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

Having Fun With Shipping Tags No.7

Hi everyone!

Nope - having a new tag challenge up does not mean I have my craft room ready LOL. It's still in progress. The walls are finally being plastered, then the ceiling has to be installed, then the floor covering, then my benches and then finally I can unpack all my goodies!!!

So, while I was at Mandy's I decided to try a tag challenge. Hmmmm...it took me a while to search for a tag, and only then I just used one of Mandy's Project Life 6x4" cardstock pieces - which was orange!

So I went with it and thought I'd use 'white space' as today's challenge. It's simple, but I really like white space on a journal page. It was hard to have white space on such a small substrate but I did it!

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

Products used:

Liquitex Professional Gesso
Stampin' Up! 1 1/4" circle punch
Stampin' Up! 3/4" circle punch
Fiscars 1 1/2" 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
Tombo Mono Multi Liquid Glue
Ranger 'manganese blue' archival ink
Ranger 'emerald green' archival ink
Ranger 'jet black' archival ink
Kaszazz 'reason season lifetime' background script stamp
Prima 'romance novel' alpha background stamp
Hero Arts 'Florentine scroll' background stamp
POSCA 'sky blue' paint pen
POSCA 'green' paint pen
POSCA 'yellow' paint pen
POSCA 'red wine' paint pen
POSCA 'light pink' paint pen
POSCA 'orange' paint pen
POSCA 'black' paint pen

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles
Jen

Having Fun With Shipping Tags No.6

Happy New Year everyone!

Let's start the new year off with a nice quick easy technique! Today I thought I'd try my hand at an image transfer.

So, I started off creating a journal page first, using this technique, made mistakes and learned how to actually do the image transfer correctly LOL.

I wanted to use monochromatic colours so used some brown shades on this tag. Only because I wanted to transfer some old book paper using the image transfer. What I ended up doing with this tag was just to do the background, no other embellishments, so that I didn't have any ideas stuck in my head when I go to do a journal page based on this technique. I'm going to just do the backgrounds only for the tags from now on.

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

Products used:

Global Colours 'white' acrylic impasto
Tim Holtz/Stampers Anonymous 'bitty grunge' stamp set
Memento 'rich cocoa' dye ink by Tsukineko
Ranger 'coffee' archival ink
Semco 'brown' acrylic paint
Deco Art 'brown sugar' acrylic paint by Americana
Sullivans 'bisque' acrylic paint
Memento 'espresso truffle' dye ink by Tsukineko
Golden Regular Gel Medium (matte)
Old book paper

Thanks so much for stopping by! And stay tuned for the journal page based on this tag challenge technique!

Smiles
Jen

Art Journal Page 195

Hi everyone!

Today's page has been created based on the Tag Challenge #5 from our Art Journal Techniques FaceBook group. We will be playing around with heat embossing today!

I have an awful time of it when I play around with sprays! Since they are reactive, anyt medium you put over the sprays will come through to the top, so using heat embossing can eliminate that 'headache' LOL. Having said that, it's a lot of work trying to keep that embossed area clean of sprays, but so worth the end result!

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

Products used:

Golden Gesso

Memory Box 'butterfly' stencil

KaiserCraft 'butterfly' template

VersaMark clear embossing ink

Ranger 'clear' embossing powder

Lindy's Stamp Gang 'Azure Sea Asters' starburst spray

Heidi Swapp 'butter' Color Shine

Heidi Swapp 'sweet mint' Color Shine

Dylusions 'vibrant turquoise' ink spray

NeoColor II 'turquoise blue' water soluble wax pastel

Dylusions 'doodle blooms' stamp set

Ranger 'jet black' archival ink

Pilot 'black' FriXion ball pen (dissed this because it's removed with friction)

Black unipin 0.5 fine line pen

Faber-Castell 'black' PITT Artist brush pen

Black Pentel Touch pen

White extra fine point Sharpie paint pen

Scotch Quick Dry adhesive

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Smiles

Jen

Christmas Tags

Hi everyone!

Well it's almost Christmas and I've only just put up my Christmas tree and made a few tags! I've done no shopping at all, one week to Christmas Day!! Eeeeek!

Oh well, I'll get there in the nick of time LOL.

So today I thought I'd create a few different gift tags for you.

You can watch the full process on YouTube by CLICKING HERE:

Products used:

Manilla file folders for tag bases
I Brake For Stamps 'vintage Christmas' stamp set
Ranger 'sepia' archival ink
Stampers Anonymous/Tim Holtz 'mini holidays 2' stamp set
Tim Holtz 'vintage photo' distress ink
Tim Holtz 'walnut stain' distress ink
Paper Xtra Christmas tag stamp set (item #93885)
We R Memory Keepers 'angle' corner chomper
We R Memory Keepers 1/2" corner rounder chomper
We R Memory Keepers crop-a-dile
Jute twine

Tag 2
Manilla file folders for tag bases
Derivan Matisse 'Australian Blue Gum' acrylic paint
VersaMark clear embossing ink
Ranger 'Queen's Gold' embossing powder
Ranger 'silver' embossing powder
Penny Black 'Christmas Story' background stamp
Hero Arts Hero Hues 'white' dye ink
Recollections 'merry merry' stanp set
Cee Dee's unknown stamp set (gifts)
We R Memory Keepers 'angle' corner chomper
We R Memory Keepers 1/2" corner rounder chomper
We R Memory Keepers crop-a-dile

Dylusions 'stocking fillers' stamp set (bow)

Avery Elle dotted line stamp from 'merry & bright' set

Ribbon from stash

Tag 3

White cardstock

Tim Holtz 'faded jeans' distress oxide

Tim Holtz 'salty ocean' distress oxide

Hero Arts 'swirl Christmas' stamp

VersaMark clear embossing ink

White embossing powder

Recollections 'merry merry' stamp set

Paper Xtra Christmas tag stamp set (item #93885)

Ribbon from stash

We R Memory Keepers 'angle' corner chomper
We R Memory Keepers 1/2" corner rounder chomper
We R Memory Keepers crop-a-dile

Tag 4

White cardstock

Strips of paper from Carta Bella 'Christmas Day' 6"x6" paper pad

Scotch Quick Dry adhesive

Tim Holtz 'peeled paint' distress oxide

Unity Stamps tree stamp from 'Oh! Joy!' stamp set

Ranger 'olive' archival ink

Recollections 'merry merry' stamp set

Ribbon from stash

We R Memory Keepers 'angle' corner chomper
We R Memory Keepers 1/2" corner rounder chomper
We R Memory Keepers crop-a-dile

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Have a wonderful Christmas and thanks so much for all your support throughout the year! See you in 2018!

Smiles

Jen