August AJ Page-A is for Adventure

Art Journaling, Mixed Media, Other Than a Card, Stampin' Up!, Tim Holtz/Ranger, Whimsy Stamps

Hello friends!  Wishing you a happy weekend!  We’ve had a heat advisory in our area all week, so I’ve been staying indoors organizing, cleaning and crafting!  Hope that you’re taking some time to enjoy your weekend even if it’s just for a moment of time.

I can’t believe we’re at the last weekend of August, because it’s time for the monthly Art Journal Page collaboration with my crafty friend, Carol (from Crafty-Stamper)! We get creative trying to use up our never-ending stash piles along with a prompt for each month.  I know she always has great inspiration to share, so please check out her blog too! Here’s my AJ page with the “SMASH OUR STASH” August prompt of “LETTERS”:

Thinking of YOUR stash, what do you come up with from the prompt?  I think as crafters, we probably all have some type of lettering in our stash!  I have stamps, stickers, chipboard, wood, stencils, ephemera, etc so I knew this would be a good opportunity to pull out something.  And if that doesn’t work for you, I suppose you could take the prompt literally, and attach an actual written letter or make one up yourself to add to your AJ page.  Lots of ways to interpret a prompt which makes it easy to come up with a plan to inspire you.  So this is what I came up with.

For the background:  I started with a 6″ x 9″ Strathmore Acrylic paper with pre-punched holes at the top and stenciled some crackle paste over my Tim Holtz alpha stencil and let dry.  I then took some Distress Oxide sprays in the colors kitsch flamingo, salvaged patina and speckled egg and mixed with sprayed water to let the the colors run over the stenciled areas.  After it dried, I used the Tim Holtz Grunged stamp set and stamped more letters over the background with black archival ink.  The edges were blended with dark gray ink and then I splattered the page with gold and white paints with a fan brush.  Lastly, I took some white gold metallic wax and went over the stenciled letters.

The film strip came from the Whimsy Stamps Slmiline Film Strip die cut out from black cardstock. For the three image sections, I found some packaging with maps images on them and cut it out with the same die.  Since the packaging had a slick surface, I painted it with clear gesso so I could stamp over it.  After it dried, I stamped the three panels with the TH Grunged stamp set in the same colors of Oxide inks as the background and then stamped the travel images with black archival ink from an old Stampin’ Up! set called “Traveler”.  To finish is off, I used an old chip board letter “A” from my stash, painted it black and added some more of that white gold wax along the edges, found a TH “small talk” sticker to go over it and then I drew some lines around it and sponged it to make it look grungy.  I finished it with more ephemera I found in my stash from Tim Holtz and Stamperia… and decided to call it done.

  • Thanks so much for stopping by today!  I hope you’ve found some inspiration with my project!  Enjoy your day!

Challenges I’d like to enter my page for:

  1. Art Journal Journey – Where in the World? (travel theme)
  2. Crafting Happiness – Any type of craft
  3. Creative Artiste – #96 Anything Mixed Media
  4. Paper a la Mode – No Cards – I was inspired by grungy things
  5. Crafting From the Heart – No Cards – Anything Goes
  6. Ally’s Angels – Anything Goes

Published by *Vicki*

I'm so happy you found me! I love to share smiles with my handmade cards! I also enjoy papercrafts through art journaling, scrapooking and mixed media projects too! Thanks for stopping by!

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28 thoughts on “August AJ Page-A is for Adventure”

  1. Greece is on high alert due to extreme weather conditions and fires. Lots of lovely craftiness to see her, so much texture and I do love texture and adore the film strip
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  2. Brilliant journal page as always Vicki,great textured background,love all the images and I love the film strip and you have just reminded me I have one similar somewhere lol-brilliant.Stay safe from all the heat .
    Carol x

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  5. I’m loving how you made that crackle paste background with the stencil! Those colors look amazing with the filmstrip and the big black letter A for Adventure. Those little vintage photos pull everything together beautifully on this journal page. Life really is a journey after all. Wishing you a pleasant weekend and hopefully cooler fall weather will be more enjoyable in the near future. Take care and big hugs!

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  6. Cool looking page Vicki. I like the film strip you used and the images inside it. Fantastic and I know it was fun putting it all together too.
    Hopefully this terrible heat won’t last too much longer and we’ll get some cooler weather. In the meantime, stay inside and stay cool!
    Lynn

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  9. What a fabulous page Vicki, love the stenciled background [ must remember to do that for texture] and love the soft colours and the lettering details. the sentiment strip is fabulous down the ‘A ‘ and love the film strip, I just bought a die like that, can’t wait to use it..

    Luv CHRISSYxx

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  11. We have had some storm weather alerts here. It is because we are in our Rainy Season and part of this is the Atlantic Storms
    However it has been a month to be grateful for online friends and art fun.

    Happy Sunday

    Much💖love

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  13. Love how you put these together Vicki, you and Carol create wonderous pages. The film strip always transforms the smallest of elements. I could really do with taking hold of some of my stash. Many thanks for the inspiration.
    Thanks so much for sharing @ Creative Artiste, best of luck in our August Challenge.
    Tracey (DT)

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  14. This is such a wonderful page for my AJJ theme. The film strip die cut is perfect for framing the images. Thanks so much for sharing, Chrisx

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  15. Gorgeous adventurous AJ with that great film strip and stunning background.
    Thanks for all your sweet get well wishes.
    xxx Margreet

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  16. I love letters, and adventure is with the letter A is a great idea Vicki. So is crafting when it’s too hot to be outside. 😀. I like where you went with this page. Those vintage images are great, as is the filmstrip idea. I’m happy you joined us again at AJJ. Thank you. I my open it cools off for you soon. If not maybe you’ll make some more wonderful journal
    Pages to join us soon at AJJ. 👍. Hugs Erika

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  21. What a great journal page – love the travel images – especially the sailing ship. You are so creative with these journal pages. Our weather finally broke a little – cool in the morning and about 80 in the afternoon – but supposed to go back up in 90’s this weekend. I don’t get out much with 100+ temps. Have a great holiday weekend.
    P.S. – got my card and love it – going to try and replicate it this afternoon. I will pm you with our B.D. dates.

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  22. This is a great journal page. I love the vintage images and the film strip too. That large A with the sentiment is a great way to add a title to your page too. Really well done.

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  23. Love this! Great design and texture. Thanks for sharing this with us at Saturday Paper A La Mode Challenge over at The Outlawz. Hugs. Shirley M., DT

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  24. Wow, really stunning work on this page. All the dimension and the background is superb. Your pages are always so inspiring and full of so many techniques. I was inspired to at least get a journal so maybe one day I can try something like this.

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  25. I sure hope this lets me post. I’ve been trying for a week or two. I created a wordpress blog Cardsrfun, but I’m not doing anything there. You know where to find me! You have brought this AJ page together beautifully. It has such a cohesive look and then is fun to explore looking at the individual elements. The colors are perfect for a vintage look! Great!

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  28. Amazing AJ website made in mix media technique. I always admire your ability to compose all these elements into one coherent whole.

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