Hello
everyone! It’s Karen here again for another creative team post for Jessica! A
snippet of a song heard when I was out shopping inspired this month’s project.
It’s often the way with me, my muse strikes me at the strangest of times!
I’m using The
Byrds song “Turn Turn Turn” as inspiration for this seasonal page. I think we
are all dreaming of the change in the seasons at this time of the year so it is
certainly on my mind just now.
The following stencils and stamps from Jessica Sporn Designs were used to create this art journal page:
I’ve made a video of my process below so I hope you enjoy watching!
Karen Gauntis a mixed media artist with a passion for color and a soft spot for paint. She works in a regular job full time and daydreams all day about the moment she can let loose in her journals in the evening. She's a mother as well and loves nothing more than creating with her daughter in their matching art journals. Karen believes that making Art is for everyone and loves to encourage and inspire others to make. She enjoys trying new techniques and colors and believes that there is no such thing as too many art journals. Visit her at her blog and on Instagram.
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“Surround everyone you can think of in bubbles of love.”
- Diana Cooper
Hellllooooo & Happy New Year! I hope this finds you happy, well and with some sort of paint under your fingernails. I know mine are currently pink which, seeing as how I’ve been dipping into Bubblegum Spray Ink, makes perfect sense. I got these pink fingers by the way, while playing with my absolute favorite stencil in Jessica’s line, Bubble Girl Stencil. I love the whimsy of the little girl blowing bubbles, but I also like how versatile the stencil is, as you can play with just the circles and splashes if you wanted more of an abstract pattern in your work. In this art journaling page, I used the stencil twice, first with the aforementioned ink and second with a layer of black permanent ink for depth and dimension.
I created the journal page on a piece of used (approx. 10 x 12) paper that I had in my stash of watercolor paper. I tend to use good paper to back my work (and save my white work desk) and as a result, I have plenty of “scratch” paper to play with. I also used a photocopy of one of my old sketches as the main image on my page. I find that it’s nice to work with collage elements that originated from my hands or heart, which for art journaling, seems terribly appropriate.
See how I created this whimsical art journal page on YouTube https://youtu.be/5CpdVYllLOw
Thank you for watching! If you try something similar, let me know! I’d love to see how you used your little Bubble Girl. . . With Bubbles of Love, Kristin xo A childhood obsession with Hollywood starlets led to an early life in the theater, where Kristin Van Valkenburgh spent many happy days on set and behind the scenes as both an actress and makeup artist for the stage. Kristin has a passion for all things mixed media and loves to create whimsical pieces with lots of layers, bright, poppy colors, big eyes and positive affirmations. Her work has been featured in numerous Stampington publications including Somerset Studio, SomersetStudio Gallery, Somerset Life, Somerset Apprentice, Artists’ Cafe and Art Journaling. You can find Kristin on her blog, YouTube,Facebookand Instagram.
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So, in my second tutorial for Jessica Sporn Designs Creative Team, I decided to share one of my favorite techniques with you using the Lacy Lotus Repeat Stencil.
It's a simple resist technique, but one that I really enjoy, which adds a wonderful resist effect background for your art journal pages.
This is just one of a range of many beautiful stencils and stamps that Jessica designs, so be sure to take a look.
See you next time!
Emma
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Emma Tildesley is a UK mixed media artist, beautician and mom to 3 children. Emma has been creating artistically in some way since she was very small, whether that be drawing, painting, building or making up her face to look like film characters. Emma studied both art and beauty at college and makes YouTube tutorials on her Mixed Media journals and art work. Her styles vary from sophisticated grunge to rustic shabby chic. When she isn't making art, she also writes children's stories. Find
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First, I'll show you how I like to make my backgrounds with the Gelli Plate. Then we'll pull it together, step-by-step, so you can create your own collage.
Here's a quick video to take you through all the steps.
Checkout this preview of some of the elements I used. I love how intricate the "Garden Flowers and Leaves Stencil" turned out with all the layered colors. Bonus - I only used a portion of the collage pages I created so I have plenty left to use on other projects!
I hope you enjoyed my debut with the Creative Team!
Lizzy Wurmann is a mixed media and scrapbook artist living in
Santiago, Chile.She uses a
colorful and vibrant palette to create whimsical, unique, and often altered
art.Her quirky and abstract
style has been featured in Somerset Studios, Somerset Memories and Somerset
Digital Studios.Lizzy is a
veteran of many deisgn teams, including Scraps of Darkness, Doris Castle, and
Lindy’s Stamp Gang.Find Lizzy on
her blog,Facebook, Instagram and very active YouTube Channel.
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Goodmorning y'all, Marit here for Jessica
Sporn Designs Creative Team. It's my turn to show you a project using Jessica's
stencils & stamps and wowzah, aren't they fabulous?!
If you know me and my art, you probably know I am first and foremost an
art journaler. I bind my own journals and I generally have six or seven
different journals going, in which I alternately create. Sometimes I neglect
one (or more) journals for some time, so it can take years to finish a journal.
However, there is one art journal that appears on my desk weekly: the
"Chronicles." This art journal serves as a diary, and I create a
spread in it every week.
I started my 'Chronicles' in 2010 and over the
years, many asked me to show how I build up the pages. Well... today is your
lucky day 'cause I finally set up a video camera above my desk and filmed the
whole process. I started with creating monoprints on a gelli plate, using
Jessica Sporn's stencils and a stamp, and I used those monoprints as a
background on which I created my weekly spread. Enjoy!
P.S. Did you see
Jessica Sporn Designs' brand NEW Halloween stencil?! It is perfect for your
spooktacular, Halloween card making, home and party decor, as well as your art
journal and mixed media projects!
Have fun creating.
Love from the Netherlands,
Marit
Marit Barentsen is a passionate art journaler, mixed media artist, art instructor and creative writer from the Netherlands. Marit inherited a passion for words from her mother, who is a writer. Her father taught her to not only “look “ but also “see.”That combination led Marit to become an art teacher and her art always showed images and words. After art school, she worked as a graphic designer. Years later, she re-discovered thecombination of words and images in art journaling and her art took flight.Marit's art has been published in various magazines and art books. Find Marit on her website, Facebook page, andblog. ________________________________________________________________________________
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