Kevin and Larry's Bad Decisions by Elisa Ablett

 

KEVIN AND LARRY GET INTO SOME TROUBLE!

Hi Crafters, 

Elisa here from the design team for Ink Art Designs with my latest project, a bit of a cheeky art journal page. I just love these fun 'Jungle Animals' from Katzelkraft Stamps and think Kevin and Larry will have a whole load of adventures together. 

For this page I wanted to create a scene for the background with watercolours, I have a few of the awesome ColourCraft Brushos and I used 'Sandstone' for the ground. I just love how you get all the different speckles of colour out of one little tub. 

For the sky and trees, i used my pan watercolours with a round brush and oil pastels over the top.

I stamped around the edges of the page plus added little plants using Art by Marlene - Exclusive Textures stamps, perfect for those little added touches to your projects.

Lets take a closer look!

Take a browse of the products in the Ink Art Designs Store:

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/jungle-animals/katzelkraft

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stamps/art-by-marlene/texture stamps

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/brushos-sandstone/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/white-journal-dina-wakley/

Thanks for stopping by the blog today,

Make sure you leave some love in the comments.

hugs

Elisa x

'Gelli printing and cards' by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone,

This year is going so quick I still can't believe we are almost mid-way through March!

I have had a nice few quiet weekends in a row and decided to do a little gel printing in my crafty time and then played around with a bit of silhouette stamping with these gorgeous wildflower stamps from Katzelkraft. I just love the combination of the patterns in the gel prints with the silhouette over the top.

I may have gone overboard and created too many cards but its just fun pulling the different prints and combining the different colours on the gel press, it can get very addictive!

Let's take a closer look at my set of cards for Ink Art Designs, who is an Australian stockist for Katzelkraft Stamps. As soon as I saw them I thought this set of Wildflower stamps belonged in my stash, the designs are just beautiful.

It is really just simply having a play with your mini shaped gel press with different colours and stencils for your backgrounds and then stamp and embossing your stamps over the top. Each and every card will be completely unique and different!

Here is the set of stamps with the link to Ink Art Designs. 

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/wildflowers/

other products used:

Hexagon set from Gel Press

Deco Art Paints

Dina Wakely Paints

Stencils from: Stencil Girl

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave some love :-) 

Hugs Elisa x

Who left the bag of idiots open ? Card by Elisa Ablett

Hi Stamp Lovers!

My turn to share another project for Ink Art Designs to end out the month of January.

To mix things up a bit I created a snarky funny card (or art journal page) combining a few stamp sets and a snarky sentiment. Sometimes you just have to mix things up to achieve the result you want lol ..

I am again having a load of fun playing with the Katzelkraft Stamp Sets from Ink Art Designs, I find the facial expressions and antics of the animals in these stamp sets are just made for creating a card with humour.... I have a bit of a quirky sense of humour so don't worry if its not your cup of tea so to speak. 

Lets take a look at the products used from Ink Art Designs shop:

I have included the links below to make things easier if you want to have a look through the shop.

  

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/frogs/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/farm-animals/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stamps/visible-image-stamps/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stencils/

To create the card, I used a watercolour ink background along with a tree stamp and some stencilling to create hills. I heat embossed with black embossing powder for my stamped images and then used watercolours to add colour.

TIP: stamp a few images and play around with mediums to achieve the look you want, sometimes a happy accident of combining a few products can achieve the very look you didn't know you where looking for!

Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave a comment to let me know you have passed by the blog!

Hugs

Elisa 

We are all out of bubblegum - Art Journal Page by Elisa Ablett

Hi stamp lovers!

Elisa here again with my latest project for Ink Art Designs, a mixed media 'cheeky penguin' art journal page!

My youngest son is in love with penguins, having completed many a school project on them and also seeing them at wildlife parks. We also love the penguins in the movie Madagascar and when I saw this stamp I knew I had to have it in my collection.  So many cheeky quotes and sayings come to mind lol.

When I positioned the penguins on my page, I wanted them to look like they were staring at the reader to sense the 'impending violence' from the penguins after their gum had run out. I think the gel printed circle in the background works well with highlighting them.

Let's take a look at the products used to complete this page.

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product/grumpy-penguins/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stamps/darkroom-door-stamps/

https://www.inkartdesigns.com/product-category/stencils/page/3/

Other products used:

Paper Artsy Paints

Circle Gel Plate

Black Soot Watercolour Ink - Colour Blast

Versafine Ink - Black

Fine Black Marker

Circle Template

To start my page, I used a 4 inch circle gel plate and Paper Artsy paints to create my sunset.

