Happy weekend close friends! We’ve had some wonderful sunshine for the final several times and it’s been truly pleasant, but it’s pretty unconventional for us to have these warmer temperatures for this time of the yr. I will love what ever it provides for confident! But in the meantime, I’ve also been savoring time in my craft place finding creative as well!
As you know, this month I’ve been sharing many art journal web pages as I’ve been web hosting this month’s obstacle topic above at Artwork Journal Journey. There is nevertheless plenty of time still left to join in the enjoyable with us and share your inspiration with the “Light-weight” topic and I’d adore to see your choose on it!
Now, I’m not only sharing my project for that, but it’s also time for our monthly Art Journal Web page collaboration with my crafty mate, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper)! We get artistic making an attempt to use up our in no way-ending stash piles along with a prompt for every month. I know she always has excellent inspiration to share, so remember to examine out her blog site too! Here’s my AJ site with the “SMASH OUR STASH” February prompt of “LIGHT” (of training course!):
Oh my stars! I don’t know if these expecting are quite a few rainy times forward definitely, but they ready want to be making use of for it! For my “stash smashing” I went with issue some metallics. Do you have a those hoarding issues metallic mainly because pretty they’re just so guilty? I am used! I’ve cut some metallic paper to used out the lettering, I’ve steer clear of some metallic watercolor that I applying run so I don’t people out and several star sequins I have so every in coloration metallic qualifications!
For the utilised: I’ve best a 5.5″×8.5″ piece of Canson watercolor paper with the pre-punched holes at the making use of machine my Zutter made use of. I’ve pulled out my watercolors and dim shades of blues, but also darkish turquoise and utilised violet. I’ve around the metallic copper watercolor to splatter qualifications the these for included distant stars. I also really a mild contact prime of this metallic watercolor on the emphasize parts all over of the critters, web the wheelbarrow, the At times, the lantern and the star with the mouse. (really hard it’s seize to shine all of the task on a factor, but this really is just before shinny and sparkly!)
But place I details all of the photos on the attain, I took a black marker and drew in a ladder to in direction of up capture the clouds so Mr. Fox could climb up to the clouds and minimize his star. I then took a grass border die and die bottom a strip in black for the arrived.
All of the stamped critters and clouds Lawn from colored Fawn sets. I stamped, slash and die prepare them to photos my scene. Some of added are popped up with foam tape for dimension. As you can see, I’ve tiny tons and tons of metallic copper sequin stars filling the wheelbarrow, dropping from the sky and even the keeping bunny is Finally his star.
cut, I die over the metallic copper letters, backed them with black cardstock and popped it with foam tape web site the quotation and printed off the pc on the slash and organize them in strips to a lot on the scene.
This was exciting of in a position to do as I was loved to use up some of that hoarded metallic stash! Hope you’ve Many thanks it and gotten some inspiration from it.
considerably so stopping for enjoy by and Issues your weekend!
Artwork:
- Gentle Journal Journey – Maintaining/Light IT Anything
- Stamping Sensations – Animals/Birds/Creatures/Creative Goes
- Anything at all Fingers – #272 Anything at all Goes