I want to see the manager!

This spread I made in someone elses art journal for the Round Robin I've joined. It's a reverse paint technique that I saw in a You Tube video by Dana C. Love the depth it creates in a page.
Here's the endresult and then I will explain how to do this.

Deze spread heb ik gemaakt in het art journal van iemand anders voor de Round Robin waar ik aan mee doe. Het is een omgekeerde verf techniek die ik heb gezien op You Tube in een video van Dana C. Ik vind dat deze techniek heel veel diepte in je pagina's creëert en zal hieronder kort uitleggen moet het werkt. 

So this is how you start out; a colourful background made with acrylic paints and  Neocolor crayons, diluted with water. Used lots of objects to make imprints on the background.

Zo begin je:  een kleurrijke achtergrond maken. Ik heb hier acrylverf en Neocolor wateroplosbare oliekrijtjes gebruikt. Verder heb ik met allerlei voorwerpjes 'gestempeld' op de achtergrond.

Then you draw some random circles with a pencil. You mix some acrylic paint with a glazing medium in order to make it slightly transparant and start painting all around the circles. After drying, you draw some more circles on and then you take a slightly darker colour of acrylic paint and again mix it with an acrylic glaze. Paint the background with this new colour and repeat these steps with the darkest colour. Here I used blue colours because I wanted to give the illusion of planets like Dana did in her video, but I can imagine doing this with butterflies and a green coloured background. The depth is enhanced by adding shading around the circles.After all this I lightly sanded the background, so you see a pop of background color here an there.
I added a Stampotique stamp, and placed the little guy (he must be my favourite Stampotique stamp, I seem to use him a lot LOL), on one of the 'planets', and added this quote I found on the Internet.

En dan begint het. Teken een aantal cirkels hier en daar op de achtergrond. Meng wat acrylverf in een lichte kleur met glazing medium zodat de verf transparant wordt. Verf om de cirkels heen. Na droging teken je er wat cirkels bij en meng je een iets donkerdere kleur weer met de glaze. Vervolgens schilder je weer de achtergrond met deze kleur en deze stap herhaal je nog eens met de donkerste kleur.Het diepte effect versterk je door rond de 'planeten', want dat is het effect dat ik hier probeerde te bereiken, een schaduw aan te brengen. Hier heb ik dat gedaan met Neocolor, maar ook met de Faber Castel Pitt pennen gaat dat prima.Voor het schaduwen heb ik de hele spread nog lichtjes opgeschuurd, dus hier en daar komt de achtergrondkleur er een beetje doorheen.
Het mannetje op de planeet is een Stampotique stempeltje, en hij is mijn favoriet! Het citaat heb ik van Internet afgeplukt, vind 'm wel passend.

Hope you enjoyed this spread and my mini tut on how to do this. Have a great weekend you all!! Hugs Frea
Ik hoop dat jullie 'm weer leuk vonden en wens jullie een fijn weekend. Groetjes Frea
Challenges:
http://whimsiedoodles.blogspot.ca/2014/02/new-challenge-abc-anything-but-card-and.html
http://www.thecraftgarden.blogspot.ca/2014/02/were-back.html
http://marksfinestpapers.blogspot.ca/2014/02/speedy-fox-and-friends-challenge-200.html
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/february-challenge.html
http://onecrazystampercom.blogspot.nl/2014/02/february-anything-goes-challenge.html

Donna Downey inspired art journal spread.

This spread in my Dylusions Art Journal was inspired by Donna Downey. She worked with a lot of texture too and used that dark area as a backdrop for an image. To me it depicts a doorway. I set out making this page by using a stone stencil and texture paste after which I filled in the remaining area's with an Antique effect texture paste.

The doorway was made with a darkbrown acrylic paint with some black added in orde to make it even darker. I didn't mix in the black all the way, in order to get some variation in colour to add some interest instead of making a dark 'hole' in the wall.

I diluted some of the leftover acrylic paint from the doorway and let it drip from the side of the right page, hoping to create the illusion of branches accross the page. I needed that to 'hang' my birdcage stamp on. To bring back a little of the pink colour of the flowers on that lady I stamped a little heart and coloured that pink with a Copic marker before gluing it down.

In the middle of the spread accross the two pages, I tried to make the illusion of a tree by scraping my palet knife through the texture paste. When spraying the Glimmer mist, the ink gathered in the 'branches' of the tree, thus enhancing the tree.

Apart from various beige and brown sprays, I used two green sprays to give the illusion of the wall being overgrown with moss, but it also gave me the opportunity to let the green from the lady's dress come back on the pages. In orde to make the brick wall look dirty and old, I used some of the brown doorway paint and a nearly dry brush.

This last picture shows off the glimmer very nicely, which is fortunate, because most of the time it is nearly impossible to catch that in a picture.

