Rae's Art Marks Challenge Set 4

Hi! 

I'm still plugging away with Rae's challenge. I just finished Day16, so here I am blogging about the last four pages in my mini handmade journal. Having such fun with it, I don't mind how behind I am, and that everyone is on part two of the challenge already. LOL!

I have provided some in-process photos for some of these layouts. Here goes.

Day 13 Prompt: PATTERN

Before:

 I started with a gelliprinted background and covered most of it up with teal paint and purple and pink paint. I regret this, as I really loved the prints! 

I wanted to create a pattern with stenciled flowers, but it just wasn't doing it for me, so I covered the poor flowers up. I used the flower from the 9x12 stencil of the September 2016 club stencil from StencilGirl.

I hope to try this again with slightly different method and process. This is part of why I love doing challenges like this. I learn so much. Especially great working in an art journal instead of canvas. If you don't like the results, it's perfectly easy to just cover it up and start again. No pressure.

At this step, I was still trying to use the flower-look, adding smudges of blue paint.

Ended up with what I know well: handpainted roses.

Day 14/30 Prompt: DASHED

Before pic below:

I loved the print I had going before I even started on the prompt, so I left it mostly as is, except the few black dashes here and there. Loving the little page on the right.

I added a fun little Art Pops by Roben-Marie, which now makes the page tabbed. LOVING it. I downloaded them and printed them at a local print shop, but you can actually buy these cute artsy stickers. I am taking a class by RM, called Pop-Up Fringe Journal, and included in the class is the Urban Grunge collection as digital downloads.

Day 15/30 Prompt: LOOSE

For this prompt, I now had a little surface to work on, and framed in the back with the previous prompt finished on the left, and a blank page on the right.

I simply painted some loose flowers in white and added leaves and dots with brush, brayer and paint pens.

Day 16/30 Prompt: ASSORTED

Another little page, and loving it! :)

Before:

Painted the whole thing black. And this must be the middle of my book, as can you see my aubergine yarn, which binds my book? :)

Here I made little ogee patterns with a paintbrush, added little dots with paint pens and extra lines with pencil and a fine-tipped paint pen, ending it with some paint splatters. 

How I decided to do ogee patterns: I was oogling an ogee patterned LulaRoe Irma shirt on one of the Facebook groups I'm in. Ended up not buying it, as she doesn't sell to Canadians. :( Bummer. :(

And here's a closer-up:

And there are the last four pages I've done for this challenge. The rest will need to wait until I'm back from our Mexico vacation! Whoop!!! :)

Thanks for visiting me here! Would love to hear from you. Comments below welcomed! 

♥♥♥  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  ♥♥♥

Canvas Corp Match-up! Stencils and Burlap

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For this Match-up, I received a beautiful kit to work with. So many things I can make! I decided on using the journal, the canvas envelope (in which the papers fit in perfectly), the Tattered Angels four spray paint colours - the Bouquet kit (which are permanent once dry), the brown burplap piece, the kraft tags, a bit of the patterned paper and some of the waxed cotton cord and trim.

Paired with my favourite stencils by StencilGirl, and I had a blast creating!

I decorated the envelope and tags and sewed them to the cover of the naked kraft journal. Love the look!

I used two of the stencils from the August 2013 club stencils by MaryBeth Shaw, spraying the colour through the stencils with the Tattered Angels spray paint, then outlined each round shape with Tulip fabric markers. I added white dots with a white paint pen on the red shapes.

I pulled out the horizontal burlap pieces to create a "fringe", and then sewed the burlap to the inside edge of the "V" in the canvas envelope.

For the tag decoration, I used the circular shaped stencil with the criss-cross in the middle. It's from the April 2016 Club Stencils set. I have used this particular stencil repeatedly since I've received it. It just makes me happy somehow. :) I punched out flowers from the patterned paper.

            

I sewed the tags to the inside of the cover, and thread the trim and cord through.

And there it is: a new journal for my artsy pleasure! 

♥♥♥  Anna  ♥♥♥

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