Happy Birthday Tag Duo

Hello! It's one of those times when I forget to talk about a project, and when I realize it, it's already been ages since I made it. 😉 I think it mostly happens with occasion-related projects, like for birthdays. I wouldn't publish the project soon after I made it because I wouldn't want to spoil…

Wildflowers

Hello! It's the first Friday of this month, and Creative Artiste is back after an end-of-year break with a brand new monthly challenge! As always, the theme for the challenge is Anything Mixed Media Goes. (Do visit the challenge blog to check out what is accepted by our challenge as mixed media.) I made this…

Every Small Thing…

Here's a recent art journal spread of mine. I made this on my 10x10cm (4x4") handmade art journal, which I've been using since early last year. Working on this art journal is so different compared to my A6 one--for one, I can use small images as focals, which I find hard to incorporate into taller…

Success / Failure

Here's a recent art journal page of mine - This page had some remnants of previous gel plate play--there were metallic acrylics that had been printed through a stencil, as well as regular acrylics with texture from a corrugated cardboard piece. (I'm trying to use up and finish the blue in my acrylic stash since…

Wild Flowers

I rarely work on my A6 journal's single pages in landscape mode, so I thought I'd try it out. Here's one of my first ones - I started this page by smooshing acrylics over the page. I then used a handmade stamp with acrylics for some initial texture. Following this, I added acrylic splatters and…

Bloom

[Challenge win: Winner at We Love 2 Create][Challenge win: Top Rocker at 613 Avenue Create][Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start] Here's my very first spread in my 10x10cm (4x4") journal! I smooshed some acrylics onto the pages first, and then adhered gel-print scraps over parts of it. I followed this by brushing…

Where Flowers Bloom

[Challenge win: Top Rocker at 613 Avenue Create][Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start][Challenge win: Top Sprout at A Place To Start] Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - I made this spread on a black cardstock sheet that I'd included in my handmade journal. I started out by playing with…

There is Always Light

[Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start][Challenge win: Top Sprout at A Place To Start][Challenge win: Top 3 at Creative Artiste Mixed Media][Challenge win: Top Rocker at 613 Avenue Create][Challenge win: Winner at 613 Avenue Create] Here's a recent art journal page of mine - I noticed that I have quite some scrap…

What We Need

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge][Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start challenge][Challenge win: Winner at Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge] Here's a recent art journal page of mine - I made this on a wax paper page that I'd included in my journal. Last time I used wax paper…

A Taste of Pastels

I mentioned a while ago that I've joined Wanderlust, a mixed media course, this year. The course started out with pastels, which is a completely new medium for me. A long time ago, I'd tried working with one or two oil pastels from my stash since they were not being used much, but I didn't…