Book Cover for my AJ

Before

One of my favorite artists is Finnabair: Mixed-media Collage, Art-journal and Scrapbooking by Anna Dabrowska. Love how she mixes everything. 
My imitation is more simple than hers. I would never be able to use so much stuff without making it look like a mess.

Thougt it was time to make the front of my dictionary I am useing for my AJ .I covered the book with gesso and acrylic paint. Used some small stamps from Prima and added a mask. In the cornes did I use some Fragments and embossing powder and added a corner piece of Filigree Metal from The Funkie Junkie Boutique. The Mini Bookplate from Tando Creative is covered with crackle paint and distress ink.

Challenges I'll join:
TANDO CREATIVE CHALLENGE: FAVOURITE ARTIST - Finnabair - Mini Bookplate from TC.
FRILLY AND FUNKY CHALLENGE SUMMERTIME...... light colors (used Filigree Corners)

Totally Papercrafts - #175 - All of a Flutter - Tim Holtz bird

Simon Says Stamp & Show - A Little Stamping - small Prima stamps

ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE - Letter Y

Yndig/Adorable

It's time for a new challenge at The Craft Barn

LETTER Y

A little twist this fortnight to make us work a bit harder LOL. 

I have to use the colour YELLOW

Image transfer of the girls from some PP. A little stamping with a part of a letter stamp from Artemio. Stencil: Tando Creative; Baroque and TCW. Acrylic paint and distress ink.

The Craft Barn - ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE - Letter Y

Sweet Stampin - shabby Chic..

Totally Papercrafts - #175 - All of a Flutter
Simon Says Stamp & Show - A Little Stamping

ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE - Letter B

The Craft Barn: Alpha/Dictionary Challenge - letter B

B - Barn, børn, children

Mask: Tando Creative Children by Andy Skinner

The Stone Arch Tunnel is inspired by this photo from http://nauvoonews.com/

I often have nightmares so the text is inspired by that and says something like:

Children, do you see the light, you gotta go to get there. I don't know what you'll meet in the dark and cant't give you any promises about what you will find at the end - Only that it is better than there where you are now.

ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE - Letter B

ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE - Letter B

I am so inspired by Donna Downey video about Mixed Media. I really had fun playing with my new Panpastel, Tando Creative mask; Poppy Field and dies.

 Challenges I join:

The Craft Barn: Alpha/Dictionary Challenge - letter B. Blomst-er/Flowers

Designs by Lisa Somerville Bloggers Challenge - Create your own Background  - Tissue paper and Panpastel.

 Simon Says Stamp and Show Anything Goes

ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE - Letter U

ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE - Letter U

It's Week 12 - at the Craft Barn's ALFA Challenge and the letter is  = U

and I chose Ugle - OWL

This is my first try with collage stamping. Think I gotta a practise a little more.

The black silhouettes of the bird and fish did my grandma give me when I was a child. They are hand cut with a little sewing scissors of a young women she cared about.

Letter K - Kat/cat

ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE at The Craft Barn

- Letter K ----- Kat/Cat

Mediums: Gesso, Modeling Paste, Dylusion Ink, Pens, Acrylic paints.

Stencils from Tando Creative; Rollerball and Sundburst by Andy Skinner. Dreamweaver, birds.

Cat Stamps; Inkadinkado colored with Inktense.

The words KAT/cat and heart is handdrawn by me.

Black cat: Credit to vincent by tim burton by Charlotte Walker, printed.

Alpha challenge_A_Automobile

ALPHA/DICTIONARY CHALLENGE - Letter A

I am playing at the Craft Barn Alpha Challenge and this for this fortnight is the letter A and I choosed Automobile.

 Lots of gesso and acrylic paint for the background. Stamped the poppies and painted them with acrylic paint. Used a Andy Skinner mask and more acrylic and stamped the Kaisercraft Checker Plate on it.
For the first time have i tryed to transfer an image - the car - which I found/googled.
The paper doll is Julie Nutting design/Prima, stamped and cut out. (used one of the pages from the dictionary I am working in.