THE MANY USES OF SPLASH INK

Hi everyone!!  I am super excited to show you my project today!!  It is my first post to the Niji Blog.  I'm still so excited to be on the team!!

I have used splash inks in several different ways on this piece and want to show you how versatile Splash is!

 

SUPPLIES;

Niji Splash Ink

Niji Yasutomo Pearlescent Watercolors

Plaid White Acrylic paint

Strathmore Mixed Media Paper

Hero Arts "Italian Poetry"  Background Stamp

Dee Gruening "Inspire" Stamp

Adorn It Star Stamp

Prima Flowers

Maya Road Flowers and Felt Bird

Heidi Swapp Flags

Sharpie White Marker

Ranger Misters and Stamp Foam

Misc: Cardboard, Brown Pen and Gauze

Start by gathering some supplies.  

Here is a sampling of supplies.  Paper, cardboard, Splash ink, Pearlescent Watercolors, Stamps and Foam.

I often make pieces from paper instead of canvas.  I love the weight and feel of mixed media paper, so I use it and glue it to cardboard.  Cut both your paper and cardboard to 7.5x9".  

Next, turn your Splash Ink into a stamp pad.

Drop black Splash into a mister and spray onto stamp foam.  I like to spray it instead dropping it on to the pad in concentrated areas.  Now use the foam to ink up the background stamp and stamp all over your paper.  Next, we will make Splash into acrylic paint!

Put a drop of white acrylic paint on your craft mat and add Splash to get your desired color.  I wanted a light yellow so I added 1 Magenta, 5 Yellow and 25 drops of water to my acrylic paint.  I then dry brushed it over my stamped background by dipping my brush in my paint, brushing most of it off on a paper towel and brushing what is left on the paper.

I buffed the paper with a paper towel to make sure my paper stayed smooth.

Now, take a brown marker and draw your image.  I can't draw for my life, but I love making hair!!  After I had my image, I used 5 Blue and 1 Magenta to make the blue ink for the dress.  I added water to it so it became a lovely watercolor and painted it onto the dress.

I made a second ink pad by putting the same blue color ink in a mister and spraying it on the pad.   Then, I made a really lovely purple on my craft mat, (10 Magenta 1 Blue) added water to it and swiped through it with my foam pad.  It gave me a wonderful shade of purple that I used to stamp my stars and sentiment.  I outlined them with a White Sharpie.

Embellishments came next.  Gauze and flower on her arm.   Flowers, flags and a bird in her hair.  Looking good!!  But I wanted this piece to shine!!  I put some pearlescent watercolors over some areas in the background.  And last, but not least, I sprayed a bit of my blue ink, that was left in my mister, over the piece.  I use spray Splash on everything

I used Splash 4 different ways on this piece.  

Splash in an ink pad for stamping.

Splash as an acrylic paint.

Splash as a watercolor.

Splash as a spray ink.

Thank you for visiting today!  I hope you check out the Niji Blog and the Yasutomo Website.  Lots to see and much to inspire!!

WOYWW

Hello friends!!  Welcome to my desk!!  Please remember to visit our hostess Julia, the queen of peeking!!

Creative Chaos!!  Love it!!   I am in the middle of several projects.  The one on the lower right with a jar of Mod Podge on it is for Altered Arts Magazine and I will be making a whole  post on that Wednesday (tomorrow for me).  So, if you want to see more of it, come back!!

 Otherwise, it is just the usual mess with my badge in the center!!  Notebook on the left with some Maya Road goodies above that.  In the center my Hello Kitty tape dispenser and some Prima Marketing inks.  I never heard of them until they were given to me in my box of sponsor products from Altered Arts.  They are a lovely chalk ink in an easy to use little package!  

Thanks so much for visiting!!  I'm off to peek at all of your desks now!!

WOYWW

Hello everyone!!

VERY fast post for me this week.  Which is just how our fearless leader, Julia, likes it!!

My desk.  Nothing going on because I am busy on the little desk!  So, some paper and my badge are all I have.

That's it for me!!  Can't wait to see YOUR desk!!

ART JOURNAL

Hello Friends!  Today I want to share an art journal piece I made using the Art Journaling with Terri Sproul 2 set and a stamp from the Love of Butterflies set.

 I just wanted to show you why the Terri Sproul Art Journaling 2 set is so awesome.  There are a lot more stamps than the one's I'm showing with this set, but I wanted to show that the set comes with several stamps that are prompts!  If you are stuck for a theme in our journal, you can just stamp one of these and roll with it!!  I am showing 7 different journal prompts here and a few of the large stamps.  I used the writing, the brick wall and the beautiful flourish.  LOVE this set!!!

