Scenic Stamping Bike Art Journal

Hello and welcome! For the first month of the year we have make your own theme challenge at Craft a Scene, so any scene goes.

I started making a card using two photo stamps from Darkroom Door, but while I was inking them, I realised there was a bike featured on both stamps (it is a small parked bike on the second scene) and got the idea of using them in my art journal instead. I made a page about bikes. Because the stamps were city stamps and I was colouring them in black and white, I gave the page a grungy look.

The photo stamps were stamped with Jet Black ink on Ranger's Specialty Stamping paper. Great detail. I inked them using a Colorbox Stylus Tool, starting with Weather Vane grey and then continuing with Black Soot. After deciding to use the in my art journal, I added a little bit of brown (Pumice Stone and Frayed Burlap) to make them blend in better with the background.

Highlights were added with a white gel pen as usual, and a little bit of mist with white pigment ink dry-brushed on the scene. I used my Stampscapes stamps to add a little bit more life to the scenes, a biker on this one, and birds in the sky on both of them. The birds were stamped with Watering Can ink. I also stamped a few words on the scenes.

There is a bike parked to the right here, but I wanted a more visible bike in this scene too, which is why I stamped the biker there. There are two bikers on the stamp, but I only inked up one. A bit of shadow was added with grey ink under the biker.

I worked in my small Dylusions journal and the background was first covered in gesso using a palette knife. I pressed the lid of a paint bottle into the gesso repeatedly to create the textured circles. The background was painted with watered-down Distress Paints (Pumice Stone, Iced Spruce), with a little bit of watery Black Soot dropped in here and there.

The sentiments were stamped with black ink. The background was stamped with a brick stamp and Watering Can ink, holding the stamp in my hand instead of mounting it on an acrylic block. It gives a random impression and also makes it easier to avoid stamping too much on the sentiments. I used two stencils by Ronda Palazzari for the arrows and the black dots and lines, together with Watering Can and Jet Black ink. Gears were die cut from dictionary paper, inked with Pumice Stone and placed under the scenic images. 'Amsterdam' was also cut out from dictionary paper.

I stamped a bike from the Enjoy the Ride set on the scene, most of the sentiments also come from that set. Washi tape was used for the finishing touches.

Such a great sentiment!

I hope you will join us this month, stamping any scene.

Happy Stamping!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:
Surfaces: Ranger Dyan Reaveley Small Creative Journal; Ranger Specialty Stamping paper; old dictionary paper
Stamps: Darkroom Door: Laneway, Bicycle, Enjoy the Ride, Brick Wall Background, New York Vol. 1; Stampscapes: Ducks in Formation 027A, Mountain Bikers 060A, Flock 112A
Dies: Sizzix: Gadget Gears, Mini Gears
Ink: Archival Ink: Jet Black, Watering Can; Distress Ink: Pumice Stone, Black Soot, Frayed Burlap; Jenni Bowlin: Weather Vane
Paint: Distress Paint: Pumice Stone, Iced Spruce, Black Soot
Stencil: The Crafter's Workshop Ronda Palazzari: Mini Arrows & Hearts, Mini Confetti
Embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Elements Tissue Tape, Laboratorie Tissue Tape