Art Journal Page 2

Page 2 starts a section on Hobbies and Things I Like that I have enjoyed since Childhood Days. This page focus's on Stamp Collecting. I have 1,000's of stamps mainly GB and Poland where my Grandfather was born. I love Mail Art rubber stamps too.

My weakness is the journalling part.

Journal Card

Journal Card Cover. Perfect Pearls painted with Gum Arabic then embossed with a cuttlebug folder.

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All stamps used are from my own stamp range www.stampattack.co.uk.

Shabby Chic ATC swap

I created a set of 3 ATC's for a swap. To get the 'look' we had to use gesso in 1 of 4 ways. I chose to brayer die inks and gesso so stamping was involved.

Inchies

I created 36 Inchies in Earth Tone colours for a swap on a Yahoo list.

Small canvas I am working on

I used lustre colour washes. Laying down some colour first I then spritzed with water. I covered with cling film and scrunched it up and left overnight to dry. It left an interesting pattern.

The next step was to find some foliage and texture material. I used a fern from a friends garden and a piece of hessian. Laid them down added more colour. It looks even more interesting now.

Kimono Cards

I played around with an idea I saw on a web site. It was how to create a Kimono card from 6 tags. I did my own thing and these are what I came up with.

Kimono Card created with Stampattack Oriental Background stamps,

www.stampattack.co.uk Distress inks and Bleach stamping.

Kimono Card open.

Blue Kimono Card. I coloured the tags with Broken China Distress ink, Then stamped with Faded Denim and a gold paint dabber from Plaid.

I added fabric flowers, eyelets and fibres to finish

Canvas

I played with my Lustre colour washes, Lumiere paints, Gesso and foam stamps. I have created layers of colour on my canvas starting with 3 colours of colour washes. I was thinking scenic in my minds eye. I start with a plan and work from there. I overstamped images using foam stamps and gesso. I laid some mesh and spritzed again with the colour washes. Next came a stamped layer using the same foam stamps and Lumieres. I stamped another layer with Gesso.

I like it as it is because the shimmer is amazing. My plan was to stamp images on tissue and apply with Mod Podge.