Tulips -Becoming Awake Art Journal Page

Hi friends,

I am back with another page from the art journal I made for my friend Tejal. When I started creating this page, all I knew was that I wanted to use white tulips as focal point on this page as they are an absolute favorite of Saumya. Before I went ahead and used tulips, I decided to read a little history about Tulips.

Tulips - Becoming Awake Involves Seeing Our Confusions Clearly Art Journal Page

Did you know that tulips are one of the most loved flowers world over. They originated centuries ago in Persia and Turkey and were brought to Europe from there. They got the name Tulip in Europe from the word "Tulipa" which meant turban. Tulip in general signifies perfect love. However, each color of tulip signifies a special meaning. So what does white tulip signify?

• White tulips represent forgiveness.
• They represent pure and passionate love. 
• It is associated with happiness and love. 
• It also often associated with the word "victory".
• They also signify purity and innocence.

Tulips - Becoming Awake Involves Seeing Our Confusions Clearly Art Journal Page

Isn't that beautiful how many varied emotions the lovely tulips represent? As the focal point of this page was going to be white tulips, I decided to use bright colors for the background and yet keep it simple as I wanted to the focus to be on tulips and quotes (which again was one of Saumya's favorite).

Tulips - Becoming Awake Involves Seeing Our Confusions Clearly Art Journal Page

Supplies Used:

• 6 by 7" card stock/ chipboard 
• Ranger Dylusions Paint: After Midnight, Dirty Martini
• CrafTangles Leaf Stencil 
• iCraft Stencil 
• Penny Black Stamp - Blooming Garden
• Ranger texture paste
• Ranger Jet Black Archival Ink
• Dylusions Dyan Revealey Basic Paint Pens
• iCraft Floral Natura card stock 
• Steadtler watercolor pencil - grey
• Foam tape, blending foam, glue, paint brush, palette knife, scissor
• Printed sentiment/ quote 

Tulips - Becoming Awake Involves Seeing Our Confusions Clearly Art Journal Page

Steps to create:

• Color the card stock/ chipboard base with Dirty Martini paint using blending foam. 
• Once dry, apply After Midnight paint through CrafTangles stencil using blending foam.
• Apply texture paste through iCraft stencil.
• Stamp multiple images of tulips on white cardstock and fussy cut. 
• Add very light shading to tulips using grey watercolor pencil and color the stem with paint pen. 
• Paper piece the image to create dimensional tulips using foam tapes.
• To finish the page, adhere tulips and quote to page using glue. 

Tulips - Becoming Awake Involves Seeing Our Confusions Clearly Art Journal Page

You can view other pages by clicking on captions on pics below.

Page 1

Page 2

Page 3

Page 4

Page 5

Hope you love this page. Do leave some love & feedback.

Love,
Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta,
Crafty Flirtations.

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Believe Floral Mixed Media Canvas

Hi,

I always keep sharing mixed media project but what is Mixed Media you may ask? There are many different style of mixed media art that artists create. So what is my style of mixed media art?

Is it using multiple accents/ embellishments on a project? Is it using all techniques I know 1 single project? Is it using multiple (like 5-6 mediums) on one project? Is it using multiple colors on a single project? No, that is not my style.

My style is more restrained. Yes, my mixed media style is about mixing things up be it techniques, embellishments or medium but in a balance and restrain  so as to accentuate every little embellishment or medium used on the project. That's how most of my projects are. I do use multiple textures in my projects and art journals but I dont go over board either. That is just my style of work. I do enjoy other styles too, but just sharing what I enjoy creating the most.

Believe Floral Mixed Media

To express my style better, I am sharing a 6 by 6" floral mixed media panel with you today. I have used cool colors in shades of blue and purple with splatter of green on this panel, i.e. I have used just 1 color family. For embellishments, I have used just flowers.


Supplies used:

• 6 by 6" MDF
• Little Birdie (Itsy Bitsy) 2 in 1 texture paste (used as gesso)
• Ranger texture paste 
• Penny Black Stencil - Hynotic 
• Lindy's Starbust Spray - TiffanyLou Blue, Hydrangea Blue 
• Cosmic Shimmer Spray - Meadow Lush 
• Ranger Archival Ink - Black
• Catherine Pooler Ink - Grass Skirt, Lemon Ice 
• Ranger Dylusion Paint After Midnight
• Little Birdie Handmade Flowers
• Heartfelt Creation Camelia Carnation Stamp and Die 
• Spellbinders Foliage Die 
• iCraft MDF Sentiment - Believe
• Wink of Stella Clear Pen
• Glue gun, blending tool & foam, paint brush, palette  knife

Believe Floral Mixed Media

Steps to Create:

• Apply gesso on MDF base and set aside to dry.
• Paint sentiment MDF "believe" with Dylusion paint.
• Once the base is dry, apply texture paste through stencil on 2 opposite corners and let it dry.
• Once dry, colour using Lindy's & Cosmic sprays. 
• Stamp & die cut leaves from Camelia Carnation collection or foliage die and color using yellow and green ink.
• Adhere the Little birdie flowers and leaves using glue gun to the panel.
• Finish the panel by gluing the sentiment to the panel. I added a little sparkle to the sentiment using Wink of Stella Pen.

