Friday, January 30, 2015

Valentine Event Day 5 - Art Journal

Welcome back to Day 5, our FINAL day of our brand new blog event! We have the first ever "5 for 5" holiday event... 5 designers will bring you inspiration for 5 days in a row, for 5 big holidays throughout 2015! Each day we have a different theme, and today the theme is COLLAGE.
I have a PRIZE PACK to be won so check for that at the bottom of this post~!

It was time for a good ol' fashioned art journal page! I don't have a video for this one because my journal pages tend to take me a very long time. I do a little bit at a time and leave it alone for a bit. I do have a photo tutorial, though! yippee :)

First steps are basics... I created a COLLAGE (our theme!) using torn papers from an old Dear Lizzy pad. I adhered all the pieces with gel medium and let it dry. Then I coated the whole page with a thin layer of gesso and let that dry.

I wanted to do a teal/pink page so I painted large brush strokes up and down the page in a variety of blue shades and pink shades.

Now it's time for some stamps! I used some hearts from a couple Unity Stamp SMAK kits. I stamped them with my Twinkling H2O's in a teal and a pink. Then I applied gesso to the inside of the larger hearts.

 Now to finish off the background I added rub-ons throughout the page...

Now I have to add my cupid! I wanted to incorporate a mini collage on the cupid...

I tore a lot of mini pieces of paper from the Studio Calico "Classic Calico" pad and adhered them all around the cupid with gel medium. Once it was completely dry, I intricately cut around the entire thing with my craft knife. Finally, I shaded the cupid with black and silver Gelatos.

 I glued on my cupid, added an arrow rub on, and stamped the sentiment...

The sentiment reads "The best is yet to be" and is from the Unity January SMAK kit.

Now time for the close ups!



I hope you enjoyed my photo tutorial! I haven't left you completely video-less though... today I'm up on the Faber Castell Design Memory Craft blog with another Valentine project... and a video! So stop there and check it out!
PRIZE TIME!

I have one prize pack to give away to a lucky commenter! Leave a comment on all of my "5 for 5" posts and you'll be entered for a chance to win! One comment = one entry! 5 comments = 5 entries! Good luck!


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Make sure to visit the rest of the designers in this hop!

RACHEL - www.rwkrafts.com (that's me!)

Other Supplies:
Ranger Craft Mat http://goo.gl/qQSwxt
Crate Paper Kiss Kiss Rub Ons - http://goo.gl/fhv9gL
Twinkling H2O’s http://goo.gl/qpCxxs
Unity Stamp Co Heart Cluster http://goo.gl/buf8iT
Unity Stamp Co Large Heart http://goo.gl/vMX1rk
Unity Stamp Co Sentiment http://goo.gl/LaEXK0
Dear Lizzy – Lucky Charm http://goo.gl/1qujMN


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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Valentine Index Cards + VIDEO

Welcome back to Day 4 of our brand new blog event! We have the first ever "5 for 5" holiday event... 5 designers will bring you inspiration for 5 days in a row, for 5 big holidays throughout 2015! Each day we have a different theme, and today the theme is GLITTER. Some of the designers are offering prizes so leave your comments to be entered to win!

Index cards are my way of trying new techniques and just playing around, without having to commit to a full journal page or card. I have a rolodex full of these little things, so I thought it'd be fun to make some for this Valentine's event.


 These two index cards use the exact same products and materials but turned out completely different. It was fun to see them transform in such opposite directions!

I used a lot of gorgeous new papers from DCWV that are available now at Joann's. They have new Premium Paper Packs which hold a collection of 5 sheets of very high quality paper, including glitter, vellum, embossed, and even laser cut! I also used the fabulous BLING SHEETS (!!!) they are like shiny crystals on adhesive paper. They're amazing!

Of course I needed to finish these off with some Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Glass Bead Glitter Gel! It IS a glitter theme, after all! I also have yet another PROCESS VIDEO! So you can watch how these two cards turned into two very different pieces!


Make sure to visit the rest of the designers in this hop!

RACHEL - www.rwkrafts.com (that's me!)

Other Supplies:
Spellbinders Address Labels Die http://goo.gl/9ED0m8
Ranger Craft Mat http://goo.gl/qQSwxt
Crate Paper Kiss Kiss Rub Ons - http://goo.gl/fhv9gL
Twinkling H2O’s http://goo.gl/qpCxxs
Unity Stamp Co Hearts http://goo.gl/uYb1DN
Unity Stamp Co Script http://goo.gl/a7l1pX

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Mixed Media Valentine Tag + VIDEO

Welcome back to Day 3 of our brand new blog event! We have the first ever "5 for 5" holiday event... 5 designers will bring you inspiration for 5 days in a row, for 5 big holidays throughout 2015! Each day we have a different theme, and today the theme is ARROWS. Some of the designers are offering prizes so leave your comments to be entered to win!

I am so happy with this tag! Some crafty friends and I decided to make a goal to enter all of Tim Holtz's 12 Tags of 2015... and well... I'm cutting the deadline for January awfully close! Donna said Tim's tag couldn't be made for Valentine's Day... so I accepted that as a challenge :)

Here is Tim's tag...


I followed almost all of Tim's steps and his design, but traded out the colors and exchanged a 'new year' theme to a 'valentine' theme. I also do a lot of product substitutions to work with what I already have in my stash. I encourage you to check out Tim's tag HERE and also to watch my PROCESS VIDEO! Yes... I have done 3 videos in a row woohoo!!!

Is it terrible to say I like my tag more?! I'm just feeling like a proud mama with this one :) I hope you enjoyed the video. Last time I made a mixed media tag, I had a lot of requests for a video... so here you are! I'd love to have you Subscribe to my channel, too!




Make sure to visit the rest of the designers in this hop!

RACHEL - www.rwkrafts.com (that's me!)



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