Art Journaling: Live Laugh Love with Shari Carroll
Welcome to the blog everyone and happy Sunday!
I’ve been busy working in my Art Journal and today I’m featuring a “free for all style” where I just went for whatever I grabbed. I started out with some Tim Holtz Expedition ephemera pack and torn dictionary page as the base. I’ve glued these down to an 8.5″x8.5″ piece of watercolor cardstock.
I’ve added a layer of watered down gesso for a white wash look and to even the field for adding paints and crayons. The stencils with paste were the next layer, they create texture and shapes to color around.
I finger painted with Pentart Acrylics to start building up some soft color. To get bolder with my color, I used Tim Holtz Distress Crayons applied with my fingertip. For easier blending, keep a damp cloth or baby wipe handy to moisten your finger.I concentrated darker colors around the ephemera and outlined them with Stampers Big Brush to give them dimension although they actually sit quite flat.
To finish this up, I stamped the title “Live, Laugh, Love” using the Simon Says Stamp Big Words stamp set with Jet Black Archival ink. I’ll add my journaling on the ephemera pieces with a Pitt Artist pen.
I have filmed a full process video which you can watch below or on our YouTube channel HERE.
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Thanks for stopping by today. I hope I’ve given you some inspiration to try a free for all page!
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Love those numbers. Such a cool detail
Very pretty page, love the soft build up of color
Love all the circles; they really put the design together!
LOVE it. Art journaling is a great pastime. I always forget to add numbers. Thanks for the inspiration.
Beautiful page. Very eye catching.
Yummy pages! So very pretty, Shari.
Cool design! TFS Shari!
This is such a lovely design & pretty colors. I love the sentiment, one of my favorite sayings.
What a beautiful design. I like the soft colors framed in black.
So very pretty! The muted tones are gorgeous!
Love the colorful project. What a fun design.
I enjoy the soft light color tones of your journal. Well done, Bravo!!!
Love this page. Wonderful design and colors.
Love the page.
It has structure, while still
being free.
Fantastic.
thanks for sharing.
What a perfect stamp for journals g
Just love this! Such pretty colors! Great collection of elements!
Pretty colors and textures!
Awesome, AWEsome, AWESOME! Thanks for the video!
I love the combination of soft colors!
Lovely. The shadowing to add dimension is really nice.
Wow, what a fabulous work of art!
Beautiful. The colors are so pretty.
Great page Shari! The Pitt Pen is a great tip to pop up the embossed areas. I must pick one up.
Wow, I enjoyd your video so much, what a beautiful color sceme. I have some Crayons but not used them yet, you have inspire me to grab them and go for it, Thanks!
Awesome design! Thanks for sharing.
stunning work, as always
Beautiful page!
Wow! Beautiful art journal project!!! Love it!!1
Wow! Beautiful art and detail! I love the numbers.
Wonderful collage of Tim Holtz items on the art journal page.
Melissa
“Sunshine HoneyBee”
This is beautiful. Thanks for the tutorial, I don’t do mixed media much so this was very informative.
Fun project. Looks good.
Stunning!!!!
Very nice journal page. Love the colors!
What a beautiful page. The colors are so pretty.
The dark edges really make the colors seem to glow. Just beautiful.
Love the softness of this page–beautiful & unique!
Gorgeous! I loved seeing how you created this!
So cool and pretty, I love the design, awesome job. Thanks.
I think I need to start an art journal! This is gorgeous and Shari is such an inspiration!
nice colors, must try those crayons
Beautiful design!
Love how you built up the color and love the colors shown on this lovely layout – TFS
What a fantastic piece, love how you stamped it.
Love your art journal! This is a great page. Thanks for all the tips! :)
A lot of dimensions in this page, pretty cool !!
Just absolutely beautiful!!
Beautiful! I love the color pallete and textures!
Love your blog, your online store and I love to see that little dog poop up in my email! SSS is one of the BEST.
I love all the texture in this beautiful card.