LIZZY H - using LAWN FAWN goodies on an ART JOURNAL page - whimsical look

Hi there, my scrapping friends! Lizzy with you today to show a step by step of an art journal page I created using some of this month's sponsor, LAWN FAWN, goodies. Namely, the die cut CLOUDS & SUNS...plus those cute hot air balloon stamps:)

I actually created this for a challenge last month....& I wanted a light, whimsical look for this page - & I wanted to NOT do lots of texture on the background - which is the way most Mixed Media is atm. I wanted to do something different.....so, are you ready to take the journey with me? 

Here we go!

Besides the elements from Lawn Fawn - I had no idea what to do, except I wanted the blue colours & to make the hot air balloons the focus. So, I dragged out some paper scraps & laid them on my pages:

 I covered my balloons, suns, clouds & the ink run paper, that I fussy cut with CLEAR liquitex....so when I added my background colour [made up of those 3 mediums bottom Left....because I had a bit left of each, so I decided I may as well mix them!!!] ...so they would not get 'absorbed' into the back ground!

Can you see the pale blue? Sort of blends in the paper, but still gives a bit of depth. The clouds have been stamped with StazOn [so it doesn't run when you add other wet mediums], then coloured with Gelatos. Around the clouds I've added Glimmer Glaze for a bit of sheen & softness. 

By this stage, I'd worked out the ink splat cut out, bottom right, looked like trees....so I thought the saying 'You can't see the trees for the woods/forest' might work....& then add....'so look up & fly'.....that just came to me as I was plodding away....so...on went some yellow...less at the bottom of the page, more up the top to reinforce that idea. Gelatos rubbed in with my fingers, again:)

 Next I coloured in my balloons, using Staedtler pens....the alphas....black gelato around the bottom clouds, with some rain drop stamps.......Here's some closies & my finished pages:

 

 

And the eyes in the title just 'came' once I'd popped on the alphas...I LOOOOVE how scrapping simply develops as you go.....well, with me it does, anyways!!!! Thanks for looking - & I hope you can see how Lawn Fawn goodies can be used in different ways, too:)

Happy Scrapping ~ Lizzy ♥♥♥

More Up. Up and Away Inspiration

Cannot wait to share with you what the Design Team have created for the current challenge, shall we have a look?

Carol

Used typewriter to type out the words and doodle some words with pen too for the background.

Felicity

I love adding hot air balloons, paper airplanes, planes to my pages. maybe its because I mainly use my little boys as inspiration, but there such fun elements.

I even created a little mini album with them 

Pop back later in the month to see more the album :)

Lynn

I was inspired to use a mixed media format for this challenge.

Note to self: do not do mixed media when there's extreme humidity.
It takes forever to dry.

And I managed to get all the grands on one page.

I used 2 pieces of kraft paper glued together because I didn't have canvas.
The colors are a mix of gesso, paint, and watercolors and alcohol
ink that has been more or less covered because that resulted in disaster in my mind.
The stamp is from inkadinkado and the alphas are Tim Holtz grungeboard
that I've had forever.


Happy Creating