Creative Team Retro Flowers Art Journal

Creative Team Retro Flowers Art Journal

by Creative Team member Dani Choate

 

Supplies:

Cadence Granite Relief Paste

Cadence Stencil CADMA44 - Retro background

Cadence Stencil CADAS482 - Flowers

Cadence Shabby Chic Relief Paste - Lavender

Cadence Black Gesso

Crafts 4U Double sided tape

White card

Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks - set 1 & 2(Lemon, Peacock, Lime, Turquoise & Night)

Dylusions Dyalog background journal

Helmar 450 glue

Posca Paint pens - Any acrylic paint with a small fine brush could also be used (yellow, emerald, apple green)

 

 

Instructions:

Begin by painting your entire page with black gesso and waiting for it to completely dry. If you happen to have a blue background you can paint with a little less coverage to show a bit of blue through especially at the edges

Grab your 'Retro style' stencil. Using washi tape mask off some of the  columns to give you stems of differing heights. This will add some interest to your page and allow you to get more flowers onto the page

Use the 'retro' looking stencil and the lavender Shabby relief paste to give you your lilac stems

Using paint pens (in 2 different greens) or acrylic paints with a small brush, paint or draw some small leaves along the light purple stems

On a seperate piece of white card stock stencil the granite relief paste through a floral stencil. This paste needs to be applied quite thickly and with a bolder stencil (rather than a fine, delicate one)

Once totally dry, fussy cut the granite flowers out to give you a selection of single flowers with SUPER texture!!

Use scribble sticks or watercolours to colour the individual flower edges with blue, turquoise, lime green and yellow to give you a gradiated effect, from bottom to top on all your flowers.

Using double sided tape or strong glue, attach the flowers to your stems. Make sure the edges do not entirely stick down ads this will give the flower an increased 3D effect

If one of your flowers happens to be placed across the fold in the page you will have to carefully cut the flower down the middle. This should give your page enough wriggle room to actually be able to fold closed

I have also added a small sentiment on the side of the page "SHINE BRIGHT"

 

 

 

 

 

Creative Team - Butterfly Kisses Art Journal Project

Creative Team Butterfly Kisses Art Journal Project

By Creative Team member - Dani Choate

 

Supplies:

Crafts 4U Claudie MediumButterfly Die - 70046

Crafts 4U Claudie SmallButterfly Die - 70047

Crafts 4U Decorative RoundDie- 70032

Crafts 4U Double sided tape

Crafts 4U foam tape

Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks - set 2 (Sedona, Blushing, Fuschia & Marine)

Little Birdie Pearl Florettes (Celeste -blues)

Little Birdie Pearl Florettes (Blush -pinks)

Little Birdie Pearl Florettes (Coral)

Little Birdie Pearl Florettes (Cherry)

Pink Paislee patterned paper 10 - squares of pattern to cut butterflies out

Pinkfresh puffy alpha sticker - pink

Pinkfresh Be You 'Sincere' paper - green with dot

Cocoa Vanilla - More Than Words - 'Gossamer' - fussy cut butterflies out

Cocoa Vanilla - More Than Words - 'Collage' - black and white larger butterflies

Tombow Mono liquid glue

Helmar 450 glue

 

 

Instructions:

Using Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks in Sedona, Blushing & Fuschia scribble and wet blend some colour into the right hand page, top right hand corner.

Using the same colours apply some pigment to a plastic bag or craft mat, mix with water to create a liquid watercolour style paint and then flick some splatters outward across the page originating from the location that you will place your main cluster.

Do the same flicking of colour with Marine out across the page.

 

Cut your Pink Paislee pattern #10 paper into small squares so you have many different paper patterns.

Using your Crafts 4U Medium Butterfly Die, cut a few different patterns of butterflies. Put aside the butterflies. Make sure to save the outer frames.

With the outer frames of the die cut butterflies we will be stencilling.

Using a baby wipe and a butterfly frame, Stencil  away some colour from the red sections on the page.

Also stencil some shadow colour (light red from the baby wipe) onto, some of the white ares on the right hand page)

Stencil some medium and small butterflies in marine using a spomge acros the left hand page. Make sure that the colour is light.

Fussy cut quite a few butterflies from the Cocoa Vanilla 'More than Words' paper. Some in the small coloured variety and 3 in the black & white larger variety.

 

Die cut a large scalloped circle with the Crafts 4U Decorative Round die

Glue a rough piece of loose gauze  onto the right hand page

Attach the Circle Die Cut and pop up with dimensional tape

Cluster the die cut butterflies around the inside edge of the circle...  as if the butterflies are about to fly outward.

 

Inside that cicular cluster, glue 3 Cocoa Vanilla fussy cut small butterflies

At the centre of the circle glue a single blue flower

Randomly place flowers and butterflies around the page as if the butterflies are flying off the page

 

Use puffy Pinkfresh lettering to add a quote or sentiment. I have written 'Butterfly Kisses' and then typed with a typewriter...  '...and ladybug hugs'

 

Some of the pink flowers can be altered with scribble sticks to have them more accurately pick up the mauve tone that the pink lettering has.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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