Free Scrapbook and Art Journal Prompts and a New Look on the Website

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

Hi friends! Did you notice the new header today? Cute twist on going on Artful Adventures, don’t you agree? You can look forward to seeing little bits and pieces of travel related things as we go on Artful Adventures together!

Also, there is a brand new freebie for you! It is a page of Project Prompts. It includes:

45 Inspiration Starters
30 Product Reminders of things you may have forgotten about
20 Technique Reminders

With all that, you are sure to come up with some great projects. Project prompts can be such a great starting point, whether it’s an art journal page, a scrapbook page, mixed media….. whatever! I have many projects that are the result of a prompt somebody gave me. It made me think in a different way than maybe would have on my own, on that day, at that time.

PLUS, you are going to love this! When you sign up to get the Project Prompts, you will also start receiving new ones each month! WooHoo!

For those of you already on my list, the new freebie info should already be in your inbox! If you aren’t on the list, look to the right on this page and just send me over your and email. It’s that easy!

June Art Journal Calendar

Posted on June 11, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

June Art Journal Calendar

Here is another month in our series on art journal calendars. This idea for June is made in a 9″x12″ art journal. This particular journal has tear-out pages, so it can be taken out and added to the rest of pages that have been done this year. Previous pages this year have been made on 12″x12″ card stock, and the months have either been on a single or double page layout.

Here’s the process for this month’s pages:

Background misted with color at the top and bottom of the page. The top is someway blue and the bottom somewhat green.
The June title was just hand written and embellished with a little dot and line work.

Handwritten June Title

I made a stencil of a watering can using my Cricut, and used a yellow PanPastel to create the watering cans, covering the entire shape.
When finished with the PanPastels, I went outside and sprayed a workable fixative over all of it, so I could continue to work over the Pan Pastels.
After realizing it would have been better to have the handles open to see the background, I went in and colored the handles and the open tops with black marker.
Now, it was way too dark, and so a bit of paint was mixed to coordinate with the background, and painted into the handle openings.
Two different green markers were used to create wispy grass along the bottom.
Three colors of stamps were use to create the flowers. Some being stamped two or three times to get different levels of colors.

Wispy Grass and Stamped Flowers

Next, a bit of paint was mixed into the water color, and the open tops of the watering cans were filled in, and the water drops painted.
Finally, Glossy Accents was used over the water drops and the top openings of the water cans.

Glossy Accents added to water in cans and water drops.

Last, but not least, numbers for the days of the month were written onto the watering can spouts.

It is kind of hard to see, but the misting on the bottom also has some sparkle in it! I love sparkle and shine! What are things you like in your projects?

Selecting a Tetradic Color Scheme for a Project

Posted on June 9, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

We have been taking a look at the color wheel and discussing some of the ways that color combinations can be made. One of the reasons I wanted to take you on this little artful learning adventure is to challenge you to stretch the way you look at the color combinations you use in your projects. Even if you know that you love a certain group of colors and they are your go-to colors, using a different method of coming up with a color palette, can introduce you to something new you may like. I’m not talking about just going completely opposite of what you like, I’m just saying that you may be pleased with using a couple of your favorite colors and just using a different method of color selection.

Tetradic Color Scheme

One of my favorite scrapbook pages I made last month is the one shown in this post. When I began to examine what type of color scheme this might be, I was surprised that it actually used a tetrad of colors – four colors. Another name for this is a double complementary color scheme, since it is two sets of complementary colors. The four colors in this method form a rectangle and on a more simplified color wheel you see that the short sides of the rectangle have one block of color between the points of color. Here is a look at this on the color wheel. For some reason, when I upload this to my website, it just doesn’t look the same, so you’ll just have to look at it and get the general idea that the four colors are yellow, green, blue, and the purply-pink color.

Here is a closer look at the page. Everybody should have someone this happy in their life! Even though this is a digital page, you can see how it would be so easy to create a similar page by stamping the background images, and then stamping the floral images.

Digital Paper: Katie Pertiet, Color Inspiration Pack 8.29.10
Digital Journaling Spot: Katie Pertiet, Painted Journalers No 1
Digital Floral: Katie Pertiet, Editorial Inspiration Color Rub-on

If you’d like information on other color scheme selection methods you might like to see the previous posts on using a complementary, triadic, monochromatic, or analogous color palette. Do you have a favorite method yet?

Choosing a Color Palette for a Project – Complementary

Posted on June 5, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

Artful Adventures Complementary Colors We often have color palettes we know we are going to use, and sometimes we need something new or different to try for a project, whether it’s a scrapbook layout, an art journal page, or anything we are doing with color. Have you ever wondered why certain unlikely colors look great together, or how a color combination became so popular for a holiday or season? Let’s look at the old Christmas standby of red and green, and look at another method of selecting a color palette – complementary color schemes.

A complimentary color scheme is based on using colors which are directly opposite each other on the color wheel. So, you can see that red and green are exactly that – complementary colors.
Color Wheel Complementary

In the case of Christmas, you can see that on a green tree or wreath, red makes a perfect color for decorating with green’s complementary color.

Sometimes a certain color or color scheme can elicit immediate connections because they are so familiar to us being used for the same thing over and over. It often makes us want to steer clear of a particular color scheme because of the immediate connection we have. For instance, in the United States, it’s hard to use a red, white and blue color scheme if it is not for a patriot theme (not that it is a complementary scheme, but you get the idea of how different colors schemes can become engrained in our thoughts). However, you can often use one of these combinations in a new way by varying the intensity of the colors.

Here is a scrapbook layout I did using green and red. Not only is not Christmas, it’s a completely different season. Because red is the complementary color of green, it brings out the color of the vehicle and the summer’s green grass.

Artful Adventures Complementary Colors

Make a twist on a color scheme and share it by linking here in the comments, or share it in our Artful Adventures Facebook Group!

Previous posts in this series of methods to select a color scheme, discuss using a triad, a monochrome, or an analogous color scheme..

Fathers’ Day Gift Ideas – Link-up and Pin Them!

Posted on May 29, 2013 by Kristie Sloan

It starts here, right now! If you have a Father’s Day gift idea to share, link it up below and we’ll use Pinterest to save ideas and share! Oh the wonders of the internet! Just go to the bottom of this post and add your link after the last thumbnail showing. We can hardly wait to see what kind of ideas you will all share with us!

PLEASE NOTE: Evidently some widgets/script is not working well together on my site, and these thumbnail images are not always lining up correctly.

Let’s get this party started!

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