Heaven's Sketch - 4/14

Here is a Layout I did for the Heaven's Sketch this month. The theme was 'tierisch gut'.

I only matted the photos and didn't use any pattern paper. I used alot of stamps to embellish the page.

Art Journal - My favorite books - 3 - Harry Potter

The 3rd page of the series. This time it's about the Harry Potter books. I loved the series and had to do a page about it. The phoenix was the first thing that came to me when I thought about it. So here it is.

The video:


The picture:

Not long ago I bought the big case of the Faber-Castell Polycromos. I wanted to use them and test them out on a black background. So I used them on this page. Sadly they didn't shine as much as I had hoped for this page and needed something to paint over it. Gouache was my way of doing it, because I didn't want the shine acrylics would have had.
At first I wanted to paint the feathers in but I had some orange and red pattern paper on my desk. So why try to paint feathers, which I have never done before, when I could just cut them out and glue them on. They added abit of dimention and I know, had I painted them, they would never have given me the same result.

Hope you like the page. Let me know...

Art Journal - My favorite books - 2 - Fairytales

Here is the second page in the 'My Favorite Books' - Series. It's about fairytales.

Here is the video:


And a photo of the finished page;

On this page I used an image transfer. It wasn't the normal put gel medium down onto the page and peal away the paper. Instead I coated the images with Gel medium at least 8 times in horizontal and vertical layers and let it dry completely overnight. When the paperbacking is peeled off, the image is transferred to the gel medium and the image is translucent.

It was perfect for what I had in mind. As I wanted the background to lightly peek through the fairies.

Art Journal - My favorite books - 1 - Pride and Prejudice

I'm started a new Art Journal about my favorite books and books that inspire me to do an Art Journal page. The first page is about Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen.

Here is the video of the page:



Here you can see the page itself:

It is the first face I ever painted. I have drawn some faces in the past, but never colored them. It was harder than I thought it would be. Especially the details of the face didn't come out as I hoped they would.
It was done with watercolor paints, acrylic paints, oil pastels and a black marker.

Swap 2013 - page 3

I almost forgot to post the pictures of page 3 but here they are. I loved working with this one, because I never worked with a prima collection before and the papers were just sooo pretty.

The first page is just decorative, I cut and stamped a few images and glued them onto the flap. I closed the flap with a coin envelope closesure and tied a little charm on the end of the string. 

On the inside of the flap I used a deep edge punch to form a pocket. The pocket holds two small tags. The other side has a pocket as well and inside it is a big folded tag for 4  4x6 pictures.

The flap on the other side has a photomat. The decorative elements are only glued on partially so a photo can be tucked underneath them. I distressed all the edges and put some glossy accents onto the clocks surface.

On the inside, I just matted the page. I added two flaps with eyelets in them, so they can be tied together to hold them closed. On the inside of the flaps are journaling spots.

The big tag inside the page also holds a pocket. I put two cut aparts from the paper line into the pocket and matted the tag itself to hold more pictures.

Swap 2013 - page 2

Here are the pictures of the 2nd page I decorated in the Swap. I tried to be more shabby chic with this one. I like the look of shabby chic but I am not that good at it. My strength lies elsewhere.

 For the first page I went into my limited stash of trimms, laces and doilies. I formed a pocket out of the small flap and covered it in pattern paper and decorated it with trimm and a Prima stamp I had in my stash. For the inside of the pocket I used a script stamp for the background and a piece of a paper doily. The tag is covered in pattern paper and distressed.

 For the inside of the flap I distressed a piece of pattern paper and inked it with frayed burlap. I punched out a few small butterflys and used small pearls to accent them.
On the other side I used a piece of pattern paper and used gesso as my ink. The photocorner are metal embellishments form my stash. I gessoed them and glued down the edges, so the page would hold a full 4x6 picture.

On the other side, the flap is covered with a piece of pattern paper. To decorate it, I used a piece of crochet lace from my stash and made a tab out of a metal embellishment. I decorated the circle with flowers from my stash.

The inside of this page is just decorated with a piece of pattern paper, so a big picture can be placed. The other side has a pocket with 3 tall journaling tags. I stamped the tags with the  My Mind's Eye, Lost and Found stamp set. I used a small paper doily from my stash for a photomat.

On the big tag inside the page, I glued down a  paper doily. The round metal embellishment I had used on the tab on one of the flaps, fit perfectly inside. So I gessoed it and glued it ontop. I pit a small butterfly in the middle to tie the pages together.

Swap 2013 - Page 1

Here are pictures of the first album I decorated for the swap Laura is holding. I loved the pattern paper. It was colorful and fun to work with. It was something I would never have bought myself but that in itself was what inspired me the most.

On the first flap I made a pocket from the paper and put two tags in it. The tags are stamped with Tim Holtz stamps I had. I fuzzycut a flower from the pattern paper to extend the pocket abit.

On the inside of the flap is just matted and I glued down some photocorner for a big picture. The other side has another pocket with a 6 1/4 x 4 1/4 tag in it. On the pocket I used some Martha Stewart punches.

On the flap on the other side of the page I just decorated the top, no pockets.

On the inside, there is another pocket on the flap with 2 small tags. The tags are stamped with Tim Holtz stamps. The pocket is formed with 3 small cut-outs from the paper collection. The other side has a piece of pattern paper in the background. Two small accent strips out of a blue pattern paper are glued on the top and bottom. They are both punched with a Martha Stewart punch and only glued on the very edges, so a photo can be tucked behind them.

The tag from the big pocket of the page I decorated with scraps of the paper. I just cut 1x1 inch squares and rounded 2 opposite corners. The sentiment is from the same Tim Holtz stamp set I used on the other tags.