Smooth a small amount of yellow, orange and deep red over your gel plate with a small brayer until the edges of each colour have blended. Then lay a stencil down over the top and brayer a small amount of white paint through. Then lay your paper down and smooth over the top with your hands to get your print. Once dry fussy cut the circle out and using circle templates and a black marker, make grungy circles over your sunset.

Stamp and colour your penguins, then once dry fussy cut them out and put them aside until you are ready to adhere to the page. 

My next step is to glue my sunset down onto my page, then go around the circle with black ink and spritz with water. Dry the black ink and now you can add your grungy stamping and stencilling. 

I added some black grungy lines to make a 'horizon' and drew a cityscape free hand in the back ground to make it look like they are standing in front of a city.

Add some scribbly writing, more grungy stamping and your title and lastly your penguins!

Your art journal page is complete.

Don't forget to stop by the Ink Art Designs Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/InkArtDesigns/ to join in the monthly 'pretty much anything goes' challenge. 

Thanks for stopping by my blog today x

Hugs 

Elisa 

"Life is Beautiful" Art Journal page by Elisa Ablett

Hi everyone, 

My turn to share a project for Ink Art Designs today.

My goodness this year is flying, we are almost all the way through October, I have been a bit quiet the last few months with creating due to some tough circumstances on the homefront. So here is a timely reminder to take care of yourself and your family and that it is OK to take some time out  if you need it. 

I loved putting this art journal page together, what started out as a large pile of stamps and stencils ended with a sea themed art journal page with a bit of white space and not at all what I had planned. 

Guess that's the beauty of art journalling, channelling your thoughts and feelings through art onto a page!

Here are a few of the products used from Ink Art Designs, if they are not in stock at the moment, no problem, just message Dot to see if she can get them in for you!

Katzelkraft Stamps - Seahorse Stamp

visible-image-stamps - ink splats, ripple effect, life is beautiful

Meshing Around and Fibres Stencils from Visible Image

Other products used include:

Colour Blast Watercolour inks, Tim Holtz Distress Stains and Inks, Izink Metallic Ink

Embossing powders in Royal Blue and Gold

Here are some close ups!

You can see from the close ups, that I embossed the Seahorse stamp and added a smidge of colour after to fill in some of the white. The circles in the background behind the seahorse make a great frame which draws your eye to the beautiful stamped image. 

 Thanks for stopping by the blog today, make sure you leave some love !

Hugs 

Elisa x

Mini Art Journals by Elisa Ablett

Hi Inky friends,

Elisa here from the design team for Ink Art Designs with my latest inspiration featuring loads of stamping, art journalling and inky mess.

I have to give you all a bit of background into these mini art journals and how I came to create (be addicted) them. I was lucky enough to catch a private tutorial from one awesome talented lady - Tina Walker (aka...A dogs life13). The tutorial was - how to create a mini art journal using one sheet of paper of any size!! it is so clever, I have included Tina's social media information so you can head on over and subscribe and keep on eye out in the next few months for the next mini book tutorial....

These are only 2 of the mini art journals i have created. I have also used cardboard to create the front and back covers and decorate them with Sari Silk and recycled baby wipes. 

Here is the link for Tina Walker's youtube channel and instagram, 

make sure you head on over and subscribe!

https://www.youtube.com/user/adogslife13

https://www.instagram.com/adogslife13/

You can see from the below photo by Tina Walker just how awesome these mini books can be!

 

I consider myself a novice of the mini book, but BOY am I addicted.

These are just a sample of the pages I have created in my two mini books so far!

Under each photo I have included a list of the Ink Art Designs stamps I have used in that page.

the-cheshire-cat/visible image stamps

Numbers Border 8" - Lost Coast Stamps

Rustic Checkerboard 8" - Lost Coast Stamps

KTZ 113 Steampunk Gears - Katzelkraft Stamps

Rubber Dance Stamps /butterfly-girl-2/

That's Crafty / boho-chic-set-2/

Katzelkraft Stamps /grunge-borders/

Number Border 8" /lost-coast-designs/

Rustic Checkboard Border 8" /lost-coast-designs/

Visible Image Stamps /the-world-needs-art/

Lavinia Stamps /fairy-orbs/

Thanks for stopping by my blog today and don't forget to visit the Ink Art Designs shop online or in person this weekend at Paperific in Melbourne Australia.

Hugs 

Elisa x