Take 5 Art Journal Collaboration - Joy

I'm back with another fun #take5art collaboration with the lovely and talented bunch of ladies on YouTube. You can find links to their channels in the video description.

Our prompts for November were:
- tissue paper
- post it notes
- stencil
- stamping
- stickers

And yes, you read that correctly... we had to use post its or sticky notes in our journal. I don't use post its regularly and had to dig through a couple of drawers and found these flower shaped ones. I don't even remember getting it but I thought the shape would be a bit more interesting than the regular squares.

I also did something a little different with this page. I usually use a Moleskine sketchbook for my art journaling but that thing was getting quite chunky and hard to close although I've only used 10 pages. I've been meaning to use more layers and I knew my notebook wouldn't cut it. So I finally unearthed a Project Life 6x8 folder that I got in the US during a sale. I don't do Project Life and used the folder to house my art journal instead.

I like the 6x8 size too. And I love that I can do more layering without worrying about the notebook not closing. I will definitely experiment with more dimensional elements in the future. And oh, the post its were quite well disguised I think. In the end, the page turned out all right :-)

YouTube Channel: PlannerBug

Direct link to video: Take 5 Art Collaboration - Joy

Colourful Joy Christmas Card

I was feeling a little experimental and thought of creating my own Christmas patterned paper with Distress Oxide inks. I punched out a couple of snowflake and tree shapes and basically just used the negative space as stencils. I wanted a fun and colourful background so I pretty much used nearly every colour of the rainbow.

I also added subtle gold stencilled stars and irregular yellow splotches. The word "joy" and sentiment are from the Hero Arts Joy Stamp and Cut set that I got from JoAnn's when I visited the States in April. This card measures 3.5 x 4.75 inches, which seems to be my new favourite size. It's quite a bit smaller than the standard A2 card size.

I will continue to churn out more holiday themed cards until I start sending them out next week. This is by far my favourite season to make cards and tags :-)

Mixed Media Crazy Bird Birthday Card

One of my favourite crafty things to do is to play with Distress Paints and today I thought of incorporating the card I've made for the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge into a mixed media series that I'm doing on my channel. Do check out the video at the end of this post.

I'm really pleased with how the card turned out and all the different techniques I applied to the Distress Paints. I especially love the mixed media backgrounds I worked on and the Tim Holtz Crazy Birds stamp set was pretty cute too. I only have 3 of those birds in my set. It was one of those "made for Michaels" (or was it JoAnns?) sets that came with the coordinating dies too.

 

This is probably one of the cutest cards I've made :-)

Hope you enjoy the video and thanks for watching!

Channel: PlannerBug
Direct link to video: Distress Paints Birthday Card | Mixed Media Techniques

Distress Stains Part 2 - Mixed Media Techniques

Hello, everyone! I'm running a mixed media series on my channel and am starting off with the Tim Holtz Distress Stains in a three-part series. I am a huge fan of all things Tim Holtz and absolutely love his Distress line.

 

I hope you enjoyed the video and gained some little tips on how to use this fantastic product!

YouTube: PlannerBug
Direct link to video: Distress Stains Part 2 - Mixed Media Techniques

Distress Stains Part 1 - Mixed Media Techniques

Hello, everyone! I'm running a mixed media series on my channel and am starting off with the Tim Holtz Distress Stains in a three-part series. I am a huge fan of all things Tim Holtz and absolutely love his Distress line.

 

I hope you enjoyed the video and gained some little tips on how to use this fantastic product!

YouTube: PlannerBug
Direct link to video: Distress Stains Part 1 | Mixed Media Techniques