

Fa la la la

Hey everyone!  Happy Saturday, for a little longer anyway.  I have a really cool tag to share with you for the holiday season.

There's quite a bit going on with this tag, and it's really cool.  I had been experimenting with my supplies and used the tag as a mop up page of sorts.  Then I added another layer and got stuck.  It can be difficult, even when playing, to do a step, then not know the direction you want to go in.  That was where I was.  I liked certain parts and didn't want to cover those up, but I still needed to do something.  Have you ever had that happen, when creating art or in real life?

I'm also entering my tag into the following challenge:

Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge

 

 

I also have to remember I have a LOT of supplies.  So there's no wrong answer, it's more about how you're feeling.  So the tag had some Dylusions Calypso Teal and Postbox Red smeared on it, then I used some of a mixture of Liquitex Gesso, Liquitex Bright Aqua Green, and Ranger Gel Medium and pushed through my Dylusions Trees stencil. 

I used Archival black ink with a Dylusions corner arrow stamp.  The left side scallop border is from a gelli print done long ago.  Then I grabbed other goodies to add to my tag.  Some legs from a Dylusions stamp set that I colored with Tombow and Artist's Loft markers.  Alphabet stickers, a wood chip, a yellow chipboard star and two star stickers later my tag seemed to be ready.  I did raid my ribbon collection for trims that would work well with this tag.  I think I found some nice ones!

Please let me know what you think in the comments!

Sneak peek

A quick peek at my next project...and there's even a lot of stuff in this little peek, but I'll save the rest for later.

Just know that even in this sneak, I used a combination of paint, gesso, and gel medium, whew!

I've included affiliate links to many of the products I've used or similar products, which means if you use the links to make a purchase, I make a small commission with no price increase for you.  I really appreciate your support.

 

I hope you like the little peek!  Please feel free to let me know in the comments!