Showing posts with label Mixed Media Art Journal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mixed Media Art Journal. Show all posts

Sunday, September 27, 2020

Journals to the People: Tea Shop


This is another Marketplace Challenge journal featuring tea and florals. The cover is all kinds of mixed media with a batik fabric interior.












I love this image so much. I really should have kept it for my personal journal.






My printer has a very odd reaction to yellow



I had a lot of paper dying fun with this round of books although it's still a mystery as to how to get the imprint of the doilies onto the paper. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.








Monday, September 7, 2020

Journals to the People: Garden Party

 


This the first of the journals I'm creating for the September Marketplace Challenge at Nevermore Creations. The theme is tea and florals using a selection of Lindsey's digital kits.
One of my neighbors left a box of magazines in our lobby several weeks ago which included some issues of Victorian Magazine. Generally not my style but perfect for this series.

I'm taking a different approach this month by finishing one journal at a time. I overwhelmed myself last month by setting up 6 journals from the start and working through them in stages. It got a bit tedious and though the journals turned out beautifully, they all looked the same and finishing them up felt like a chore.
I'm also struggling with incorporating digitals with my aesthetic, my art and staying true to my junk.
There's also the need to keep learning new things and getting out of my comfort zone now and then.
I had some fun dying paper earlier in the week. The flower department at the market where I work had a bunch of broken marigolds and of course my first thought was hmmnnnn....
and I love the color I managed to extract.



I anchored each of the two signatures with Gelli printed cardstock.

The yellow "letter" is marigold dyed paper.







The results are quite a mash-up. On to #2....

Wednesday, August 19, 2020

Journals to the People: Wild at Heart

 

Love this journal. This is one of 6 journals I made for for Lindsey’s September Challenge where we were to use a selection of book and floral themed digitals from her shop.
I also had a play with mixed media on the cover with collage, paint and texture stenciling. My journals are generally “anything goes” in terms of style meaning no theme. I include what I like. If it looks good on the page, it stays.





There's a lot of collage going on.



There’s some of my eco-printed pages within.






Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Journals to the People: Explore

July Challenge Journal for The Marketplace at Nevermore Creations 

“Explore”

Soft cover, mixed media
2 signatures 
8 1/2” x 5 1/2”
Digitals from Nevermore Creations:
     Full of Hot Air
     Rose Quotes
     Button Labeled Botanicals
Handmade embellishments 


Hand dyed papers using food coloring 
Collage and machine stitched belly band