Hello Friends! Tracy here and today I am delighted to share this little frame tutorial perfect to fit into your junk journals or any other type of journal!
In today’s video tutorial I am sharing how I used stamps on muslin fabric to create a fun frame project! We will make one together, I will make 2 off camera, and at the end I will show you how I incorporated all three into my junk journal. Be careful, my friends, making these is addictive!
Skill: Intermediate Time: 30 Minutes to 90 Minutes
Art Supplies Stamping Platform Glue Brush (I use silicone) Your choice of stamps Ephemera of your choice Muslin Fabric-pressed
Hello crafty friends! Can you feel the love fill the air? With love in our hearts and minds today, we are going to have fun creating this Love Wins art journaling page together. Let’s get crafting!
Skill: Intermediate Time: 45-60 minutes
Direction:
Step 1 Cut out the Canson watercolor leftover or strips into squares and rectangles. Add the pieces to the journal page with On Point Glue. Let them dry well for a few minutes. This will create the tile background to give extra texture to the journal page. (Optional: you can skip this if you want to have smoother background to your page)
Step 2 Add some of the texture paste around the corners and edges of the journal page using a stencil and palette knife. Remove the stencil and wash it right away with warm water. Let the texture paste to dry. You can use a craft heater to speed up the drying time, but be very careful to not heat it up too much, move around your craft heat all over the page. Let the page cool down.
Step 3 This is a fun step! Start spraying your page with the Fireworks! Shimmery Craft Spray, one color at the time. You do not need to wait for each color to dry to spray the next one. It is fun to watch how each color blends together. Use a craft heater to dry the background. Optional: you can repeat spraying until you get the color blending you like to have.
Step 4 Add some of the Wedding Dress Memento Luxe ink to the page using your finger on the texture paste heart on the background. This will bring out the hearts and muted the bright colors a little bit. Dry the background with a craft heat gun.
Step 5 Building up the background texture on the journal page by randomly stamping each texture stamp one by one using the Memento Luxe ink pads (Tuxedo Black, Rich Cocoa, Espresso Truffle) and VersaFine Clair Charming Pink ink pad. Dry the ink after stamping each image on the journal page.
Step 6 Using sponge dauber, add some of the Memento Luxe Rick Cocoa ink around the corner of the page to create the shadow border. Dry the ink with a craft heat gun.
Step 7 On a piece of white cardstock, stamp the letters for the title or sentiment using VersaFine Clair Charming Pink inkpad. Dry the stamped letters with a craft heat gun. Cut out each letter with scissors. Add some of the VersaFine Clair Charming Pink ink around the edges of the letters using a sponge dauber to give some shadows effect to the letters.
Step 8 Add each letter to the journal page with On Point Glue.
Step 9 This is an optional step. I decided to muted down the Rick Cocoa border by adding some of the Memento Luxe Wedding Dress ink with a blending brush.
Step 10 Add some shimmer sparkle to the page by spraying some of the Sheer Shimmer Sparkle Spritzer. Dry the whole page once more time with a craft heat gun. It’s done.
Let unconditional love fill each of your hearts every day so we can show love to others. At the end… Love wins! Thank you for stopping by our blog today. Have a wonderful day.
Beyond staining paper with Walnut inks, use them to stamp with foam stamps and as a drawing medium with the Fantastix brush tips for free hand designs on kraft wrapping paper. Seal the result and make the paper resistant with a layer of Creative MEDIUM. Celebrate the new year and create some awesome goals.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 1 ½ hour
Directions
Step 1
Cut 4x6in pieces of the carton paper and 5x7in of the kraft paper. 4 of each to make 2 notepads.
Step 2
Pour some Walnut Ink Lilac Posies on the craft mat and press the foam leaf stamp on it and stamp in a scattered pattern on the kraft paper. Try not to over soak the foam. (If you don’t have a leaf stamp, cut a simple, almond like, leaf shape from a piece of foam).
Step 3
Continue with smaller size leaves using the Cherry Blossom and Willow Walnut inks. Make two kraft paper pieces as above.
Step 4
Dip three Fantastix brush tips in the Walnut Inks colors above and draw brunches with the Willow one.
Step 5
Add flowers (small dots can work to decorate) with the Cherry Bloom and the Lilac Posies. Make two of the kraft paper pieces as above.
Step 6
Decorate the leaves with the MEMENTO dual tips markers.
Step 7
Add the number 21 using the number stencil and the MEMENTO dual tips markers.
Step 8
Cover the kraft papers with a long palette knife and Creative MEDIUM Shimmer and let them dry.
Step 9
Place Tear It Tape on the carton pieces and set in the middle the kraft papers. (½ in should be left on every side).
Step 10
Add Tear It Tape to the edge of the ½ in kraft paper, cut the corners and fold to secure on the back of the carton paper. This step creates the book cover. Repeat process with the rest pieces.
Step 11
Cut 3 ¾ x 5 ¾ in pieces of kraft paper, place Tear It Tape and set to the back (inner) side of the book covers.
Step 12
Cut blank pages in 3 ¾ x 5 ¾ in size. Use a book binding machine or book binding tools to bind the notepads. Alternate punch holes with hole punch tool and add book binding rings to hold the pages.
Greetings crafty friends! In this quick ink swatching video, I used the Waffle Flower Swatch Stamp and Die set for Kaleidacolor Ink Pads to show how these multicolor inks can be used throughout the year. These dye, water-based inkpads are a favorite of mine for fun quick backgrounds, easy stamp pad storage, keeping colors organized and the 5 colors in one ink pad make it even better.
Kaleidacolor in Baby Powder has a light pastel variety — perfect for baby shower invitations with light pinks, blues, and yellows. Kaleidacolor in Autumn Leaves and Vineyard – perfect for Fall themed cards – Halloween + Thanksgiving. My favorite for Winter Christmas Cards or Holiday Cards is Blue Breeze which is an all-blue palette giving that icy winter wonderland mood.
Creating an Artsy book cover is easy with All-Purpose Ink and Ink Droppers. This project will walk you through the step by step process of creating a unique background paired with a large word stamped (with StazOn Pigment Ink) as a focal point.
Skill: Intermediate Time: 20 minutes
Directions
Part 1: Create an Artsy book cover with All-Purpose Inks.
Part 2: Color Scheme Tag Journal
Start with a blank hardcover book.
Place a piece of paper under the book cover to protect the pages below.
Using ink droppers, draw up a small amount of All-Purpose Ink into the dropper and release (splatter) the ink onto the cover. Repeat with different colors.
After the ink has dried, stamp “ART” onto the cover using StazOn Pigment ink.
Apply StazOn Ink directly to each edge of the book cover.
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