Love - CSI Case File No.159

Dear all...
can't believe that March is almost over, but what great is we have another new case file open from CSI (Color, Stories, Inspiration).Well, as you know or not, we're sponsoring CSI (Color, Stories, Inspiration) this month!!! And in case you didn't know who we are... We are

Sistersart Creation. 

"We are two sisters, Linda and Merry, who are crazy about scrapbooking. Somehow we decided to make our own chipboards and try to sell them on 2011. And somehow it worked! Lately we've included some of corkboards and stencils too. And if you'd like and if it's not too complicated for us, we could make as well a custom design for you (only wordlets or names). We have quite selection of chipboards, corkboards and stencils. Our Facebook Account (Sistersart Creation - sistersartcreation@gmail.com) for inspirations of how using our products."

And if you'd like to know what we're giving away, here it is...

And here's the new Case File No.159

First, I created a journal page for this case file ...

The Scheme : Grayish Teal Blue, Light Ecru, Light Mauve, Plum and Black.

The Evidence : Doodling, Flowers, Grid Pattern, Paint, Stamps, Jewels and Mix Media.

The Testimony : I used inspiration word "Love" for my journaling it said, "I know love because of you."

With this journal I did quite a lot of work. I did a base of gesso for my background. I used Dylusions Ink Spray - London Blue, Funky Fuchsia, Black Marble and After Midnight. Then I started doodling circles in the middle and started to finished them until they looked like a mandala. I did another thin layer of gesso to disguise the mandala a little bit (so it's not to strong for my backkground). I stamped Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Bitty Grunge all over the edges and the sides of the page. I used flowers stencil for my left and right sides to create more grunge look. For the flowers, I used a 3D Viva Decor Stamps, colored them with Dylusions Ink Spray - Funky Fuchsia and Black Marble. For the journaling I used Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Worn Text.

Second, I created a page for this case file...

The Scheme : Grayish Teal Blue, Light Ecru, Light Mauve, Plum and Black.

The Evidence : Doodling, Leaves, Grid Pattern, Paint, Stamps, Jewels and Mix Media.

The Testimony : I used inspiration word "Love" for my journaling it said,"Love makes a family".

To start I did some gesso on my white paper. I sprayed them with Dylusions Ink Spray - London Blue, Funky Fuchsia, Black Marble and After Midnight. I used a plastic canvas and bandage to create more texture for my background. I cut the leaves with Silhouette Cutting Machine. 

With this layout, I would like to join the challenge from Sketchabilities Sketch No.135. I rotated the sketch 90 degrees clockwise.

Thanks Sketchabilities for this challenge and I hope you enjoy what I made and before I say goodbye, would like to encourage you with,"It doesn't matter what others are doing. It matters what YOU are doing." Have a great weekends everybody!! Hugs, Merry.

Be The Change

Dear Scrappers,

continuing my page journal page number 3....

This time I chose this sentiment "Be the change you wanna see in the world" said by Mahatma Gandhi. It's a beautiful meaning that sometimes people forgot about.

I chose to play a little bit more with crackle paint, less gesso and some Dylusions Sprays. The stem I did it with Hot Glue Gun, then I painted with Lumiere and some Inka Gold.

Hope you enjoy my page and thank you for stopping by.

Hugs,

Merry

Take Time

Hi beautiful readers,

hope you're all doin' great. Here's my second page for my journal book ....

Sometimes you bought too much chipboards, and didn't know what to do with them at the end. Or sometimes you just crazy about chipboards and started collecting them instead of using them. If you're the second person which is me, I started using 'em in one of my journal page.

First thing first come to mix media. Make your page ready with some gesso, incase you're using a very bad papers that are not good dealing with waters, I suggested that you using a few layers of gesso. But that's only an option... you could do it any other way you like....

Then I drew a thin line, for guiding me where I would like all the chipboards to be placed. After I glued all my chipboards, and happy with it, I then did more gesso to cover everything white.

Once I satisfied with the placement, I started spraying it. Choose all colors you like, I chose to use Dylusions Ink Spray: Bubble Gum, Vibrant Turquoise, Dirty Martini and Funky Fuchsia.

Like the first page of my journal, I used the hot gun in every color I sprayed so the colors don't mix with each other. At the very end, I used Archival Ink to create some shadows on the chipboards and I colored it with 8B pencils to make the colors more dramatic.

The quote said "Take time to do what makes your soul happy" to match my background journal.

Would like to join this page for The Mixed Media Monthly Challenge with the moodboard below

I got inspired through the color from the flowers and the background.

Thank you The Mixed Media for the challenge.

Thank you all for your visit and I really hope you'll get inspired with my page.

Hugs,

Merry

Faith

Dear scrappers,

today I'm starting my new journal book the second. Haven't touched it for few months now.

So, here's the first page...

didn't do much with this one as I want it to keep it simple. 

Lately I've been hooked with Pinterest. I love it very much. Not that you could inspired yourself with nice quotation, but also there's a lot of inspiration coming from it. 

So, now you know, I've got this quote above from there. 

"Let your faith be bigger than your fear"

I want to stressed the word "Faith" and "Fear", so I did a contrast color with this both chipboards. One I painted with bright color and the other with black and some crackle paste.

The background I did as normal. Gesso and some structure paste with some masking. Then I sprayed it with Dylusions Ink Spray: Vibrant Turquoise, Funky Fuchsia and Cherry Pie. 

(Just a little hint for you, as I don't like it when it gets to dark or to thick with the sprays, I always put the color that I want to use in a small sprayer bottle or you could use mini mister from Ranger then add a few spray of water. And if you think you need more color, you could just spray it in the same spot after you dried it first with the hot gun). 

Not to let the other color mix together with each other, I let on my left hand hot gun on with every spray so the colors stayed. The chipboards I color with acrylic paint.

Hope you like my page...

Hugs,

Merry

Journal Page 3

The journal page continuous ....
All the chipboards used are ours....

Discouraged

Two Hearts

To Try

All the pages above using almost the same technic....
All was having a gesso as a start, and then was finished with dylussion spray, acrylic paint and distress ink....

Journal Pages 2

Here's more from my journal pages.
All the chipboards that I used are ours.

"Dreams big dream"

"Friendship"

"To stay Happy"

"Spring"

Journal Pages

Since I join Finnabair's classes, my point of view about making projects started to get wider.
I started to fill up the journal that I got from Finnabair's workshop.
Here's the journal covers...

Front Cover

Back Cover