My New Fave Stamp !!! Art Journal Sunday with Lisa Oxley

Howdy Bloggers, Lisa here with a Scrapping Clearly up date.

I have a new Favorite stamp-thanks a bunch Kylie for ordering in this beauty.

who doesnt love Architecture? for the pure scale and magesty, for shelter and comfort.

my other half is a draftsman and plans flow through our house, so these stamps, I just had to secure.

Stampers Anonymous - Architecture

For this sweet piece, I busted out my faves.

Dina Wakley Blue Journal

New Stampers Anonymous "Architecture" stamp * New Fave

Tim Holtz Ideaology botanical pack

Hambly Transparency 

TCW stencil 

Script Stamp

White out correction pen

Acrylic Paint

heres a quick video of my process

And Let It Fly Away.

Creating this using the same"Architecure" stamp set,

 A double page in my Dylusions square journal,

 One fresh TCW 901 Geo Netting stencil,

 acrylic paints,

 scrap FX tissue paper print.

For the focal "eye' image I have taken an old print from an Escher calander. "Eye" M.C.Escher 1946

 A video to share my process

Thanks for dropping by the Scrapping Clearly Blog today,

 seems Blogger has had an upgrade and this blog post took me a little longer than usual.

I'll be back very soon with another SC up date.

Lisa xx

ATC's - get a little bit of creativity happening.

Welcome back to the blog and for taking time out on the weekend to get yourself in the creative zone.  I have been very blessed over the past few months to attend some arty retreats and I am sharing some of my work from last weekend’s retreat on the Sunshine Coast of Oz. There is so much creative energy flowing when you attend a retreat or arty escape as I like to think of them. I cannot vouch for them enough to help refill your cup and recharge your creative energy.

I have created three ATC {Artist Trading Cards} all themed a little differently. An ATC is created using a background measuring 2.5” by 3.5”. I have used plain white cardstock as a base and have prepped each card using white gesso.

 Card 1 – I used Vicki Boutin water colour crayon in orange to colour the cardstock. Then I used water to disperse the colour evenly. I have then used a spot stencil and rubbed off excess colour.  

Card 2 – Vicki Boutin water colour crayon in pink was used. I placed a Kinder Kreations stencil on top and then wiped away the colour leaving the white resist.

Card 3 = Vicki Boutin water colour crayon in blue was used with the same technique as Card 2. I have used a spot stencil.

The next step was to choose stamping. I have chosen some Viva Las Vegas stamps. You can use any stamp of your choosing to add to this layer. For Card 1 & 2 I chose the stamps as part of the feature for the card. Card 3 I chose this stamp purely as a background stamp to add interest to the piece and compliment the lines that I would add to the card later.  

I have added more texture to the cards by adding another layer to each.

Card 1 – Liquitex modelling paste was added using a stencil.

Card 2 – Liquitex matte gel was added through a Kinder Kreations stencil

Card 3 – Liquitex modelling paste was added using a stencil.

After these dried I used my ALLS pencil to add darkness and shading to the cards. I have then added different finishing touches to each card.

Card 1 – I have added more stamping with the word mysterious. I have stitiched around the circle of the stamped image. I have coloured a small price tag and  added it to the top of the card. A face was glued to the centre of the card. I then added more black pencil and smudged it over the white texture paste using a little water. 

 Card 2 – I stitched a black border around the outer edge of the card.   Word stamps from an older set were added to the outer edge of the card. Finally I used some glossy accents to glue down some teeny tiny watch gears. 

 Card 3 – I stitched a black border on the card. I then folded a paper flower and stitched this to the card. I have used the stitching to create the stem to the flower. I stamped a VLV stamp quote to the bottom of the flower and have also added some Finnabair art stones.

I love that I have been reintroduced to these little mini masterpieces. The dimension and individuality that you can harness from creating each one is amazing.

I hope this has given you a spark to create your own little mini masterpiece. Until next week - have a fabulous creative journey. 

Tracey xx

Simple Stories Life in Colour Scrapbook page with DT Katie Howard

Good Morning and happy Wednesday! Today I am popping in to share a fun summery page using the Simple Stories Life In Colour collection. My page was inspired by a page that I saw on Pinterest by Australian Scrapbooker Fiona Johnstone.

First let me show you my page and then I will show you some step-by-step photos for putting it together.

For the background I coloured some white acrylic paint with distress oxide ink in Lucky Clover. I don't have any of the re-inkers so I simply swiped the ink on my craft mat and worked the colour into the paint, adding more ink until the right colour intensity was achieved. Then I added this to my background, leaving the area under the photos un-painted so I didn't waste paint!

After this dried I added some texture stamping, some using the Lucky Clover distress oxide ink to give a tone on tone affect and also Hickory Smoke for a soft but contrasting result.

With my background done, the rest was easy and a matter of layering some patterned papers, including using some of the cut apart 4x6 cards as layers. I have used these papers: I Love this Life, So Much Happiness, 4x6 Horizontal Journaling cards and Happy Little Moments. I also love making tags, well tag tops, out of scraps to tuck into my layers as well. This is such an easy way of using up small bits of paper left overs and can make an impact on your page.

