Donna-Marie's Designs

Working in My Journal

Good Evening Folks!

Here is the new entry in my journal.

I have been having a lot of fun exploring and revisiting all my old friends...pastels, markers, pencils, inks...yay!!

My background was gessoed and inked with Dylusion Sprays and Stormy Sky Distress Reinker.  I added lots of water and let it run down the page.  The runs became the stems for my flowers :-)

The flowers (Poppies) are a stamp from the fabulous Donna Downey.  These flowers are big and beautiful and were stamped with Library Green Archival Ink so that they would not smear when wet..  I colored the flowers in with my pastels and added paint dots for the centers.  I used my Pitt Pen to outline the stamped flower. I made the lines to the flowers a bit more dramatic by using thick and thin lines.

I hand drew in the leaves with my pastels and highlighted them with white paint.

I am really happy with my lines and leaves...they really speak to me:-)

I added some rub-ons for the sentiment.

Be sure to check out eclectic Paperie for all your mixed media projects!!

Happy Creating!!

Peace out

Pretty Lady

Good Evening Folks

It is Eclectic Paperie's challenge day...Julie has asked us to us Gel Medium.

Be sure to check out her video over at eP it's a great Tut :-)

Here is my take on the challenge...

I used the gel medium all over my journal entry...too blend my colors, to adhere my lady and flowers and to seal my pastels on my lady's face.

I used pastels, Pitt Pens, various Claudine Helmouth Paints, Gesso, Sprays and Gel Medium.

I am sorry I do not have a step by step of how I created this journal entry...once I got into creating this lady I just went with it.

However let me know if you are interested in a Video Tut on this pretty lady and I will be glad to do one :-)

I started my journal entry with matt medium and Tim Tissue.  I covered that with Gesso then colored it with Various Spray from Tattered Angels.  While that dried I started my lady on another page with the plan to cut it out and add it on.

Here is a close up of this lovely lady.  I used my Pitt Pens, pastels, colored pencils, and paint to color her in.

I also finished the other side with flower punch outs that I used as stencils as I sprayed and then used the flowers themselves.Tim Holtz rub-ons finished that side off.

Be sure to check out eclectic Paperie for all the other great team entries!!

Be sure to enter your own creation for the chance to win a prize!!!

Hope you can come out to play with us!!!

 

A Lady should be two things: Classy and Fabulous

Good Evening Folks

Here is my recent journal entry.  You all know that fashion design is my profession well I have decided to take it into my journaling...fun stuff!!!

Be sure to check out eclectic Paperie for all the super fun supplies that helped create this journal entry...I will list them at the end :-)

The ladies are my original stylized sketches.

I used my copic markers, Pitt Pens and gelatos to color these ladies in.

The Coco Channel quote " a lady should be two things classy and fabulous" is one of my personal favorites...I was so happy to purchase this quote as a stamp a few years back.  You can also see the lace flower I added next to the quote.  This was once all white..I colored it in with my Pitt Pens...Love how it colored up!  As a designer I have been coloring my laces for years with India Ink.  But the ink came in bottles with eye droppers so it was difficult to control where the ink landed.  These pens are filled with india ink and have brush tips which have solved that problem nicely!!!

The background behind the sentiment and lace flower was created with Wendy Vecchi's embossing paste and a stencil.  The stencil is similar to lace fabric so I thought it fit in well with the my sketches.  I also did a little scraping of the paste to create some texture next to the flowered area.  I colored this embossed area with Distress Ink Broken China, then some Tattered Angels Sprays, then while it was still wet I ran the side of the Pitt Brush Pens over the raised embossed areas to pull in the intense colors a bit.  The "wetness" of the area really allowed the inks to soak in and blend somewhat.  I really like how the scraping of the paste gave the page a modeled "Venetian Plaster" look :-)

Here is a link to the supplies I used from eclectic Paperie

Dylusions Journal

Lace Stencil 

Wendy Vecchi's Embossing Paste

Pitt Pens Green 

Pitt Pens Blue

Pitt Pen White

Pitt Pens Neutral

Gelatos Yellow

Hopefully you can create some fun of your own :-)

Thanks for stopping by!!

Peace Out

Altered Bottle

Good Evening Folks

Head on over the eclectic Paperie to check out the new challenge...altering a bottle!!

Here is my take...