Hello! Welcome ALL!
Today here on INSPIRE,
is the Rita Barakat Designs & Ken Oliver Colorburst Collab Blog Hop!
For my project, I designed an Art Journal page, along with a variety of textured and colorful tags, Featuring Rita Barakat Designs Mystical Creatures Die Cuts, and Ken Oliver Colorburst Fresh Florals Collection.
The art journal I am using is an expired planner book, that features calendar grid pages. For this art entry, I used Heavy White Gesso to cover the calendar, only leaving certain design elements exposed.
While waiting for the gesso to dry, I used some Plaid Extreme Glitter paint, to add some sparkle to the die cut images.
I then "practiced" techniques using the Fresh Floral Colorburst's, using heavy cardstock tags, and a variety of mediums including gesso, texture paste & Tim Holtz Distress Resist Spray, along with a variety of stamps, ink & Rita Barakat's Magical Mysteries Embossing Powder in Midnight Magic.
Technique 1: Gesso, Punchinella, ColorBurst & water spritz.
Technique 2: Distress Resist Spray, Stencil, Light Colorburst followed through with watercolor brush & light water.
Technique 3: Stamp, Embossing Ink & Rita Barakat Magical Mysteries Embossing Powder.
I then followed with light tap of ColorBurst and water spritz.
So in playing with different techniques, to create the art journal layout, I used a mix of them all, lol.
I just could not decide which I liked the most.
As you see by the background in this photo, all techniques worked together
to create depth, texture and amazing color fluidity!
To add more interest to the design, I used a variety of stamps along with archival ink.
Final touch, was adding the FABULOUS die cuts, adding dimension to each by shadowing around each, using a graphite pencil and blending with water and a brush.
Perfect Color, Texture, with Whimsical Inspiration, in an art journaling page & tags to be used in future projects too!
Thank you so much for joining us in this exciting collaboration & blog hop!
For the Rita Barakat Design products used in this project, please visit Rita's Etsy store at:
Ken Oliver Colorburst can be purchased at a variety of online stores such as Blitsy, Scrapbook.com, Dick Blick and host of other online resources.
For even more inspiration, be sure to follow Rita Barakat on her blog, on Facebook at Rita Barakat 1 for Mixed Media Mondays LIVE, and in the Facebook group Rise & Shine With Rita Barakat.
And if you are not already a subscriber, be sure to subscribe to this blog and the others featured in todays blog hop:
Rita Barakat:
Betz Golden:
Yolie Burke:
Again, thanks for visiting today!
See you again soon!
Until then......
Stay Crafty Cool!
Great job designing these pages. So much to look at, yet it is cohesive. Nice
ReplyDeleteGreat layout! The powers look like so much fun
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