Page for Chris

Chris's theme was 'She Art', I hadn't done anything like this before, so after a look on the good ole 'tinternet I found lots of inspiration.For my background I used some watercolour crayons, smooched over with a baby wipe, I had a Suzi Blu stamp to which I added some wings, a little bit of stenciling, a butterfly stamp,some washi tape and then I added the quote, simples :)
Hope you like it Chris.

Yolanda xx

AJ page for Chris

I'm on a roll, so here is Chris's page. She wanted a page themed on "She" - so everyone (including me) thought of She Art. Here's my version, and I hope Chris likes it.

She Art AJ for Chris by Crino

This is my AJCJ for Chris.  I've not done any 'she art' before and it's not exactly the same as Christy Tomlinson's stuff, but hey, I actually really enjoyed doing it and may well find myself doing some more.  The background is a mixture of Dylusions spray ink and inktense pencils (both of which are pretty new to me but I'm liking a lot) which I then stamped with an umbeliifer stamp that lurks in the dark recesses of the broom cupboard.  I 'dotted' the seed heads with a white sakura pen and I really like that effect.  I distress stamped the stitching around the top corner and found a nice grid stamp that I used for the hell of.  My lady is my own drawing, coloured with ProMarkers and the dress is made of two bits of paper - a book page which I stamped with the ladybird and and piece of raspberry plainish paper for the bodice.  Her name is Michelle and she's quite a one.  Oh, the words say 'she flies with her own wings' which is a saying I found on a site (which I will reference when I can find it....) but I really liked it - sums up how I feel at the moment which is a good thing I guess :)

I was initially a bit not freaked, but concerned that I hadn't explored this area of art before, but I'm pretty pleased with the end result. What do you think?

Art Journal CJ Entry 1 from Sian to Chris

Hello Secret Swappers,

Here's my entry for Chris's "She" theme. I do believe she mentioned liking christy Tomlinsons She Art and as I love it too and have a number of those stamps I decided to style a page on it. Styling a page on it became scraplifting *cough* copying *cough* one of Christy's pages... here's the pics:

Here is the original artwork from Christy Tomlinson:

And here's some piccies of my "lifted" version:

This is the background before I added the "She Leaped" figure. I stamped a She Art background all over the paper then drew the black lines with a medium pitt pen, added some "stitching" and patterns/lines then used pro-markers to colour it all in. I also added some She Art rub-ons you can see the green circles, yellow heart, purpls circles, white stitching... finally I added some She Art die cuts... butterflies, bird and flowers.

I'm not sure how appealing this is to people who aren't She Art friendly/aware... but I absolutely love it and will be making more versions for myself - hopefully Chris will like it too :)

Siany banany xxx