Magazine Monday without the magazine!

My sweet husband got this for me:

So I created this week's Magazine Monday on Canson Mixed media paper instead. Mostly because I couldn't wait to play with new paper. I hope you like it!

Acrylic paint background applied with a baby wipe. Then I added gesso where the flower was to go. Finally I  painted over that with the colors I wanted went over it with white and black paint. I printed the quote on copy paper and cut it out and pasted it on there. I found some micro tip bottles at Jo-Ann crafts in the quilting tools section that are originally for sewing machine oil. They were on sale for .99 so I got 2 of them. 

They work pretty well for drawing with paint. They are really tiny bottles, and so cute. Just be careful filling them with paint. I went gung ho and managed to get paint all over the outside of the bottle. A slow, steady stream of paint that doesn't touch the top what-so-ever is key. lol. 

I hope you like my page this week. Thanks for stopping by.

Hugs, Dawn

Magazine Monday on WEDNESDAY!

Wow am I ever late posting this one eh? Sorry about that! I really like how this page turned out. Not terribly thrilled with the way I added the verse, but I am not going to change it now (I tried and it wanted to rip eeeppp!)
I gesso'ed my pages and then added some drywall tape, for texture.

Here it is after I sprayed on my background and painted all the flowers on.

Here is the page with the Bible verse added. It is John 20:29

Thanks for looking and I hope you have a blessed Monday (and Wednesday)

Hugs, Dawn

Magazine Page Monday

   

Another Monday means another magazine page! I started out gesso'ing, (gessoing, gesso-ing) my pages and then added some embossing ink through some tape backing that has these little holes all over it. Then I added UTEE (Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel) to the ink. Here is what that looks like:

Gorgeous! Right? Lol maybe a little too soon to tell. So let's continue shall we? We shall :)

So I plopped some Magenta Paint onto these pages and then saturated the whole shebang with water and smeared it all around with a paintbrush. Once that was dry, I used a baby wipe to wipe the paint off the embossed areas. I then went around the edges with a purple dye based ink spray and blotted off any excess. Then I used my gesso again to block in the heart and then the letters. You can tell at the bottom of the pages I started to run out of room before letters so I had to squeeze them in there a little. I still like the way it looks. I painted over the gesso with acrylic paint and then drew over all that with painty pens, sharpies, 

Bic Mark it's etc. 

As always thanks for looking and I hope you have a fantastic and blessed Monday!

Hugs, Dawn

Magazine Page Monday!

Here is this week's entry into my ESPN magazine. I love this verse. To start my pages I use gesso, which primes them so the original artwork, articles and text don't show and it gives a great base for my paint to stick to. This week I decided to use some of my homemade sprays on the background. I have ink refills for some dye based ink pads by Stampin' Up. I just added a few drops of color to a spray bottle and then added water. Here is the result after I applied several colors:

It was a little bright so I pounced some of the color off with my towel. Then dried everything with my heat tool. 

I wasn't sure where to go from there, so I painted some flowers and used a Bible quote and some really old Wordsworth stamps! Does anyone remember these? 

I used acrylic craft paints for this whole thing. Then traced around my leaves and stems with a Uniball pen. 

When all that was dry, I flicked the whole page with white paint. 

Thanks for looking and have a blessed day!

Hugs, Dawn

Magazine Monday

I completely forgot to take progress photos of this set of pages. OooOOoops! I started out with gesso on the pages so the original art, photos and text is covered. It's ok if a little peeks through. After gesso, I sought out my quote. I found a pin on Pinterest that said Rooted in Faith and I immediately pictured what you see here on my pages. I love it when that happens! I painted the background with acrylic craft paint.I gave my pages some texture with white paint on bubble wrap and black staz-on, on a text stamp.

After painting the tree trunk brown I spritzed it with water and ran my Rust colored Crayola Oil Pastel over it. They are water soluble so it makes for a pretty cool product. I think they sell them at Staples, but I had to order mine online. They also come in a 24 pack, for around $10- $15.

I didn't really care for these pages until I went around the edges of the tree and the edges of the pages with a dark blue Oil Pastel. I have a set of Pentel Oil Pastels and they smeared with my finger quite well. I finished it off with my quote, which I stamped with Foam Stamps by Memory Makers that I have had for years. Then I flicked everything with some White acrylic paint and then a silver/black Smooch spritz. 

I hope you are enjoying your Monday.

Hugs, Dawn