CCB Crew February challenge: hot chocolate hugs

Every month there's a challenge over on the Canvas Corp Brand blog. Its a mood board with images to get inspired from. 

This is what I did from this months challenge

From the inspiration board you can see I was inspired by the colors and the hot chocolate. I used my Cameo 2 and cut the ht chocolate cup. The lid I used jack Frost Glimmer mist snd Strerling Glimmer mist for the sleave. I used my fiskars paper crimper (remember  that from back in the day) and crimped the paper. I also used that color Glimmer mist on the steam. The hearts I colored with Island Spring Glimmer Glaze. (there were 4 hearts but one disappeared.)

While that was frying I did the background on my journal page. The journal I'm using is the 7Gypsies starter journal in 5x7 in Kraft. Its a nice heavy cardstock. I first gessoed the middle of the page. Once that dried, I sprayed on the Jack frost Glimmer Mist, Sterling Glimmer Mist and a little pearl Glimmer mist. Letting the drip in some spots.

Once the background was dry, I put together the hot chocolate cup and glued it on the page. I found a sentiment on pintrest, typed it on my computer and printed it. cut and glued on the page.   I added some splatter with the sprays and also some of the white gesso. I finally went around the words with a black pen.

VLVS! October challenge: we're all mad here

Over on the VLVS! blog there is another monthly inspiration board challenge.  Here is the page I did for the challenge.

The page is from the journal I made form booklets I get in the mail from a local casino here in Vegas. I did 2 layers of black gesso by DecoArt media. after that dried I used a strip stencil from Stampin' up! from back in the day. I used Dylusios paint in Bubble gum pink. After that dried I used the numbers part of the tissue pape by Tim Holtz. I glued that down with matte medium. I was hoping it would melt into the page more than it did.. 

Next I took some rubber stamps that I thought I wanted to use on the age. I stamped one on tissue paper and on dictionary paper. And with various black ink pads to try and get good crisp images. The Memento worked the best. My Verafine is all dried up. :(  I decided to use the images I stamped on the dictionary paper. colored 2 of the images with color pencils. I did add some orange craft paint to the bottom of the page. Glued them down on the page with matte medium. 

I used my white gelly roll pen and outline the pink stripes. I did some splots with black and white Americana paints. Finally I wrote on a price of cardstock "We're all mad here" glued the words to the page. and outlined it with black Bic pen. 

I will have a process video up on this page in the coming days.

Viva Las VegaStamps! stamps used:

Sitting Bird

Whimsical lady holding up head

Creepy Rabbit

Mission Inspirations: challenge accepted

Mike Dekin on youtube has started a FB challenge group a few months back. Mission Inspiration.  Every month, he puts up a video with a challenge of 10 things you need to do in order for the mission. He then does his art journal page for the mission.

Most of these I've done on video. I think the first one is the only one that isn't on video. i did film it, but I tried to voice over for it, the audio wasn't matching up with the video, so I got rid of it.