out of the box mushrooms

I've gone back to my journal and back to some Dylusions goodness!

I used one of the mushroom stamps to make potted flowers and a flying mushroom, I used one of the hats for the banner across the top, just for fun!

All of the pieces were colored using Dylusion spray inks in a water pen. 

I have several of the pens filled with Dylusion inks just for coloring.

Supplies: stamps - dylusions doolally dorris, say what you mean, su! retired speckle stamp. paper - white cardstock. ink - dylusions ink sprays in londen blue, cut grass, white linen, pure sunshine, bubblegum pink. archival pads in jet black, fern green, dandelion. distress pad in vintage photo. acces. - gesso, tissue tape, stickles in waterfall, distress stickles in worn lipstick and rock candy. 3 white eyelets. tools - dylusions bubbles  and luscious leaves stencils. water brush pens, crop-a-dile, small flower punches, blending tool.

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Can you believe it's almost August?
The summer is flying by too fast!
School is about to start, this weekend is a tax free weekend on school clothes and supplies, which is good.
Halloween goodness is filling up the isles, which is good.
I just wish summer time would hang around awhile longer!

Christmas ornament

I got the idea to use Tim's 8x8 Seasonal Paper Stash and Fragments to cover this cardboard ornament I got from Hobby Lobby.

First I painted the ornament with gesso. 

I glued the Fragments on the paper with Glossy Accents, cut around the Fragments and glued them on the ornament.

Next, I painted on the Glossy Accents with a paint brush between the Fragments and sprinkled silver glitter on.

I used my Tattered Pinecone die for the pinecones and greenery. I cut them out with paper from the Kraft Resist Paper Stash. I lightly sprayed them with Dylusions melted chocolate ink spray. 

I used some of my vintage lace and tatting along with the pinecones and greenery to decorate the top. I adhered everything on top with my glue gun.

I took some close up pic's of each side outside in the natural light.

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We've been iced in around here since last Thursday. 

Hopefully, we can thaw out today!

I have places to go and things to do, lol!

Have a great day!

all is calm

I wanted to use my gingerbread man cookie cutters and this is what I ended up with.

I've had the cookie cutters for awhile, I got them at my fave flea market/antiques store to use in my journal. 

I had fun with these pages, I always do though.

I used a lot of paint, paper and rub on's.

The house, tree trunk, gingerbread men and clouds are hand cut.

The snowman and tree top are punches.

The sentiments are lines from Christmas songs.

After I took the pic's I realized I didn't put on my eyelets. I didn't put them on my last journal pages either so I went back and did that. I keep forgetting those!

Supplies: stamps - SU! speckled and rough edges alpha stamps. dylusions basic backgrounds. 

paper - book print, donna downey art journal, echo park holly jolly Christmas 6x6 paper pad. ink - archical jet black, faber-castell light cobalt turquoise 154, deep scarlet red 219, light phthalo green 162 and dark sephia 175 pitt big brush pens. acces. - claudine hellmuth classic teal studio paint, gesso, tim holtz numbers remnant rubs, heidi swapp rub on's, eyelets. tools - dylusions let it snow 9x12 stencil, marvy scalloped punch, tim holtz bubble stencil, 1 1/2 and 1 1/4" circle punches, crop-a-dile. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

That's it, I hope I gave you some inspiration today!

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shiny brite Christmas

I got into my Tim Holtz 8x8 seasonal paper stash and found the shiny brite paper.

I love shiny brite ornaments and other vintage Christmas ornaments. I have a collection I keep in my cabinet on display all year long, they make me happy!

Total inspiration for these art journal pages.

I had loads of fun using my stencils.

supplies: stamps - tim holtz numeric set. unity inspire words by donna downey. ink - archival vermillion, red geranium, olive, fern green, sephia. faber-castell black, chromium green opaque, deep scarlet red big brush pens. sakura micron 08 black pen. paper - donna downey art journal, tim holtz 8x8 seasonal paper pad, terminology tissue wrap, tissue tape, prima chalk board paper notecards. acces. - gesso, embossing paste, white sharpie paint marker fine tip, antique linen distress stickles. tools - tiny attacher, cosmetic sponges, star punch, tim holtz rays and bubbles stencils.dylusions 9x12 let it snow and 5x8 oh christmas tree stencils.

That's it, I hope you like the pages!

I'm feeling all Christmasy now, slowing getting in the spirit :)

Have you got your Christmas spirit on yet?

It'll be here before we know it!

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Have a great weekend!

halloween handy tags journaled

Hello bloggers!

This is my last post before Halloween. 

I've journaled my handy tags that I showed you here. You can get the supply list and how to's for the tags there.

I like to put my journaled tags in my Dylusions journal since it's a big journal.

I made a Distress spray with my shabby shutters reinker and water in a mini mister. I sprayed the journal page dried it and started using several stencils with Dylusions spray ink in black marble and melted chocolate. I used my Archival fern green ink pad with a cosmetic sponge and the burlap stencil. I used the melted chocolate and black marble sprays with the splatters and stripes stencils. I put apothecary remnant rubs here and there.

I was digging through some things and found these huge Prima flowers and leaves. I stamped the flower with the little number stamp from Wendy Vecchi's be inspired stamp set and Archival jet black ink. I attached the flower to a burlap flag along with a journaling ticket that I put tissue tape and vintage ribbon on. The x's are a Glitz large roller doodle stamp, fun for adding texture!

There are 3 stencils in this corner, the stripes, burlap and splatters, I love using stencils! The red drops are red pepper alcohol ink.

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That's it, I hope you like the page!

Have a fun and s p o o k y Halloween!

breast cancer awareness month

Happy Friday bloggers!

Since October is breast cancer awareness month I wanted to do an art journal page to honor the people who have had to suffer through this.

I wanted it to be pink, pink and more pink!

The angels skirt is made with pink and white ribbons.

I found the quote when I did a search for it and I thought it was perfect.

I'll list the supplies I used at the bottom and give a little explanation of how I used each one.

 Supplies: stamps - wendy vecchi ribbon stamp (along the tops and bottoms of each page), be inspired set (flowers), speckle stamp by su! (for texture), christy tomlinson she leaped stamp by unity (the angel). paper - donna downey journal, tim holtz vintage shabby paper stash (the background papers and banner) white cardstock (the girl). ink - archival rose madder (used with stencils and ribbon stamp), jet black (the girl, the flowers, texture and distressing), distress vintage photo (distressing the banner pieces, hope ticket and heart), copic markers rv11, rv10, e57, e00 (to color the girl), faber-castell big brush pens in medium flesh and white (to color the flowers and outlining the flowers and banner) and cold grey (for outlining the flowers and banner), black micron pen 08 (for doodling and outlining the banner). acces. - gesso (used with the stencils), embossing paste (used with the bubbles stencil), matte multi medium, distress paint in spun sugar (mixed with the molding paste for a light pink color), tim holtz adage tickets - hope, tim holtz label letters (for the quote), pink flower eyelets, glitter (sprinkled on the molding paste while it was wet and on the girls wings), ribbons (for her skirt). tools - dylusions dotted flowers stencil, prima chevron stencil, tim holtz burlap, bubbles and rays stencils, blending tool, crop-a-dile.
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That's it, I hope I gave you a little inspiration today!
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hands full of treats tagged

Happy Friday bloggers!

I've got more Halloween tags to share along with some creepy "handy" treat bags.

I pinned this super cute idea I found on Pinterest using disposable vinyl gloves.

I filled them with Halloween pencils, candy, bracelets, earrings and even a Razorback coin holder!

I made these for a few of my fave goblin's :)  

 I'll give you some links at the bottom of this post for the supplies I used. If you have any questions about anything I've done just shoot me an email!

