Art Journal Challenge Day 5

  If you have been following my blog you will have seen that recently I have been doing lots of mixed media.

This week I joined the Art Journal Challenge on Facebook - Create your First Art Journal in only 5 days. Well it's not my first Art Journal but it is certainly the first one that I have made like this in 5 days.

I have spent a lot of time in my craft room!

I thought I would just round up the end of the week...

So at the end of Day 5 I had added the following to my collection:

Because I tended to make a second of several pages I ended up with 16 pages rather than 10.

One of the two following was destined for the cover:

I mentioned yesterday that these started as brown paper bags with a thick layer of gesso then a stencil dipped in to make a texture, followed by paint.

To the first one, I stencilled this Tando stencil with blue sapphire distress ink.

I then just added some green die cuts. 

To the second one I added the elephant die cut (Tim Holtz die). The Sentiment is embossed with archival ink and clear embossing powder - the stamp is from Doo Lally Pip.

Finally I added the ribbon and three elephant embellishments.

I decided this is my preferred page for my cover.

In fact I may repeat this background for my October diary page...which has to have a Halloween theme!

The second two pages to be finished were these:

Firstly, black card run through the Big Shot in embossing folders - the Bubble Explosion is Leonie Pujol, the Henna is by Sheena Douglass.

Then using the paint backgrounds made the day before, I just added the narrow strips and the die cut flowers and leaves. The leaf dies are Craft Box. The Sweet Pea Stem is from Poppy Stamps. I ordered this to make a card to go on my Dad's funeral flowers on Thursday but unfortunately it didn't arrive in time. He was a champion Sweet Pea grower...

Finally, the above card was made from scratch on Day 5. 

A Distress Ink background followed by more Distress Ink through stencils - I think the brick wall came from Paper Lane in Dubai, the confetti is a Clarity stencil - using salty ocean, scattered straw and evergreen bough.

I then stamped the bottom tree image in chipped sapphire Distress Ink and then the corner image and top tree image in black Archival.

The corner stamp is from Crafters Companion Splats and Stains. The trees and sentiment are from Visible Image and the butterfly is from the Collage book I have mentioned before (Extraordinary Things to Cut Out and Collage, Maria Rivans)

Lastly I added the metal embellishment on the butterfly and added distress to the edges, chipped sapphire and Archival.

I will link this to Lost Coast Portal To Creativity Challenge #105

So that was all my pages made (and more). Next I added patterned paper on the backs - Kaisercraft Mix and Match - punched a hole on one corner and threaded them together with a metal loop.

Happy Crafting!