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See the Beauty - Mixed Media Art Journal Page - Catchy Crafts Creative Team

2018-03-24T21:53:00.001+11:00

See the Beauty - Mixed Media Art Journal Page

By Creative Team Member - Dani Choate

Supplies:

Cadence Mixed Media Acrylic Spray - light purple
Cadence Diamond Metallic relief paste - mint green
Cadence Matt Shabby Chic relief paste - light mint green
Cadence Liquid Pearls Fluorescent Pink
Cadence Mini hearts stencil - CADMA21
Crafts 4U Leafy Branch Die - 70038
Crafts 4UHoneycomb Chicken wire Frame - 10191
Plain black lightweight card
Plain lemon lightweight card
Plain orange lightweight card
Simply Dies - 3leaves die - SDQZ0025
Simply Dies -Birds on a Branch die - SDSE7018
Vicky Boutin - All The Good Things paper - Blossom to Awesome
Kaisercraft -Wood veneer Hanging Birdcage - FL544
Rosie's Studio -Wood veneer Whimsy Words
Authentique - 'Petite Diction' sticker words
Lawn Fawn - LawnCuts - Custom craft die - 'i love you'
Little Birdie -Pearl Florettes (Tropical Starburst)
Little Birdie -Pearl Florettes (Celeste)
Little Birdie -Pearl Florettes (Classic)
Porta Craft - mini rinestones
Dylusions Square Journal
Sakura Pigma Micron pen - .005
450 glue
Tombow Monoliquid glue
Pink thread

Instructions:

- Start with blank double page. You will be working lengthwise within the book.

- Spray and splat Cadence Mixed Media Ink randomly over the page

- Once dry, tape the Cadence heart stencil (MA21) so that the bottom edge will not be even

- Stencil down the middle of the journal page using Cadence Style Matt relief paste in light mint green

- Die cut - 3x leafy branch die (in black)

- 2x leaf die (in black)

- 1x honeycomb frame die (in orange)

- 1x honeycomb frame die (in lemon)

- 2x Lawn Cuts 'i love you' die (in black)

- 1x bird on a branch (in black)

- Fussy cut a number of flower clusters out of the Vicki Boutin paper and some extra leaves

- Arrange the flowers from the paper and pop-up some with dimensional tape and attach down to the page

- Slide black leaves and fronds underneath and around the flowers

- Cut small sections of honeycomb frame in orange and yellow and add these underneath as well, stepping each colour three times around the cluster

- Add the wood veneer title, along with the 'Petite Diction' phrase line running along the bottom line of the title

- Sit and glue one single black bird on the top side of the phrase line

- Attach a few random colours of Little Birdie small florette flowers

- Use one 'i love you' die cut and remove the end wave from it. Use it to lengthen the other 'i love you' die cut - this will be what your hanging birdcage will be attached to

- Lightly glue the long 'i love you' die to the birdcage and glue the birdcage onto the right hand page - As we are working lengthwise this will actually be the bottom page

- Use a teardrop (or any single row linear stencil) to add mint green Diamond Paste teardrops falling from the flower cluster

- Use Cadence coloured pearls to represent strings of beads falling from the bushes - also add some dots at the top of the page

*** WAIT FOR THESE TO DRY ***

- Attach rhinestones similarly alongside these other elements

- Make sure raindrops, beads and rhinestones are staggered in length

- Stuff a tangled nest of pink thread under the bottom edge of the entire cluster

- Add rhinestones to the birdcage, the 'i' in the 'i love you' die element & on the 'i' in the title

- Finally hand write the quote that ties all the elements together

" I don'task for the meaning of the song of a bird

or the rising of the sun on a misty morning.

There they are, and they are beautiful"

-Pete Hamill

more daily drawings

2017-01-23T07:40:00.001+11:00

Jan 13 & 14 Jan 15 &18Jan 16 &17 (using a Robert Sabuda tutorial)

Inspiration Wednesday - Donna Downey

2017-01-23T07:22:00.001+11:00

This is one of my other projects for 2017...
INSPIRATION WEDNESDAY - I love this class !! ...and have watched these videos for the last 2 years - but never done the pages (bad, bad sign-up addict!!) The only work I had done was to make the actual journal (it seemed amazing to me that I had actually done it... and that seemed enough effort for the entire year!!)... but...
...this is the last year Donna is doing IW... :( !! (insert sadness). So my effort is renewed, so I can have a complete journal by the end of the year.
Week 1:

4 more days - #drawriotdaily

2017-01-13T14:29:00.001+11:00

Four more days to show... yay!
...having fun... but I got to move on to some bigger projects soon... as well as getting back to making some money

(always the killer!! 😣)

Plant... and a random fish?

2017-01-09T12:04:00.001+11:00

I was working on the back of the butterfly from January 6th's page and began doodling. I had no prompt in mind as, so far I have been full of ideas - a usual occurance for early Jan.
Next Jan 8 started with some birthday confetti lying around from lil-z's birthday and was a little affected by the same butterfly in that I wanted the map to show through clearly behind the butterfly page. It was all going well until I wondered what she might be able to hold in front of her dress. I like my characters to do something with their hands...hold something...represent something. Often I use a heart, or bird... something relatively inoffensive. I wanted something different this time, so headed to the prompt for Jan 8 ...
FISH - ?!?!
(interesting...)

Well... why shouldn't she hold a fish??

