Painting a face in my Journal

Deco Art Americana Acrylics used: Antique Mauve, Vivid Violet, Warm White, Lamp black, True Ochre, Cherry Red, Colonial Green, Purple Pizzazz.

 The backgrouns is liquid watercolours and ink.

The girl was painted directly over the background.

This is my take on one of the lessons by Stegers and Stein

Fly with me, Gorjuss stamp in my art journal

Deco Art products used :
Deco Art Media Gesso, Deco Art Media Ultra Matte Varnish. Deco Art Americana Acrylics in: Bright Blue, Whispering Turquoise and Snow White.


Stamps used: Gorjuss Fly with me and the quote is by Blank Page Muse stamps

to see how this is made move over to my Your Tube channel, there is a start to finish video there

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It's my turn again on the Blank Page Muse Art Stamp Company inspiration blog, check out the how to video of my art journal page there

Supply list:

Rubber Stamps from the Blank Page Muse Art Stamp Company; Phoebe and  the Moon

Deco Art Products used
Deco Art media Gesso and Matte Medium.  Deco Art shimmer mister in turquoise, Americana Multi surface paint in Silver Metallic, Deco Art Craft Twinkles in Crystal. Deco Art Media fluid acrylic in Cobalt Teal Hue

patterned paper
metallic markers in silver, blue and teal
Sentiment (printed or stamped)
Turquoise waterproof stampink


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ART JOURNALLING

I won a art course by Muriel Steger and Petra Steijn, and it is hard for me to do. It's about letting go and not use you nind but your heart to create art.

I am a control freak and I have not much experience in painting girls faces, so it's hard fr me to do the lessons.

so far I made this:

Deco Art Products used:
Deco Art Americana Decou Page Napkin, Deco art Media Misters in Red and Yellow, Deco Art Media Gesso, Deco Art Americana Acrylic in Lamp black.

For this page, without going into the lessons too much, I made a background using a napkin with a marble print, decoupaged it to the page and usde a red Media Mister and  a Yellow Media mister to give the background colour. Next I used a pencil to sketch the head and painted it white using Gesso.

Next I drew the face and cooured it using Inktense pencils. The words are written using a Sharpie.

The gears were stamped using acrylic paint.

sketch after Klimt

Deco Art Products used:

Deco Art Media Gesso, Deco Art Americana acrylic in : Marigold, True Ochre, Spicy Mustard, Bright Blue, Cherry Red.  DEco Art Dazzling Metallics in: Chanmpagne Gold, Emperors Gold, Venetian Gold. Deco Art Multi Surface Satin in Lemon Zest and Deco Art Multi Metallic in Chocolate.  Americana Stencil Bubbles and Personally yours stencil Strength Deco Art Media Matte Varnish

The background and the bird are made using stencils and the paints listed above over a layer of Gesso.
The drawings are made using a Neco Color 1 oil pastel when done the pages got a layer of Matte Varnish to protect them

Mermaid card for The Blank Page Muse Art Rubber Stamp Company

The first challenge of The Blank Page Muse Art Rubber Stamp Company (Formerly Sin City Stamps) starts January 10 th and the theme is "Use Turquoise, silver and sparkle"

 Rubber stamp used: Misty the Mermaid, from The Blank Page Muse Art Stamp Company.

Deco Art Products used: Deco Art Decou Page Napkin and Crystal glitter.
Americana Multi Surface paint in Metallic Silver and Craft Twinkles in Crystal

Other products used: Cardstock in white and Turquoise Glitter, Patterned Paper, Colored Pencils (metallic) Glue, A premade sentimaent on vellum, pearls. Foam tape. Waterproof ink in black

I made a video on how to make the card (start to finish) here

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Valentines day frames

Almost february so time to think about Valentines day gifts to make :-)

I made a heart frame using cardboard in a mosaic kind of way and people started to bomb me with questions on how  I made it :-)  (so cool when that happens)

The best way to show is in a Video so I decided to create a simular frame with a different focal point and film the process and explain all steps in a video. Because a lot of the questions came from people in the Nethelands I decided to speak both Dutch and English in the video to talk you through all steps. Apparantly people don't mind because the comments are all very psotive :-)

Thanks everyone for looking at the video and subscribing to my channel, I have reached over 600 subscribers yesterday and that made me very happy :-)


So here som pictures, a list of supplies and a link to the video

Supply list:
Deco Art products : Triple thick Gloss Glaze Americana Acrylics in: lamp black, desert turquoise, traditional burnt sienna. and for the heart I used Scarlet and for the moon I used Moon Yellow. Deco Art Media line products: Matte medium, Matte varnish, Crackle Glaze. Metallic Lustres in: Burnished Brass, Black Shimmer Stencil for the moon frame is by Dutch Doobadoo, the one used on the heart frame is by Deco Art, a Andy Skinner stencil Stamps: the heart, the ticket and the love definition stamp are all from the Tim Holtz set Love Struck CMS 082 by Stampers Anonymous. The flourish and moon stamp are from The Blank Page Muse The crackle stamp came from a stampendous set by Andy Skinner All paper and embellishments and the glue came from a store called Action, which is a kind of dollar store type of store. next you need cardboard (old box) the back of a photoframe. A pencil and eraser. Ruler, knife Scissors, some paint brushes and a pallete knife. Heat gun is handy and baby wipes too For stamping I used my home made stamping tool (see my video on how to make that) and Archival ink by Ranger in Jet Black


Some notes to think of:
The cardboard from the box might contain acids so if you want to make sure your paper will not be damaged by this you will want to gesso it first and next add a layer of black paint before adding the paper.
I use cardboard a lot in my work and never had any issues with it but if you want to be on the safe side it is just something you will want to do.

The glue I use is only available at Action, which is a dollar store kind of shop, they are not in all countries so the best comparishment for the glue I used is the Collal All purpose glue



All instuctions are in the video here:

here some more closer looks

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