The challenge this month at The Altered Alice is STRIPES, and our sponsor, Jenny Doh of CRESCENDOh, provided this wonderful Alice in Wonderland by Danita stamp set. I love these simply drawn, whimsical characters! I had a wonderful time making this spread in my Moleskine Sketch Journal.
I used a plastic stencil with squares to make the stripes. I sponged various colors of Distress Ink through the stencil using an ink blending tool. Then I offset the stencil, sliding it over horizontally but leaving it lined up vertically. On the right side, I centered the second set of squares over the divider from the previous stenciling. On the left, I slid the stencil over just far enough to cover the divider from the previous step. After that I sponged some clocks through the stencil with Pumice Stone colored Distress Ink.
Then stamped all the figures on white card stock, colored them with Copic Sketch markers, trimmed them out and pasted them on with a Zig glue pen.
After that I had fun doodling, snugging up the name of the character to each cutout and selecting the quotes I printed on the blank horizontal stripes, making stripes out of the quotes. Each quote is connected to the character with an underline.
I think this quote by the Tweedles is one of my favorites!
Supplies:
Journal: Moleskine large red sketch journal
Paper: Copic X-Press It card stock, Earth Love patterned paper.
Ink: Memento Tuxedo Black, Distress Ink in Fired Brick, Scattered Straw, Broken China, Shabby Shutters, Dusty Concord, Ranger Ink Blending Tool, Copic Multiliner Pens.
Stencils: The Crafter's Workshop "Mini Mosaic" and "Time Travel" 6x6 templates
Please leave a comment before you go!
Oh my sweet Lynne this is so much fun.
ReplyDeleteWonderful pages. Love the raster in the background and your coloring is brilliant. Love them. xoxo
This is amazing!! I love all the quotes, that is a fun idea!!
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Leintje*
OMG Lynne, it's really wonderful!!. Thanks a lot for your explanation. Kisses :)
ReplyDeleteWonderful journal pages, love the stripes and your use of quotes, lovely touch with the fabulous whimsical images. Tracy x
ReplyDeleteHow inspiring you are to me! These pages are so whimsy and happy with color. Love the mosaic and how you blended the colors. Thanks for the inspiration!
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous fun! Love the coloring on these images--just beautiful!
ReplyDeleteLynne, you did it again. I LOVE what you did with this, especially the use of stencils. How brilliant. Love the clocks peaking through as well.
ReplyDeleteOMG! You did an amazing job on these pages!
ReplyDeleteWOW! I don't even know what to say.
BRILLANT, BRIGHT, GORGEOUS are just a few words that come to mind!
Lynne. I had to stop by and tell you that I just love your journal pages....all of them! Stripes is sooooo pretty. I'm jealous of your penmanship and your copic coloring...that is, if "coloring" is the right word ;)
ReplyDeleteHi Lynn I have ran into your altered website and found out you were on splitcoaststampers as well. I fell in love with Altered Alice, just began to look into the art journals, have taken a class lately and I just can say that I admire YOUR ART!.
ReplyDeleteI would like to know where did you get those stencils, both of them, they make our art easy to play with.
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Great Job Lynn!
I JUST SAW THE SUPPLY LIST THANKS ANYWAY. MARIA ELEN AT SPLITCOASTSTAMPERS !
ReplyDeleteMARY CALZADILLA
Love the checked effect, great colours! Fab!
ReplyDeleteYour pages are wonderful, great design, love all the details.
ReplyDeleteI so love your art journal pages Lynne! The Distress inked background is just stunning. I love how the colors swirl together it reminds me of the walls of paint chips I always gawk at when I'm dragged to Home Depot (I'm a sucker for anything in rainbow colors :)) Your Copic coloring on the images is equally amazing with the soft tones you have added. So inspiring!
ReplyDeleteOoo, your stenciled background is scrumptious!!
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I adore the stencilled stripes that make up the background for this project, and the characters and doodling are just wonderful. Brilliant page. Maddy x
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