Dream big Art Journal - Step by step pictorial

Hello everyone... Irma here . This month Lulupu challenge#61 is Mini Album, you can made any style and shape but the final project must look like a booklet ..for any detail you can find the rule and submit your project here

For this time I would like to share with my 'Dream Big' Art journal mixmedia, I made with pictorial to hopefully will inspired you.

Here are the step by step a pictorial...let's started and enjoy !

Step 1

First glued an Alpha chipboard on your journal book

Step 2

 Cover with a heavy Gesso

Step 3

separation the upper layer from paper tissue

Step 4

tear off a paper tissue and glued randomly on your journal

 Step 5

 Cover again with a white heavy gesso

Step 6

 I add  ink spray from the edge and spray with  a little water

Step 7

 Do the same to another page

Step 8

 Dried with a heat gun

Step 9

 Stamp randomly with some of various stamps

Step 10

Colour a chipboard with inkagold

Step 11

I used a stencil and inka gold to make some layers

Step 12

 Take a piece of white cardstock and glue some paper tissue .  

Step 13

 I used a butterfly stamp from Kaisercraft

Step 14

 Stamp on the paper tissue 

Step 15

Fuzzy  cut the stamp of butterfly image and glue it on the journal

Step 16

 Make a line border with a sharpie pen..

Step 17

The least but not last I added splashes with ink spray colour red to give it bright look

Final Step....I added sequins.... :)

All the medium you can find at the Lulupu Store ,  and you can find the substitute medium here

Supplies :

Inka Gold

Bubble Stencils

Ink spray

Medium

Hope you all liked my pictorial. Please don't hesitate to contact me if you need any help. 

Thank you for stopping by, and don't forget to participate in  our this month's challenge.

Can't wait to see your work and good luck.

Big Hugs,

Irma Tirza

Memories of 2013!!!

Hi ya!!!

I am here after a long time…. I was so idle for past few days, where i lost my craft mojo… Here i am back with an Inspiration for the current Lulupu challenge set by Prathiksha… When I heard about this challenge, I couldn't just think of one picture to work on… so I decided to make a photo box with all my favourite snaps and memorable moments of 2013 with a mixed media look to the front panel.

Here is what I made for the Lulupu Challenge #21 - Magical Memories…

I went sooooo crazy selecting pictures for my photo box and it was also fun to go through all the picture s we took this year… felt like this year was pretty amazing… Especially we enjoyed the summer.

This is one picture which I loved because it completely reminds me of the awesome road trip to Bushkill falls, Philadelphia.

It is a wooden book box which opens like a drawer, where i loaded the picture. I started it with a base coat of Gesso and left it over night. Gave it textures with lace trim, tissue paper (from packaging), doilies, Die cuts, and modeling paste with stencils.

Tip on Modeling paste: Home made texture pastes are awesome But I mixed store bought Modelling paste / texture paste with dry coarse grinded wheat and gesso to give a coarse texture, I really loved how it turned out.

I randomly tried adding die cuts from stash (ofcourse digital die cuts), could you notice the tree branches die cut in the right and a  flourish die cut in the left. I was so happy how the tree die cut came out, it showed well after spraying…. 

The Spraying part was so muchs fun, i am totally in love with Lindys Sprays. They are amazing. I jsut got my first set Prairie Wildflower, I am sure I am gonna grab as many as I can. This set doesn't have a purple but I got the purple by spraying red and blue together. This really made my project come out well. Do check the Post by Prathiksha on Lindys Stamp Gang Sprays.. for more ideas to use these gorgeous sprays now avaial on Lulupu Store

The photo frame is a chipboard die cut from stash and distress painted and sprinkled some gold embossing powder and heat embossed it and that was the part I started the whole project. Also some random stamping and sprinkles of gold heat embossing to match with the frame. 

Embellished it with lots of stuff like blings, flowers, thickets,  metal findings, clips, etc… 

The sides and backside was painted with purple paint and dry brushed with blue and turquoise.  I used distress paints for the base painting as I dint have any acrylic paints in hand. On the side I added flourishes, stamping and embossing, doest it look like a silk saree? The side part totally reminds me of my moms silk saree.

Pictures loaded inside….

I am just so happy to show you this project, this challenge really made me to do something which ll be with me forever with everlasting memories. Hope to see your gorgeous entries now. Just 5 more days for the challenge to end1

ciao…

love,

Varshitha..

Lindy's Startbursts : a tutorial

Hey everyone

Hope you've all been having fun crafting! I certainly am and also enjoying the many many new products that I've got from LULUPU!! :)

As promised, when i launched the challenge for this fortnight-Magical memories here is a tutorial on how to create backgrounds using Lindy's starburst sprays! :) They're very versatile and give this gorgeous shimmer along with an equally yummy colour as well :)

Gather up the following -
1.CS
2.Lindys sprays of your choice
3.background stamp
4.Gesso
5.archival ink/memento ink
6.stencils
7.modelling paste
8.sponge/dauber

For the first one i just sprayed the colours randomly, dried it with my heat gun and then stamped the Background stamp. simple :) the pics dont do justice to the gorgeous colour/shimmer..

For the next one, i simply placed my stencil cross and then using the dauber inked the stencil. After drying it, I sprayed with my lindys starburst and look at the yummy shine!!

For the next one I used my harlequin stencil and some modelling paste. Then placed my paper into my clearsnap colour catcher! its this little open cardboard box that prevents all the spray from hitting any other surface. super useful!! Then one light coat of gesso and then the sprays.. :)

These sprays are very multifunctional and can be used on a number of surfaces. If one simply applies gesso on a background, the spray will absorb easily.

Thats it from me for today, dont forget to share your magical memory at challenge #21 with us! :)

supplies used

Autumn Leaves Starbusts Gesso - Ranger Mermaid Seashells Starbusts TCW Harlequin Art Is Template Archival Dye Ink - Jet Black Sponge Daubers 3/Pkg Clearsnap Accessories Spritz Box

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