AmiraInOz

Hi everyone. Welcome back to this very special edition :) I'm taking you back through all the kits in 2018. How many stamps did we get? How many dies did Aunty Vera send? How many stencils?  How many rolls of washi? All answers are revealed in the video right  HERE Thank you Aunty Vera for a great year of really great kits!! xx Amira

Hi everyone, It's October and predictably, I have decided on a Halloween theme for my Gorjuss Mini Art Journal October spread. The stamp I chose this month is No.49 - Piracy and I teamed her up with Stamp No.50 Jar of Hearts  and Stamp No. 3 The Pretend Friend. Yes! 3 stamps this month!! The background technique this month is a technique called Paint Resist. I used both the following stencils, one with black acrylic paint and one with white. To achieve this look. I then reached for this Thinlets Die by Sizzix called Trick or treat,  and in combination with a few pieces of ephemera from an older Tim Holtz Halloween kit, I was able to achieve a ver y spooky Trick or Treat scene that reminded me of that 1984 Stephen King horror movie - Children of the Corn. Here is the final layout. You can catch the process video HERE Thank you for stopping by today and happy halloween cra...

Hello crafty friends, I am back with the February layout for my 'Mini' Art Journal 2018. I will be working in my DIY watercolor art journal. I have a tutorial for you if you want to make one yourself. Check it out  HERE For this layout I decided to use No.57 'Little Heart' Gorjuss Mini stamp by Santoro. This is her stamped out with Jet Black Archival Ink. And this is her coloured up using my Koi Sakura Watercolors. I wanted her to be holding an element so I decided to die-cut this bunch of balloons. I also wanted her to have a little side-kick and how cute is THIS little guy! Here he is coloured in :) For the background, I chose this beautiful art napkin that reminds me of Tuscany. The field of yellow is exactly what I was after.  I did layer this with more gesso and some yellow acrylic paint. I did feel like I needed to mute down the background as it was not allowing my foregro...

Hi everyone, Happy Australia Day! My family and I went hiking last weekend and I snapped THIS gorgeous photo which is just perfect for the BiG Aussie Challenge over at Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft this Australia Day Weekend. Two perfect items that are a MUST for this layout come straight out of the Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft January 2018 Kit . This Tim Holtz stencil really did do justice to my plain mustard yellow pattern paper with its exploration and traveler themed words- it is, funny enough, titled Traveler . The other beautiful is this Kaisercraft 'Open Road' stamp set! Featuring many native flora that I just have to feature really quickly here: Golden Wattle-  Acacia pycnantha Summer Beauty-  Corymbia ficifolia King Protea-  Protea cynaroides I also played around with stamping them out in Jet Black archival ink and Ranger Cool Graphite ink. The black makes it stand out while the grey gives ...

So excited to be taking part in the #take5art journal challenge for 2018. I found this challenge when I came across Heba's YT Channel My Little Journal and was so inspired that I contacted Kyra Pace from Simply Creative Kyra  who hosts this challenge and asked if I could play along and she said YES! So here I am!! The journal I am working in is this blue and green watercolor art journal I made out of watercolor paper. If you want to make your own, I have a DIY video for you HERE This months challenge prompts are : * modeling paste * 3 stamps * text paper * Feather * Use Gesso through a stencil So because the feather was involved, I consulted by Color Almanac Vol 3 by Design Seeds and was attracted to this color scheme. Check out my video process which I will leave a link to below. I really enjoyed creating the modeling paste. It created amazing texture through this Kaisercraft stencil. You can also see some of the text I ad...