Summer Fun

This page is super cute.  I love it.  I used a tutorial from The Scarlet Lime.  The paper is from Heidi Swapp's Hello Today collection and the rub-ons are from Any Tangerine.  Love! <3

His Great Love

This one was pretty fun.  I started off by gluing pieced of pattern paper down, then hearts cut out of book pages.  Paint, paint, and more paint. I did the "His Love" with acrylic paint and my finger, then mixed a little with water and dripped it down the letters.  I used a painters pen to do the writing, edging, and outlining.  The text I used are song lyrics to an awesome song.  

Love

 Hello!  I'm back with another process in pictures post.  This one is one of my favorites because of the pretty colors and grunge look.  I started by laying down torn book pages using matt medium.  

I set chipboard letters on my page and sprayed over them with "berry" alcohol ink.  I added black acrylic paint to the right edge and dry brushed over the rest of the page to make the book page edges stand out.  

I made puddles of blue alcohol ink, made splatters by hitting my paint brush in it, and added some on other places on the page to make some purple.  I prayed a piece of burlap with "butterscotch" alcohol ink and adhered it with matte medium.  I went over the black on the page with sandpaper to give it more of a grudge look.  

I added a peice of washi, random clump of thread, and a button.  I wish I wouldn't have but I added gold acrylic to the burlap.  I also added some more black acrylic to the washi.  

I added butterflies with a stencil and StaZon metallic silver ink.  The circles are a stamp that I made.  I also added unreadable writing stamp with blue StaZon.  I went around the edges of the letter and butterflies with a super fine painters pen.  

I added gesso over the entire page with a card and added a black stamp to the top butterfly.  I went around all the edges with the painters pen, smearing as I went.  The smaller letters are stamps that I went over again with the painters pen.  

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Be Bold

This page was super fun and super super messy!!  I started by sharpening gold, pink/red, and orange crayons.  The first layer is gelatos (gold, blue, orange, and pink).  I made a cylinder out of paper, put a pile of crayon shavings inside, and used my heat tool to melt the wax.  You could probably use a chunk of a crayon as well, or a wax warmer.  After it was a puddle I tilted my page different ways.  Most of the wax is in the top left hand corner, but there is some gold coming from the bottom left corner as well.  I added the chevron stencil, writing stamp, carved into the wax with a fork, went over the "Be" with a painters pen, and stamped the "be you" at the bottom.  The silhouette is a magazine cutout.  I gesso'ed her first then applied acrylics.  I used a metallic jellyroll pen to add detail to the hair and fly-aways.

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Greater Is He

I added some cheesecloth, mailing labels, used stamps, circle punches, and a magazine cutout to this one. I used metallic rub on for most of the color with some stamping ink. The song lyrics are from Mercy Me's "Greater."  Love this song!  If you haven't heard it, you should definitely give it a listen.  On a side note, another song I am obsessed with, and will probably be in one of my pages in the near future, is Hillsong United: "Oceans." Anyways, hope you enjoy!

Some of My First

These are some of my first art journaling pages before I got my mixed media book.  I was going to punch wholes in them and use rings to make a book, but now I think I may just hang some of them up.  

City On A Hill

This is one of my favorite!  I almost always start off having no idea what I'm going to be making.  I layered down dark blue and craft cut up card stock from Heidi Swap's "Hello Today" 12x12 paper pad.  I absolutely love the entire paper pad.  In person you can see some of the flowers and arrows showing through.  I applied gesso to the entire page.  I used spray ink: pink, yellow, and brown.  Heavy charcoal around all the edges with white distress ink on the building edges first.  Let me know if this is confusing!  lol.  Yellow acrylic paint for the windows, outline in black pen. I added some color with jellyroll metallic pens.  The stars were created with a stamp, embossing ink, and tinsel embossing powder.  

The message comes from Matthew 5:14.