got talent?

Finally, I had the chance to play with Donna Downey's pan pastel at Scrappingville's mixed-media art jam last week!. The colors are brilliant and what a nice surprise to find that they are not as dusty as I thought they would be. 

I adhered some crumpled tissue papers and clear reinforcement rings in the background. Then, generously applied pan pastel (red & blue) with a wet sponge all over the page.

Dabbed black acrylic paint over stencil and drew circles in black india ink. Wrinkles from the crumpled tissue papers. LOL. Smudged a bit of gesso on reinforcement rings to allow them taking some paint. I did a very simple beading. Just attached some beads to safety pins!. A little stitching on paper scraps. [I'm inspired by Dawn's work in this post].

I like my journal to be chunky. If the pages rattle, or ring or overflowed with fibers, ribbons and charms, that's even better!. So that is all. The last entry for my 3rd journal :).

See you next. 

baby wipes circles

Hi there. 

More baby wipes creations!. Endless ways to use them, it seems. Here, I cut them into circles for my art journal collage. 

I used soft pastel for the background with limited colors as the baby wipes were already too colorful. Spritzed with some water to blend the pastel colors. After that dried, glued on some used-baby wipes in clusters. 

I also added pieces of torn linens and fussy-cut butterflies for additional layers and texture.Lastly, simply scribbled random notes around the circles with black & maroon sharpies, a black pen and a correction pen.

If you are good at sewing (which I'm not), you could make yourselves a nice patchwork out of used-baby wipes. Turn the cloth into journal covers, a tote or table runners for your craft room :). Or a simple corsage for scrapbook layouts and mini albums. Not to mention, button badges!. 

Have fun creating.

art from used baby wipes

Sweet friends,

I feel bad for being quiet of late. I had a wee bit of laptop issues in the past week, hence less blog posts. But, I'm back!! ... I hope I would be able to share some recent art journal pages created when I was away. 

Here's one of it;

I have a few used-baby wipes (beautiful enough to keep) in my keeping and I think they are perfect for collage, journal pages and cards. 

In these pages, I used pink ZIG markers for sketching the plants and some water-soluble crayons for the background colors. I glued on used-baby wipes, fabric stickers, lace and washi tape. Randomly stamped the pages with some white gesso to tone down the bright colors a bit. Stamping with white gesso gives additional texture that I really love. I'm making a habit of keeping used-baby wipes these days. Waste not, they make great collage!.

I'm linking this post to Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Art Journal Everyday.

Oh it's so GOOD to be back and sharing. See you soon!. 

Hugs,

Shahrul

More Yummy Journals

Hi again,
Just a quick post. I've been making some fabric-covered journals lately. Loved it so much I can't stop making them!. LOL. They'll keep. The last thing to worry about is running out of journals, right? 

I made them in 2 different styles; one with buttons on the front cover (Plaid Journals) and the second with button strapped on the side (Orange Sherbet Journals). I used thick acrylic papers (350 sgm) to make the pages for the 'Plaid Journals'. 

I used thinner watercolor papers (200 sgm) for the 'Orange Sherbet' journals. Can you believe that I did not use a single stitch to make them?. Just glue, double-sided tapes & strings!. So much fun :).

Yeah, she IS ... every where.

Okay, that's it. Gotta go. Have great Monday.

Hugs,
Shahrul