Earth Mother

Hi there, I had another play around with my inktense pencils and another one of Teri Sherman's beautiful images  'Earth Mother' and I put the Driftwood Frame around her.

I used a silver Lyra watercolour pencil over the top of the gray inktense on the fame to give a slight luminescent quality to the frame.  Still working on technique, I think I'll have to do some research on these as I'd like to get more/better shading on the skin areas.

Hope you like her.

Cheers,

Kasey

Snow drop fairy

I got some of Teri Sherman's latest Delicious Doodles digi images and this one, Snow Drop Fairy just seemed to be perfect for a journal page, I wanted to give my new Inktense pencils a try out.  My! they are awesome pencils to use, I found that I was probably a little heavy handed and I need to do lighter layers to deepen the colours.  Love these pencils, they are so creamy to apply and then the colour is so intense when you add the water.  Gorgeous!

I added some tangle pattern around the edge for a border and on the joining points is some liquid pearls which you can just make out.

Maybe need to practice with the pencils a bit more, but I'm very happy with the first attempt.

Cheers,

Kasey

Mixed Media canvas for my gorgeous hairdresser

Hi all,  It's been a while since my last post, I've been working on a special project for a lovely lady.  Tanya, my hairdresser is such a sweetheart.  I love visiting her salon, the girls are all awesome.  

I decided to make a mixed media canvas and asked Tanya to provide me with some paraphernalia.  I also went and got some extra pins, clips, bling and flowers.

Tanya supplied a pair of scissors! insisting that they are past their prime, boy they may not be the best for hair but I'd love to use them in my craft room they were so sharp and felt amazing in my hand, possibly due to them costing a fortune.  Still they needed to go on the canvas and as they are solid metal, they are a little heavy so I tied them on with some silver cord, I didn't think glues would 'cut it'  (pun intended!)

I had some strips of foil, that Tanya had given me, so decided to shape some strands of hair and added some satin cord in red and black to complete the 'hair' part of the project.

I covered some perming rods in embossing powder and then glued them onto the canvas, it was a bit tricky so I decided that the other plastic items needed to stay uncoloured as getting things to stick to the plastic is difficult and I didn't want the paint peeling off.

  Tanya's Salon is Colours Hair, Body & Beauty (link to her facebook page) and her business card has these lovely butterflies so I decided to make some foil ones coloured with alcohol inks, they glitter and shine so beautifully.

I was so pleased with the end result and when I presented it to Tanya she just loves it.  Yay, mission accomplished.

Cheers,

Kasey

Time Flutters By

This mixed media canvas was an experiment for me, I covered a conventional canvas with ivory coloured hessian or burlap then sprayed four different Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays on the edges sweeping the colour towards the middle.  

I then added some texture paste and stemple paint and took a while to decide what to put on the canvas.  I knew I wanted the weathered clock and some butterflies but my first attempt at the butterflies failed miserably!  I'm really pleased to have had some stocks of paper that I'd created a while ago using the shaving cream technique, they were perfect for my butterflies.

The colours are way more vibrant than this picture allows to be shown.  Destined for my bedroom wall as most of my other creations were gifted at Christmas to family and friends.

Happy creating.

Cheers,

Kasey

A new year filled with Sunshine

Hello friends, I've been very lax in posting here over the past few months, I wouldn't blame you if you removed me from your follow list!  If you're still with me, thank you for your patience.

I have been busy creating though and here are a few of the items that I've been working on.

This mixed media canvas was sent to a lovely friend who lives over 3000 kilometres away from me. Another friend visited and took these home with her.  I know this canvas is sitting on Karen's craft room wall. I love the way the butterflies pop out of the canvas, they are flat, but look to 3d.  Acrylic paint background with lots of lovely texture from stemple paint and modeling paste

This copper leaves mixed media canvas went to my daughter and son-in-law for Christmas. Lots of layers of acrylic paint, modeling paste to create texture.

