Little Outbursts of Creativity

I made this Art Journal page Inspired by (ok, totally CASing) this page from the Spectrum Noir blog. I must admit that I almost never use stamped images in my journals but the page was so cute and I had some Gorjuss stamps that I wanted to ink up so I went for it. It was great fun, I have neglected my art journals this spring and summer. I miss messing around and experimenting in it. 

Supplies:
Spectrum Noir AquaBlend Pencils: Squash, Coral, Antracite, Petunia, Deep Forest, Oak and Brunette. 
Stamp by Gorjuss

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I had to try some new stamps by Crafters Companion and the new distress ink colors that I got in the mail last week. I really love some of the new colors. 

That's it from me today. I have been scheduling posts until the end of February today so now I feel like I'm in control again and there will be regular posts at least two times a week for a while now. Yay me! I hope you come back to see them :)

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If you read my last post earlier today you know I was a lazy bum all through the holidays. So I totally forgot to post anything last week so here's an extra post today to compensate. I got a new smaller Art Journal and made a first page in it. I was thinking I'll never fill it all in one year so it would be nice to separate the years and that's why I started by making a 2016 page. I used my Spectrum Noir AquaTints for this, mostly. A couple of blues for the background (05 and 02) nd then some gold to make it shommer (70) and white for the numbers (66) You can't really see all the details of the background because of the bad lighting at this time of the year. I took this photo in the middle of a clear day with snow outside to reflect more light and also lightened it up a lot in Photoshop but it still looks too dark. I can't wait for spring... I did some stamping with water to remove some color, I stamped faint white dragonflies here and there and did some splatters and other things for texture. I also made an image transfer for the circle with the geometric shapes in it. 

this year I have decided to step down from the CiLi in Papers DT where I used to blog mixed media. I'll just do it whenever I feel like it now so there will probably still be some art journal pages here on the blog, but not every other Saturday like before. This month is also my last month with the WOW team, I have really enjoyed my time on that team and am excited to see what the new team comes up with. I'm also happy to have designed a new stamp set for their latest release, it's called Mariposa. It's a set full of beautiful butterflies, one is really big to cover most of a card front. I'll be back with more on those later. In other news I learned that I passed the Copic coloring exam and are now a ECCP Copic Coloring Master, yay! It took me a couple of years to get there but I think I learned a lot and had fun while doing it. A lot of the techniques I learned is easy to apply on other kinds of coloring so I think and hope it made a difference over all in my coloring. 

So that's all the news I have for now. I really look forward to see what crafty surprises 2016 might have for me. 

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Here's my creation for WOW! this month. The current theme is Not a card and I kinda cheated by making a pretty much card sized Art Journal page ;) For all the details and supplies hop on over to the WOW! blog and take part in this months challenge to have a chance to win some lovely WOW! products. You know you want them! Just make sure to use some WOW! product or heat embossing on your creation. 

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Just a quick post since I'm really supposed to be packing for the Meet & Greet event this weekend. Leaving in three hours and haven't started yet. Eeeek! Anyways. Here's my Art Journal page for my bi-weekly Mixed Media posts at CiLi in Papers. I made it easy because I was in a hurry this week but I still like the result. 

 

Just some paint blobs and doodling but it's fun and bright and colorful. 

I hope you liked it. I'll be back monday with my next post. Right now I'm going to start getting ready go. I'm super excited about meeting a lot of my crafty friends and having lots of fun this weekend! 

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I was going throu all the blogsI subscribe to, wondering why my Art Journal page didn't turn up. As it turns out, you actually have to make the post for it to show up in the feeds. Who would have known ;) So here it is, better late than never. This is for my bi-weekly mixed media posts for CiLi in Papers. 

I made a background using Spectrum Aquas on gesso, it turned out really soft and pretty. Then I used stencils, gold texture paste and doodled all over the page. It took a good while but I enjoyed to let my mind wander and listen to a good audio book while doing this page.

I think those little tiny dots are my new thing. I think they are super cute! 

Well, I better get doing more crafty stuff instead of typing up blog posts that I already should have written ;) See you soon! 

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I used pieces of a brown paper bag and glued down on the pages. I covered them in gesso and distress paint to match the page and stamped on them with an alpha from Lawn Fawn. Let's pretend that I did not switch two letters in the text... I added white shadows to make the words pop a bit more. I added shading with the Charcoal SpectrumAqua around the paper bag pieces and then I splattered some Black SpectrumAqua on top of it all and called it a day. 

Seriously, how pretty are the colors of the background? It's so random how it will turn out and I love it when it is a success! 

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I really shouldn't listen to 70's rock while creating. This page looks like the Scooby Doo party bus and I'm not sure what happened. I think I just wanted to use my Aqua Tints to color it and I only have the Bright and Beautiful set and Essentials right now so I for some reason decided to use ALL of the colors at once thinking it would be fun to keep the warm colors in the speech bubble and the cold colors outside. It started looking a lot like Halloween before adding the turquoise and then it just went to the dark side of the 70's from there. I hade a good laugh and don't mind. It's just an art journal and I had a good couple of hours doodling and coloring everything.

The fun part and the part that I will take with me to new, a bit more sane, projects were the stencilling using Aqua Tints in gold and silver. I used a bit of cut and dry foam to pick the color up and dabbed it over the stencils and I really like the effect. Will be seen in future cards and projects I'm sure.

So, not everything needs to be perfect in the Art Journal as long as I have fun. This is a page I made for my bi-weekly mixed media posts at CiLi in Papers. I hope you got a good laugh at least. The journaling says POW and then smaller: All of a sudden it will happen. It's a slogan from a lottery ticket in Sweden meaning that one day it's your turn to win and I believe in the power of positive thinking. One day something amazing will happen to me. 

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I'm up at the Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft blog today for a guest post making a small art journal page. If you click here you can find the full post with an instructional video and list of materials used for my project. That small art journal is so darn cute and very fun to work with.

I hope you like it and if you come back tomorrow I'll have another art journal page for you, a big one with lots of psychedelic colors. That's what happens when you listens to '70s rock while crafting ;) 

Disclaimer: I received product from Faber-Castell Design Memory Craft to create this project, but all opinions are my own.

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Here are some of the different results I got. I love that pink one in the middle and the green-ish ones. Very fun! I hope you got inspired to do some mono printing! See you in an hour or two for my second post today, this time for WOW! I hope you'll be back then <3 

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