Friday, June 30, 2017

Time for a Smeared Ink Reunion!

Welcome! Happy Smeared Ink Reunion Day!
 "Good Evening" .
 I was a young girl and it was always bed time when I heard his voice..I slipped out of bed for water,many glasses of water to watch Alfred Hitchcock ..some where in it, my Mother gave up and as long as I was quiet I could watch him  with her.
3.5 x 5.5 inches there are five secretaries..(sections). I could not resist using a image from my son's store...Fox paw Printing on Etsy.
I love his tag collection set this one was used from.
After all Retro was big in the black and white world of T.V.
The Alfred Hitchcock stamp is from Lost Coast Stamps.
The sentiment Smeared Ink.
The feather is from my Rooster Pepper.
Thanks for stopping in.




Terra
Alison
Leigh
Leigh SB Designs
Fiona
Shell
Kim
Kapree
Julia
Val
Black Dragon
Dream In Darkness
Ike
Kelli
Milo
Nan
Monique
Susan

Thursday, June 29, 2017

New Ephemera for Junk Journals

Good evening everyone. 
I cannot believe it will soon be the 4th of July...wow! time flies.
As many of you know I have been so taken by vintage junk journals...actually journals of any kind.I just love them. They allow me to just enjoy the simplicity of inking and stamping...collage and creating.
I feel at peace when I get my hands on a coffee stained piece of paper for some reason.
I discovered my stamps were sitting there as I colored digis..which I love to do also..and soon I am going to really enjoy merging the two.
Right now I am so loving my stamps again.
So here is the kit I placed in my Etsy store,  this evening. 
I have selected 10 stamps I am making myself some ephemera and stashing for my future journals.I took one of each stamp and added to my store.
"Discover" a little granny on a steampunk mobile..love this stamp from Viva Las Vegas stamps
"giggle"
This stamp  is from Alpha stamps.



 "Aspire" is from a store on Etsy.

 "Escape" is a Stampers Anonymous Stamp by Tim Holtz.
"Live"
Is a beautiful stamp from Inkadinkado.
The Ticket
This is a Wendy Vecchi stamp I call the Ticket..one of my favorite stamps.You will find at Stampers Anonymous.
 
 "Adore" A beautiful stamp by All Night Media.
"Discover"
A fabulous ticket stamp by Tim Holtz ( Stampers Anonymous)

 To A True Friend"
a Stampers Anonymous Stamp.
 and "Happiness" a unknown stamp. no company markings on it.

 Thanks for stopping in I have linked the stamps stores to their names..you can have fun tonight looking at all the wonderful stamps in our inky world.
Thanks for stopping in.
Susan S

Sunday, June 25, 2017

Vintage Journal Finished "Inspired"

Welcome to my blog.
I have loved the beautiful days of summer so far.I have to say I did not enjoy the heat wave and I hope it stays away.
I am feeling better and getting my son back in health.Time...everything takes time.I have also enjoyed watching him get back into his art. Happy giggles again and excitement over his designs.What else have I been doing???
 I have been studying many many videos on "Junk Journals" each artist is so talented and inspiring to me.
I love Tsunami Rose Designs and I used some in this journal. 
I named it "Inspired". 
I love the name because that is what I feel trying to make one of the journals.
I will share a few pictures with you. I welcome your thoughts and comments.
This is made from a small brown envelope you use for packages a bit bigger than your standard envelopes This is roughly 3.5 wide and 5.5 inches long.
 There are 180 pages counting both sides and 36 extras and 19 tags.
The cover was from my stash when I was in Creative Souls with Angel Kennedy. What a sweet lady. The other images used in this journal are from Tsunami Rose on Etsy.

 
 This is the back.
The Top

 The inside cover.
This is a paper dinner napkin.

 The cat image is a graphic image from the Graphic Fairy Altered.

 There are many more wonderful pages of this book I did not share here, some left for writing some decorated.
I hope I have share "Inspiration" with you today.

Have a wonderful week.
Hugs
Susan S

Thursday, June 22, 2017

I am proud to introduce a new Designer in our Art Community

Good Morning everyone.
I am so proud to introduce my son "Fox" or Stephen as many call him by both to our Etsy and Face Book community.

Fox paw printing ...on Etsy.com..click HERE.
The designs are beautiful and I am sharing one of his papers printed and decorated out of his pack "Distressed Walls" I have also used a beautiful ephemera image from Tsunami Rose.

This is the monotone selection just going up today in his store.
Have fun with his beautiful designs, I am..and please share you art with us.
Thanks for stopping in.
Hugs
Susan S



Saturday, June 10, 2017

A Not so Perfect Christmas Junk Journal


Happy Saturday everyone..a quick video to share with you.
Learning Junk Journals as I find time. Loving the experience.
Have a beautiful day.
Susan S

Friday, June 9, 2017

Square One..for me is composition.

Hi there so glad you stopped in a minute.
Lately several of my friends and I have been remembering our beginning steps in this stamping art mixed media journey.
I began thinking about that journey. How it went from simple stamping to many other things.
After a show last year I also realized how many people had never stamped or even knew it existed..but wanted to learn.
I have a upcoming once a year November show coming and so I decided to make a learning space for them to come and look at.

I began stamping with Tim Holtz distress Ink and Ranger Archival Inks. My first steps were realizing I had a fascination for the backgrounds and colors ..using Distress ink I made thousands..but things came to life with the stamping..but the key I think is composition.

so...using many many stamps can to me create composition just as you write with a theme in mind..a composition or poem..I believe you can stamp with a theme in mind.
I also think many people became confused for a while with the one word on the paper like Hope or Love or Cherish..even though the words could blend for a while fitting them to the composition was a challenge for many people ..even with the best showing wonderful you tube videos I think it was a do it and you will get it thing.
 Seasons..fast moving in the groups and swap world are the seasons ...but of course stop and realize in the groups you are helping to make the company you are with money.Seasons and home decor and letters and paper art...can be a fast moving thing.Season will also reflect in that composition usually.
Events are another reflection to composition.
So this week Here are four examples of composition.

Theme :Paris
Event:   The terrorist acts in Paris this week inspired my theme.
Season:  Summer

Paris,Summer..wanting to reflect beauty and happiness over a negative.


The technique of a lighter color stamped into a background was taught to me in Wendy Vecchi's group.
Hope is my background stamped in vintage photo on manila folder.
To me Hope is a invisible force which can bring wonderful out comes or disappointments  but because it is invisible and part of the composition I wanted to pull the power of that word into images..like a man climbing dandelions  up to the birds to carry hope through the page..or sky.
Inked with Distress Ink Vintage photo and Black Soot only 2 colors were used.


After Day one I wanted to continue with the theme of Paris and the importance of Human life. This time I added 3 colors to my manila
folder cut paper.Tim Holtz Distress ink Vintage Photo, Black Soot and Picked Raspberry.
To keep the vintage theme I Distressed the page and many stamps on the borders I just used Vintage photo to keep it a soft vintage look and to keep the images and sentiment strong.

On this page I wanted to soften the thought to what many of us Americans think of when we think of Paris..beautiful clothes flowers,Vintage Post and designed townships..and a short time to see so many gorgeous things.
I used four major colors again counting the blue ticket but excluding the collage.

Paper layered dress..summer theme of vacation Birds Travel and subconsciousness Paris stamp....using three colors again, with a paper clip banner.The lovely lady of Dylusions...is off to Paris.

I hope this helps my new stamping friends.
Loads of love to you on this journey.
Susan S.