I don't know if any of you have felt this like this before...but I have...
such a good reminder and I love that Tonya will be using it as inspiration for her journal!
Thanks Tonya! LOVE this!
Hi everyone how are you today? I am sharing with you an altered dollar bin notebook that I created into a Prayer Journal today. To help document those special online prayer requests.
I'm featuring these great stamps from Yvonne Blair and Impression Obsession Stamps:
I read comments where people ask for prayer, and I find myself thumbs upping the comment, and quickly doing so, but often forget to follow up. Well, I got to thinking about how important those small commitments are, and I want to make sure I'm following up. So I decided to create a little prayer journal. Something I could sit next to my computer, and easily jot down those requests. Then when I have my quiet time, I can thumb through the pages and make sure I remember them.
For the inside covers Yvonne's new Believe stamp serves as a reminder that it isn't enough to pray, you must also believe that God is in control, no matter the outcome.
Halfway through the book, I have created a section for a Praise Report. This is an area, where I want to give thanks, and record those blessings and answered prayers. I want to make sure that as I pray, I also give thanks for the ones that were answered.
Impression Obsession Stamps - Yvonne Blair Collection - French Script
Notebook to alter (any size)
White bleached Muslin (sized for your notebook increased by 1/4 inch for shrinking)
8x10 Gelli Arts® Press
Liquitex Basic Paints - Yellow Oxide
Liquitex Basic Paints - Quinacridone Magenta
Liquitex Basic Paints - Titanium White
Liquitex- Iridescent Gold Ink
Ranger Ink - Dina Wakley Turquoise Full Body Paint
Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Stamper's Big Brush Artist Pen - Cold Grey IV 233
Brayer
Matt Medium
Sewing Machine (Optional)
Uniball Signo - Impact 207 Pen
Stampersanonymous Tim Holtz Collection - Latticework - THS019 Stencil
This would make a great group project to do with a ladies or teen ministry. It is fun to look back and see how many miracles God performs in our daily lives that we take for granted. Thanks for hanging out with me today. If you decide to follow along with this project, please tag us in social media with #YBARTFUN. We would love to see what you are doing.
Hi Everyone! Check out this amazing layout from Jenn!!!!
Fabulous! I'm in love! What a beautiful way to share such a special occasion!
Thanks Jenn for your inspiration!
Hello there! My daughter recently married and honeymooned on the Oregon Coast and it was absolutely beautiful! A day that was supposed to be drizzley and dreary turned out to be sunny and dry at just the right time! This stamp in my mind just suited the occasion and inspired this entire layout along with the beautiful day in the picture!
The stamp featured can be purchased at Impression Obsession here.
Click on image above to go directly to stamp for purchase.
To Prepare the stamp I used a trio of versaMagic chalk ink in hues of aqua and blue and then embossed with iridescent embossing powder.
For this layout, I started with a 12X12 sheet of patterned cardstock in an ombre look. Next, I added a thin layer of white gesso with an old card, scraping it to keep thin. I used an Art Anthology stencil with texture paste and then added various ink colors in hues of blue and teal. I used embossing ink and a bubble stamp to create the bubbles with an iridescent embossing powder by Lindy's. I added splatters of the same blue inks as well as a copper and white. I built up my image with various coordinated papers torn on the edges. I added a fussy cut octopus, some netting painted with white acrylic, shells, a couple of tags with jute string, a mermaid tail hand molded, flowers, and some microbeads!
All of the stamps created by Yvonne are amazing and every one of them inspires something!I hope this project has inspired you to go get some and create something beautiful!!
Thank You for viewing my project! Please share what you make using #YBArtFun!
Check this AMAZING tag out!!! Oh my...am I in love!!!
Patriotic and just in time for the 4th coming up!
Thanks Tonya! You are an amazing inspiration!
Hi everyone, I hope your summer is off to a great start! We are getting ready to celebrate our Independence Day here in the United States, and Yvonne has created some extra special stamps for this summer's release perfect for your patriotic themed projects. Here are a few I plan to feature in today's post:
I created a mixed media tag for today's project to use these awesome stamps. I love this Americana theme and wanted to experiment with some grunge techniques that I thought might work well on a larger canvas. Sure enough they turned out great, and I can't wait to apply them to a larger surface!
I used my 3x5 GelliArts® plate to create the background of the tag. Then used a Ranger Ink, Archival Black ink pad and The Grunge Numbers, and Military Alphabet stamp to add some character to the background. The negative spaces left from the mono-printing seemed bright from the manila tag, so I used a Tea Dye Distress ink pad from Tim Holtz, and Ranger to distress the acrylic ink and add an aged look to the surface. To finish off the edges, I darkened them with the black Archival ink. Now it was time to make my embellishments.
I used a Large Sizzix Star Die to cut out starts from Shrink Plastic Film, and punched a hole with my the large side of my Crop-A-Dile to make my stars into charms later. I stamped The Pledge stamp with Archival Ink onto the plastic. When you heat the shrink plastic with a heat gun it makes the cutest embellishments. After the plastic cooled, I painted the backs with white acrylic paint so the words would pop against my dark background of my tag. Two of my stars were threaded through the twine at the top of the tag, and the third is glued to the tag. To make them appear to float, I added a glob of hot glue to the tag, allowing it to slightly cool, then gently tapped the star on one side of the glue so that the star is only adhered at an angle.
Next, I stamped my sentiment onto vellum, and embossed it with thick white embossing powder. To create a vintage look, I ripped the edges and distressed the back of the vellum with the same Tea Dye ink. I used the Military Alphabet stamp on the red clothes pin so that it wasn't so "clean", then finished off the tag with some random embellishments from the bucket on my desk.
This was a quick little project that would make a great home décor project if you chose to repeat this process on a canvas instead of a tag. It would also make a great design for a patriotic themed party invitation, or masculine themed military card!
Thanks for hanging out with me today! I hope you have had a great time. If you have these stamps and decide to follow along, share with us how you are using them in social media with the #YBArtFun.
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