No Journaling Art Journal Pages

I did these pages in my

art journal following Paula's Ustream Saturday night...

I've got to say,

I believe I like these pages better than any other I've done... and all due to JournalArtista's tutelage.

The background is done

almost identically to hers... of course, my stamps and stencil are different. I used Skipping Stones Design's Timeless Textures stamp set and Crafters Workshop Chevron Arrows.

The butterfly was fussy

cut from a sheet of Kaiser Craft Butterflies from their Timeless collection. It's colored with Distress Inks. I applied the CW Mini Poppies with gesso. After drying, I brushed on a second coat. I "painted" them with Festive Berries, Aged Mahogany and Forest Green Distress Inks. Then I went over them with an S Faber-Castell Pitt pen... outlining and shading.

I was so totally happy

with the out come, that I didn't even want to do any journaling on it.

Coffee scoop with acrylic handle.

A few months back

our son started taking an interest in pen making, and asked my husband for some instruction. The scoop above and the pens below are a few of the items they've made...

Hummm... I think

we're going to need another dust mask.

Thanks for stopping by!

Linda

Have A Good Time

In looking through 

my journal, I found a blank page next to the page of jump start #23 Ronda Palazzari. So I filled it in with this...

After covering the page

with gesso and then watered down craft paint, I applied a torn sheet of patterned paper... then did Paula's (Journalartista) baby wipe technique.

This is Dina Wakely's

Script Heart stamp that I stamped onto patterned paper and fussy cut. Applied it atop a paper doily, rubbed on some more paint then brushed on matte Mod Podge. I outlined it with a soft charcoal pencil and smudged outward to give the shadowing effect. Kind of looks like it's popped up with foam adhesive... but its flat.

The saying is from

Ronda's art that I have pictured on that other page of my journal. Be sure to stop by her blog and see all her lovelies!

And one more pen...

from the Penmaker.

I'm so happy to

see him creating again... plus golfing!

He calls it "The Turner

Ashby Pen". He picked up that piece of branch while we were at the site in Harrisonburg, VA where Ashby was killed during the Civil War, and made the pen from a part of it. He's giving it to a friend of ours who's writing a book about the Confederate cavalryman.

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Thanks for the visit!

Hugs!

Linda