Aloha Crafty Mavens!! Are you excited about the fact that it is Fri-YAY!! Okay, sorry I couldn’t help myself!! I love Friday, mainly because I always look forward to Art Party Friday!!I love to get al inspired to do something creative. Today I promise is no different. I love how the ladies here at the Crafty Maven give us all of their creative juices when creating for this channel.

Today on the channel Lisa, or Maggie Mylow as you may know her by, is making us something pretty!!

Here is what Lisa had to say about her piece,

“I found this mood board a bit challenging this time. It used a lot of colors that I don’t typically use. Definitely outside of my comfort zone, but I accepted the challenge. I started off using some Super Heavy Gesso by Liquitex. I used a palette to spread it over the pages and kept it thicker in areas and thinner in some. I then took some texture plates that I have and pressed it into the Heavy Gesso while it was still wet. I left it to dry overnight and then when I came back to it, I made a dark charcoal glaze with some black and white paint and some Acrylic Glazing Fluid. I painted over the 2 pages and then let it sit for about 1-2 minutes and then used baby wipes to wipe back the excess paint. This lets the paint is int the groves to show off all that texture.
To take a little bit of inspiration from the mood board I took some Tim Holtz Evergreen Bough and Cracked Pistachio Distress Paint and some gesso and created some circles around the page. This mimicked the shape of the moon and also brought that dark minty color that was in the mood board. I then took my Fineliner bottle with Carbon Black paint and outlined each of the circles. I found a quote off of Pinterest that related to the moon and I used the same Fineliner to write the quote into each of the circles.
I thought I was actually done at this point, but there was something nagging at me that I had to continue. So when your muse tells you to keep going, you keep going. I think took a Donna Downey Flourish Stencil with some light modelling paste and went around the page in some areas. I let that dry (sort of….I’m impatient) and then I went over again with another glaze. This time I used N5 Neutral Grey Paint with Acrylic Glazing Fluid. I then let it sit for about 1-2 minutes and then wiped it back with a baby wipe.
It still didn’t look finished to me. So I took some Sepia Fluid Acrylic Paint and went around the edge and then buffed it in with a baby wipe. It was starting to look better but it still wasn’t finished. I then picked up my new favorite thing… Iridescent Bronze Fine paint. I used that with my finger and buffed it a few areas around the page. I used water and a wet baby wipe to move it around the page so I would get some really defined shiny areas and some duller areas.
I love how I got that old world vintage look to this page. I wouldn’t say all the elements feel like they flow well together, but I love the texture and the depth to everything on the page. Thank you so much for coming over to the blog to check out my page. Don’t forget to check out all the places you can find me.”

Here is a look at what she created!

I love all the texture!!

I love seeing this scripted quote under all the modeling paste, just barely sneaking out!

And This quote Lisa used is amazing!!

Here is a final look at the whole page together! Really cool!

You can watch Lisa’s process video here.

You can also see more art journaling pages like this one on Lisa’s personal Youtube channel. Lisa also runs a small scrapbooking online store and podcast over on her blog. 

Come back tomorrow for Scraplift Saturday!! There are some seriously amazing layouts being shared! Also don’t forget that we have a FB group where we chat about scrapbooking and crafty things and share what we are working on, it you are interested in that, I would love to see you there and get to know you more!!

I hope you have a delightful weekend!!

Aloha,

Hannah