Day of the Dead & Halloween Inspired Art Journal Pages with Stamped Stickers!

 Happy Halloween!

Today I am sharing a new project....shhhh we are not going to talk about not having created anything for awhile....shhhhhush....

One day while looking at Instagram a post popped up from Susanne Rose where she shared a technique that sparked my imagination. She made Gelli plate prints on sticker paper then stamped on them to make her own stickers! This had me SOLD and wow I actually had everything to do this, yay!

All projects must be supervised:

I used my Gelli plate and DecoArt Americana acrylic paints and created a bunch of painted sheets of sticker paper. I had some sticker papers from Online Labels that seemed to work just fine.

I used StazOn ink to stamp so it would dry and not smear. I also used my Tim Holtz stamping platform to  make sure I could get a great stamped image, not feeling certain I could freehand stamp the images as well as I wanted. 

I made my own art journal with black cardstock and a Cinch binder. It's about 5x7 inches. I adore this idea of making a journal made from paper I choose and in a size that makes me smile. What do you think of this idea? Scratchy paper makes me cringe, this black paper is smooth and feels nice!

Images stamped and fussy cut ~ instant stickers! Who doe not LOVE sticking stickers??? This was feeling so satisfying and to me a fast and easy arty play!

I wanted the stickers to look like stickers so I edged them with the Sharpie Creative Markers (acrylic paint) and some Posca paint markers. 

Narrowing down the stickers for the art journal page...and playing with arrangements.

Save the scraps from fussy cutting. Tear them to use on the layouts.

Color in the stamps or not embellish them how you like, this is the freeing part of art-ing. What makes sense to YOU? Do it, don't worry about it. There are no mistakes. This is what I try to keep running in my brain to move forward...

Embellishing the night sky...

Warm up page done now on to page 2... I always like warm ups. Especially for coloring it helps to do a little before to get in the flow...

Torn edge background gelli paper and scrap on the side to add some depth and lovely texture. 

Detail

Thanks so much for scrolling down this far! I hope you are intrigued and will try making your own stamped stickers. Sticker paper or even a Xyron machine can make it fast and fun!

Go on now get some painty and inky hands!

Make sure to hop along and see the Star Creative Stampers for Blank Page Muse/I Brake for Stamps follow this link: It will be live on October 31st!

Day of the Dead Halloween Celebration

Stamps used:

Concentric circle stamp

Remember When

Floral Sugar Skull

Moth

Daisy Blossom

XXXX border

Take My Hand

Stitches

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Winter Art Journal Tag...

Hey there!

I have a Quick Idea over on my Sin City Stamps blog, I'd love it if you stopped by!

Here is a peek!

Have a great day!

Kim

Art Journal Page~Visible Image Inspiration~Listen to your Heart

Hello!

Today I have a project to share, lots of painty and inky playtime!

For my Visible Image inspiration day, I created an art journal page. I must say the stamps are totally awesome and perfect for journal and canvas play.

This is my page, loaded up with Visible Image stamps, DecoArt Acrylics and some embossing for good measure :)

This is another page made in my recycled magazine 'art journal'. I love the size, it is perfect and has wonderfully smooth pages.

Always 'listen to your heart'.

The white Grunge Harlequin and white Plasma are heat embossed to keep the brightness. The funny thing with this page is it is an advert that has a perfume sample, so as I was heating the powder it released a very strong scent! hahaha, and it made me sneeze..a lot!

The burst flowers were created by stamping with acrylic paint using Drag & Drip. Listen to your Heart is stamped in Jet Black Archival.

Along with these fabulous stamps, yes you must get them :) , I highly recommend painting with your fingers!

Have a fabulous day and would love for you to share your inky play in the Visible Image Facebook group and enter our Show & Tell Challenge.

Inspiration from the Design Team on the Visible Image Blog, HERE

Come and JOIN the Facebook Group where you can enter our 'Show & Tell Challenge' for your chance to WIN some awesome Visible Image stamps! 

And don't forget to LIKE the Visible Image FACEBOOK PAGE too!

You can also sign up for the Newsletter HERE

Have a fabulous week!

~kim

Day 3~Kickstart Your Art~Smeared and Smudged

Happy Wednesday!

Day 3 of Kickstart Your Art!

I am playing along with the 7 day challenge from Smeared and Smudged, Kickstart Your Art. The Challenge is to make an art journal page a day for seven days. One each day following the daily prompt.

Today's prompt is collage! You can join the Facebook Group to check it all out, HERE

Click each image to make it bigger, so many things to see!