Now let's see if we can get this puppy joined in some challenges. Have a great weekend everyone, hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/02/sdc-february-2014-challenge-links.html
http://4kraftygirlzchallenges.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.baffies-kreativladen.blogspot.nl/2014/02/challenge-28-februar-dt-call.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.nl/2014/02/with-heart.html
http://shoppingourstash.blogspot.nl/2014/02/sos-138-oh-shiny.html
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/02/ttcrd-challenge-feb-11th-feb-17th.html
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/february-challenge.html

Industrial chic/steampunk with lots of Lindy's.

This spread I made in my Donna Downey journal. I made one in a round robin project I entered and liked it so much I wanted it in my own journal as wel. It's not an exact copy, but the appearance and use of materials is similar. I bought this stampset by Stampers Anonymous the other day, and that's the main feature on this spread.

In de the middle in the spine, in order to stop the sprays from bleeding through, I taped 7 Gypsies linnen measure tape. I mixed some black acrylic paint with modeling past and made the diamonds on my page. The larger diamons on the left page and the inclusion are a Tim Holtz Long Sizzlit die which I cut out of black paper. I used some grungy ribbon with butterflies by Kaiserkraft on the large pages.I uses Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays in the colours Steel Shimmer, Rusty Lantern Lime and Shabby Turbine Teal. Don't you just love the colours??

In the background I stamped with a stamp from the Tim Holtz industrial blueprint set, the one with the cogs.

On the right side I stamped and embossend this quote, which I really love. I also love the font they used for this quote.

So I hope you like this very grungy page, I sure loved creating it. Hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://sandee-and-amelie.blogspot.co.at/2014/02/the-february-challenge-time-machine.html
http://papertakeweekly.blogspot.nl/2014/02/anything-goes.html
http://www.lovesrubberstampschallenges.com/2014/02/challenge-89-anything-goes.html
http://craft-roomchallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/02/ribbons-lace-craft-room-challenge.html
http://blog.ribboncarousel.com/2014/02/rcc-90-washi-tape-week-1.html
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/02/ttcrd-challenge-february-4th.html
http://craftcreatoins.blogspot.nl/p/61-181-thank-you-to-handyhippo-for.html
http://sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/all-crafts-challenge-februarymarch.html
http://avenue613.blogspot.nl/2014/02/challenge-57-anything-goes-woptional.html
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/challenge-38-anything-goes.html
http://dreamvalleychallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/01/challenge-74-no-designer-paper.html
http://craftingmusketeers.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/welcome-to-challenge-10-butterflies.html
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/02/challenge-198.html
http://eclecticellapu.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/we-are-back-yayyyyyyyyyyyyy.html

My February calendar spread.

Yess, I did it, on the first of the month I have my February calendar spread ready. I started with a Pan Pastel background. I stamped the Paper Artsy stamp around the edge of my pages with Versamark and then the Pan Pastel does its magic.

Jawel, het is me gelukt! Op de 1e van de maand heb ik mijn Februari kalender af. Ik ben begonnen door met een Paper Artsy stempel en Versamark rondom de pagina's te stempelen. Daarna deed de Pan Pastel zijn toverkunstje. Met Turqoise en Magenta is de achtergrond gekleurd.

I diecut the hearts from different papers, some pearlescent. Around the regular papers I added some Stickles. The black letters were diecut with a Sizzlit alphabet called Big Top. I stamped all sort of little hearts on and embossed with Sea Foam embossing powder.

This Stampotique cutie was coloured with Copics and the fussy cut. Her curls were too tiny to cut out, so I drew them on to the background as well as I could. She's standing on a piece of washi tape.
Dit Stmapotique schatje heb ik ingekleurd met Copics en vervolgens uitgeknipt. Haar krulletjes waren te fijn om uit te knippen dus die heb ik op de achtergrond nagetekend met een watervaste fineliner.

I used a stencil and an embossing dabber with pink and blue embossing powder on the background. Love the effect.
Met een stencil en een embossing dabber heb ik op de achtergrond deze patronen gemaakt met roze en blauw embossing poeder. Ik vind het zelf een heel leuk effect geven. 

Well, hope you like my spread. Let's see if I can find some challenges! Have a great Sunday evening, hugs Frea
Ik hoop dat jullie mijn kalender leuk vinden en ga eens kijken of ik wat challenges kan vinden. Nog een fijne zondag avond allemaal. Groetjes Frea
Challenges:
http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2013/12/sdc-january-2014-challenge-links.html
http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/challenge-11-always-anything-goes-and.html
http://challenges4everybody.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/challenge-38-anything-goes.html
http://onestitchatatimechallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/02/challenge-198.html
http://thatcraftplaceblog.blogspot.nl/2014/02/valentine.html
http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.ch/2014/01/january-challenge-144-and-winner-of.html
http://kreativeinkauf-challenge.blogspot.de/2014/01/11-vom-1501-140214.html
http://liastampz.blogspot.nl/2014/01/challenge-58.html
http://lifeindetailschallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2014/02/welcome-to-life-in-details-and-our.html
http://onecrazystampercom.blogspot.nl/2014/02/february-anything-goes-challenge.html
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/february-challenge.html
http://www.scrapitgirl.net/index.php/2014/02/01/februarys-challengehearts/
http://thecraftingcafe.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/february-challenge-embossing.html