This canvas needed to be blokey all the way, this was created for my brother who works on heavy earth moving equipment for a living and owns 7 motorbikes, 4 of them he's rebuilt and he's working on the other three.  He was stoked when he saw it and was pretty impressed that it had been one in two days as I had asked him if he wanted some original art for Christmas and I explained what I sort of had in mind.

Last but not least is this journal page I created from this gorgeous Bo Bunny paper, I'd been eyeing it off at my local scrapbook shop for ages, and I finally caved and bought some.
Love how it turned out.

All the very best creating in 2014.

Cheers,

Kasey

Faith

Perhaps at this time of year, Faith is a very apt topic for an Art Journal page.

This sort of just happened, I had the concept for the page and once I had torn a few pages out of an old encyclopedia I found that they were mostly about religions, a few were about politics!  LOL two subjects my Grandmother used to say never to discuss.

The words are from a post on FB and I'm sorry I can't find it again now to give you the author.

Look at all that luscious texture and shimmer.  The texture comes from serviettes or the white backing paper and the shimmer comes from an iridescent paint medium brushed over the top of the Dylusions inks.  A little texture paste, some of the circles have been coloured with a weak solution of the same Dylusions inks and some left white.   

Hope you're inspired to create your own Faith page.

Cheers,

Kasey

My love affair with Creative Journaling continues

Hello there friends, I've been playing around with some pages and not yet added any text, perhaps I won't as I really like the way the pages look now.


With this first page I was going for an all white look which ended up being pearl and gold, but you know how these things just flow and what you set out to do sometimes takes an unexpected turn.  I've used gesso and then some trim string and lace dasies and butterflies.  The pages were painted with a irridescent paint finish which turned the stark white of the gesso to a rich pearly sheen.  I thought I'd just add a little bit of colour with some Gold.

This next page is an acrylic paint background, with gesso over the top to soften and blur the edges, then a thick layer of crackle paint and stormy sky distress ink rubbed over the crackle.  I then added the texture paste and stood back and looked at it and thought it looked like a fancy trellis so then came the idea of using up some of my flower stash.  a little bit of lace and some awesome bling.  Page done!

With this close up of the bling, you can also see the gorgeous texture of the crackle paint.  I'm really super happy with this spread.

Thank you for taking time to stop by for a visit.

Cheers, 

Kasey

Little Boxes

While not quite old enough to remember this song, it was released in 1962, I do remember it being played on the radio.
 
The song Little Boxes was released by Malvina Reynolds, here is an excerpt from wikipedia.

The song is a political satire about the development of suburbia and associated conformist middle-class attitudes. It refers to suburban tract housing as "little boxes" of different colors "all made out of ticky-tacky", and which "all look just the same." "Ticky-tacky" is a reference to the shoddy material used in the construction of housing of that time.


When I started to create this page, the song came to mind.

Hope you see the fun side of this.

Cheers,

Kasey

L O V E

I'm still on my creative journaling path and have been having lots of fun playing around with different mediums and textures.

Normally, I'd cover the pages with inks or sprays or acrylic paint, this time I decided to leave some white space and just freehanded some lines in Magenta, Cobalt Blue and Lavender  The hearts are punched out of canvas which I got in a stack like you buy watercolour paper.  It's awesome thickness and texture.

Personally, I think the blue stamped hearts get a bit lost on the background as it's quite bold.

Anyway, I thank you for taking the time to stop by.

Cheers,

Kasey

The door to my heart

I had so much fun making this page, it just came together beautifully, I got the inspiration from a lovely lady Kerry who was at a journal class I attended, I looked through her journal and was just blown away.  Some very lovely pages and she was generous in allowing me to take some photos of her work.

This is not an exact copy as with any thing that gives you inspiration, you end up putting your own creative flair into the mix.

 The Plum and Teal go so well together don't you think?  Purples and Teals are one of my favourite combinations I hope you don't get too sick of seeing them together on my projects, I do try to mix it up a bit, like with the last page all hot pink and orange!

