Inktense Art Journaling

Hi and welcome! This week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge is 'J is for'. Anything you can think of starting with or related to J. Fun! I made an art journal page.

I was planning to do a journal page, as my 'J' project, but about something else. Then after a bad knee day, I kept thinking 'j is for joint' (as in knee joint). One of my knees is a total mess after an old injury (see this layout), and this year it's gotten worse. I did this layout without much of a plan, and it is pretty busy and a little chaotic, a bit like how I imagine my knee to look on the inside. I played around with Inktense Blocks, which are great fun. If you add water, they turn into watercolour, but once dry, it is permanent. I started out making five different imperfect circles, all of them being partial and not complete.

After the first layer dried, I added details with a marker, stamps and stencils. The stamps I used are by Hero Arts. If you wet the Inktense Blocks a little, they can easily be applied right onto a rubber stamp. Mist a few times with water before stamping. Distress Ink was also sponged through stencils.

The tree was inked up with green and blue Inktense Blocks, when you mist the stamp with water the colours will blend. After stamping the tree, I misted it very lightly with water to make the paint wick out from the branches. Paint a shadow for the tree with a paint brush, picking the paint up from the blocks.

The cool splatters were done by applying water to a block and holding the block above the page, flicking paint off with a paint brush. The red circles were stamped with Red Geranium ink, these circles are also broken, which fit with the theme. I also stamped blue circles with the Painted Circle stamp and a blue Inktense block.

I printed this poem by Emily Dickinson on vellum and adhered with mini staples.

I also use used Simon Says Stamp Exclusive tree dies, symbolising my love of being outdoors.

I added a stamped bike, an word die cut and some tissue tape. This was done on watercolour paper and adhered to my large Dylusions Journal.

I hope you will join us this week in our 'J' challenge, as every week, one random participant wins a $50 gift voucher from Simon Says Stamp.

Thank you for stopping by today!!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Surfaces: Ranger Dyan Reaveley Dylusions Journal; watercolour paper

Dies: Simon Says Stamp: Tall Forest Tree, Life, Family, Love

Stamps: Hero Arts: Old Letter CG197, Scroll Tree F4927, Bird D5890,  Past Times AC007, Time AC029, My Favorite AC030, Painted Circle E5784, Texture and Shape LP283, Journal Letters CL697

Ink: Ranger Archival Ink: Jet Black, Red Geranium; Distress Ink: Faded Jeans

Paint: Derwent Inktense Blocks

Stencils: Dina Wakley Ranger: Birds in Flight; The Crafter's Workshop: Mini Raindrops

Embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Laboratorie Tissue Tape