Journaling Fun with Susan K Weckesser Products

Hello fellow crafters! I hope you're having a fantastic day! Today is my first post for the Susan K Weckesser Inc. Design Team and I am in love with her products. I am showing my journal cover that I have been waiting to do until the journal was filled so it would lay flat while I was working on the inside. 

First I covered the edges of my journal with white gesso. Then I cut down my paper to fit inside the white painted lines and taped down my designer paper with double sided tape.  Any edges that were lifting I squeezed in some glue for permanency.

 Next it was time to go to town on the stencils. I used acrylic paints as well as gesso with my stencils.

I painted the words Live In Color with all the colors of the rainbow.  I like to doodle as well so I took my pen and doodled to my heart's content.

I used Stazon Ink to stamp my image several times on different papers and fussy cut them out.

 Below I decided to try something a little different. I recently purchased some shrink film and I used Stazon inks to stamp some images on. I used a heat tool to shrink my pieces and I adhered them to the cover using lacquer medium. You could also use clear glue.

 Below shows the difference in size.

Here it is all put together! I had so much fun just letting the creativity flow without overthinking!

This was so much fun, I love the papers and stamps. The focal house is a fabulous stamp

I hope you enjoyed my journal cover! Head on over to the store and have a look around!

Warmly, 

Peggy

Products used today are:

Susan K Weckesser Papers Live In Color

and Live, Love , Create 

Susan K Weckesser Stamps Little Haven

 and Journal Doodles with a Heart

Susan K Weckesser Stencils Doodle Stencil

• Shrink Film
• Stazon Ink
• Acrylic Paints
• Liquitex Gesso
• Heat Gun
• Journal Cover (Cottonwood Arts)
• Double Sided tape / Glue
• Smooch Pearlized Accent Ink

Less is more.

I'm sure a lot of people are under the impression that the term 'Mixed Media' means lots of layers, paint, mediums and general painty messy fun.

Although I adore the 'painty messy fun'  bit it doesn't always have to be the case. Sometimes less is more as they say.

This piece in my journal started out with the image of the skyline from 'The Purpose of Art' stamp set, coloured with alcohol pens and layered onto scraps of card, was intended for a card, but the colourful buildings gave me a better idea.

Just taking my Micron pen and more alcohol markers I went out into the Spring sunshine and just started to doodle and colour. I can tell you this was so satisfying I can highly recommend it.

I also took a silver Painty pen by Kuretake and touched in the windows with silver.
 

 

The words 'Live in Color' were stolen from the bottom of a sheet of Susan's Live In Color paper.

 Jaine for the Susan Weckesser team.

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Live To Create, Create To Live Art Mixed Media

Hello friends!  It's Lee-Anne here today and I would like to share a simple mixed media layout that I created with Susan K. Weckesser's beautiful Live In Color Collection.

 I love color and Susan's Live In Color Collection is so pretty and it makes me hope for Spring.  It's so easy to create mixed media art with because it already looks that way.

For this piece this is the process I used to create this layout:

I took a 12X12 piece of white card stock.
I used some Tim Holtz Distress Paints and painted the sky and grass.  Then I used some Ranger Paint Dabbers to paint the sun and clouds.
Next I fussy cut the house and title out of Susan's Live In Color Paper Collection.
I then took Susan's stencil and some modelling paste and went around the edge of the background and then I doodled and doodled with a black archival pen.
For the flowers I "painted" with some Heidi Swapp Color Shine Mists
and then I took a piece of Crack Tape/drywall tape and "stencilled" with some modelling paste in the clouds to give them more dimension and "fluffiness".
The mountains are nearby so  I thought I would make it realistic and I used Susan's stencil and modelling paste to create some "peaks".
Finally I adhered some sequins to give more texture and dimension and then my journaling which I cut from Susan's papers.

 Here are some more detailed photos.

I think I will frame this and hang it in my new studio because it definitely is my motto.  I hope you enjoyed your visit. Thanks for stopping by.

Lee-Anne

Supplies:

Acrylic Paint Dabbers - Ranger
Cardstock - American Crafts
Chipboard Letters - American Crafts
Distress Paints - Tim Holtz
Modeling Paste - Golden
Patterned Papers - Susan K. Weckesser
Pen - Marvy Uchida
Sequins - Teresa Collins
Stencil - Susan K. Weckesser