Art Journals page 2 - Halloween

Its nearly Halloween even though we dont celebrate it much here in Australia,  we can use our imagination and create some spooky cards and pages for journals or scrap-booking.
Using Tim Holtz Dies again, the haunted house, the rickety fence and of course the crazy birds.
Crazy birds come with some wonderful accessories to dress up the birds for any occasion, hat, broom and pumpkin. From my stash of dies I added a spider web, cats and hand cut the bats.
Background was done with the new Delusions paint, great to use and has a good coverage and very smooth, also did fence and house with the paint. I masked the moon and also used the Delusions paint in bright yellow. Not a good pic sorry black is a bit hard to get right.

Art Journal page 1- Forever friends.

Having fun still with these great birds that just about suit anything you put your mind to. Trying my hand at journals, as the pages i want to do are bigger than my card size and allows me the freedom to try new things and put more on the pages.
Background has been done with ranger archival ink in french ultramarine and aquamarine and was applied with a baby wipe as i couldn't get the softness i wanted. Stamps used were darkroom door chicken wire and mesh.Tim Holtz bird crazy done in the newest colors of the mini distress inks with a water pen.
I like die cut alphabets for doing bold words and one word statements on my cards and pages.

Bird tags

Mr cool has a stenciled brick background with a small cross hatching stamp behind the bird and lets party is done with an embossing folder and both have been done in distress inks.

more birds

Crazy birds

another Christmas bird, love the watercolor cards sprayed with bleach and 3d the bird

More crazy birds for a crazy Monday

This one isn't quite finished but had fun with stencils

nearly time to think about Christmas cards and use some accessories to jolly these guys up

more coffee cups

I just love these stamps, had more fun playing with the coffee cups.

Crazy Birds and Coffee

another day playing with ink, stamps and dies.....

Creating backgrounds for my crazy birds with distress ink mini pads. Its a lot of fun and a little messy, but every one is completely different. Just stamp ink onto a craft mat , spritz with water and drag your card stock through the ink and dry.

Then cut to size to fit card and stamp with a stazon ink. The white cups were stamped and then i used a paintbrush and bleach to get the desired effect.....loved it. the colored cups were watercolored with distress inks then cut out and slotted together. All birds were stamped in black stazon, colored with distress inks and then die cut.

 Tim Holtz bird crazy stamps and dies.

Darkroom door stamps, coffee time.