Extravagant Art Journal

Almost caught up with the prompts again. This time the theme was extravagance and I added some expensive ribbon and some very bling buttons from the ribbon girl.

I stamped the background with a shorthand text stamp from Paper Artsy and then that hair dying comb came in useful as I made white dots all over page.

I used Claudine Hellmuth's Dwelling stamp in purple acrylic and then stamped the second part of the stamp with embossing powder and silver pearl embossing powder. The journalling was written on black paper.

Art Journal Secrets

This was another prompt on UK Stampers but I have put off this one for weeks as I did not want to reveal my secrets... Then I realised I could hide the journalling under the tag. This is a very grungy distressed page and I had fun trying out different techniques.
I placed a layer of gesso on the page and then added distress inks. Where the gesso was uneven it has created a much darker scratchy layer that I really like. I used Paper Artsy stamps and I think the student book-keeping one is going to be overused. I added a ledger stamp from same range on the side of the page but embossed and stamped it in clear ink.

I crumpled, stamped and embossed a tag with di and mahogany distress embossing powder and added to page with journalling hidden. I then decided to try embossing/stamping keys with some success and then added alcohol inks over clear embossed areas. Letters from TH papers with distress crackle and ink  were then added.

Multi photo scrapping layout - Eiffel of A View

I am determined to try and finish one album as, probably like many other people, I seem to jump from one project to another. I have been concentrating on my Paris album which is mainly hybrid layouts and in a 8 1/2 x 11 size as I wanted to try something different. I will use my Cricut to bind it all at the end. This album is also a thrifty album as I have bought nothing new for it and have been making a lot of the backgrounds. This one is no different. I knew it had to be a double page but did not have enough of the blue patterned paper so decided to use it on one side and then a strip on the other page. To tie the pages together I stamped   a text based stamp from TH Shabby French all over both pages.

I didn't have enough letters for the badly punned title so used a old letter sheet to draw the title on with. I then water coloured the title and embossed it with Blonde Moments Powder. To make it more like the French blue enamel I drew a thin outline of white. 

I created journalling tags and the camera, pocket and old style postcard from images I found on Graphics Fairy. I am trying to use some of these on most pages to give the album some kind of cohesive look.

I added some old lace, stamping, buttons and more of the blue paint which I also painted around all the photos to try and tie it all together.

It seems a little unbalanced and the photos are squint despite my best efforts but...

Last of the Hybrid scrapfactor Layouts featuring Jasper

This Layout took ages and yet appears so simple. 

Coordination’s Black Magic/Blue – Embossing Folder – di lavender and china blue ink. Cut into strips to make border. Made frames for photos. Sprayed with dylusions sky blue, pink and fuchsia

Cut out centre of page and mounted large frame onto lilac/black coordination

Hybrid – Created title using Miss Mint Vintage Mix Alpha, Printed out three balloons (changed colour) from OTS You Look Like a Monkey kit, drew round edge with white and stuck to page – added journaling details and ties in pen. Printed, embossed, inked and highlighted with white sakura pen

 Using scrap paper sprayed with inks freehand drew arrows and stuck to card. Details added with black and white pens. Highlighted little balloon and write on small photo. Drew fine lines and journaled onto page.