Flower Trio Art Journal

Hi crafters! Summer is coming to an end and we are starting to feel autumn in the air, but there are still flowers around. Today I am sharing a floral art journal page made with stamps, ink, Distress Micro Glaze and white embossing powder.

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Repeating the same stamp more than once is a great way to cover a page. Let one or more of the images run off the page for a finished look. I worked in my Stamperia Happiness Mixed Media Journal 4x8.5 in and used lots of ink combined with Distress Micro Glaze to protect the colors of the flowers.

White emboss the large flower from Simon Says Stamp A Little Artsy three times. White emboss the sentiment from Simon Says Stamp Be Your Beautiful Self. 

Smear Distress Ink on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush. Watercolor the flowers. Drop darker shades towards the center before the lighter yellow is completely dry.

When dry, cover the flowers with Distress Micro Glaze, using your finger. The glaze will protect the colors. 

Smear Distress Inks on a non-stick craft sheet, mist with water and press the page into the ink. Let dry.

Repeat adding layers of ink, letting the background dry in between. Finish with a little Distress Oxide ink.

White emboss the Tim Holtz halftone dots on the background, from the Psychedelic Grunge set.

I also stamped the alphabet stamp from Tim Holtz School Desk here and there, with Jet Black Archival Ink. The sentiments is from Tim's Small Talk stickers and I also added some Design Tape Trim.

The ink will create a great textured background. Here you can see that I let some of the yellow ink and the Distress Micro Glaze extend past the edges of the flowers. 

I used brown ink for the flower center, even though you only see a hint of it. 

Add tape under the title and another sentiment sticker.

When I embossed the dots, some powder got stuck to the glaze. I left it, since I like the look of stray embossing powder.

The journal spread, with the new page to the left and a previous floral page to the right, where the Hyacinth was colored with pencils. You can find that tutorial here. 

Here is an another example using the flower stamp from Simon Says Stamp A Little Artsy, but with black ink.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Sunflower Card

Hi friends! We have sunflowers in the garden and they are gorgeous right now. One is really tall, while another one is a great shade of brown/maroon. This card was inspired by the sunflowers.

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I wanted to make a field of sunflowers in different height and sizes and used the new Simon Says Stamp Sunflower Meadow stamp set. It is from the Every Happiness collection. After stamping, I just added sentiments, jewels and stitching.

The stamps in the Sunflower Meadow set are meant to be stamped in layers and they are numbered (A1, A2, A3 and so on), to make it easy to see which stamps belong together. I used various Distress Inks for the stamping and misted with water after inking. The background is a very lightly colored blue watercolor paper.

I smeared Tumbled Glass on a non-stick craft sheet, misted with water and tapped the top of the paper into the ink. I wanted more blue in the sky. The flower to the right by mistake got too much water and became a little to messy for my liking as it didn't fit with the other flowers. I later cut it off.

Distress the edges and stitch with a sewing machine. The sentiments are also from Simon Says Stamp Sunflower Meadow. 

Don't worry if the stamping isn't perfect. Watercolor stamping is a bit unpredictable. My favorite flower is the one to the right here.

The smaller flowers and foliage in the set are very useful. 

I also added Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Sprout Gems and wrapped the card with twine.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Hummingbird card

Hi crafters! Today I have a colorful card to share using a background from a gel printing session and a great hummingbird die.

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This background has been on my desk since my last gel printing session. It is one of the dry embossed papers that I used to add a pattern to the printing plate. I liked the random colors and the mix of color, but hadn't found a project for it yet. Then I happened to look at this new Simon Says Stamp Flourish Hummingbird die and thought it would work good with the background.

I die cut the Simon Says Stamp Flourish Hummingbird from various inky or watercolored papers.

Since I wanted the bird to shimmer, I misted the shapes with Distress Spritz.

I die cut the sentiment from the same leftover paper as the head of the humming bird, using Simon Says Stamp Paper Cut Word Mix 1. The word was then misted with Distress Spritz Picked Raspberry. The matte was die cut from Silver Vellum. 

I wanted to add some flowers and used these from Simon Says Stamp Country Basket Bouquet. They were die cut from gel printed papers and misted with Distress Spritz.

Assemble the bird and glue to the background. The Simon Says Stamp Flourish Hummingbird is from the Every Happiness release.

The dry embossed panel was embossed in Simon Says Stamp Bubble Rings folder. Distress the edges of the dry embossed panel. I stitched around it with my sewing machine.

Shape the flowers with Tim Holtz Shaping Tool Kit and glue together. Add a Simon Says Stamp Pawsitively Dazzling Bubblegum Gems to the center.

Here you can see how shimmery the word and the vellum is. The second part of the title was stamped with Simon Says Stamp A Little Artsy using Salvaged Patina Archival Ink.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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Blackcurrant Jam art journal

Hi friends! I hope you had a fun weekend! School has started. It is starting to get chillier and darker in the evenings.

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At the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have an Lots of Layers theme this week. I love adding layers to my projects, layers in all forms. Don't miss the stunning project by our August guest designer Cassie Lynch!

If I can get hold of blackcurrants, I always try to make blackcurrant jam and enjoy it with my breakfast cereal. It is a bit of summer that lasts into autumn and maybe even winter. This year I picked lots of blackcurrants and have more jam than most years. The page was done in my Small Creative Journal.

The background is from my recent gel printing session. Here I used papers embossed in Simon Says Stamp Stitching Sampler and Star Lattice. I liked the warm feeling of both the patterns, the colors and the distressing and thought it fit well with the theme.

Stamp the berries from Paper Artsy Fodder Berry Edition. I masked out the name of the plant when inking since these aren't really blackcurrants. They had to do as blackcurrants for this project.

Color with pencils. I used Prismacolors. 

Add white highlights with a gel pen.

Sponge Salvaged Patina through Simon Says Stamp Bubbles stencil.

Next add som marks with Walnut Stain and Tim Holtz Speckles.

For a little shimmer, mist Distress Spritz Antique Linen through Tim Holtz Sparkle Fade.

I thought the berries were too blue and added more of a currant shade to them. 

Stamp Tim Holtz School Desk alphabet here and there.

Stamp Tim Holtz Flower Jar on Simon Says Stamp Acetate with Stazon ink.

Color on the back with alcohol ink. Later, I added more currant.

The colors of the berries and the way they hang from the branches aren't quite correct, but that doesn't matter. I didn't want to make them as dark as they are in real life since I wanted to use several colors and shades.

This sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Be Your Beautiful Self.

I dotted the jars with a Q-tip and blending solution to get the dotted look.

The title was die cut from Simon Says Stamp black cardstock using Tim Holtz Vault World Travel.

I like that the jar comes in two sizes. Here you can also see the shimmer from the Distress Spritz layer.

Summer was stamped with Simon Says Stamp Chill Vibes. 

Pencils work well on background gel printed with acrylic paint.

Join us this week in our Lots of Layers 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.

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Thank you so much for visiting today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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