AmiraInOz

Hi Everyone, I have finished one of my watercolor journals from last year and I just needed to go finish it off by working on the cover so that's what I'm sharing with you today.  I love the combination of yellow (fossilised amber and wild honey) with the peacock feathers Distress Oxides in the mixed media background. The stamp I used was Kaisercraft's 'Scrap Studio'. A paper doll (Tim Holtz) as the focal element plus a few pieces of ephemera from Echo Park's 'Just be You' die cuts which give this piece it's title. I also decided to do a little cluster of lace and ribbon overplayed with a butterfly in the bottom right corner which turned out so lovely in combination with her dress and the sentiment. Here is the front cover : And the back cover: It came together very quickly and Im so happy to be packaging this little journal off and sending it to it's new owner - shhhh it's surpris...

Hi everyone, Today I am bringing you a Middle Eastern theme art journal layout using this beautiful die I recently bought from SU called Night in Bethlehem. The background was done using a mixture of Dandelion and Moroccan inks from Momento Luxe as well as some Distress Oxides ( Spiced Marmalade , Wild Honey and Abandoned Coral). I then added some ink through stencils as well as some texture paste through stencils to achieve a textured background. Next, I cut the die out of both black and white card stock. For the white card stock,  I used Lindy's Stamp Gang Moon Shadow Mist - Van Dyke Sepia to give the houses a weathered brown look and then stamped a crackle effect using the Kaisercraft stamp Crackle. To achieve the Sahara sand effect at the bottom, I used Seth Apter's Baked Texture in Ancient Amber and adhered it using glycerol (to replace my embossing pad which is rather dry and would not work well with this thick embossing pow...

Hi everyone, I am playing along with the It's a Brand New Day/ Coffee theme over at Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft . I found this cute coffee shop dimensional stickers from one of Aunty Vera's kits from last year and decided to build a story around it. This is your usual coffee spot in the 'burbs where good friends meet to catch up and exchange significant news since they had last seen each other.  It is situated just across from a park so when you look out of the window or sit in the back courtyard you see the beautiful blue sky and hear the lovely leaves rustle in the trees.  You have to agree that a good drink (be it coffee or tea- I love both) is better with friends. I felt like the letters needed to stand out more but didn't do as good a job with the shading. Next time, I'll use one of my charcoal pencils and not just my gel pen to do a quick job. You can find the process video  HERE Wishing you all a lovely da...

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, Back again with another layout in my art journal swap collaboration with Lolly Palooza. In this episode, I create a scene using the "Apple of my eye" collection by Jayne Nestorenko for Clarity stamps.  This adds to the stamped layout I made on the right of the page which you can see me build in the July Gorjuss Art spread HERE   I used my Prima Watercolor pans in this spread. Check out the process video for this layout HERE xxAmira P.S. I was very upset to hear that the wonderful Jayne Nestorenko of Clarity Stamps passed away last year. Barbara Grey broke the news on her blog and talked about how she wanted to do something positive in response. She and her husband joined the 'Walk all over Cancer' movement and encouraged people to walk 10K steps a day- a subject near and dear to my heart as this is one of my personal goals. Please do head over to that blog post and check it out HERE   ——— 

Hi everyone, I am so happy to show you this Pocket Page Layout which I made for Sarah's Challenge over at Aunty Vera Scrap and Craft. Sarah's challenge was to make a pocket page layout using at least 3 different techniques. I designed a template that uses 7 different tenchiques. I started by using the pocket cards from Aunty Vera's May Kit . Love the botanical theme of this collection from MAMBI . I started off with a blank slate that looked like this. Pocket 1 Shaker I created a 1/3 : 2/3 pocket page here using my Fuse Tool and added paper background to one and left the other one blank for 2 different shaker looks.  Pocket 2 Die-cutting I used this cute girl die which I bought online and teamed her up with this Floral Cluster die-set from Kaisercraft. Loving the black and maroon floral!!  Pocket 3 Stickers This alpha chipboard stickers were on clearance for 70c at my local Kmart. Worth t...

Hi everyone ! Welcome back to the 12 Mini Gorjuss Paper Clips! It's March and this month, I chose Stamp  No.59 'Flying above it all' Gorjuss Mini stamp by Santoro . I have already created an art journal page with this stamp which you can find  HERE and a process video for that which you can also find  HERE Once again, I am using my jumbo 97mm paper clips  I first make a base for my paper clip out of white card stock which measures 3.25" x 8" scored @ 4". Next, I use some of this vellum which I have been hoarding for some time. Dear Lizzy Neapolitan vellum Because this character is riding a bird, this scenery has to be one of a sky so I reached for my rainbow and cloud die set and created a rainbow out of 6 colors of card stock. Next, I stamped the girl 4 times and coloured in various sections  Base: Color in the bird and the girl's hair Layer 2: Color in the girl's skin, hair and dress Layer 3: ...

Hello crafty friends! Love & Art !! Yup!  Valentine's Day is right around the corner. And speaking of love, can I just say how much I LOVE the Carta Bella 'Hello Sweetheart" paper collection in the February Kit!! I loved the flowers in this paper so I knew I wanted to fussy cut them out and use them somehow. I loved a few elements from this journaling cards paper- namely Zoro and the salt and pepper shaker. Loved the ombre hearts here and I wanted to incorporate them somehow. The VIKING!!! And the striped black and white!! No more needs to be said! And since it's almost Valentine's Day, I thought I would do a memory keeping layout of my own resident Viking (shhhh don't tell HIM that!). I started off in a DIY Traveler's Notebook Insert that I made myself. I choose a page that picked up hubby's blue shirt as a good starting point. Next, I created layers underneath the picture using the...