art journal

I’m In Love!

| cristina

As I promised yesterday, I’m back to show you the amazing project I did thanks to my new cutting machine. 🙂

When I first saw this beautiful collab by Krista Sahlin and Jenn Barrette, I knew I wanted to do something hybrid-y with it. Especially with that gorgeous ferris wheel.

So since I’m an overachiever and a bit reckless at times, my 2nd project with my new Silhouette SD was this:

Credits:
Vintage Carnival kit and wordart by Sahlin Studio and Jenn Barrette

The result is just amazing! All pieces used above were cut individually. The wood paper is about 3.75×4.3 in size so I think you can appreciate the detail this machine was able to cut!
I’m looking forward to the long weekend so I can play more with my machine!

He Said She Said

| cristina

I was making a card today and, because for some reason I cannot seem to be able to print on only half a sheet of paper, I made another page for my art journal too to print along with the card. 😉 Am I the only one who tries to cover the most surface possible when printing one sheet of paper? 🙂

Credits:
Paper from Orchid Elixir, Painted Grunge Papers, Chipper Chatter: Verbs, Vintage Paper Lace by Studio Tangie
Fonts: Dead secretary, SociaL AnimaL, Badaboom BB

Supplies:
Red River Paper polar matte
Glossy accents
Glue dots

And in case this page made you wonder – yes, I did have a good weekend – eventually. 🙂
The worst part of my weekend was having to wake up early this morning (a holiday!) to drive DH to the train station. Oh well. I stopped at AC Moore’s on my way back home to buy some flowers and brads. 😉

As of now, my blog has widened to fit images 600 pixels wide. It was about time! 🙂

Something New

| cristina

I was RAKed by Sylvie of Sausan Designs with a very lovely kit of hers, Hip!, so I finally took the plunge after drooling for months over the many creative art journal pages in the galleries all over digiland, and started my very own art journal. Of course it’s my interpretation, so it’s not over packed with stuff, but I really, really love these pages!

Credits:
Hip! by Sausan Designs
Fonts: Eutemia I, Pea Summer Funkyness, Rebekah’s Birthday, the King & Queen font, Pea Stacy’s Doodle script and Le bain au milieu de la fin d’après-midi vers 17:49

Physical supplies:
Printed on Polar Matte by Red River Paper
Glossy accents used on the flower
Ranger Tim Holtz distress ink

Yes, I did my first hand stitching on a project ever, and I love how it turned out! (it took me forever though 😉 ) You can’t really tell from the picture but there’s glossy accents on the flower. There’s also a half-face of mine blended in the bottom right hand corner, not sure if you can see it. 🙂
I used a notebook with pages of about 4″ – fairly small so you can’t fill the page with tiny details, but it’s so cute!
And here’s the second page:

Credits:
Hip! and newsletter freebie by Sausan Designs
Font: Pea Olson

Physical supplies:
Printed on Polar Matte by Red River Paper
Ranger Tim Holtz distress ink

The orange color on this page is not digi – it’s distress ink mixed with water. So cool!

I’m so excited about this new project! 🙂