This is a fun random play celebrating the things that suited my fancy today and in no particular order:)

The cutie clouds, Cloudee, are a digital stamp from Smeared Ink, love them!

The stamps are random Tim Holtz and Prima. The layers are built up with stamped tissue and magazine torn pages.

And yes I was hungry as I did this so "Food" is much larger than it should be hahaha!

When you make your own art journal page of any sort, let me know. I would lovveeeee to see:)

Happy Night or Day!

~kim

Also linking to Smudgy Antics~Anything Goes

Day 2~Kickstart Your Art~Smeared and Smudged Challenge

Tuesday's second treat!

Just finished my art journal page! I am playing along with the 7 day challenge from Smeared and Smudged, Kickstart Your Art. The Challenge is to make an art journal page a day for seven days. One each day following the daily prompt.

Today's prompt is use lyrics from a favorite song or poem! You can join the Facebook Group to check it all out, HERE


Here we go! I hope you have fun and play along this week!

A song almost always stuck in my head as of late is "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey. Yes I know it is cliche, but I love it, it works best LOUD and late at night driving in the rain....
I have loved this song since I was much much younger, still do :)

And yes I will admit I am on a Glee kick right now and the song was featured on Season 1, thank goodness or thank the evilness that is Netflix, binge watching is ........ insanely fun.


Click to see bigger, just looks too small here hehe.

The chorus is a mantra on this journey anyways, "Don't stop believin'......hold onto that feeling...."

Have a good night(or day) and stop to play in the rain.

*hugs*

~kim

Day 1~Kickstart Your Art~Smeared and Smudged Challenge

Happy Monday!

As this day winds down here I finally finished my art journal page! I am playing along with the 7 day challenge from Smeared and Smudged, Kickstart Your Art. The Challenge is to make an art journal page a day for seven days. One each day following the daily prompt.

Today's prompt is Lots of Layers! You can join the Facebook Group to check it all out, HERE


Here we go! I hope you have fun and play along this week!

Click each photo to make it grow up :)

I made my journal. Each page is just about 8.5 inches by 10.5 inches. It is made from paper grocery bags: cheap simple wonderful substrate.

Layers.....the base was covered with homemade gesso. While the gesso was wet I applied the skulls image on the right, it is a Halloween napkin. I just pressed it into the gesso.  I helped it dry with my embossing gun, it is wet and cold here today so I was too impatient to let it air dry. 

Next I applied Distress Paints in several colors, sprayed with water. The held it up to let all the paint run. I really liked as the paint hit the napkin it soaked in an made a nice effect.

On top of the Distress Paint is sprayed some ink spray and splattered some more paint on it.

Added some hearts paper tape under the Teri Sherman/Smeared Ink Skull with bow digital stamp.

I did some random stamping with paint. I made the sentiment page with one of my favorite Tim Holtz stamps and used Distress Inks, Black Soot and Vintage Photo on the edges.

In case you are interested this is the backside of the page, there is minimal bleed-through. I think the gesso helps stop that. I love the wrinkly texture. After I cut up the bags I got them wet. Then after they air dried I ironed them. The idea for this journal came from this wonderful blog HERE by Judy Wise.

My journal is naked, it has no covers. I will get to it....... :)

Now, as it says, "Live the live you've imagined"

Go play and get inky and painty.

This was a super fun day! LOVE this play:)

~hugs~

~kim

Also sharing with Smudgy Antics: Anything Goes.

Journal Paint Play~June 15

Yay! Another fast posting!

Banner images courtesy my son, Dylan<3

A simple page in my homemade art journal, playing with paint, stamping and texture.

I prepared the page with a layer of gesso. While it was still wet, I pressed some dry embossed paper strips into the gesso to leave some fun dents. This part was actually done awhile ago, I prepped some pages to be ready when I felt like (more like had time to) playing.

I am still exploring stamping on tissue, then tearing the tissue stamped images apart before layering them onto the pages. To attach the tissue to the page I used water diluted gel medium. I stamped the black images with archival ink. The pink celery roses and blue circle stamps used distress paint.

This corner I used the distress paint marbling technique. I really love the layers of texture this added along with the more opaque quality. I am going to get more painty with this particular process, it is soooo fun:)

More detail of the celery roses and blue circle stamps stamped with distress paint.

This corner is used the stamped tissue that was colored with Dylusions ink sprays. They have a much more transparent quality. 

Thank you for looking! This is also linked to Simon Says Stamp, Monday Challenge: Paint