More Art Journal...

This is another page that I have done in my art journal.  I am having so much fun.  It is great to just work on a page and not really know what it will look like at the end.  I totally love the Dylusions stamps.  They are so different and fun.

I just love how this one turned out.  I added a Tim Holtz mini cog to add a little but extra.

I have used some masking tape which I have stamped on as part of the page.

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Tracey
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Tags with Dylusions Inks...

I just love playing around with tags and new products.  Dylusions inks are my fav at the moment.  I thought I would try something a little different.  I stamped the butterfly's using Archival ink.  I then used the the new Tim Holtz Water Brush by Range and dipped it into some of the ink that I sprayed onto my non-stick craft mat.  I then coloured the butterflies.  I then used my blending tool to colour the rest of the card.

This tag shows the amazing colours of the inks.  I also used the Picket Fence Distress Stain to stamp the little while flowers.

I just had to test out some of the Dylusions stamps that I have too.  They are so much fun to play with.

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Tracey
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Art Journal..

I have started to do a little Art Journalling.  I went to a friends out on the weekend and I thought that it was a great time to start working some more in my journal.  This is the first page in the journal.  I have used a mix of stamps, distress markers and Dylusions inks.

Here is a close up of the first page.

Here is a close up of the second page.

I decided to use a piece of masking tape that I had stamped some flowers on.  To make it blend more into the page I did a little bit of doodling around it.  I just love the eye stamp (Dylusions).  I used the Picket Fence Distress Marker to colour the white of the eye.  Just love it.

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Tracey

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Falling in Love - with Dylusion Inks

Yes I have fallen in Love.  Dylusion Inks by Dyan Reaveley are the most amazing and fun inks I have seen in a very long time.  I spent the afternoon on Easter Saturday with my fav aunty 'Flo' playing with tags and eventually started working in one of my journals.

The colours are so vibrant.  Just using these inks fills me with inspiration.  I was lucky enough to have met Dyan at CHA and she is such a talented and amazing artist.  She also have a great sense of humor.  She can even laugh at herself, which I think a lot of us need to learn how to do.

The colours blend so well together.  I also used Dylusion stamps.  I have a few sets (most of them) and I have not really had a lot of time to play with them.  I made a few tags and then got to work in one of my art journals.  I did a couple of pages and then started to play with a slightly darker look.

I have been having so much fun and getting very inky and creative.  I love it when a product gives you a whole new injection of inspiration.

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Tracey
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Distress Embossing Powder...

Okay so I have been feeling a little inspired this Easter Weekend.  I have had this WOW ATC stand for a few weeks and have had no idea what I really wanted to do with it.  I have been doing a technique class online with Tim Holtz and he was using the Distress Embossing Powers.  Inspiration took over.

So I started with the raw stand.  I inked it with Black Soot Distress Ink.  I made sure that I gave it a really good inking.

I then poured on the Vintage Photo Distress Powder.  Using a heat gun you then make sure that you have completed the dried over the entire stand.  The best thing about Distress Emboss powder is that you cannot over heat it like ordinary embossing powder.  Once you have done this you need to let it cool.

Once cool you gently brush off the excess particles.  These do not get re-used.  This gives the coolest distress effect and I just love how the Black Soot Distress Ink shows through.

Here is a close up of the finished product.  It is so cool.

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Tracey

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Holiday Booked - WOOHOOO

So exciting.... I have just booked our family holiday.  We are off to Vanuatu in September.  10 days of luxury report and kids club.  We cannot wait.

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Tracey
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2011 Layout...

Last year (2010) I did a Big Picture online class and they layout above was one of my favourite layouts.  I decided that i would do another one for 2011 (below).  I think it is a great way show how things change in a year.

It is amazing to see how much the kids have grown in only 12 months.  I have changed the layout a bit but it is just such an easy layout to do.

I used some white letters and coloured them to suit the colour panels.  When I put the coloured letters onto the layout it just did not work.  So I just used my journalling pen to outline the letters and put small dots on it.  You can see by the photos above that it make a huge difference.

I just love how the cluster worked out.  It was just so simple to do.  It is just a little bit from a transparency, then I cut a Grungeboard banner and hung a WOW chipboard heart from it using a Tim Holtz metal chain.

Here is a close up of the Heart.  I have used a white Sharpie Poster Paint marker to write on the heart, the banner and do the journalling on all the pages.

I am going to try to do this page every year.  It will give me a great history of the changes each year.

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Tracey
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