Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Art Journaling: Sweet Couture

For this week's art journaling spread, I began with a picture from a magazine. Recently, I began tearing out pages and articles I like from magazines before recycling them. I looked through my pile of torn-out pages and came across a beautiful pink and gold perfume ad. Absolutely loved the color scheme; an idea began to form. I cut out the image and found a beautiful scrapbook page with golden text and overlays of light pink and blue leaves.


Pastel pink and blue is one of my favorite color combinations and it seemed to go nicely with gold. Used Mod Podge to secure my scrapbook paper. Pulled out some pink washi tapes to add. Cut out some fancy glittery shapes from more scrapbook paper. Cut an uneven scallop mini-border.


I had a lot of fun mixing a shimmery blush rose gold paint... and finally, a chance to use my beautiful damask stamp! Stamped up the pages. Secured most of the elements on the page.


Added some paint blotting and shimmer to the pages, along with the key cutout.


More paint. Stamped blue paint. A crackled crown cutout. Shimmery pink paper.


Super girly and sweet, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out! Can't wait for more of Jenny & Aaron's art classes! Even if you don't plan on art journaling yourself (although I hope you do), check out their pages - I promise you will be amazed. =)

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Art Journaling is a weekly feature where I share a page spread from my art journal. The idea began with Jenny & Aaron's classes, which they share weekly on Everyday is a Holiday. Previous art journal pages:
  - Everything We Can Imagine is Real
  - Carousel Dreams
  - Every Day is Cookie Day

14 comments:

  1. I love seeing your art journal pages! It's neat to see the process that you go through, and the beautiful end result. I might have to try that out sometime!

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    1. Thanks! Hah, I try to take in progress photos but half the time I get so into it... that suddenly I'm like "OMG I haven't taken a photo in forever!" Which is why they're kinda sporadic. =)

      You should totally try it! Please do and post it! <3

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  2. Very nice Kelsea, love the colours!
    xxx

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    1. Thanks, Susie! I had a lot of fun with this color scheme. =)

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  3. gorgeous <3 i've never tried the pink/blue/gold combo, but i definitely want to now!

    ...i need to do more art journaling. why do i need to sleep, right? haha!

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    1. Yeah I want to try wearing those colors! Heh. Dude. Who needs sleep? Make art!!

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  4. You're so good at this! I've been wanting to do it and everytime I start, it just sucks haha. But I can't wait to practice more untill I have a page I'm happy with :)

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    1. Hah well I didn't post the wood panel I tried to use as the base for my second mixed media piece... it's halfway done and I might just throw it out! =) Sometimes stuff doesn't work out the way it does in your head... but what I like about the art journaling is you can just keep layering stuff on and cover up things you don't like! Hehe. I do hope you share some of your pages soon!

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  5. This is lovely!! I am inspired by Juicy Couture's color choices, too.. I want to redesign my part of my little salon already with a more pink/gold look! Great job!

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    1. Oh that would look AMAZING!! Please do post if you do that!

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  6. We've totally fallen in love with your weekly Art Journaling! And we so so look forward to seeing what you've got on your artful mind each week. It's funny that you almost seem apologetic for this spread being "girly and sweet"...as if the name of your blog isn't Pink Wonderland ; )
    But seriously, we know what you mean...we do that a lot. We'll be just about done with something and then we'll be like "does this need more of an edge to it...is this too sweet?"
    But whatevs...sometimes you need to flush out the girly sweet stuff. And this spread like totally nails it. It is so dreamy. Again, we marvel at your neatness...everything you do is so fresh and clean. Can't wait to see more.
    xo, Jenny & Aaron

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    1. Aww thank you!! Haha I finished the page and I was like... well. I like it. But it's SO GIRLY... haha. You're right though, I should just embrace it!

      <3

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  7. this is gorgeous!!! love it!
    xo

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  8. This is so beautifully elegant and feminine. Gorgeous!

    P.S. I love girly and sweet.

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