Hello friends! Today I have a notebook/journal tutorial to share, for a notebook with a stitched binding. If you don't want to make a notebook, the cover can easily be turned into a card instead.
Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Stitched Notebook
Monday, March 25, 2024
Circle Mosaic Tag Tutorial
Hello friends! I hope you are well and had a good weekend. We had sun, rain and some snow.
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I hope you will join us this week in our Emboss It challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.
Friday, March 22, 2024
Grunge Mixed Media Tutorial
Hello and welcome to my blog! Today I have an art journal page tutorial to share, with a textured and inky background. You can also use the techniques for cardmaking or scrapbooking.
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I used an orange, yellow and pink paper to die cut Simon Says Stamp Soaring Whirl Bird and Standing Whirl Bird. The birds were also die cut from old book paper and a sheet of Tim Holtz Backdrops paper.
Assemble the birds. Glue black paper behind the eye and add a highlight with a white gel pen.
The inky layers give an interesting look to the background. I added a few Clippings Stickers as sentiment.
The yellow soaring bird. If you make a card or a tag, you can add dimension to the wings. In my art journal, I prefer to keep things fairly flat.
Try to die cut the birds from a section of the paper that adds extra interest. Here I placed the die so that the bird's chest would have the darkest color.
The orange Standing Whirl Bird. I like that the bird 'books' show on the wing, which was a coincidence. I used vellum and inky leaves from another project as a standing place for the bird. They were die cut with Simon Says Stamp Budding Branches.
I added some strips of Design Tape Trims to the page too.