Art Journal Page - Live Stream - Don't Accept Advice!

Hi everyone

I've been slack with my blog posts for my live streams. This one was recorded last week on 23 November 2018 but I didn't take any photos for the blog and I haven't even edited the YouTube recording details. My bad! I'm thinking that it was because my camera mount collapsed and I had to set up a temporary camera setup which wasn't the best, but oh well, it is what it is!

You can watch the full live recording (it's back the front because of the position of the camera) on my YouTube channel by CLICKING HERE.

I can't even remember what products I used, other than the embossing powders that Eileen made me use!!!! It didn't turn out too badly, not my best but I'm always learning :)

Thanks so much for watching and stay tuned for more!!!

Smiles
Jen

Having Fun With Shipping Tags - Layers #1

Hi everyone!

Well, after all those ICADs and journal pages I think I was drained of all creativity! Actually, I've been cleaning windows and my craft room, that's why I've been away for a couple of weeks.

I was playing around with backgrounds on shipping tags before I started cleaning and thought I would create a weekly/monthly (don't know yet) challenge over on my Art Journal Techniques FaceBook page.

What I thought I would do was upload a shipping tag that I'd played around with on YouTube, post the link to my FaceBook Art Journal Techniques page and start it off with this as the first challenge. You could even go further with the challenge and create a journal page using the techniques used for the shipping tag. You can join the Art Journal Techniques FaceBook group by clicking HERE.

You can watch the full YouTube video by clicking HERE.

So...for today's tag I decided to play around with layers.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso
Liquitex Basics 'brilliant yellow green' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'light aqua green' acrylic paint
Liquitex Basics 'light green permanent' acrylic paint
Unknown script stamp
Ranger 'jet black' archival ink
Scraps of paper
Chromacryl gel medium
The Crafters Workshop mini 'mod spirals' stencil
Pebeo 'iridescent green yellow' acrylic paint
Dylusions 'leaf flourish' stencil
Global Colours 'brilliant gold' acrylic impasto
The Crafters Workshop mini 'receipt' stencil
Creative PL 'mars black' acrylic paint
The Crafters Workshop mini 'reversed branches' stencil
HunkyDory 'fairy sparkles' stamp set
Ranger 'gold tinsel' embossing powder
Versamark clear embossing ink
Versafine 'onyx black' ink
Ranger 'queen's gold' embossing powder

Thanks so much for stopping by! And don't forget to join our Art Journal Techniques FaceBook page!

Smiles
Jen

Blind 3 Colour Challenge on Ustream Today

Hi everyone!

It's Friday again, and yet another stream. Today we decided to do the blind 3 colour challenge and I closed my eyes and selected three colours of paint. I had chosen two very close shades of yellow so I decided to throw one back in and choose another. The three colours I picked were:

Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue
Iridescent Red Blue
Fluorescent Pink

Ouch!

So we just put down some paint, added some stamping and texture and then I thought that it was a great background to add black as a contrast. So I just painted the border black, feathered it with a wet baby wipe and voila!

Next we decided to add a silhouette image so, as our friend Eileen doesn't like flamingos, and flamingos are pink, we decided to do a silhouette of a flamingo. I printed the flamingo out onto copy paper, cut it out very carefully so I could use it as a mask. I then decided that I had cut out the flamingo so well that I should include it on the page.

Then someone said we needed a cracked egg (guess who that was, yep Eileen) so I drew an egg, added some pink spots, drew some cracks and then used some yellow ink for the yolk seepage. It looked too yellow so I added some of the fluoro pink and it turned out just like the yolk of an egg!

Now for the title? DREAM was already there as one of the texture components of the background so we added 'or NIGHTMARE'. And voila! The page was done!

You can watch the full recording of the LIVE USTREAM (with chat) show by clicking HERE.

Products used:

Liquitex Professional gesso
Liquitex Basics 'cadmium yellow medium hue' acrylic paint
Pebeo 'iridescent red blue' acrylic paint
Pebeo 'fluorescent pink' acrylic paint
Reeves 'mars black' acrylic paint
Global Colours ''white' acrylic impasto
White Gelly Roll pen
Medium point 'white' Sharpie paint pen
Scotch Quick Dry adhesive
Faber-Castell black PITT artist brush pen
Liquitex Professional 'cadmium yellow light hue' ink
Ranger 'jet black' archival ink
Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'definitions' stamp
Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'memories' stamp
Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'dream' stamp
Hero Arts 'friendship writing' stamp
Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'sequence' stamp

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen