October 27th Weekly Post

 Happy Sunday!

It's hard to believe we are beginning the last week in October!

Time is definitely gonna fly between now and the end of the year.

The theme this week at SPA is Gargoyles, hosted by Deann.

I purchased a digital image as I had nothing suitable in my files.

I found something quite suitable at Conjurer of Dreams Etsy Shop.

Then in PSE I added a little humor and printed it out to add to my 4X6 journal.

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Next up, an art journal spread that was a lesson with Shawn Petite's Mixed Media Insiders Group, which I have finally joined after watching her videos for 2 years. And now I'm like a kid in a candy store! I've currently got 3 other works in progress, but did manage to finish this one. She does a ton of stuff on each piece and they take a long time for slowpoke me.

This was the color palette to be used. Just these 3 colors, with white and black accents.

 

Here are my process shots. I began with this blue and white acrylic sea sponged background, but since I'd done 2 of them in this journal, I decided on this one. The first thing I did was cover it all up with collaged yellowed book text, then painted it with a beige acrylic. Over that I used a Crafters Workshop 12x12 stencil and Titan Buff acrylic.

 

Next, I used Nocturne VF Clair to stamp onto white tissue paper, tore the stamped images out and collaged them randomly on my spread. I also made some white acrylic circles. And in the last process shot, I added long triangle shapes that were painted with blue and tan acrylics, then stenciled with paints using 3 Tim Layered stencils. All that was left to do was use my charcoal pencil and my black Artist Big Brush pen to outline, smudge, shade. I also added a Pronty quote sticker from my stash.

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Finally, I have 2 get well cards using the same flower stamps and designer papers.

I bought the magnolia stamps on Amazon and the papers are very old, from the KIMemories Pieces of Me collection. Both cards have SU card bases.

On this one I left the flowers white and colored the leaves with a marker.

I used some Cosmo Cricket alpha stickers for the sentiment.

And on this one I colored the flowers and leaves, and added sequins and a Stamplorations sentiment die cut from the designer paper.

 

And the sketches I used for these cards.

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That's it for me this week.

Thanks so much for your visit and have a great week ahead.

XOX