Dream & Discover - Art Journal

Hey guys I'm up on the Blogger with another art journaling page featuring one of KCS Designs by Kim images.  I am in love with this collection and so lucky to be part of her DT!  Here is a link to her shop to check out all of her fantastic images and backgrounds.

The Wistful Petals Journal Papers is one of my favorite collections from her shop.  I started out with an insert from my journal page, it's 140lb A5 paper with pre-cut holes that fits perfectly into my art journal.  I purchased off Amazon (link here, no affiliate - if you are looking for journaling pages that take wet and dry medium fabulously, this is it)!

I started off with a stencil and used a very light hand with some CTMH ink in the color of JOURNEY.  I wanted to pull just a little bit of the blue in her eyes out onto the page.  I then inked the background with some distressed oxides in SCATTERED STRAW.  

I just got some new background stamps from Amazon and wanted to use them with a few of my older stamps I have in my stash.  One of them is a HERO ARTS stamp set...that sun and title was perfect for this page!

After stamping up the background I wanted to add the look of newspaper print or book print.  I have an old dictionary, that I've had laying around for YEARS...it was my dad's.  I was torn on whether to use it or not but it was just collecting dust and he was so talented in the every aspect of art so me using this feels like part of him is with me and he wouldn't mind, so I tore a page out of it starting with the word BEAUTY.  I tore it in 3 separate sections and layered it out on my page.  I was trying not to cover up all the background work I did but sometimes that just happens and that's ok.

I printed out the image I chose from Kim's collection onto rice paper and fussy cut it.  I then adhered it to a 65lb white card stock to give it a little bit more structure.  When I use wet glue on my images I use the glue on the back AND the front and when I do that with rice paper it makes the image more contrasting with the colors which is why I didn't just print it on the 65lb paper to begin with.

I reached into my smaller paper pads and found a coordinating color that seemed to match her flowers.  I added a white along with a FRENCH WINE color acrylic paint to come up with a color I felt wasn't too light or too dark in order to pull out some of the other colors in the image. I added some brush strokes of color to the paper let it dry and die cut some flowers.  I then reached into my collection of threads and pulled out my BLACK thread and added it to the middle of the flower.  I wanted to blend in some of the wispiness of her hair and the black sketch lines of the flowers in her hair and I think it worked.

Finally, I adhered all the flowers down and then popped the image up on some foam tape and called it done!  I am not mad at it!! 

Thanks for hanging out with me today and don't forget to head over to KCS Designs by Kim and check out her shop.  I hope I inspired you to get into your crafty space and be creative today!

Stay Crafty,

Kimberly

Spring/Summer Coffee Blog Hop 2020 - card#2

Hi guys, I'm up on the blog putting together another coffee themed card for the Spring/Summer Coffee themed blog hop 2020 with this amazing Coffee Loving Cardmaking Facebook Group (I highly recommend joining this awesome group if you are into Coffee or Card Making and especially if you are into both)!

Click Here for a link to all of the sponsors, the sales they are offering for this hop (act quick, this hop ends soon) and the awesome inspiration they all share!

For this card, I wanted to keep it to the Spring/Summer colors (rather than the usual coffee colors) so I dug into my some bright colored scraps and off I went!

I made sure to grab the scraps I had left over from an amazing white, linen paper I just discovered at Hobby Lobby.  I love this paper because it soaks up the inks really well and you can do amazing stamping and blending with this paper!

After picking out the brightest Spring/Summer colors I cut them all down to A2 and smaller in order to layer them.  I also did a bit of distressed work on all sides of each piece I cut out.

After adhering them down I went to town on stamping the linen card stock with this cute, frappe stamp from Ink Roads Stamps.  I chose to stamp them in Hero Arts, OMBRE  (Pink to Red), which is what I also stamped the sentiment JAVA NICE DAY in.  I then broke out my water colors with a slight shimmer to them and added the coloring of the frappe cups and straws.  I'm loving how the water colors turned out...kind of reminds me of the Unicorn drinks that Starbucks was selling a while back.  I then die cut a small piece of pink twin and tied it into a little bow and adhered it to the sentiment.

Well, there you have it.  This layout came together quick for me.  It's a simple card that looks like I spent a lot of time doing.  The best layouts and cards aren't always the once that take hours or days.

Collections I used:

Ink Road Studio -Mug Life

Hero Arts - Ombre, Pink to Red

Thanks for coming along on this blog.  Leave comments below and let me know what you like best about it.  Come follow me on IG (link on blog) and come hop along with us on the Spring / Summer Coffee Lovers Blog Hop 2020!

Happy Scrapping🤗
Kimberly
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2019 Coffee Loving Papercrafters Blog Hop!

Hey guys, I'm hopping on here to show you a few cards I created this year for the 2019 Coffee Loving Papercrafter Fall/Winter Blog Hop!

I know I'm usually doing Scrapbooking layouts but if you think about it, card making and Scrapbooking crossover into each others worlds and what a wonderful world Amy Tsuruta has created with this group!

This is actually my Anniversary, yeap, exactly 1 year ago I found the Coffee Loving Papercrafters FB page (totally by accident, it was the Coffee that drew me in😬) and I crossed over to the "dark side" as they say.  

Since last year I have only made a handful of cards, but it was nice to know that I had the know how and confidence to not only make them but send them out!  I mean, how intimidating is it to see all of those hundreds of cards in the store, knowing people pay good money for to send out, that look professional?  Pretty intimidating to me!  I never thought I would be able to make a card that I would actually send out...but I have and I'm super proud of how they turned out and the excitement of the person receiving it is a bonus!  

I never really knew how really special, time consuming and the worth of a handmade item was until I started doing them.  

As I said, this is my Second year doing this Blog Hop.  Last year I was so proud of my self (patting myself on my back😉) to enter 1 card, this year...I made 4!  

If you want to join this fabulous community on FB click here (they always have codes for sales from amazing stamping and die companies throughout the year so make sure you take advantage of that!) (Please click here to see some of the amazing sponsors that were part of this hop and to see some amazing inspiration on card making) 

Again, a big SHOUT OUT to Amy Tsuruta for sponsoring this amazing, super coffee loving blog hop again this year with all the amazing prizes and super sponsors!  To see all the stats from the inception of this amazing Hop to now (the numbers are amazing) click here! And just a side note, I actually won a prize from Hero Arts on this blog hop this year! It may have been chosen my Random.org but it was still a great feeling to win a prize during this fabulous hop...so another SHOUT OUT and Thank You to one of the super sponsors, Hero Arts for my prize!

Happy Scrapbooking (and card making!)
Kimberly