An easy and fun journal page.

I have a hand made 15 x 15cm journal which I keep for small, quick journal pages either trying out a new stamp or a doodle but mostly for times when I really don't feel like too much messy play. (I know amazing for me!)

If you want to create a page but don't want all that painty-messy stuff then use a piece of patterned paper as your base. Here I've used a cute piece from DCWV which I chose especially as it had the leaf pattern across it.

I stenciled some texture paste through a home made stencil and added a few bits of washi tape here and there. I say bits, I'm really into tearing it into small strips at the moment.

Once the paste had dried I mixed up some of my Shin Han paints (coming soon to Sarah Hurley) into this gorgeous turquoise colour and painted over the circles.

To further add to the background interest I stamped over randomly with the Ledger background stamp, a few mini flowers from the Doodle Home set and  the scalloped border too. I also stamped the houses and tree onto water colour card, painted them and cut them out.

I layered over my elements and decided to add some finishing touches with a white painty pen.

This is a really easy fun project for someone who wants to create a mixed media journal page without too much mess.

Have a good weekend.

Jaine x

Art Journaling with the Doodle Dolls

Hello Claireliz here.

Happy Easter, I wish you many chocolate eggs!

I've been having a play in my art journal with Sarah's Doodle Doll stamps, One of the sayings from Sarah's Princess Doodle Doll stamp set has kind of stuck with me...

"Always wear your invisible crown"

Personally I think that is a great bit of advice, no matter where you are or what you are doing, always wear your invisible crown, this was my starting point for this journal page....

I sprayed the background with aqua spray ink, whilst that was drying I stamped the six Doodle Dolls - Be Amazing, Princess, Wish Upon A Star, Dream a Little Dream, Art Girl and last but not least Zombie Girl (because we all have days when we don't feel our best), Whilst the ink was drying on the dolls I returned to the journal page, I used Sarah's Chevron Stencil & some Faded Jeans Distress Ink to create the chevrons in opposite corners, then I stamped around the edges of the page using the stamps from the Doodle Doll sets & different coloured inks. 

I coloured all of the Doodle Dolls with Promakers, glued them to the page & drew around them with a black pen. 

I stamped the phrase "Always wear your invisible crown" using Sarah's Alpha Block stamp set & I stamped the word "invisible" in blue to make it a bit more invisible.

I wanted to give each Doodle Doll an invisible crown so I used the crown stamp from the Princess Doodle Doll stamp & stamped it onto each Doodle Dolls head, then instead of colouring them in I used clear Stickles to create the look of an invisible crown...

Finally I used some hot pink polka dot paper from one of Sarah's AFOMFT kits, I stamped stars onto the paper, cut them out & attached them to the page.

That's all from me for today, I hope you all have a lovely time & enjoy the chocolate, don't forget to always wear your invisible crown.

Take care & hope to see you soon.

C xx