Believe Floral Mixed Media

I would like to enter this project for challenges at:

Mix It Up Challenge Blog: Anything Goes + Optional Twist of Mixed Media

I hope you like my style of mixed media project.

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

Crafty Flirtations 

To Great Friends - An Art Journal Page

Hi friends,

They say friends are the family you choose for yourself & God has blessed me with some amazing friends who are now like family to me. Recently, I wanted to make a gift for my ever helpful, crazy, amazing crafty friend "Tejal", something that was personalized and woven with  elements that she & 3 of her friends (Saumya, Khushboo & myself) liked.

As Art Journals are my absolute favorite to make, I decided to make a mini, personalized Art Journal or Art Book for Tejal including our favorite quotes, motifs, colors & flowers or things that we like.

I used a 6 by 7 ready chipboard album to create this art journal as I wanted something sturdy and strong as it was going to travel all the way to Ahmadabad from Mumbai, but you could use a 300 gsm card stock for same. This art book contains 10 sides (5 pages back to back) all together. Here's the cover page of the journal.

Tejal's favorite flowers are Hydrangeas. So, I decided to use them as focal point on the cover page. However, when I started making the cover, I realized I didnt have  any Hydrangea stamps. I was on verge of giving up the idea of using Hydrangeas on the cover, when it dawned on me that I had Hydrangea Lawns pattern paper from Dress My Craft that I could use for focal point. The entire page is built around colour scheme of Hydrangea flowers using the heat embossing resist technique with Distress Inks for background as its my absolute favorite technique for background.

Supplies Used:

• 6 by 7" card stock/ chipboard 
• Dress My Craft Hydrangea Lawns 6 by 6 paper pack
• Penny Black Blooming Gardens stamp set
• Distress Inks: Seedless Preserves, Cracked Pistachio, Peacock Feathers
• VersaMark Ink
• WOW! Clear embossing powder
• Itsy Bitsy 2 in 1 texture paste (used as gesso)
• Dress My Craft Frosted Sugar Powder
• Glue, scissors, foam tape, heat gun & blending tools
• Printed sentiment 

Steps to create:

• Apply gesso on the card stock/ chipboard base and let it dry. Once dry, apply Cracked Pistachio and Peacock Feathers ink using blending tool. 
• Once the Distress ink has dried, stamp the flowers using VersaMark ink and heat set using clear embossing powder.
• Apply Seedless Preserves (over Peacock Feathers) and Peacock Feathers (over Cracked Pistachio) ink to create a beautiful resist technique background.
• Fussy cut the flowers from Hydrangea Lawns pack. Distress the edges using Seedless Preserves ink  and adhere to the base using glue & foam tape.
• Apply glue to the edges of the page and sprinkle with Frosted Sugar Powder.
• To finish the page, adhere the printed sentiment/ quote. 

Hope you love the cover page from this art journal. I shall be back soon with Page 2 of the journal.

I would like to enter this art page at 

• Art Journal Journey. Theme: Flora & Fauna
• Mix It Up Challenge. Theme: Emboss Resist

Love,
Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta
Crafty Flirtations. 

Dream - Floral Mixed Media

Hi Friends,

I reviewed the Little Birdie Embossing Texture Paste a few days back. Today I am back with a project where I actually used the Embossing Texture Paste for some quick & amazing effects.

Supplies:

• Little Birdie 2 in 1 Texture Paste (use as Gesso)
• Little Birdie Embossing Texture Paste Frosty Fizz
• Little Birdie Flower Pack 
• iCraft MDF
• Penny Black Stencil Hypnotic 
• Ranger Distress Spray Paint - Squeezed Lemonade + Home made spray inks in shades of yellow and light orange  (numerous recipes available online)
• Nuvo Embellishment Mousse - Fresh Copper 
• Palette knife, glue, hot glue gun, flower pollen, heat gun
• Canvas/ Ply 

Steps To Create

• Apply some Gesso on the base and let it dry.
• Adhere mdf with glue and apply Gesso over it.
• Once the Gesso is dry, colour using spray inks and let it dry.
• Apply embossing texture paste through stencil and with palette knife on corners and heat set. 
• Apply nuvo mousse on embellishments and rub here and there on the canvas for added texture.
• Finish by adhering flowers and pollen. 

Hope you loved this quick, simple & beautiful mix-media layout. I absolutely love the texture created using the Little Birdie paste and how it absorbed some of the colour. 

Do leave your feedback in the comments section.

Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta

Crafty Flirtations 

More Water Colour Flowers

Hi Friends,

Today I am here to share some of more flowers coloured using Sakura Water Colour Pens or CretaColor Water Colour pencils.

 Stamp: Penny Black Blooming Gardens

 Stamp: Mudra Linen Blooms

 Stamp: Mudra Linen Blooms

With Love,

Dr. Neha Sanwalka Rungta,

Crafty Flirtations