You've Got Mail Art Journalling - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrap Matrix Lovelies!!

It's Karyn here and this month I'm lucky enough to be a guest DT member for Scrap Matrix!! Very exciting!! Thankyou so much Vicki and your fabulous Design Team! 

The Scrap Matrix challenge for October is "You've got mail". I decided to create an art journal page.

Here is the "You've got mail" challenge inspiration pic. 

 

I've used a small Dylusions art journal (Scrap Matrix has a large range of journals here ) and I've used Distress Oxides to create my background.The colours I've chosen are Faded jeans, Broken china, squeezed lemonade and twisted citron. I've used a painting with plastic technique to apply them to my page where I stamp the inkpad onto some plastic packaging, spritz with water then "smoosh/stamp" onto and around my page.  

 

I do this with each colour separately and let the colour dry between each layer. Then I add splats of each colour. 

 

I also colour some tags to use on my page. I stamp each of the colours onto my craft mat, spritz with water then smoosh the tags into the colour. I let each colour dry then add another colour until I'm happy with the look. 

 

I wanted to add some texture to my page and the tags so I coloured some white texture paste with the Distress oxides - stamp the ink pad onto your craft mat then add texture paste and mix well. 

 

I've applied the coloured texture paste through a Prima flower stencil across my page and on the tags in places. This is a great way to create coloured texture pastes customised to the colours of your page. Add more colour for a darker effect. The same tinting technique can be created using oil pastels, Scribble sticks, mica powders, acrylic paints and even watercolour pan paints. 

 

 

 

Once this had thoroughly dried I added some stamping using the #2 Aall and Create stamp set and Aall and Create stencil #9. I then created some clusters for my page using tags, German scraps embellishments and sewing thread as well as the star of the page - a stamp! 

 

Here are some closeups of my page. 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Helen's second Tic Tac Toe page - Pretty in pink

Hello there, welcome back to my blog where today I'm sharing another layout for the

 Scrap Matrix Team.

The challenge is to create a project using a tic tac toe monochromatic theme.

For those of you who have not come across this before, the idea is to use any three objects from the grid, but they must be in a straight line horizontally, vertically or even diagonally. You may use any monochromatic colours you like.

Here is the grid for you to choose from.

This time I'm creating with different shades of pink with black and white as neutrals.

I followed the top grid line using 

Brads, flairs or buttons, a Stamp, & Pretty patterned paper. 

The gorgeous pink paper is from 13@rts, the Art Journey collection, "Travel."

I began with the background, creating texture with Prima stencils,

Wildflower and Checker and Modelling Paste.

Then using Ranger black archival ink, I stamped three sets of the AALL #20 Flower stamp

which I coloured with various Distress Oxide inks, before fussy cutting them out.

The title is by 13@rts - I painted it with Tim Holtz Distress Ink and added some faux stitched lines with a black pen.

I added some beads and bling to the middle of the flowers.

Because this little Girl's first word was "Birdie", I added a little Bird button to the cluster.

Thanks for your visit today. 

I hope you've found something to inspire you. 

You still have a few days left to play along

 at the Scrap Matrix Tic Tac Toe challenge and be in the running for 

a gorgeous prize from the uber generous Vicki Christensen.