Create Wings - Art Journal - #TTC10

Hi friends,

Welcome back after a months time. Well I have been excessively busy the last month with work commitments but as we start a new challenge at The Twisted Challenges today, I decided to take a break for sometime to create the inspiration. The theme this month is "Animals + Wings", i.e you need to use an animal image and add wings to the animal.You have to use animals that do not have wings and add wings to them.

As usual, I have created an art journal page for the inspiration. I used minimal products for this page and is very easy to create.

Create Wings - Art Journal - TTC#10

Create Wings - Art Journal - TTC#10

Create Wings - Art Journal - TTC#10 

Create Wings - Art Journal - TTC#10

• I colored a page in Little Birdie Mixed Media Journal using Ranger Candied Apple Distress Ink.
• Using a tree stencil from icraft, I applied Nuvo Silver Mousse on the page.
• I pencil colored some animal digital stamps from http://www.opalmanor.com/digistamps and fussy cut them.
• The wings were die cut using various butterfly dies.
• The wings and animals were adhered on the page using glue.
• Quote was added to the page to finish the page.

I hope you all loved this quick, simple and bright page and are inspired to add wings to your life to achieve something spectacular in life. Hop on to The Twisted Challenges blog to know more about the challenge rules and to see more inspiration from the team. 

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

Crafty Flirtations 

& 

The Twisted Challenges 

Breastfeeding Week Art Journal Page #2

Hi Friends,

I am back today with another page dedicated to World Breastfeeding Week Celebrations. You can view the 1st page I did on this occasion here. 

Today's page is more representational then actually depicting breastfeeding in actuality. Breastfeeding lays the root of good health in children. It is the foundation of life that the child will live. Breastfeeding prevents a child from various health issues in later life too. So when a mother chooses to breastfeed her child, she is sowing the seeds of a nourished and healthy life. It is also a way of a mother expressing her love and care for her child and hence, I have added hearts to represent a mother's love for her child. 

Breastfeeding Week Art Journal

The theme at Art Journal Journey this month is "Count Your Blessings" and there can be no bigger blessing than Breastfeeding. Entering my art journal for the challenge here: https://art-journal-journey.blogspot.com/2018/08/count-your-blessings.html 

Please share this page & spread the knowledge & importance of breastfeeding.

Love,
Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta
Crafty Flirtations 

Joys of Life #TTC3 - Art Journal Page

Hi Friends,

We are back with challenge 3 on The Twisted Challenges blog. The theme for TTC#3 is "Go Bold + Replace Me" i.e. we need to use a Bold Sentiment & replace an alphabet in sentiment.

This project is a result of a long chain of thoughts. The 1st things to click me was that I need to replace "Y" with a Martini glass. You might wonder whats the chain of thoughts in that. Wait, let me come to it. So, while I was in Pune, doing Ph.D., my favorite restaurant to eat out was a Southeast Asian restaurant called "Malaka Spice" and the most favorite drink to order there was a Watermelon Martini. You can say it was my go to drink at Malaka Spice. Not sure if they still serve it, I hope they do. I have so many memories attached to it ;) So, the "watermelon" Martini inspired colors on this page: red & green with a hint of yellow.

Joys of Life - Art Journal

Watermelon Martini was pure Joy for me. So I decided that the sentiment on this page should be "Joys of Life". Once, the sentiment & background colors were sorted, I started wondering what else brought joy in life and the thing that stood out significantly was doodling/ tangling and hence I decide to tangle along on this page. So this page really represents a part of me :)

Joys of Life - Art Journal

List of supplies:

• Little Birdie Mixed Media Journal
• Color Bloom Spray Mist: Sunshine, Ginger Coral
• Cosmic Shimmer Mist: Meadow Lush 
• Sakura Black Micron - 08, 03 & Sakura Brush Black pen
• Sakura White Gelly Roll Pen 
• White Charcoal Pencil 
• Concord & 9th Perfectly Penned Stamp
• Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
• Martini Glass Print out
• Glue, Paint Brush, Water Mister 

Joys of Life - Art Journal

Steps to Create:

• I colored the handmade paper page spread in the journal using Cosmic Shimmer & Color Bloom sprays with help of paint brush & water mister (misting as needed to blend the colors).
• Once the inks were dry, I doodled the alphabets "J", "O" & "S" using Sakura Microns & adhered Martini glass print out to resemble "Y".
• Thereafter, I tangled all around the edges using Sakura Microns and added highlights using white gel pen.
• I stamped "Of Life" using Concord & 9th stamp and black ink. 
• I outlined the martini glass using 08 Micron. 
• To finish the page, I added some shadows to the sentiment using white charcoal pencil.

Joys of Life - Art Journal

I hope you loved this simple page & my interpretation of our theme. Hop on the "The Twisted Challenges" to read all about the challenge, rules & some stunning inspiration from other design team members.

As Susi mentioned in the blog comment, being able to Tangle (art) and eat/drink food I like is a complete blessing & hence entering this page at Art Journal Journey August Challenge "Count Your Blessings"

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

Crafty Flirtations

& 

The Twisted Challenges

A cup of coffee on a rainy day - Art Journal TTC#2

Hi Friends,

We are back with challenge 2 on The Twisted Challenges blog. The theme for TTC#2 is "Coffee/ Tea+Rains". The rains have arrived in Mumbai and when Saumya came up with the theme, I was super excited but at the same time super confused as to what I was going to create. After a lot of discussion with Tejal & Saumya and lot of deliberation, I decided to do an art journal page.

