SDC: Newspaper or Magazine

Hello Lovelies,

I'm back today with an art journal page I made for the recent Stampotique challenge which is to use a piece of actual newspaper or magazine clippings on your project. 

Here is what I made:

I used 3 magazine clippings: the black and white background, Batboy's new body, and the sentiment. The background was made using distress paints and metallic blue paint. 

I used Batboy's head on the body and also used the stamp 'heads' and cut out 3 little heads and colors it all in with copics in E50, W1, W3.

Thanks for stopping by!

Serena

Guest Designer For Octopode Factory's New Nautical Digi Stamps | Project #2 | Underwater Art Journal Page

Hello Lovelies,

Today I have my second guest designer project for the Octopode Factory. For those of you who don't know, Lily Chilvers who is the designer of The Octopode Factory, has asked me to be a guest designer for her new summer nautical digital stamps! 

To see my first project and for more information click here.

This time I made an art journal page. I was really inspired by the octopus digi and all the fishes so I wanted to make an under the sea page. I truly love the ocean, going to the beach, and swimming, I swear I was a mermaid in my past life (one could hope!)

The sentiment was just something that came to me when working on this page.

 Love this octopus!

Love how I created the sea floor, it's so dimensional and sparkly.

Here is a video so you can see how this page was made:

The digis I used were:

Fishes

Octopus

Nautical Anchor & Starfish

Thanks for stopping by, let me know what you think and make sure to check back next week for my 3rd project!

Serena

How Sentimental

Hello Lovelies,

Today I have an entry for Stampotique's recent challenge which is "sentimental". And the page I'm about to share with you was one that I didn't think I would share with anyone because it is one of my most personal art journal pages I feel I have ever made. 

I made this page to document something important that happened to me, my boyfriend left to go to Italy to work for 5 months and I am so happy and proud of him but a part of me also felt lost in a way. Without going into further details; this is why this page was made.

I used so many different paints and sprays to create the background along with many different stamps. I used Minky girl stamp and colored her in with copics. 

The sentiment is written using rub-on letters.

And I used a number stencil by Dylusions with modelling paste to add random numbers all around the pages. These numbers represent the time and days he will be away.

 This page is very sentimental to me and I hope Stampotique members will like it.

Thanks for stopping by!

Serena

Oddball Art Facebook Challenge #3

Hello Lovelies,

Today is the first day of June! Can you believe 2014 is half way done, I definitely can't. So as every first of the month comes so does the new Oddball Art Facebook Challenge! And as usual it is always "anything goes" as long as you use an Oddball Art Digi for this challenge. And you could win  3 free digis of your choice! Lizzy is constantly releasing new digis so there is always so much for you to choose from.

For this challenge I decided to make an art journal page.

For the background I first put down a sheet of black polka dot tissue paper and used it as a clean up page for stencils. I used various sizes of lids and a toilet paper roll to add the larger circles in the background. I then used modelling paste and a credit card to add some textured lines.

 To tie in with her zombie-ness I splattered some watered down green paint on the background as well.

 I printed this cute digi super big so it can take up most of the page in my  Dylusions art journal. I colored her in with my copics.

I then added some black and white washi tapes and heart gems to finish off the page. And I added some glossy accents to her hair bows and skull.

Check out Lizzy's shop: www.oddballartco.etsy.com

Play along with our girly glam blog challenge: www.oddballstamps.blogspot.com you have until June 14th to enter. Remember for this challenge any digi stamp is acceptable.

Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to play along to win some digis!

Serena

Exploding Heart Art Journal Page Ft. Golden High Flow Acrylics

Hello Lovelies, 

The other day I sat down and worked on an art journal page using my new Golden High Flow acrylics and I wanted to play around with them and see what they could do. I had a lot of fun working on this page, so much so that I didn't even notice when my purple High Flow spilled all over my desk and wall. I spent over an hour cleaning everything up and trying to save as much paint as I could. I managed to save a little less than half, ugh it breaks my heart. And I just got them the day before!

Here are some pictures of my page (process video is down below)

I loved letting the ink move freely. I used one of my faux-gelli prints as the background (click the link to learn more!)

And here is a video of my process:

Thanks for stopping by!

Serena

Chicken's Words of Wisdom

Hey Lovelies!

Today I have a fun art journal page to share. I am entering it in the new Stampotique challenge and the theme this week is: Pink and Orange background. 

Now let me tell you the story of  the perfect timing of this challenge. I recently did a art journal background swap with my friend Jenn who is MixedMediaJenn on youtube. I can't share what I made just yet, but for her background I decided to go out of my comfort zone of colors and use pink and orange (and of course a little touch of purple!). So I already had the color down for this page because I used it to clean up the extra paint on my work surface. So it all worked out perfectly that this challenge was orange and pink. The end. LOL.

