Don't Stop Playing

I've been art journaling with the kids at work. Today I'm showing them how to add layers to our prepped pages. The best part of teaching them to art journal is rummaging around in storage for supplies. We used foam sheets to cut shapes and tissues paper to add texture. This "junk" as my coworker called it, has been lying around for years. It came in handy. In addition to the foam shapes and tissue paper I used a couple stencils, acrylic paint, stamp, archival ink and colored bakers twine to complete my example page.

Another Lets Play inspired page

I just kept digging through my old scrapbooking supplies because I was so inspired by A Colorful Journey. I don't generally do "pink" or "hearts" but it all seemed right.

Materials Used:
Red Smooch spray
Faber-Castell gelatos
Mister
Heart Stencil
Baby wipe
Dylusions number stencil
Liquetex glass beads medium
Iridescent glitter

The bottle of smooch I bought years ago and couldn't get it to spray right. So I tossed it in a drawer and forgot about it. We'll I got it working and spritzed the page. Then scribbled some bright pink gelatos at the top of the page. Spritzed a little water and used my fingers to activate the gelatos into a wash. I tipped the page up to let the color run. Once it was dry I used a slightly damp baby wipe and a heart stencil to rub away some of the color. I used the number stencil with the glass bead medium. I used a long forgotten container of loose glitter to sprinkle of the glass bead medium.

Let's Play February Challenge

I've really gotten into Carolyn Dude's Let's Play. This week's challenge was "show some neglected art supplies some love". So I dug deep. I found some old gel pens that still work, a single strip of scrapbooking border, and a very dusty paper crimper. This is how my "play" turned out.

January's Art Journal Pages

I got so involved in creating and working in my art journals that I forgot to write about them. At least I remembered to take pictures of the finished pages, even if I didn't take pictures of the process.

Tissue paper, grunge board cut-outs, gelatos, black sharpie,
distress ink, and clear stamp 

Textured paper, acrylic paint, foam stamp, rubber stamp, archival ink, tag, spray inks and yarn

Embossed grunge board, Ranger texture paste, die cut,
spray inks, black distress ink, geel gloss medium, and sticky backed jewel

Photo collage, Ranger texture paste, sheet rock joint tape
distress ink and blue sharpie

Extreme glitter acrylic paint, watercolors, rubbing alcohol
and movie quote

Scrapbook paper, gel medium, wood chips,
acrylic wash, Ranger texture paste, stencils
and black sharpie

This page sucked to make. It was the bane of my existance for a
long time. I don't know how many layers are even on it anymore or
even what I used aside from the obvious paper flowers, butterfly buttons
and "happy" chipboard with puff embossing powder.

Handmade marbled paper, hand cut stencil,
acrylic paint, paint markers, stickles

Sharpie, watercolor pencils, stamps, distress inks

Patterned scrapook paper, gessp, sharpie, gelatos

Scraps of handmade marbled paper, flower punches, gel gloss
medium and sharpie

Spray inks, glass bead medium, Ranger texture paste,
bubble wrap, toilet paper roll, acrylic paint, stencil,
and paint marker.

Spray ink, large doily, distress inks, sharpie, stencils, stickles

Acrylic paint, book text, gesso, gel medium, metalic lace, glitter paint, metalic gold ink, stamp and TONS of mod podge.