Stamps Ahead

Have you heard of the 7 Coloured Earth in Mauritius?  Here is my art journal page inspired by this area It so happens that the owner of Hillbilly Shenanigans and her friend are on a world cruise that called into Mauritius recently.  They took photos of their visit to the location.  They are documenting their travels and setting small challenges along the way.  This challenge was to be inspired by one of their photos of this truly amazing area in Mauritius. The earth is mainly different types of red, gold, browns and purples. For my art journal page, I first took a sheet of heavy white card stock and applied several Paper Artsy Paints with a spatula.  I allowed this to dry and then using a now discontinued Kaszazz stamp with black archival ink randomly.  I DID NOT LIKE IT!!! The inner critic was saying throw it away and start again!  Well, I nearly did and then I realised I still had punches on my desk from some recent creating and decided to punch squa...

A selection of cards I made using left over pieces from making my art journals this week.  A couple have a simple greeting, and all others left blank suitable for many occasions. Thank you for looking, Margaret  

 This is a small 2" x 3" (5.3cm x 7.8cm approx.) journal I have made this past week: Inside and back pages, using stamps, doodling, acrylic paint pens, punched circles, fussy cut images. They are a work in progress that I can come back to at any time and play more. Why so tiny? Sometimes when creating opportunities arise and you change course. I started with a 12" (30cm) of 350gsm white cardstock (CS) and an A4 sheet of white CS - that I sprayed with 4 spray inks in my stash. Allow to dry completely - I left overnight to dry.  Then in the morning I cut, the larger sheet into 6" x 4" pieces. These were than to be folded in half.  All good so far, for the first 6 pages and then for some reason I cut the remaining 6 pieces in half ending up with 12 pages that are sized 2" x 3" - no worries I love mini journals. A couple of photos Spray inks on the A4 sheet - of course, by this time the green spray decided to run out!  The other 2 journals I created - now...