Paperbabe #80 Anything Goes *Friendship*

Happy Friday everyone

It's time for another challenge over at Paperbabe Stamps 

with the favourite theme of many *Anything Goes*

Please pop over HERE and share your creativity with us,

you do not have to use Paperbabe stamps but if you do 

the prize will increase for one lucky winner.

Here's what I got up to and how it came to be..

Sometimes the hardest part when creating can be having no instruction.

Anything goes gives us freedom to explore and words often help me do this.

The line below is taken from the Poem Youth and Age by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

and is included in the Tree Hugs Stamp set and is my own source
of inspiration for this journal page.

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Using one of my Paperbabe WIP's created using the mini portrait templates, 

stamped facial features and blunt bangs she awaits further adaptation.

Onto a journal page I created a scene using the Tree Hugs Stamp set.

scribbling in areas of light and shade using neocolor II's.

Deli paper applied with matt medium helps add texture to that flat page.

Acrylics are painted over the Deli paper and spritzed with water to move the paint 

around, repeating the process when dry until happy with the application.

What appears to be birds in the sky is actually two hands holding.

A genius little stamp included in the set.

After adding more colour to the tree tops I stamped in those two nesting birds 

and rounded off the area of light surrounding to form the Sun or Moon 

which every you choose to see. 

Luminance pencils help create a Unicorn effect to the hair colour.

Cut out and applied to the page, black pencil is used heavily to outline each area.

My Paperbabe Journal Page is complete.

Friendship is such a beautiful thing and we are blessed if we have 

friends that we can count on during our life time... I know I do..

Wishing you a wonderful week

and much creativity.

Hugs Tracey xx

I'm sharing this with Bluebeard and Elizabeth over at AJJ Count your blessings

Paint Party Friday

Craft Stamper Magazine: August Anything Goes

Paperbabe Supplies:

Paperbabe Portrait Templates: Mini Female Head & Torso & Blunt Bangs

Paperbabe: Mini Female Face Stamp set

Paperbabe Stamps: Tree Hugs set 

Patchwork Vincent

Ever in need of a creative play day..?

Well this journal page is just that.

Some of you may know I have a love for all that's Vincent.

Such a misunderstood and underestimated Artist,
if he had lived in this day there would have been a lot
more people to listen and guide him through his tormented journey.

*Here's my patchwork Vincent with a few close ups of the process..*

It all started like this on Wednesday, a found Art Journal
with another unfinished page.. Time to play!

The heat wave has been playing havoc with some of my art materials but these
neocolors II's can take it even though they look as if they have seen better days.

As do these very old neocolors which I inherited a few months back.

Just needed to scratch through the surface to find their colour... there it is..!

Not sure these Dina Wakley birds work as crows.

Knew I should have just hand drawn them.

 A little mix of modelling paste works a treat
for adding small amounts of colour and texture.

Strips of Van Gogh Washi and a found sticker or two adds interest

and is a reminder that I still have plenty of this Washi left to use... 

..if I can remember where I have tidied it...

My patchwork Vincent page is complete, or is it??

I think there's still plenty of space to sketch in more snippets
of those greats and I really do need to sort out those crows!



Thanks for stopping by..

Wishing you a Fantastic Friday
and a creative weekend.

Hugs Tracey xx

I'm linking up with PPF

and Art Journal Journey hosted by Chris

Summer Solstice Girl..

*Summer Solstice* the astronomical first day of Summer and the longest day of the year
and boy has the UK been treated to plenty of sunshine over the past week. 

Reminding me of happy times ahead with friends and family.
 I'm sharing my Summer Solstice Girl using Kim Costello's Paperbabe
Female Face stamps and templates along with stamps by Rubber Dance.

As always... in words and pictures.

Tracing around the mini face template I marked all the feature points and stamped the facial features. Skin and facial tone colours were applied using my favourite pastels.

When blended the finer details have been added using a fine Posca Marker Pen,
although I may have over exaggerated the eyelashes just a little.
The image and hair have been cut out ready to stick onto a journal background.

I glued a piece of wool around the wavy bunch hairstyle adding stamped, coloured and fussy cut Flowers by Rubber Dance stamps. By gluing the flowers onto the band it allows a little movement to her Flower Crown rather than being glued flat directly onto the hair.

As my theme was the Solstice drawing a Stonehenge style monument in my Journal 

seemed fitting with the heel stone filtering the break of dawn through it.

Smaller fussy cut Flowers have decorated my Solstice Girls bunches completing 

my project as she waits for the magic the Summer Solstice may bring.

 Cosmic!!

Thank you for sharing your time, 

Take good care of yourselves..

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx

I'd like to enter my Summer Solstice Girl into the following challenges.

The Paperbabe Anything Goes Blog Challenge#50
Rubber Dance June Theme Challenge Summer Holiday 

Crafty Supplies:
Paperbabe Female Mini Face Templates
Paperbabe Female Face Stamps
Rubber Dance Textured Flowers Stamps
Rubber Dance Textured Flowers Stamps UK Supplier
Caran D'Ache Neocolor II Water soluble Wax Pastels
Posca Marker Pens

Summer Sun Male Portrait using Papebabe templates and stamps.

Hello everyone hope you are all keeping well? As I've recently returned from a sunnier climate and the UK weather is utter pants I thought I would share a little sunshine.

This is a Journal page I created on Holiday using 

Kim Costello's Paperbabe Male Portrait templates and face stamps with the inspirational colours of the Rubber Dance June Colour Challenge of Blue, Sea Green and Sand in mind.

Here are those how to do's in words and pictures.

 Using a 8" x 6" Flat journal I traced around the face and neck templates along with the side swept bangs hairstyle. I quickly sketched the background using the view from my balcony taking all the fiddly bits away and accentuated areas of interest. 

Each area of the scene I named (just to remind me what they were!) I then coloured using Caran D'Ache Neocolour II Pastels and washed with water as they are water soluable.

Facial features were stamped using versafine ink with the hair stencil 

used as a mask when stamping the eyebrows.

Don't be scared by the garish appearance as it does all come together.. stick with me here!

Apologies for not having a breakdown of how I built this face up but I must say, 

sat overlooking the harbour I totally lost myself and before I knew it

 my face and hair was almost complete.

As you may spot I had forgotten to give this poor boy some ears but easily rectified by using the hair stencil as a mask again and stamping the ears where they needed to go.

I then proceeded to fill in the larger areas of the seascape adding depth to the sea as it gets deeper along the horizon along with shadow and shade to the male figure.

As you may see I have drawn around the stamped features using a fine liner pen this has not only added extra detail around the eyes but also allowed the stamped eyelashes to act as a shadow. Freckles have been added for that summer time look. 

Fine liner pen helps bring out the details of the palm trees with white Posca Pen adding a touch of light to both eyes, features and sea foam along the seas edge... 

My Summer Sun Male Portrait is complete.

The Paperbabe stencils and stamps are so easy to use and whilst away I managed to compose quite a few faces and I look forward to bringing some more male portraits to you in the very near future.

Thank you for taking the time to pop over and take a look fingers crossed it will encourage the Summer Sunshine to make an appearance where ever you are.

Creative Hugs from Tracey xx

I'd like to enter my Journal pages into the Rubber Dance June Colour Challenge

Crafty Supplies:

Paperbabe Mixed Media Mini Mens Portrait Template - Side Swept Bangs

Paperbabe Mini Male Face Stamps 

Versafine Smokey Gray ink pad

Caran' D'ache Neocolour II : Classic/Summer Edition

8"x 6" Journal