My Tracey Weinzapfel May Challenge... A Letter to my Infant, Toddler or Teen self.

So Tracey Weinzapfel May challenge was to write a letter to the infant, Toddler or Teen Self....   I'm taking the approach of lesson learned...

"It's Not Selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, & to make your happiness a priority.   It's a necessary.

I used gelatos, Pastels, Paint, Washi Tape, PITT Markers, and Montana markers

I hope you enjoy...  I love her challenges

New Mixed Media - Art Journal - Art Enables Us.... 4.23.13

So a great friend tagged me on facebook with a quote

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."

This couldn't explain me better these days...  

So here's my art journaling tonight - took all that I learned at Donna Downey's Inspiration Weekend

I hope you enjoy..

Supplies List:

Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions Creative Journal

Golden Paints

PITT Markers

Gelatos

Stencils

I promise the next time I sit down to journal I'll video tape it... this was a 4 1/2 hour process - had no idea what time it was when I was done...  

I really hope you enjoy it all.

Thank you

Lisa

Mixed Media Journal Page Love Can Bloom 3-4-13

 Loving loving how this page came out....   It was actually one of my first journal pages when I just started and after all the techniques I've been learning I really wasn't happy with it - so I did what I have seen so many amazing Mixed Media artist do... I covered it and started over...

Added Tim Holtz Tissue Paper and used Modge Podge to glue it down and then covered it and used the hot glue gun to dry it.

Then I did some spraying with Dylusions Inks and some paper towels..

Then pulled out a bunch of stamps - plus my new favorite Donna Downey Foam Stamps

Then.... Since I'm trying very hard to actually use my stash of supplies... I pulled out my Flower Soft product and glue - and my gosh how it pops...

Close up page.

Adding stickers and ranger distress inks

Now added some Gelatos

And washi Tape

The final look..

Hope you enjoy..

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Mixed Media Journal Page Explore EveryDay.... 2-22-13

So with my new supplies at hand.... I started journaling....

I gotta say I just totally love the Dylusion Sprays - they are so colorful

and the are vibrant....

This is my Dylusion Creative Journal... I have a few different Journal books going right now

and switch back and forth depending on the mood, and drying time..

pulled out a few of the stencils... and went to town.

Did alot of spraying.... And had these Labels from a kit I got from Christy Tomlinson Scarlet Lime

I get her monthly kit.. I haven't done it feet (because I'm a saver....) but been working on using everything that I have..

Then I added some hearts I have from the same package and I had this 5x7 paper prints and I loved this girl's sexy legs so I cut them out...   Used paper from the same package and cut other hearts on it.

And then pulled out my Gelatos and did that around the edges  - and the hearts and the labels.

Then I pulled out my gelli pen and highlighted around everything....  I didn't like how the stencil around the edge of the page looked - so I then colored the gelatos and used my finger to rub it - and then took out my Pitt Bold Black Pen and drew around them.

Here's the other side after drawing around the sexy legs as well...  

I love how it came out.

Hope you do..

Please give me your thoughts...

Have a wonderful day... and Journal Something.

Mixed Media Journal Page 2-19-13 Needs And Wants

So here's a page I did last night....   Of course this was after working on my financial budget...

The circles were left blank for me to fill in over time things that I Need... verses Want..  I have a feeling the wants are going to need more circles LOL....

So put this into Dyan Reaveley's Dylusions Creative Journal

This page was actually one of those back pages in your book when you are working on other pages and you take the stencil and then press it into another page - so the black squares was left over from another page...  this was created with Crafter's Workshop 12x12 Cubist which I bought from Overstock.

I then used my Caran d'Ache Neocolor II Crayon Set that I got from Jerry's Artarama

I used Fast Orange, Lime Green, Lilac and Mauve

You just color the crayon just like when you were little - then take a brush with water I used my Aquashbrush which I bought from Donna Downey's store.

That just smooths out the Crayon and it looks great.

I then took out my favorite tool...  The empty Toilet Paper Roll - and used black acrylic paint - and stamped circles all over it.

I also used the rest of my Bazzil Just the Edge 12" Cardstock Strips Perfectly Pleated Dictionary. 

I then used the Crayon's again and the Aquabrush and colored that in as well...

I then also took out my circle templates on the ends where I used Modeling Paste to make some texture

I then pulled out my pan pastels (thank you Donna Downey) and inspiration wednesday.... opening up my eyes.

I then pulled out my Faber Castell Gelatos to fill in The other circles.

Pulled out my markers and wrote Needs & Wants.

Gave it a Spectrafix Spray to seal it...

And it's done.

I hope you enjoy it...

Please comment and share...

Thanks

Mixed Media - Journal Page - Moments.....

So here's a page I did last week I think Wednesday... 

I actually used some left over paints I was using on a large Canvas which of course isn't done yet... That will be revealed soon...

I mixed paints with Liquitex Medium Resin Sand...  What I have left over I put right on this journal page...  Then waited a few days until the inspiration moved me..

Once it I had a total blast....

I gesso over the dried page - it was Red, Green and Brown...  it didn't really motivate me at all...

And once the gesso dried it looked Great.

I then sprayed some Dylusions Sprays over it.. Used London Blue and Crushed Grapes Once you put that over the medium it just pulls alittle into it... and it really came out great.

I then had some fun with something I have seen Donna Downey do a bunch of times and never really tried - but took my alphabet stencil and and sponge and black paint and had some fun....

I also took my handy dandy toilet paper roll and also dipped it into black paint and stamped all over...

I then used a flower stamp and Stars and stamped that all over the pages...

With the medium on the page it was really hard to see them - so I went over them with a thin paint brush and black paint to make them stand out.

I then took Faber Castel Gellatos and filled in the stamped images.

And then added some white paint to the flowers to make them stand out.

I also grabbed my bubble wrap with white paint which I love how that looks.

I hand drew some fun lines and dots around the outside frame and then painted different colors around it.

Added some scrapbooking embellishments I had in my stash... Again listening to Donna Downey to USE YOUR SUPPLIES....

And finally another trick I learned from her YouTube page - and used Silver India Ink and dripped it down the page...

I totally love these pages... So totally unexpected. 

 

Mix Media Journal Page - Art Makes Me Happy

Journal Page

Art Makes Me Happy

So I love how this page came out...

You can see how far I have come over the last 4 months...

I gesso the page in my mixed media journal book

I used Dylusions Sprays Inks... (LOVE THEM)...

Then I painted a bit with Acrylic's on top.

I then pulled out my Block Alphabet stencils - and used the Black Dylusions Sprays on top..

I also used a few more stencils.  with different colors.

Used my rubber stamps to do the words

And the Butterflys

I used an empty Toilet paper roll - dipped in ink and stamps on teh page.

Used Faber Castell Gelatos to fill in a few of the circles

Black Sheer Trim Ribbon That I got from Etsy by the store ATHINGFOR BLING

And finally I put india Ink and alot of drips down the page..

Hope you enjoy.

Art Does Make Me Very Happy.