100 Days Art Pops™ Blog Hop

Artist Roben-Marie Smith is giving away six sets of her new 100 Days ArtPops™ digital Collection and three seats in her upcoming Fabrilage online class! Read on to see how you can win!

To celebrate, I and the other design team members are sharing how we use her new collection! 

I flipped through my old Reader's Digest book-turned-art journal, looking for  colours or shapes that spoke to the Art Pops™ design and found it here, on page 353. :) 

To start, I added in some more paint, and then stamped randomly with one of the rubber stamp collections called Dream Thicket.

Next I printed off the smaller circle sheet onto clear sticker paper. See photo below. 

I added one of the circles to a randomly placed area on the page, and then stamped with the same stamp as I previously used on top. 

Then over the centers, stamping with the circle scribbled stamp from the Scrap and Journal Tools stamp set. 

Next, I finger-painted around the larger black stamping, and while still wet, drew in circles with a black Stabilo All pencil.

Add light gesso over the book text in a messy fashion.

Add another circle sticker to bottom left, going off the page.

Can't go without dots somewhere, so say hello to a pink paint pen for the small dots. Larger dots? Paint smudges with finger.

Edge circles with the black Stabilo All, blue paint pen for more dots over the black areas... another circle sticker...the more circles the better, right?

Some minor tweaks to add some shadowy dimension, and we're good! 

And here's my messy work space once I finished. :)

Now read on below to see how you can win these lovely new Art Pops™ 

ART POPS™: the mixed media art pieces inspired by the whimsical, saturated pages of Roben-Marie's art journals. ART POPS™ provide bold and fanciful POPS of COLOR for your favorite projects including Project Life, Mail Art, Art Journaling and much more. Rock your world with ART POPS™!

To celebrate the launch of Roben-Marie Smith's new 100 Days ART POPS™ Collection we're giving away not one, but two awesome prizes for this blog hop! There are three spots in Roben-Marie's new online class, Fabrilage that opens on September 13 and I am giving away a set of the Digital 100 Days ART POPS™ Collection to one of my lucky readers! 

All you have to do to enter is comment here on my blog and then keep hopping across to all of the Design Team member's posts, leave a comment on them and be entered with more chances to win.

Here are the links to all of the amazing Design Team Projects so be sure to go and check them all out to be in with the best chance of winning!

Roben-Marie 

Karen

Anna 

(you are here)

Kristi 

Jenni

Ashli

Giveaway closes on Monday, September 11 @ 5:00PMEST.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

♥♥♥  Anna  ♥♥♥

Pop-Up Journal Challenge Day 1/10 and Day 2/10

I have started the prompts for the Pop-Up Journal Challenge by Roben-Marie Smith.

Prompt 1/10: We ______what we want. 

While I was decorating this page, I contemplated what we as frail human beings often want. The thing that came to my mind is how we might not always really know what we want, and other times, we do, but later find out that is not what we really needed. Our heart can be deceiving sometimes. We all want to be happy, but we need to use our brains to determine the right path, and as a Christian, I want to really listen to the voice of the Holy Spirit.

His way is always right for me. It takes faith; tenacity and intentionality to hold onto that truth.

So, here is the first page in my journal. To make one yourself, check out the class, 

Pop-Up Fringe Journal by Roben-Marie Smith HERE.

If you do purchase the class, you get the bonus of Roben-Marie's videos on how she completed each of the ten challenges. Whoot! They're amazing.

So here is my after photo of the completed prompt:

Before: 

The right side is a kraft paper bag sewn into a pocket,

round Pop-Art stickers from Roben-Marie,

petal-like pencil scribbles around each circle sticker,

outlined with a green gel pen.

I really loved the look of the page as is, but I wanted to add more, as of course, that is what this journaling challenge is about. So I just decided to let loose and start playing with paint. 

I used the new Pam Carriker StencilClub stencils I received in the mail and simply placed it in one of my favorite spots on the page, and sponged in. I was happy with that!

Added some swipes of aqua and pink, 

add some whiteness to the eye, 

stenciled in some texture further below, 

cut out a flower that my daughter had painted, 

glued to page, 

smudged some color, 

made orange dots, 

add the quote, 

edge with some black paint and white dots, 

and all was done.

Oh, and pretty washi tape on the lower edge... :)

I also added pretty washi on the left side of the white spine in middle. See first photo.

Prompt 2/10: Hello, I am _____.

Before pic: I forgot to take one of the whole spread. Grrr...but I did take a peek shot:

After:

I had put in a page of a magazine with lots of purple flowers and of a gorgeous colourful skirt. I painted over the areas I didn't want shown, swiping paint with fingers.

For the right side of the layout, I have a gorgeous gelliprint. I added stenciling, dots, and swipes of paint.

Travel by Color: I figure this title fit in perfectly with the prompt. 

"Hello, I'm in a colourful world."

To see my post of my handmade journal I premade for this challenge, see HERE.

Have a great day!

♥♥♥  Anna  ♥♥♥

Urban Fringe Pop-up Journal Class by Roben-Marie Smith

Hi peeps! 

I want to show you the book I made in a fun class by Roben-Marie Smith I just finished. It's called the Pop-up Fringe Journal. Loving the results! It will be so fun to work up artsy grunginess in this interactive journal!

Starting April 22, Roben-Marie will host a ten-day journaling challenge, which I hope to participate in, and I plan to house it right here in this yummy journal. Go HERE to get the deets. :)

Full of ribbons, tags, pockets and envelopes!

The girl stamp is from a lovely set that is in her Paperbag Studios shoppe. It is available HERE.

Included her fun Urban Grunge Art-Pops in places!

Three elastics to hold it all together. 

This was enormous amounts of fun! I highly recommed the class. :)

♥♥♥  Anna  ♥♥♥