As I am a coffee lover, I decided to go with coffee + rains. A piping hot cup of coffee makes any gloomy rainy day bright and warm and thats what I have presented on my page. Also, I have been wanting to try may hand at painting with coffee for ages and hence, I used actually coffee powder to colour the coffee cups.

Coffee + Rains Art Journal Page

Supplies used:

• Little Birdie Mixed Media Journal
• Ranger Dylusions Paint: Calypso Teal & After Midnight
• Ranger Distress Oxide Ink: Faded Jeans
• Ranger Distress Ink: Black Soot
• Tim Holtz Idea-ology Stencil
• Ranger Texture Paste 
• Concord & 9th Stamp: Perfectly Penned
• iCraft Floral Natura card stock
• Coffee powder
• Steadtler Black Luna Pencil 
• Palette knife, blending tool, paint brush, Steadtler Luna Micro-tip brown pen, Sakura Micron, scissor & glue

Steps to Create:

• Colour a page in the art journal using Dylusion paints.
• Once the paint is dry, draw some water droplets with black pencil colour & apply texture paste through stencil. Set aside to draw.
• Draw 2 coffee cups free hand and fussy cut.
• Colour the cups using Coffee powder. Use black pencil for extra shading & depth. Write inscriptions on cup using Micro-tip pen.
• Distress the edges of the page with Black Soot ink.
• Stamp the sentiment on card stock using Faded Jeans ink and distress edges with help of a scissor.
• To finish the page, adhere sentiment and coffee cups to the page with glue & draw "+" and "=" signs using Microns.

I hope you loved this simple page & my interpretation of our theme.. Hop on the "The Twisted Challenges" to read all about the challenge, rules & some stunning inspiration from other design team members. 

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

Crafty Flirtations

& 

The Twisted Challenges

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Litlle Birdie Mixed Media Journal Review + 2 Journal pages

Hi all,

During Creativation 2018 in January, the one and only product that caught my fancy was Little Birdie Art and Mixed Media Journal. If you have been following my work, you already know how crazy I am about Art Journals, however no good hard bound journals were available until now in India. Hence, when I saw the upcoming release during Creativation, I immediately inboxed Rashmi Harish, owner of Itsy Bitsy & Little Birdie to congratulate her for coming up with the journals. To my absolute delight, Rashmi promised to send me one of the journals when the actual production starts and as soon as the journals were released in June, I had the Mixed Media Journal come my way (another surprise that Rashmi actually remembered to send me a journal after 5 months & I am touched by the gesture). Thanks Rashmi.

Now lets come to these journals. There are 3 journals - Art Journal in 220 & 440 gsm & Mixed Media Journal and they come in 2 sizes: 5.5 by 7.5" and 7.6 by 10.2". You can read all about Art Journal here. I am going to review the Mixed Media Journal which Rashmi very sweetly sent me.

Features of the journal:

• Made in India 
• Contains 92 pages that you could work on
• Has 16 Canvas, corrugated, white burlap, natural burlap and handmade paper each
• Has 12 Kraft cardstock
• Its hardbound & 100% cold pressed 
• Its handmade and archival 
• Very very cost effective (Rs. 999/- or about 15$ when purchasing in India. For price in US and other countries, please hop on to the Little Birdie Website)

I got the journal on Saturday and I already have made 2 journal pages. 

Page 1: 

The 1st page in the journal is a canvas. Being a fan of embroidery, I decided to embroider a rose in the journal & stamp my name. I decided to keep it simple as I wanted to focus on the rose. 

Embroidery on canvas page in Mixed Media Journal By Little Birdie

Steps to create: 

• I stamped the image from Stampendous Fran's Cling Stamp & Stencil Set - Build A Bouquet Set on canvas using Catherine Pooler Die Ink. 
• Once the ink was dry, I embroidered the flowers using Anchor floss (3 strings). 
• For the flower I used normal filling stitch and did leaves using chain stitch. 
• While I was embroidering, the edges started fraying a little and hence, I sealed the stitches using blanket stitch. 
• As it was impossible to use an embroidery hop in the journal, the canvas wrapped a little in the process, however, I absolutely the wrapped look. 
• To finish the page, I stamped my name using the Concord & 9th Script Stamp and Dye inks. 

Close up of rose

Page 2:

For the backside of the canvas, as you can imagine, all the knots and embroidery backing was visible & being the crazy me, I wanted to hide it all so that when I flip the page, I see a beautiful layout & not all the crazy knots. Hence, I created a page separately on a vellum  and adhered it to the backside of the canvas. I like how the blanket stitch is peeping from sides of the vellum.. Gives a very rustic look. 

Steps to create:

• I stamped as image from Clearly Besotted Thanks a Bunch set using Ranger Archival black ink on Brustro Watercolor paper. 
• I coloured the image using Peerless watercolors & fussy cut it. 
• I coloured a 5 by 7" vellum sheet using Ranger Alcohol inks: Lettuce, Butterscotch and silver. 
• Then I adhered the vellum at the back of the canvas using Range Glossy Accent. 
• To finish the page, I adhered the coloured image & printed quote using glue. 

I hope you love these simple, yet fun mixed media art journal pages. If you love Art Journalling and if you want t o challenge yourself to create art journal spreads on various textured backgrounds, Little Birdie Mixed Media Journal is a must buy. I shall be back soon with more pages in this amazing Mixed Media journal. 

I would once again like to thank Rashmi for sending this amazing journal. 

Love, 

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta