Letter Journals...

Thought I would put a few of the pages from the Letter journals that I have been working on in the last few months and pop around and say hi over at Paint Party Friday  Have you had a look at all the amazing art that is posted over there.. No!! Well follow the link and have a look around. Everyone is welcome and we love seeing what everyone is up to during the last week. 

I had fun on these black pages at first I was a bit tricked then when I thought about how well the signo white pen works on black I just had fun doing lots of dangles.

Stamped on paper with my alphabet stamps and cut and pasted. 

Always fun doing circles. Scribbled words around them. 

More dangles added some Gelli plate printed hearts. I wanted to play with some Kaisercraft Die cuts. So I put them over the background and then painted and blended them in. 

All paint used was Decoart Americana Acrylics, they come in some fabulous colours and such fun to use. 

Have a great day

Vicki-Ann :)

Collage fun.

So I often get asked what do you do with the ICAD cards when you are finished with them. Well I like to copy them on my printer for collage. Such fun images to go in my collage art journals. I make the journals out of watercolour paper and have them for the size that they fit in my fauxdori. They are the Travelers notebook size.  I am in The Artstronauts Club it is fabulous for collage. Teesha is very generous with her wonderful collage sheets and I love cutting and piecing pieces together to make something new. 

Thought I would show a bit of a progress shot in the picture below. 

I got a bit stuck with this one and it was a few weeks before I came back to it and finished it off with the bird in the bottom left corner and the writing. More dots and lines a few more trees and it filled that big spot that at the time I had no idea what to do with. 

It was a fun page and I have done another one that I will pop on my blog in the coming days,.

 

This is my Fauxdori that I made out of my old leather handbag. I just love the soft leather on this and I am glad I was able to reuse the leather. Its great to take with me in my handbag and slot different notebooks into as I need them. 

Linking this up with Paint Party Friday. Hi everyone.

Have a great day

Vicki-Ann :)

Owl Wisdom and Helmar

This is a recent Art journal page that I had fun making for the Helmar Creative Team.

I painted my background just using a spatula. I just spread random colours of my favourite DecoArt paints over the pages. I added some stamping with a Prima stamp, newspaper print. Then in one of the same colours as the background I used the reverse chicken wire stencil to just give it some interest. 

I drew the owl on some book paper in pencil that I had added a layer of Gesso and paint to. I spread the Helmar Decoupage and craft paste to the page and then on the back of the owl to glue him on the page. I did this to the hearts too just drew them on the painted paper cut them out and added them to the dangles on the left page.   

I doodled around the owl going around him a few times and added some squiggles

I like to add dangles here and there to my pages. I added the quote in the middle as we all know that owls are very wise. This little owl started out on one of my index cards he was also on one of my Bookmarks a few weeks ago. I so enjoyed painting him that I thought he needed his own art journal page. Think he might have to go on a canvas next.

Hope I have inspired you to get out some book paper and a pencil. Draw some of your own little characters and add them to your next art journal page with Helmar Decoupage and craft paste.

I go into more detail with a list of everything I used over on the Helmar Creative Team page.

Linking this up with Paint Party Friday. Hi everyone.

Have a great day
Sandy :)

31 to 40 of the Index Card A Day Challenge.

I have been doing the Daisy Yellow Index card challenge. This is my third year and I really enjoy the challenge of doing a small index card art every day for the months of June and July.  Here are numbers 31 to 40 of my Index cards to show on my blog. If you would like to follow me on Instagram at @sandybeachart I have been putting them up on there daily. 

#31 100 

Dangles coloured in with Gelli roll pens

#32 Off Prompt

Collage with a piece of dictionary paper. 

#33 Magic

Thought I would do a wizard out of collage from The Artstronauts Club. 

#34 Off Prompt

Watercolour flowers and a printed quote

#35 Sunflower

Watercolour. 

#36 Off Prompt

I really enjoyed doing the next 3 sets of cards. 

I love Mixed media and just thought that hey, I had the paints out might as well do 3. 

#37 Off Prompt

#38 Off Prompt

#39 Off Prompt

I watched Tammy from Daisy Yellow on Periscope

 doing mandalas with dangles, well that is what I call them. So thought I would incorporate some of my dangles on one. 

 

#40 Off Prompt

Another drawing of a creature. 

Well that is my fun for this week. The challenge is finished now and I have just one left to do. 

Posting this up a bit late for Paint Party Friday.. 

Have a great day 

Vicki-Ann :)

Index Card A Day 21 to 30.

I have been doing the Daisy Yellow Index card challenge. This is my third year and I really enjoy the challenge of doing a small index card art every day for the months of June and July. I am up to day 57 but here are number 21 to 30 of my Index cards to show on my blog. If you would like to follow me on Instagram at @sandybeachart I have been putting them up on there daily. 

#21 Invent a prompt 

The prompt I invented was "free choice' so make whatever you like. 

#22 Neon

Neon paints. 

#23 Winter

Cute Kawaii characters all dressed for Winter.

#24 Magenta

Watercolour fun added some sparkles to the butterfly. 

#25 Song. I chose happy by Pharrell Williams. I did this with my Grumbacher watercolours.

#26 Space Invader. 

I am in the Artstronauts club and Tracy Moore draws all these great characters. I just love drawing them now adding all the little circles and shapes to make them come to life. 

#27 Off Prompt. 

Collage and doodling. Dylusion stencil for the leaves with my Decoart Paints. 

#28 Cats or Dogs

DecoArt paints and stencils. 

#29 Aqua or Pool.

I had fun with this one. 

#30 Off Prompt

Always love drawing dangle lines and adding the sparkle colours with Gelly roll pens.

Well I am just playing catch up now with my Index cards as it is August 1st and ICAD is over for another year. The group is still open for a few more weeks as there is a few of us that have not finished. I am 3 days behind so not too bad. Will post the next 10 that I did on Friday so see you then. 

Have a great day 

Vicki- Ann :) 

A girl and her cat..

Recently I did this trying out something that I had not tried with the Acrylic paints. I normally do this technique with watercolours but not with acrylic paints.

I sat down and just drew straight on the paper pages, no Gesso first. I love drawing those cats. This one looks very quizzical. I always sketch in my sketch book, drawing what I feel like at the time but not in my art journal. Well I draw in my art journal but it is always over the top of a background, then add gesso and then paint the image I am going to have on the top. That is what I did different this time.  I drew in my art journal and then I added the paints, like I would with watercolour. Leaving a white gap around all the drawing. I really like the way the white is around everything. I blended about 4 colours of DecoArt Americana paints into the background trying to give it some interest. Then of course I added some splatters of white on the top. Added some dangles in the corner, I love doing those and they seem to pop up on a page here and there in my art journal. 

Hope you enjoyed seeing a page in my art journal. I am busy working on the ICAD challenge and will pop the next 10 of those up this Friday. 

Have a great day

Vicki-Ann :)

Happy...

Playing around in my art journal with my favourite DecoArt coloured paints. I like trying out all different flowers and adding little bits of doodling with my pens. Everything seems to get a few dangles on it lately too. Did a few versions of this, was very relaxing to just draw and paint and then add the doodling, just what I am needing at the moment. 

Linking this up at Paint Party Friday 

and off to pop around and see what everyone else is up to this week. 

Have a great week

Vicki-Ann :)

Dangles...

Realised today that I have not posted any of the dangles that I have been doing so thought you might like to see one.. This is done with the Sakura Glaze pens.. I find these so relaxing to do.. There is a few different ones on here.. I am always on the lookout for a new dangle to add.. Like those ones that look like little weights.

I love the way these pens make it sparkle.. 
So that's it for me today. A short and sparkly blog post.

So day 16 of the #90daysofblogging accomplished. If you would like to pop over and see what the others joining in on this challenge are up to today.. 
Here are the links...
Tamiko McCurry
Donna Lueders
Sandee Setliff
Sharon Estes
Yvonne Armatage Gebauer 

Have a great day

Sandy :)