 I was inspired by Donna Downey to use up certain things on your projects that you have hoarded. I decided I'm going to try and use eyelets on all of my projects in some way. I have SO MANY of them and I hate to throw them away. I couldn't sell them either because everyone has them I'm sure! So, I'm on a mission!

 supplies: stamps - Tim Holtz seasonal catalog and halloween blueprint. paper - #5 manila tags, Tim Holtz seasonal 8x8 paper stash, black and white cardstock. ink - dylusions black marble ink spray, distress weathered wood and rusty hinge ink pads, rusty hinge, peeled paint and barn door (for the blood drops, ewwww) reinkers, archival jet black, faber-castell black big brush pen. acces. - vinyl disposable gloves, Tim Holtz apothecary remnant rubs, tissue tape, black and orange eyelets, Tim Holtz label letters, crinkle ribbon, black twine. tools - crop-a-dile, Tim Holtz bats and crossbones garland die, water brush, blending tool, matt multi medium.
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night moves

 Hey bloggers!

Here I am with another spooky journal page.

When I started I wanted to do a night scene with a picket fence in the foreground. 

The skull is the eerie moon!

I've had this fence idea rolling around in my head for awhile as soon as I got the stamp. 

 I started by painting the page with gesso, drying that and spraying with water before I started spraying the Dylusions ink. I used black marble for the sky adding more water and dabbing with a paper towel until I got the look I wanted. 

For the ground I sprayed water and then the melted chocolate and cut grass, again, I used the paper towel moving it around until I liked the look. Next, I added Archival cornflower blue and watering can with my blending tool to give it a little color. I did the same at the bottom with coffee and olive ink.

I used the Prima 6x6 cracked stencil and Dylusions black marble ink here and there for some texture.

I stamped the fence along the bottom, the trees, birds and cat from Dylusions bits and bats stamp set with Archival jet black ink. I colored the fence with gesso, it blended with the ink on the page and toned it down so the white wasn't so bright, perfect! I stamped the skull from Tim's Apothecary set on book paper and colored the teeth with my Gelly Roll white pen. I used the 31 from the numbers Remnant Rubs on his forehead. I cut him out and adheared him to the page with matte multi medium and went around the edges with it so my black Faber-Castell big brush pen would stay wet enough for me to smear the ink with my finger. I colored the trees, birds, spider and cat with the pen so they would stand out more.

I put the words from the Apothecary remnant rubs in the fence posts, the fence says it all with the perfect Halloween words!

I finished it off with tissue tape all around the edges.

I hope you enjoy the page.

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creepy journaling

Hi bloggers!

Today I'm sharing my 2 latest tags, journaled. 

You can find the posts for each tag with supplies here at whispers and spooky.

I'm going to focus on the making journal pages with supplies today.

I have to say I had the most fun making these pages, I couldn't wait to get back to them.

They were so messy to make, but, that's part of the fun I think!

I had Dylusions ink and water sprayed everywhere and modeling paste and paint smeared everywhere. 

Total bliss!

To start I put tissue tape down the center of the pages so the ink wouldnt pool there. I sprayed the pages with water and then I sprayed Dylusions inks in melted chocolate, crushed grape, cut grass, black marble and more water here and there. I would dry with my heat gun between sprays and add more where I wanted it

Next I used my embossing paste that I colored with paint from my pitch black paint dabber and used the vintage lace mask by Christy Tomlinson for Pink Paislee and Prima sunrise, sunset stencil.
I did more distressing with Distress ink in peeled paint and rusty hinge with my blending tool.

Then I did some stamping with Archival jet black ink. I used Tim Holtz apothecary, halloween blueprint and classic's #6 stamp sets.

I did some water coloring on the bats, spiders, and skull eyes with my water brush filled with Dylusions black marble ink. The pipette makes filling the water brushes so easy, I couldn't do it with it.

I adhered the tags and went over them with gel medium, dryed and then inked around the tags with a black Faber-Castell big brush pen and smeared the ink with my finger. I add the gel medium so the ink from the pen will smear easier.

The splatters are just water sprinkled on the pages and dried with my heat tool.

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