 

The way I make my tags is to start with a 3 inch wide piece of scrap, I mark 1/2 inch in from both sides and 1/2 inch down which I connect to create a triangle on the corner and cut this section off. Then I mark half way across the piece and 1/2 inch down as the spot to make the hole and we are done! Adding a hole reinforcer on the front finishes it all off.

Each of these tags is only about 2 to 3 inches long, long enough to tuck in! Also in this cluster is some chipboard thickers from the Gather collection.

I tucked another tag in the bottom and added my title on the top. The title was cut from one of the 4x3 cards and some letters were lifted with foam tape. The word and phrase stickers come from the Express Cardstock Sticker sheet and give plenty of options for alpha stickers and words/phrases.

I also cut apart some of the labels from one of the journal card sheets and layered these to add my journaling. I used the Tim Holtz tiny attacher to add some detail as well.

So that finishes off my page, I hope this inspires you to try some new techniques or even to use up your scraps with some tag tops!

Until next time, thanks for stopping by.

Katie x

Muse Alert : Jane Davenport

Howdy Bloggers,

Lisa here with a Friday Mixed Media update.

It's the end of my weekend and it's been an interesting few days of creativity.

It's hard when all you want to do is create,

 but your body is talking to you in aches and pains and insisting you slow down.

Thank the universe for the creative goddess that is Jane Davenport.

Jane is my Muse, my Enabler, and my Saviour.

When I am limited in different ways (time or physically)

and still have/want to create something quick,

 it seems like there is a radiant light that shines down on the few Jane products that I have.

Angels start singing, well mermaids actually, 

 and they beg me to use them.

Here is the true beauty of Jane's products,

I know that anything I create with her pieces as a focal point 

will be bold, beautiful, and utterly amazing.

Inspired 

Dina Wakley Journal

Dina Wakley acrylic paint

Kinder Kreations stencil

Flutterby Designs stencil

Donna Downey Studios stencil

Gesso 

Fudeball pen

background stamps

Jane Davenport Collage paper

Don't Give Up

Dina Wakley Journal

Dina Wakley acrylic paint

TCW stencil

Flutterby Designs stencil

Gesso
Fudeball pen

background stamps

Jane Davenport Collage paper

Jane Davenport Collage napkins

Set Your Soul on Fire, Every Day.

Jane Davenport Journal

Dina Wakley acrylic paint

Joggles stencil

Flutterby Design stickers

Gesso 

fudeball pen

background stamps

Jane Davenport collage napkins

The Washi Page

No video for this one unfortunately.

Jane Davenport Journal

 Jane Davenpoprt washi tapes,

a TCW stencil

DWM Paint

Gesso

Fudeball pen

Dina Wakley leaves stamp

a little background stamping and a title stamp..

a simple page without effort.

Thanks for dropping by the Scrapping Clearly blog today,

 have a super creative weekend and get arty.

Lisa xx

The Good Life with Melinda

Happy St Patricks Day to you lovely ScrappingClearly fans today!!

I don't really have anything green to share with you but there is SOME green
in my page today so I hope you enjoy!!

There is also a process video available over on the SC channel or just click play and sit back and enjoy!

I was sent a couple of these super awesome papers by Ella & Viv and WOW they are so vibrant, busy, and fun. I did hesitate for a while before jumping in to use either but chose the Boombox paper for my background, I thought it worked better with my photo, and I knew I wanted to play with some Distress Oxides!

Because that paper is so busy I used a relatively light coat of white gesso using my Prima 2" silicone brush to put a layer between my photo and the background where I could add some extra colour and kind of soften the busy-ness.
Kind of.....

I've used some black Versafine ink and done some background stamping
and then went in with the packaging technique and my Distress Oxides in Faded Jeans, Blueprint Sketch and Cracked Pistachio. I also pulled out Fossilized Amber which I ended up using for stamping, and added splatters after all the other colours were dried. I also decided to add some splatters with my Sunshine Colour Shimmer Pot because the yellow wasn't bright enough for me.

I used my Minc and some Gunmetal foil to create my title. I've used one one of the pieces from the Paper Phrases by Heidi Swapp - The Good Life - this photo is the perfect representation of my biggest boy totally in his element at a friend's place helping to look after their horses.

I have used some plain vellum to back my photo tearing the edges and layering it a little.

I decided I didn't need too much embellishing so went with some Heidi Swapp wood veneer which I made black using the same black ink from earlier, and a couple of the grey rubber charms from the You Rock collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studios.

When all my layers were stuck I wanted to lift the page so watered down a little white gesso and sprinkled away.

I added my journalling & date with my Fude Ball pen and my page was done!

Another little story told and in his album and I just love that fun back ground paper and loved the challenge I gave myself to use it!

Until next time, happy scrapping!!

Melinda