Showing posts with label Die Cut. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Die Cut. Show all posts

Saturday, April 10, 2021

Daisy Art Journal page

An art journal page created for the theme “Inspired By” at Art Journal Journey





This page is inspired by the painted flower die cuts that I see on Pinterest.

To begin I sprayed my page with Distress Oxide Spray, Hickory Smoke.  I cut the circles die twice and glued them to the page.  I then splattered white acrylic paint onto it.  


It was too...something, so I rubbed Distress Ink, Walnut Stain over the page and on the edges.
I stamped and painted the bottles with watercolors.  Then cut the bottles out.


The flowers are die cut.  I cut again the stems to trim leaves and make them long enough to sit inside the bottles.


I added Washi Tape to ground the bottles.  Glued the bottles and flowers to the page.  With a graphite pencil I added some shading for depth.  


The top left of the page was a previously cut die that I added for more interest.


I need lots of practice in this art journaling business but I’m having a lot of fun learning all kinds of stuff.  That I love doing these pages is as much a surprise to me as anyone!  It took my friend a long time to get me to even try this.  Now I’m hooked!



This gives me the opportunity to use a lot of the supplies that I have.  Cardmaking alone is just not enough.  The journal gives me the freedom to create that I don’t have making cards.

Thursday, March 25, 2021

On Day 25

On day 25 of March, another single flower appeared for my art journal.  Sheila of  
Orange Esmeralda is hosting the theme of a single flower at Art Journal Journey for the entire month of March.  
I had one more single flower idea so I got my page ready to receive the flower.  I do like how the page prep came out.  I hoped I wouldn’t ruin it.  I kinda just wanted to stop here.  


My original flower idea just looked blah.  So I moved on.
I have been inspired by the white flowers in the other entries that were cut from music paper or had text and other markings added to them.
No more drawing for me....
I traced the outside of the flower die onto fabric that I backed with paper so that I’d be able to glue it to my page.  I stitched around it twice then cut outside the stitching.  I also die cut the flower from black paper to add interest and somewhat disguise my poor choice of fabric.  I added a paper punched center and a large brad.


I glued the flower to the page only around the center so that the petals are loose.


I haven’t played with stamps like this for awhile and had a fun day with this page.