Jan 7 & 8

Two always better than one - #drawriotdaily #minimoleydaily

2017-01-07T17:07:00.001+11:00

Whilst I anxiously await my large monthly moleskine journal...(for all those weekly and monthly challenges that I want to be a part of this year)...
...and await a recent order from the newly opened LuluArt ...
...AND... await my box of new JANE goodies.... (!!!!!)
...my mini art journaling has now morphed into two challenges. The original, that I found on Instagram, with Tori Weyers - @drawriot and a couple of days ago I found a facebook group - MiniMoleyDaily - which is a promptless mini moleskine group with Effy Wild. So... I am now posting these pages in both places. You should join us! ... at either location... and start being creative...
Such a small scale should be pretty easy to manage.

So here is my:
Jan 5 & 6

#drawriotdaily

2017-01-04T10:54:00.001+11:00

Jan 3 & Jan 4 - #drawriotdaily

2017 - project #1

2017-01-03T23:29:00.001+11:00

Yup!... probably bitten off more than I can chew... multiple prompt projects and video classes for this year. Hoping to have a constant source of inspo at any and every moment throughout the year... and that this will bring about a consistent flow of arty goodness from my fingertips...
...so...

Project #1 - #drawriotdaily
A daily page in a miniature moleskine. The aim for me is to make it super chubby by the end of the year. I will be posting on instagram every second day so a double page spread can be seen. Keep an eye out for mine over there - @pygletwhispers
and check out #drawriotdaily and the daily prompts here - @drawriot

Jan 1 & Jan 2

New beginnings

2017-01-02T13:02:00.001+11:00

OK...here we go 2017!! (deep breath)

What might you have in store for me this year? Sometimes it would be nice to have a crystal ball... changes? opportunities? fun?
Let us hope for onward and upward.
I tell my girls that it is important for them to create something, build something or produce something... (usually in relation to consuming too much media content ) but I think it applies across the board...
so ...
this is my plan for 2017.

CREATE :: BUILD :: PRODUCE

Art journal withdrawals..

2016-09-07T11:58:00.001+10:00

Been such a long time between pages...

I have been busy beginning a new business, opening a vintage stall in the city. All much funs - but it has left me temporarily with less time to art and I am missing it...ALOT!!
The store is now up and basically stocked... (even with a little art) but now I need to get back to the journal!!

Here's my last spread...she looks a little melancholy at being left alone with her wattle

Mixed Media Art - Journal Page - MAKE MISTAKES

2016-06-02T14:51:00.001+10:00

This journal page was started with a spread that I had put leftover paints onto. It is a really good way to start a page and use up leftover paint from other projects or classwork. All good in theory mind you, until I had to close the book before it had dried and once opened the paint had stuck the pages together!!This is where I began this page as the prompt was - EMBRACE MISTAKES

The quote is from Neil Gaiman's keynote addresss to the Philadelphia University of the Arts, class of 2012.

video here: http://www.uarts.edu/neil-gaiman-keyn...

"Go, and make interesting mistakes,

make amazing mistakes,

make glorious and fantastic mistakes.

BREAK RULES.

Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

MAKE

GOOD

ART"

Planner Flip - DLP2016 JANUARY flip-through

2016-02-15T14:51:00.001+11:00

Documented Life Project 2016 (arttothe5th) - "The unPlanner"

January flip-through

Please enjoy!

Two favourites

2015-12-16T17:44:00.001+11:00

Have not been able to put these two sweeties up for sale ...
Please meet Poppy & Petunia... they could be sisters?

Pretty little girls

2015-12-11T19:15:00.001+11:00

A little project has been happening for Christmas...
...these have been popular - makin' me happy 😊

Mixed media art - ROSE GIRL

2015-12-06T18:39:00.001+11:00

Her bows turned into butterflies...

2015-11-06T13:18:00.001+11:00

A newish piece on 12"x9" Strathmore mixed media paper. It was nice to be back working on regular paper again, even though I always eventually return to a journal.
I am loving how this one turned out!!

Supplies used:
Delta Ceramcoat acrylic paint
Tim Holtz - Stampers Anonymous "Blossom" Stencil
Liquitex super heavy gesso
Golden acryluc glazing medium
Washi tape
Prismacolor pencils
White sharpie

Have Fun!!

Art Journaling - mixed media journal page - THE TRIPLETS

2015-10-29T00:35:00.001+11:00

prisma layer

2015-09-01T23:05:00.001+10:00

Current work in progress...
...the texture is killing my prismas!!!

Art Journal Social

2015-08-30T09:20:00.001+10:00

Have been getting together with some interested arty ladies over the last few weeks. The number are still small so it has been quite relaxing.
...some of my pages from last Friday

Art journaling aka page wrangling

2015-08-21T18:16:00.001+10:00

New things for me in this page - using aluminium foil, string and gesso experiments and having fun with my new Lumocolor permanent pencils

This page was started without a plan , as usual, felt quite lost in the middle but managed to wrangle it together in the end. Hope you like taking a look at the process...Enjoy!!

carefree face - mixed media journal page

2015-08-17T08:14:00.001+10:00

Shows the process of completing a large journal page...there was no plan to the page ...just having a play...no talking but a few captions to show you what supplies I have used along the way...Enjoy!

Relaxing into collage

2015-08-11T09:21:00.001+10:00

Simple video of my process creating this collage background: https://youtu.be/9CWRdIbYLh0

Newer large work

2014-11-06T14:47:00.001+11:00

"two..."
24" x 36"
mixed media vintage fabric collage

two more...

2010-04-11T17:02:00.001+10:00

Two more journal pages...still working on eyes and faces

new designs

2010-04-10T16:08:00.003+10:00

New designs on new base fabric from spoonflower.
(older designs are already over here)