Art Journal Page Follow Friday 19-09-2014 and this one she made for my Art Journal!!

Drawing faces.....

A while ago I started doing faces; at first mixed media faces, then I tried something Santoro like face, and now I used a photograph to draw a face. I used soft pastel crayons for the face, for the background I used Pearlescent Pan pastel in blue and the shirt with Pearlescent Pan Pastel in Red. The flower I fussy cut out of the photograph but it was very hard compared to the soft drawing, so I decided to cover it with gesso to  tone it down and then used the same blue Pan Pastel of the background to make the colour match better.

After I coloured the background with my Pan Pastel I fixated and then stamped with a script stamp and Versamark and used the same colour Pan Pastel over it.

The only thing I am not really happy with, are the eyelashes; I did them with a fineliner, but I find it wasn't fine enough, so for me the lashes stand out too much. Of course there is nothing I can do about it; can't cover them up, so this is it. Next time I will do it differently.

Anyway, this is my first realistic face, so I'm quite happy with it. Hope you like it to. Hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://divasbydesignchallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/09/anything-but-card.html
http://doubleclickconnections.blogspot.nl/2014/09/happy-birthday-luau-hula-girl-new.html
http://kraftinkimmiestamps.blogspot.ca/2014/09/its-wonderful-wednesday.html
http://inkychicks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/challenge-38-anything-goes-and.html
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/09/ttcrd-challenge-september-16-september.html
http://agirlwhocraftschalengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/september-anything-goes-challenge.html
http://kreativeinkauf-challenge.blogspot.de/2014/09/19-vom-1509-141014.html
http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.nl/2014/09/september-challenge-july-winner.html
http://rheddscreativespirit.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/septembers-challenge-guest-designer.html
http://www.themirrorcrack1d.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/01-anything-mixed-media-goes.html
http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/sisters-of-craft-september-anything.html

Art brings Balance in my life.

This spread I made in my large Dylusions journal and was inspired by Donna Downey. I would have never picked those colours together myself, but seeing one of her works in this colour combination I decided to go for it too, and lo and behold; it works. Well, for me anyhow!
I started the page by gluing down some squres and rectangles of leftover white cardstock, then I gessoed and using a spatula to make some texture with modeling paste. I glued some pieces from an old dictionary to my spread and randomly stuck some old canvas letter stickers on. Then I wrote some words on which came to mind like 'messing about' and clueless, which I was at the start of this spread LOL!

I used denim blue and slate grey with glazing medium to emphasize the texture. Then I used some Quinacridone Azo Gold by golden with a dotted stencil here and there. With my fingers I added some Deco Art transparant Red Iron Oxide, and around the blue circles I drew red circles with Amsterdam Carmine red.
I wrote the words with a black Identipen.

With some diluted black acrylic paint I made splatters and some stripes with an old creditcard. Furthermore I added black distressing around the edges of the spread with a black Gelato.

With the leftover diluted red paint I made some drippage on the top left corner and close to the circles. I didn't want to overdo is because I feel the red really stands out, so I stopped there.

I hope you like my new spread, I thoroughly enjoyed making it. Tomorrow is my day off and I will definitely be crafting!! Have a great evening, hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://www.ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/09/ttcrd-challenge-september-16-september.html
http://agirlwhocraftschalengeblog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/september-anything-goes-challenge.html
http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/september-challenge-time.html
http://pictureandscrap.blogspot.nl/2014/09/udfordring-82-alt-er-tilladt_14.html
http://fattastictuesday.blogspot.nl/2014/09/fan-tastic-tuesday-challenge-53.html
http://www.themirrorcrack1d.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/01-anything-mixed-media-goes.html
http://thesistersofcraft.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/sisters-of-craft-september-anything.html
http://craftsandmeinspiration.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/september-challenge-150-time-for.html
http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.nl/2014/09/september-challenge-july-winner.html
http://oddballstamps.blogspot.nl/2014/09/lots-of-circles-challenge.html

Youer than you.....

This spread I made in my small Dylusions Journal. The background was made with Grey Dylusions and LSG spray Cotton Candy Pink and Rambling Rose Pink.

I stamped a Dylusions girl and coloured her up with Copics. I added Stickles to the dots on her dress and Glossy accents on her boots. I used some striped washi tape here and there.

I used a stencil for the little grey squares with acrylic paint and did some white drippage with gesso. The cirles were made with bottle tops and gesso and the strips with an old gift card. I stamped with embossing ink and Ranger Cement embossing powder.

Around the edges I doodles some and I wrote the text with a white sharpie edging it with an Identipen in black. The quote is by Dr. Seuss.

Hope you like my spread, I enjoyed making it. Ha ve a great week. Hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://avenue613.blogspot.nl/2014/09/challenge-89-anything-goes.html
http://www.scribbleandscrapcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/challenge-27-anything-goes-and-candy.html
http://suzypantssmarty.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/suzy-bees-bloomin-challenge-46.html
http://treasuredtimesrubberstampschallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/09/challenge-24.html

Mij Round Robin Art Journal torn apart.....

