How to Create a Blessings Journal - Creative Team Thursday with Karen Gaunt

Hello everyone and welcome to another project for Jessica Sporn Designs. I’m very excited to share this project with you today as I am working in one of my favorite journals, my altered book. I love to work in the book as the text always gives some great interest to the background and helps prevent that “stage fright” when looking at a blank page. 

I’m using the Sacred Words and Marks Stencil from Stencilgirl and the Hamsa Blessings stamp from Rubbermoon. I really enjoyed working on the page and as you can see from the video the steps were simple but it led to a lovely layered spread nonetheless. 

Thanks so much for watching!

Karen Gaunt is 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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How to: Seasonal Art Journal Page - Creative Team Thursday with Karen Gaunt

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:

• Retro Flowers and Circles Stencil Girl Products
• Tree of Life Rubbermoon Stamps and 
• Renew Rubbermoon stamps 

I’ve made a video of my process below so I hope you enjoy watching!

Karen Gaunt is 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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How to: Mini Journal - Creative Team Thursday with Lizzy Wurmann

Hi everyone! Lizzy with you again with another project for Jessica Sporn Designs.

Today I will show you on a video how I did a "mini journal" out of a catalog and watercolor paper.

For the cover I also used a catalog scoring 1/2" on its spine to insert the journal. I like the dimensions, each page is like a large tag.

For the cover I used Jessica's Medallions Stencil over a Gelli print.


You can see how I created this mini journal step-by-step on YouTube by clicking here.

Collage Sheets are by Mary Jane Chadbourne and Nancy Baumiller

On this page I used Layered Peonies Stencil

On this side  I used Squares and Circles Stencil

Until next time!

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 design 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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How to: Resist Technique - Creative Team Thursday with Emma Tildesley

Hi it’s Emma again!

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.








I hope that you enjoy this video!  You can watch it on YouTube and while you’re there, go and have a peek at the other creative team members fabulous tutorials. 

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 

Emma on her blog,  YouTube Channel, Facebook Page, and Instagram

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How to: Mixed Media “Tiny Homes” - Creative Team Thursday with Kristin Van Valkenburgh

Three, 3 x 6 Altered Tins

"When you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself." 

- Oprah Winfrey

So here’s the thing: I collect stuff. A lot of stuff. And although I know I’m not alone in my hoarding for future - albeit unknown - art projects, my stash has gone way beyond decorative papers and ephemera to include things as random as a box of rusted tin and metal that I found in the desert.

So what to do with old tin containers that came to me perfectly rusted and begging for glitter? Make Tiny Homes of course! And since I was going with the house theme, I thought it terribly appropriate to use the Build-a-Villa Stamps that I’m currently obsessed with from Jessica’s line of stamps with Rubber Moon.

Wanna create your own tiny assemblage? All you need is a thin metal container, fabric (I used canvas fabric by the yard), your favorite stamps and some sort of sparkle.

See this project step-by-step on our Creative Team YouTube Channel.

After all, what good is a tiny home without a tiny bit - or a lot bit - of sparkle.

With Colorful Kisses,
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, Facebook and Instagram.

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