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IT'S FRIGHTENING! Hi everyone Danie here, today I pulled out my journal to play once more.  I love getting messy and it's the process more than the end result that I love.  So with Halloween in mind once more I started thinking dark and covered my journal pages with a layer of black paint. I had some clean up sheets from the last time I used some stencils on my desk so decided to put these to good use and while my black paint was still wet, tore these stenciled sheets into strips and stuck them down.  My glue and my paint mixed together and glazed these pieces as I smoothed out any air bubbles from the sticking down process. Next I took some white paint and a stencil and added some more detail, before brayering over the wet white paint to added further interest and pattern to the background. I choose to randomly brayer purple and orange paint across the page for my next layer. And to finish the background some more stenciling with Green...

This month one of my friends in her art group on Facebook started offering some journal prompts to play along with.  One of the prompts was Kitty and I immediately thought of the fun collage sheet available from Altered Pages. I started by adding some Gesso to my page as the Coffee I had used to color the previous page had seeped through a little.  Because of this I also decided to use a coffee toned paint for a little stencilling with the Fireworks Stencil from The Crafter's Workshop to highlight the cute quote which was on the page of the cover on one of the Authentique Paper Pads. In no time at all I had my creative fix and a simple but cute take on the journal prompt. Danie xx

STAMPS INKS STENCILS ART CREATED by NANCIE LIVELY Nancie is an amazing creator, her scrapbooks are award-worthy, her cards are sublime. I want to share some pieces of her work today for your enjoyment.  She used inks, stamps and one of our stencils for the fabulous backgrounds. Nancie lived in Ohio, moved to Tucson AZ with her three amazing boys, quite the adventurer!   Settling in Phoenix, she and I got the opportunity become lifelong friends. She is now back in OHIO loving her life as a creator, enjoying her retirement.   Thanks, Nancie for adding beauty to our world.

Having fun with stencils.  The more the better.  Love all the layers!  The large tags make great embellishments for gift bags. Supplies: Collage sheet Transparency Beauties Large Tag Feathers Stencil  Carte Postale Stencil Art Expression Stencil Mist  Ink Metallic Luster Rub German foil - Heart and Tassels Flowers Sheet Music scrap Lace & Ribbon Tacky Glue   On  Large Tag  lay the  Art Expression Stencil  spray  Mist , let dry. Place the  Feathers Stencil   over the  Art Expression Stencil  on the  Large Tag  use  Metallic Luster Rub  to add a feather to the tag! From  Collage sheet Transparency Beauties  cut image of one of the beauties.  From the Carte Postale Stencil randomly add Paris images to the tag with ink. Attach  German foil - Heart and Tassels  with  Tacky Glue . Add Lace  and  Flowe...

I thought of Primary and the idea was born.   Primary colors = 3.   I challenged myself to use THREES for the project.    White cardstock base had 3 acrylic paints applied with 3 STENCILS .    I also used three applicators, Brush , Brayer , and  Spouncer .   Three washi tapes were incorporated and finally accented with black and white pens in three of each color circles.  Simple and satisfying! Please visit the website for our Stencil and Floral Sale this month, welcome Spring with Fresh Flowers!

Spring is finally here!  Although it has still been cool, the sky is blue and sunny and the plants are beginning to stir.  In their honor I chose to work with blues and greens this week. I started with two gel prints which were made with the same paints.  One was more green and the other more blue.  In fact, one of the prints is even on blue paper.  I cut them both into 1" strips.  I wanted an uneven mosaic so I used one long piece and 6 shorted pieces of various lengths.   Each of these pieces had the edges darkened with green ink so that they would all blend together.  It also hides the fact that the card stock of each print was a different color. I tried to get an even distribution of green and blue.  Double sided adhesive holds all of the pieces in place on the black card stock. I just bought to lovely stencils from Altered Pages and couldn't wait to use them!  I chose blue and gree...

Early this month I played with some Paint and Stencils which is my favorite thing to do in my art journals.  Sometimes I journal just for fun and for the art aspect, other times more for the personal release of emotions and then other times for the recording of relevant facts, sometimes it is a bit of both.  My project I shared with you started out with fun in mind but in deciding what to add to the background it now has become more of a record of relevant facts. The warm tones reminded me of the outback landscapes here in Australia in the Desert which then turned into thoughts of Egypt and then I noticed that some of my details of my stenciling looked like the Egyptian Ankh Symbol.  I then remembered my Egyptian Horoscope which I read at the start of each year in a magazine I buy.  I had last years magazine lying around so took some images from this along with the details of my personal horoscope to complete my page in my journal. This is how it...