Watercolor Art Journaling with Altered Lawn Fawn Stamps

Hello crafty friends! It's Jess and today I have an art journal page featuring Lawn Fawn's Sweet Smiles and Color My World stamp sets. My art journal is a collection of quotes with accompanying art. I have a dedicated Pinterest board for quotes and for today's handletting I was inspired by this piece. For more on how I created this page and my thoughts on this quotes check out my video.

I've known I wanted to tackle this quote for awhile because it has layers of meaning for me but I wanted the overall effect to stay positive so I decided using adorable Lawn Fawn stamps and bright rainbow colors would help. I used a lot of masking to get these partial crayon bits and all the different faces from Sweet Smiles helped reinforce the thoughts behind this page. I've really enjoyed finding a way to make art journaling work for my style and with the stamps that I love. 

If you haven't already be sure to join in on out current Thinking of You challenge. 

Using Small Stamps to Create a Focal Point featuring Blue Skies and Joy to the Woods

Hello crafty friends! It's Jess and today I have a card set featuring Lawn Fawn's Peace Joy Love papers, Blue Skies stamps and Joy to the Woods stamps and dies. Since the current challenge is all about focusing on the sentiment I decided to use the arrows from Blue Skies to draw attention to my sentiment. For more on how I achieved this look check out my video.

As discussed in the video I used Hero Arts Ombre Inks to get the gradation in color with the arrows. There are some background sets out there that use arrows in a similar way but isn't it nice to be able to use what you have and customize? Of course you could use any sentiment and papers but I wanted to make some Christmas cards for the Caring Hearts Card Drive.

I hope you enjoyed my cards and video! Don't forget to participate in the latest challenge to use sentiments!