Hi girls, hope you are all doing well. Yesterday I had a play at my friend Astrid's house and I decided to take apart my Round Robin journal which I received back a couple of weeks ago. Itwas so thick the ring that bound it couldn't really take it, and there are quite some spreads to go until it is full. Since I own a Bind it All, I can put a larger spiral in, and on top of that it makes it easier to work on the loose pages. So I made my first spread yesterday. The background I made with some soft green en blue acrylic paints.

I used my brandnew TCW stencil to make the grungy shapes using a sponge and an armygreen acrylic paint. I then took out some modeling paste and made the butterflies with the same stencil.

I used my (also brandnew) LSG embossingpowder Oakleaf Olive to stamp this large dragonfly and the Field Notes which are stamps by Tattered Angels.

In de background I stamped some tiny script with a Prima stamp and Archival Cornflower Blue. I used a babywipe and the same ink to take the bright white off the butterflies, and distress the edges of the papers.
Unfortunately the colours don't really appear on the photos the way they are in real life, and the gorgeous shimmer of the embossingpowder doesn't show up either, but it will have to do.
I hope you have a great week, and see you in the weekend.
Hugs Frea
Challenges:
http://citycrafter.blogspot.nl/2014/09/city-crafter-challenge-blog-week-228.html
http://2cuteinkchallenges.blogspot.nl/2014/09/challenge-114.html
http://www.sparklingblackrose-craftmylife.blogspot.co.uk/2014/08/all-crafts-challenge-augustseptember.html
http://craftingfromtheheartchallengeblog.blogspot.nl/2014/09/challenge-35.html
http://ttcrd.blogspot.nl/2014/09/ttcrd-challenge-september-9-september-15.html
http://notjustcardschallenges.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/challenge-01.html
http://paulaholifieldcrafts.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/albc-distress-it.html
http://alteredeclectics.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/september-challenge-time.html
http://bastel-traum.blogspot.nl/2014/08/challenge-tiermotive.html
http://kreativeinkauf-challenge.blogspot.de/2014/08/18-augustseptember.html
http://ladybugcrafts.blogspot.nl/2014/09/september-challenge-july-winner.html

It's been ages since I posted, so sorry about that....but here I am!

The last time I did a post on my blog was in my holiday, nearly a month ago. It was in that same holiday I made the background for this spread, and I didn't like it one bit. I actually wanted to gesso over it, but my sister forbad it. So I left it and never looked at it again. Until tonight, and all of a sudden there was this nightmare background staring back at me. I took out this Stampotique stamp and stamped her 3 times, coloured her in with Copics and stamped her on the background. Then I cut her coloured version out and glued her down, with this result.

I went looking for a quote on nightmares, but couldn't really find one that appealed to me, and then I thought the obvious; everyone has them, those nightmares you can't seem to wake up from. You wake up in terror, fall back asleep, and presto, you're back where you left. Thank goodness I don't often have them, but after one of those nights, you wake up feeling you've been hit by a freight train! Anyhow, I wrote the text with a Molotow red marker, and it stood out quite nicely. Hope you like my spread.

Have a great week!
Entering the Stampotique designer challenge with this one.
http://stampotiquedesignerschallenge.blogspot.nl/2014/09/sdc163-refresh-it.html

100 Times Journal on Monday by France Papillon, so here's my step by step tutorial.

I wanted to make a spread in my large Dylusion journal and started by picking out two doublesided papers.

I cut various strips and ended up using only three of the four sides, because one side had some purple in it which I didn't like in combination with the others. I distressed the strips with Stazon since I knew I would be using wet mediums afterwards and didn't want my distressing to run.

I moved the strips over my pages until I had an arrangement which I liked. Then I glued them down with Tacky Glue. I didn't use gel medium because I wanted to work with Bister and the gel medium would work as a resist which I didn't want.

I borrowed a baroque stencil by Donna Downey from my sweet sister Annika (actually, she wasn't here so I just took it LOL), THANKS SWEETY hihi, and used it to create some texture in the background.

Then I created a resist in the background using Antique Linen Distress paint and a stencil made by my friend Astrid (which she sells in her webshop, and she also has brilliant sets of holiday stencils which have a smaller size and are so convenient to take along in your holiday kit, so click here to check them out SB Creatief ).

I decided there still wasn't enough going on in the background so I took a script stamp and Distress Paint Rusty Hinge and stamped some script..

Then came the fun bit; not this Bister stuff is quite new to me; my sister ordered it for us and we have all the colours, but it does take some getting used to. I used mahogany and natural for this page, but the mahogany was much redder than I expected.

So here's the result of the spread with the Bister. For me the contrast between the colour of the background paper and the Bister was too strong so I decided to tune it down with some Lindy's Stamp Gang spray.

After doing so (I used Jolly Roger Red) this was the result. Much better I think.

I did some stamping with the Tim Holtz butterflies.

And I used the stamp with the text from that same set here and there. Both were stamped with Stazon Ganache.

The last touch was distressing the edges of the spread using the same colour of Stazon.

So France and blogfriends, I hope you enjoyed my step by step tut; I enjoyed making it, and France; congratulations on your 100th JOM, thanks for all the inspiration and on to the 200!! See you in October at the Craftorij retreat weekend France!!