 I gathered my supplies.  I used my new Dylusions Journal and my Gelatos that I got from Altered Pages, my stamps and my Stewart Superior ink pads.  I used the black India Ink pad and the Memories dye ink pad in the color Crimson.  Last was a piece of Kraft paper from Bazzill.

I stamped the writing stamp first, lightly with the black ink.  Then, I stamped the brick stamp, harder on top.

Did you know?  You can squish your Gelatos on your craft mat, add water and make paint?  YES YOU CAN!!  I squished some red and a little black to make a brick color.  Added some water with my mister and mixed and squished with my palate knife.

 After I paint it on and it dries, I like to buff it with a paper towel.  It gets the paper bits that may be on the page off and brightens it up a bit.  Do you see that I left a hole in the center of my brick wall?  I did that so the butterflies could get out!!

I stamped 3 butterflies using the Crimson ink.  I folded 2 in half and cut one in half.  I glued one half of the folded butterfly to each side of the "hole".  Then, I glued the half down on each side. Keep the folded half down when you close the journal so every time I open the journal a butterfly will pop up!  I hope I explained this well enough!

Can you see what I was explaining now?  You can see the half of wing is up and there is still a wing on the page.  I think it is pretty cool!!  And I used the pretty flourish stamp on the top right corner and the lower left corner.  I wrote "Fly..Be Free" on the bottom.

Thanks so much for visiting us today!!  I hope you get your SinCity Stamps today!!

WOYWW TIME AGAIN!!

Hello Everyone!!  I love Wednesday because I get to snoop at desks around the globe!!  Wanna join us?  Just visit our fearless leader, Julia and she has all the info so you can join us!!

Here is my desk

I just finished an art journal page and I got a package in the mail too!!  On the left are my Pan Pastels (LOVE THEM!) and some archival ink.  At the top is some paint, sponges a copic marker and a list.  On the right is a paper towel and a bunch of white pens that don't do what I want them to do.  I put them in a jar out of site for now.  In the middle I got what came in the mail!!  I got a set of Golden Mediums!!  I always use their Gel Medium but this has other things in the box too.  Like heavy medium and coarse molding paste.  Stuff like that.  I can't wait to use them!!

This is the art journal page.  I used my pan pastels, and stamps.  I belong to a group on Facebook run by Terri Sproul.  Just type her name in on Facebook and you will find it!

That's enough of my rambling.  Go enjoy some snooping!!

ALTERED ARTS MAGAZINE PROJECT

Today I want to share with you a project I made for Altered Arts Magazine.

I used the Terri Sproul Mixes by Sakura Craft to paint a glass jar I had.  I LOVE how the colors look metallic in some areas!  Then, I used them to paint the paper flowers.  I glued the paper flowers on to the top left corner and put a clear crystal in the center.  I glued some vine ribbon to the jar, and added some pearls.

I love how this project came out!  I hope you do too!!

Please visit us on facebookAltered Arts Magazine

or visit the website.  There is a tab there to view the Altered Arts Magazine blog, and all of ours too!!

Have an awesome day!!

ALTERED PAGES AND BOMBSHELL STAMPS BLOG HOP

Today, Altered Pages and Bombshell Stamps are getting together and having a good ole fashioned Blog Hop!!   It is so exciting for me because I know some of the Bombshell's and it will be awesome to visit them!!  It has been far too long, my friends!!

Here are the rules as I know them.  Start at Bombshell's blog and hop to every member on the list.  Like their blogs (IF they have a followers gadget, I don't have one) and leave a comment on every participant's blog.  There will be prizes!  Altered Pages is offering some paint, a stencil and other assorted goodies!!  Have fun and good luck!!

Bombshell gave Altered Pages a choice of digital stamps.  I picked the "Indian Princess".  It has been a loooooong time since I colored so I had a blast coloring her in!! 

Here is the Hop List:

Start at

Bombshell Stamps Blog

and then hop onto our Design Teams Blogs

Kelli Green

Leslie Rahye

Katie Shanahan-Jones

Trisha Too

Alison Heikkila

Roni Johnson

Jodi Elam

Lyneen Jesse

Alaine Medio

Daniella Hayes

Kim Gaughan

Becky Voth

Sharon Rogers

Tristan Robin Blakeman

Jenn Cochran

Danie May

Marnie Bushmole

Stephanie Siatta

Kathi Rerek

Gia Lau

and finish back here at

Altered Pages Blog

Have an awesome Hop!!