October AJ Page-Thriller Mix

Art Journaling, Fall, Halloween, Holidays, Mixed Media, Other Than a Card, Seasons, steampunk, Tim Holtz/Ranger

Hello friends!  Halloween is very near! 💀 I have been working on a few Halloween cards and will be posting those as soon as I know they’ve been received.  But today’s project is about Halloween in mixed media art journal form!  I do enjoy crafting Halloween!

Very excited to be doing 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” October prompt of “MIX” (mix colors together from any media):

For this month’s prompt, MIX, I have to say that I love to mix up colors to see what they look like.  I have SO many bottles of watercolor and of course watercolor is fun to mix up…so I went with that for my background.

For the background:  Hard to tell, but I’ve used eight different colors of watercolor that was applied to a pre-punched 6″ x 9″ Canson 140# cold press paper.  I also used a circle stencil to apply some white ink over it for a bokeh effect.  I also stamped some random words and gears.  (Stamperia and Tim Holtz)  I also took some of the green watercolor used in the background for a few splatters.

Showing my age here but does anyone remember the Micheal Jackson “Thriller”?!  It’s perfect for Halloween!  I thought I needed to add a title to my page to represent the Halloween theme and this song came to my mind! 😆

I found some cool lettering that I used my Cricut machine to cut them out with in both gold metallic (also cut gears with) and some dark grey cardstock.  I glued them together with a slight off-set so the gold shows through.  I also used some Nuvo Glow in the Dark liquid drops around the edges of the letters.  I wanted to make it really “goopy” so I heated it up with my heat gun so that it bubbled.

The bottom of the page has the really cool Steampunk skull image that came from an Etsy store.  I used another image of it to fussy cut the hat and then popped it up over the image on the paper.  If you look at the center bottom of his hat, I added a gear with a clear drop in the center of it.

I’ve also added a talk sticker and rub-on from Tim Holtz.  I added a couple more metal gears from my stash to go with the gold cut out ones.  Lastly, I’ve taken some silver metallic wax and went around the edges of the page and slightly over top of the skull’s hat.

Hope you’ve enjoyed my art journal page today!  I sure had fun putting it together!  Thanks so much for stopping by today!  

Challenges:

  1. Art Journal Journey – In Gear
  2. Creative Artiste – Anything Goes Mixed Media #98
  3. Try it On Tuesday – Halloween
  4. Two Old Bats Halloween – Anything Goes Halloween
  5. Simon Says Stamp Monday – Spooky!

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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 “October AJ Page-Thriller Mix”

  1. I switched ever here from Carol’s blog and found I could not leave a comment no matter how many times I tried. Only through your email was I able to find the comment link to leave my thoughts. Anyway, I love this fun page with all the spooky steampunk details. That skull image is something else and I love all the other elements you added, especially the green on the letters! Great page Vicki, I hope you’re doing well and enjoying a great weekend!

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    1. Hey Carol!
      Thank you so much for your taking the time to leave me a comment friend! I appreciate it!
      I think perhaps you couldn’t find the “comment box” because Carol’s post linked to my entire blog and you have to scroll to the bottom of the post where the smaller words are and click on the “comments” next to the speech bubble to leave a comment. The link from the e-mail is a direct link to the actual post, so the box is already there at the bottom of the post. (It just gets you directly to that post and not the entire blog.) I know some blogger blogs are the same way. I hope that makes sense?
      Anyway, thanks again and best wishes for a great rest of your weekend and a Happy Halloween too!
      HUGS,

      Vicki [cid:5640d5ac-2237-4e7d-9b6d-2a4821deee55] ​
      visit my blog – Stamped Smileshttps://stampedsmiles.com

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  2. Such a very cool page! And yep, I sure do remember Thriller – Michael Jackson and I were/are the same age, lol! Great album, by the way! Love all the colors and textures on your page – great job!

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  3. Vicki, your art journal page is creepy – and perfect for Halloween! Your blending of colors and images is a style I have yet to experiment with, so I’m inspired. Thank you for sharing it with us at Two Old Bats!
    Xoxo, Fran/DT

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  5. What an awesome AJ page – I bet you did have fun mixing colors – I haven’t gotten outwater colors in a long long time – but…just maybe I will have to.

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    1. Stunning page, Vicky. I’m not a Halloween fan, but I do love how you put your page together. Your letters are fab! As are all details.
      xxx Margreet

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  8. I knew you would have an amazing journal page Vicki it’s brilliant,love all the mixed colours and Steampunk image -brilliant-I just read Carols comment and your reply and I have changed the link on my blog.
    Carol x

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  9. I think the many colours you used to create your background certainly paid off. It is fabulous. I love how it changes seamlessly from one colour to another and the grey on the right hand side is like a huge rockface from which the skull is bursting. And what a fantastic skull it is. So much detail and perfect colouring. I like the hint of purple in the hat that echoes the colour in the background.
    Great additions to your page with the script, the gears, the spider and everything else – so glad you enjoyed making it, I thoroughly enjoyed seeing it.
    Hugs, Neet xx

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    1. Really great page! The little sentiment in the lower corner gives your image that little spooky feel. Nice transition from the colored area to the corner. I always enjoy seeing your pages – so much detail to admire.

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  10. I love it all Vicki, the colours are gorgeous and then the text and gears on top add great detail, love the skull and his hat and I LOVED Thriller, great sentiment and goopy addition, love your design..

    luv CHRISSYxx

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  12. Brilliant Halloween page Vicky,love the fabulous steam punk skull your background and embellishments,especially the colours and texture on the sentiment

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  15. This is such a COOL page Vicki. Crafting Halloween is a lot of fun-I agree. That is a great Halloween face too, spooky. And together your whole page works really well with gears. They do go together in many ways, don’t they? I’m glad you were able to join us again at AJJ. It’s always great to see what you do as you use your stash. 🙂 Thanks for linking up, and Happy Halloween. hugs-Erika

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  18. A fabulously thrilling journal page. A pretty background for the (not so pretty) skull image. Lots of lovely details and cool textures.
    Thank you for joining in with our October challenge “Anything Mixed Media Goes” at Creative Artiste Mixed Media. Good luck x

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  19. What an eye-catching creep fest, Vicki!! I love that steampunk skeleton mixed with all those other awesome elements!!

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  21. Micheal Jackson “Thriller” is the song that made me change my radio station from what my parents listened to, to a much more fun radio station. LOL! Yes showing my age too. This journal page is so incredible. I love the skull image too. Oh my it is really a great addition to the background.

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  23. Hi Vicki, Took me awhile, but I think I’ve figured out how to comment again…The grey cells are sluggish these days…but at least I don’t look like the guy on your AJ page. He doesn’t look like he has any grey cells left! Love the colors you’ve used and the steampunk skull is perfect for the Thriller look! Awesome! Smiles, Kathy

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