I am really loving playing around with mixed media, like adding texture with modeling paste and acrylic paint, layers of stamps and papers and inks in my Creative Journal, the only problem is that it's getting quite bulky now and it's difficult to lay it flat for both working and taking the photo!

Thanks for stopping by to check my latest creation out.

Cheers,

Kasey 

Find the Heart you're looking for

I had a lot of different ideas for this two page spread but as with a lot of things when you're creating, it took on a life of its own and I ended up with a neon page!

The lovely final touches were the metal embellishments, mostly from Wild Orchid Crafts and then a couple from Tim Holtz. 

Close up of the embellishments, I'm not normally an Owl person but this little fellow was too cute.

This is a quote from a web search on time and love and then created on the computer and cut out in a heart shape with sponged ink around the edges.

Thanks for visiting.

Cheers
Kasey

Find your Bliss

Back again with another journal page, I'm particularly happy with this double pager as it's softer and I think the background layers of acrylic paint is truly beautiful which is why I left so much of it open and the layering is around the edges.

The words are cut from a Hippy Chick alpha die I got when I bought my cuttlebug many years ago.  I found the letters a little bit large for card making, but years later and they are certainly being well used now in my art journals.

I have also used a Spellbinders butterfly die as well as a Stampin' Up! one for the little gold butterflies.  I Love the liquidtex modelling paste, I left the hexagons white and added some jo sonja cobalt blue paint to a little bit and then painted a little bit of gold over the top once it was dry.

Here is a close up of all that lovely texture.  Lots of The Crafters Workshop masks used to obtain all the layers.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers,

Kasey

Music of Life

I saw a t shirt out in the street while I was in Sydney recently and then developed this saying from that.

Love this mix of colours together, I've used Dylusions sprays, Crushed Grape and Squeezed Orange with a little bit of chocolate for the writing stencil.  The harlequin design was glass beads in texture paste with some crushed grape spray, it dried much deeper in colour than I had intended so I added some white highlights with acrylic paint.

I gave some old music sheets a coat of gesso and used that as the base for my words which are cut from a Memory box die then coloured with the dylusions inks.

There are lots of little details in that stemple paint has been used to do the white dots as it adds texture.  Some stamping and punched out hearts have been added as well as some chipboard music notes.

Thanks for visiting.

Cheers,

Kasey

Pursue your dreams and unlock your potential!

Hello friends, life has a way of getting busy now and then and that usually means less time to do those crafty pursuits.  But I have had some time to play.

I have a couple of journal pages for you today.  I've been you tubing again and just love this acrylic paint background technique.  I've also used a lovely Crafters Workshop template and texture paste for the flowers.  Die cut alpha for the words. 

Lots of texture on this page, I've used some fabulous Make it Crafty chipboard, some Kaiser Craft locks and computer generated text.  Lots of layering paints and masks to create depth on the page.

Thanks for visiting!

Cheers

Kasey

Colour My World

I have a new art journal double page for you today. Just playing around with some techniques and sprays and song lyrics!

I had sprayed this gorgeous background with Dylusions sprays and it just sort of flowed, then a song worm just crept up on me and I found myself humming Colour My World from Petula Clark.
 

 My lady's face is drawn using a stencil (cause I can't draw freehand to save myself!)  although I did hand draw her neck and hair.  I had lots of lovely texture in her hair and then when I painted the supposedly matte modge podge over her, it all sort of blurred.
Oh well, you live and learn!

I printed the chorus of Colour My World out on heavy paper and cut it into strips and then modge podged it down.  I had some left over canvas so I sprayed it and used a punch to get all the bright hearts. 

 I found a little packet of bling hearts and added them to her hair and scattered a few on the page for fun.  The hearts are doodled around using a black copic marker and the white is some liquid pearls to give some dimension.

I hope this colours your world!

Until next time.... Cheers!

Kasey