Having Fun With Shipping Tags #9 - Sprays

Hi everyone!

Today's tag challenge was a challenge and a half!!! Those of you who have worked with sprays as backgrounds know how difficult it is to add layers and other mediums on top of them without the sprays being so dominant, particularly white!

Well I've been chained to my desk for a week trying to work this one out. I've used hair spray, gel medium, clear gesso and a lot of time and effort into trying to achieve the almost impossible LOL.

Anyway, in this tag challenge I have not succeeded in beating the sprays but watch out for the next post because the journal page based on this tag challenge worked, yes - SUCCESS! But only briefly unfortunately, it seems to be a hit and then a failure, then a failure, then a success. But I haven't given up!

You can watch the full process video on my YouTube channel by CLICKING HERE.

Products used:

Golden gesso
Dylusions 'bubblegum pink' ink spray
Dylusions 'lemon zest' ink spray
Dylusions 'London blue' ink spray
Generic hair spray
Art Basics | Finnabair heavy gesso
Sharpie fine point white pen
Black POSCA paint pen
White Gelly Roll pen
Liquitex Professional gesso
Heidi Swapp 'peacock' Color Shine
Chromacryl gel medium
Black uni POSCA 'free size' paint pen
Black PITT Artist 'brush' pen

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles

Jen

Art Journal Page 202

Hi everyone!

Today's art journal page is based on the tag #8 - background reveal technique (see previous post HERE).

Even though I had issues with the masking fluid today I was much happier with the result of the journal page than I was with the tag LOL.

This is what the page looked like with all that paint sponged on it:

I'm not having much luck with this new craft room! I keep losing things (still looking for the ring cluster stencil) and can't find where I've actually stored tools and products yet *sigh*. Oh well, the more I play the more I'll get used to it, I guess :)

You can watch the full process video on my YouTube channel by CLICKING HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso

Global Colours 'cool yellow' acrylic paint

Global Colours 'orange' acrylic paint

Global Colours 'cobalt hue' acrylic paint

Reeves 'rose madder' acrylic paint

J.Burrows 'teal' acrylic paint

The Crafters Workshop 'cosmic bubbles' stencil

SimonSaysStamp 'ring cluster' stencil

Various sized Stampin' Up! circle punches

Dylusions 'diamonds - small' stencil

CreativePL 'mars black' acrylic paint

Black uni POSCA 0.6mm pen

Black Faber-Castell PITT Artist brush pen

Thanks so much for stopping by and stay tuned for more!

Smiles

Jen

Having Fun With Shipping Tags #8 - Background Reveal

Hi everyone!

After 5 months of no crafting, no tag challenges (except for one that I did at Mandy's) I found it very hard to get back into the swing of things for this one. From start to finish I was not enjoying it at all. When I finally did the journal page based on this tag challenge I was much happier! Thank goodness the tags are only a guide and I'm learning from them also!

I did like how the sponged application of the paint looked, if only I didn't continue to cover it up LOL.

So today started out with just sponging on the mediums until I got sick of that LOL. Instead of the sponging technique this tag ended up being the background reveal - a technique I just love!

So I decided to get the gesso out and go over what I did! Pretty much did the same as before but without the masking fluid. I added the colour, traced some butterflies and painted around them to leave the coloured butterflies as the focal images. I'm not a fan of going over something I've created just because I didn't like it, but I did it for this one, given that it was a challenge LOL.

Don't give up on this one just yet - the journal page worked out great, and that's the whole point of the tags, to give something a go and try to create a page based on it.

For all our tag challenges head on over to our FaceBook group JOURNAL TECHNIQUES by CLICKING HERE.

You can watch the full PAINFUL process on my YouTube channel by CLICKING HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso

Ranger clear Emboss It embossing ink

Ranger clear embossing powder

Dylusions 'diamonds - small' stencil

Global Colours 'cool yellow' acrylic paint

Global Colours 'orange' acrylic paint

Global Colours 'cobalt hue' acrylic paint

Reeves 'rose madder' acrylic paint

J.Burrows 'teal' acrylic paint

SimonSaysStamp 'ring clusters' stencil

Darkroom Door 'blossom' stencil

Winsor & Newton Art Masking Fluid

CreativePL 'mars black' acrylic paint

Black uni POSCA 0.6mm pen

Black Faber-Castell PITT Artist brush pen
Memory Box  'drifting butterflies' stencil

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles

Jen

Art Journal Page 200

Hi everyone!

I was able to complete this journal page straight after I created the tag #7 challenge! An achievement in itself after looking after the grandkids, searching for scissors and punches LOL.

So today's page is based on the 'Having Fun With Shipping Tags #7' challenge over on my FaceBook group 'Art Journal Techniques' page. Today's page was all about 'white space'!

This page came together very quickly and it's pretty simple but nice and bright and quite effective, I think.

You can watch the full process video over on my YouTube channel by CLICKING HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional Gesso
Stampin' Up! 3/4" circle punch
Sullivan's 'turquoise' acrylic paint
Sullivan's 'clover green' acrylic paint
Sullivan's 'hot pink' acrylic paint
Sullivan's 'citrus yellow' acrylic paint
Sullivan's 'burgundy' acrylic paint
Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'bitty grunge' background stamp set
Ranger 'manganese blue' archival ink
Ranger 'emerald green' archival ink
Ranger 'jet black' archival ink
KaiserCraft 'numbers' background stamp
NeoColor II 'turquoise blue' water soluble wax pastel
NeoColor II 'yellow green' water soluble wax pastel
NeoColor II 'orange' water soluble wax pastel
POSCA 'sky blue' paint pen
POSCA 'green' paint pen
POSCA 'yellow' paint pen
POSCA 'light pink' paint pen
POSCA 'orange' paint pen

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen