Wednesday 19 March 2014

Ellen Art Journal

Had a fabulous time tonight playing with the ideas that Ellen Vargo showed us on her video.
Another step further extending the work of her fabulous stamps…oops 2 fabulousses already!

Anyway, I decided to go a bit neutral on my colours and then give it an Ellen POP of red!
First I brayered the colours displayed into my journal, managed to get in one of the new colours…Chutney, love it!

I followed Ellen's lead with next steps. Printed circles in coffee archival and tiny PA circle stamp in Snowflake.
I found some paper that had mop ups of Dyan Reaveley inks and added some London Bus with my brayer. I used this for my cut outs. 
Next, I tore up some PA paper which has maps on and distressed the edges. I glued it all down and highlighted the edges of the maps with Red Inktense crayon and water.

Finally I added my lettering and drew stitch lines to make a border.

Thanks Ellen, I have loved doing this and can now add more ideas to my pot!

15 comments:

  1. Fabulous Hazel - loving your pop of red xxx

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  2. Glorious page Hazel although reds not my colour it looks fantastic. Great shape you used:-) xxx

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  3. it's gorgeous, Hazel, love the red against the background, and your lettering is great!

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  4. Hazel,
    Glad you are getting time to play. I might not make it this week due to other commitments. This page looks great and I love your sentiment.

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  5. Brilliant page Hazel, that's a great quote!
    Alison xxx

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  6. Wonderful!!! Love the layered circle stamping and your POP of red! So glad you liked the videos and decided to play along!

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  7. This came out fantastic! Thanks for showing the page step by step, to see how you created it.

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  8. This is so fab, Hazel, the browns with the red and white work brilliantly, and I love the lines of it,

    Lucy x

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  9. That looks great, I love the red circles.

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  10. Fabulous page! I love red circles and great quote. xx

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  11. Fab page, I love the bold colours. Great lettering too!

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  12. Ooh Hazel only just seen this must have missed your tweet Sorry! I really like the colours you have used and the way you have added the red as you say it really pops. And the stitch lines look really good too. Debs xxx

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  13. Great piece. Love the red outlines on the papers and the red stamp. Looks like roses. Great lettering

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  14. I wouldn't normally go for red but I have to say it looks fab against the neutral background. Well done on your handwritten quote! My hands just don't obey commands for decent writing of any kind and I hate writing in cards that I've spent an age making because I feel my handwritten messages don't do them justice, lol! That chap Arth Ritis has a lot to answer for ;D!

    Hugs
    Lesley Xx

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