I used my new Stampotique stamp "Chicken" that I just got in the mail today

Watch my haul video here (there is also a sneak peek of this page at the end of the video):

I've been on a modelling paste kick recently and I just had to use it on my page. I used 3 different stencils and then went over it and added some pink and orange watercolor just to tone down the white.

Isn't she the cutest? I colored her in my with Copic markers and then sprayed Heidi Swapp white shimmer spray on top. It's hard to see but she has a subtle shimmer. I then tried clear embossing the image.

Thanks for stopping by.

Serena.

Dream Deeply {Art Journal Page}

Hello Lovelies,

I am back with an other Oddball Art Stamp Design Team share!

Every 1st of the month we have an "anything goes" using an Oddball art digi challenge over on the Oddball Art's Facebook Page. 

We were given this adorable Big Eyed Girl digi and she is one of my favorites! I made an art journal page:

Sentiment is from an AFI song

My favorite part are these glittered stars

I really enjoyed working on the background of this page. I have a video where I go through the step by teps  in creating this page, please watch below:

Remember, our month long challenge over at the Oddball Art Blog is still going on. You have until May 14th to enter your Easter/Spring project! 

I will also be entering this page on Simon Says Challenge for this week, the theme is Anything Goes.

Thanks For stopping by,

Serena

It's A Celebration {Art Journal Page}

Hello Lovelies,

Stampotique is having an art call where they are looking for some samples of  work made using Stampotique stamps to add to their online store. So I definitely jumped at this opportunity and want to play along, how cool if one of my creations was posted on the store!?!

So I created this art journal page in my new 5x8 Dylusions art journal.

I decided to keep the background simple and just used some paints to build the background color. I then went over it with a Prima flower stencil and Pomegranate Seed Dylusions Spray.

the Stampotique images I used are some of my favorites from Daniel Torrente and they are:

-Cousin Carmin-

-Minkygirl-

-Mothloved-

-Pigtales-

I then made a wonky border with black and white pens and I added some doodling with a black pen. I am also using this page to commemorate the last hop for the 3 month spending freeze I was on. So to celebrate I decided to use party hat stickers! I think it turned out really cute. And I typed and printed out the sentiment and backed it on some silver tulle (I love doing that).

I will be entering this page in the Simon Says challenge blog as well.  

Thanks for stopping by!

Serena Bee

Oddball Art Facebook Challenge

Hello lovelies!

I'm back with an update and project share. If you read my last post then you would know that I am a part of a new design team for Oddball Arts digital stamps! Super excited, we received such a great response with over 80 participants for our first challenge ever!!  It's still going on so if you want to enter go right ahead! The theme is to use a digital stamp and you have until April 14th to enter!

During the first of every month, we also have a challenge over at Oddball Arts Facebook Page. For this challenge we only ask for you to use an Oddball Art digital stamp. We would love to see people creating with Lizzy love's wonderful stamps so the theme is "anything goes". The prize is 3 digital stamps from Oddball's etsy store of your choosing!

For this challenge I decided to create a standard sized card:

This digital stamp inspired me to create a spring card with fun bright colors. I colored her in with copics and tried doing an ombre effect on her shirt.

I hope you can play along on one of our challenges currently going on. Check out the blog challenge here

And here is the video to the art journal page I made for the first Oddball Art Stamp challenge:

Thanks for stopping by!

Serena

First Oddball Art Stamp Challenge Kick Off!!

Hello Lovelies,

yup, you guessed it, today is the day that I get to share with you my art journal page for the first ever Oddball Art challenge! If you were here on Thursday you would have seen a tiny sneak peak of my page along with my announcement of being on their first Design Team. I am truly blessed and excited for this opportunity. The amazing artist behind these digital stamps is the crazy talented Lizzy Love.

Come play along with our first challenge! The theme is simple: use a digital stamp. I could be any digi stamp you own. And the prize is delicious, the winner will be receiving 3 free digital stamps of their choice!!

So come on, choose a digi and play along! You have plenty of time to join; the challenge will end on April 15th!

If your are on Instagram:
Make sure to tag your pictures so we can all see what you create with Oddball Art digital stamps!
use these: @oddballartco and #oddballartchallenge . We can't wait to see you on instagram!

For my DT project, I was inspired by an art journal page I saw by using spray mists, and it got me thinking, I haven't played with my Dylusions inks in the longest time! They are messy but I love my Dylusions so I busted them out and had fun with it. I won't bore you with all the details but I have a process video up where you can see exactly how this page came to be.  I will add it at the end of this post.

This adorable digi stamp is called Big Eyed Girl No. 17 <-- Click on the name 

 {Had to include a skeleton or two in there hehe}

I colored the digi stamp using both copics and spectrum noirs. Still getting used to using the spectrum markers, in my opinion they do not compare to copics and I don't like the way they handle, but I need more practice using them. 

Want to see how this was made? Watch this!

Thanks for stopping by and hope you can play along with us on our first challenge!

Serena