Your Life Is Not Yours Art Journal

Hello my dear lovely crafty friends. Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is staying healthy and safe. 

Welcome back to Scrapping4fun Monthly Challenge and this month our theme is 

I have created an Round Art Journal using stamping for my journal background and used decoupage flower as focal point.

I have created the background using liquid metallic watercolors, stamping, stenciling and gold insta transfer. I added sentiment from Art By Marlene sticker sheet.

Hope you all like it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Materials Used 

CrafTangles Liquid Shimmer Watercolors - Copper Penny, Rose Quantiz, Sapphires.
Scholar Watercolor Round Pad - 300gsm.
iCraft Decoupage Sheet.
CrafTangles Script Stamp Set.
Craftreat Stencil - CTS297.
Distress Oxides Ink Pad - Faded Jeans, Fired Brick.
Dress My Craft Blending Brush.
Distress Archival Ink - Ground Espresso 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe

Created by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist ❤️ 

My Art My Therapy

 Hello my dear lovely crafty friends. Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is doing good and staying safe.

Welcome back to Unique Art Expressions blog challenge and this month theme is 

And the digi image which is sponsored by our lovely 

I have created an art journal using the digi by our sponsor. Created the background using Metallic Watercolor and added few transfer me lace design. 

Do visit our challenge blog and take part in our challenge.

Hope you like it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Created by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

❤❤❤

Buttons Christmas Tree

Hello my dear lovely crafty friends. Welcome  back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is good and staying safe. 

Welcome back to My Time To Craft Christmas Challenge and this fortnight our theme is Christmas Tree.

I have created an Christmas tree using buttons in mixed media style. 

Hope you like it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Materials used 

Finnabair Art Basics Heavy Gesso - White
Finnabair Art ExtraVagance Texture Paste - Clear Crackle
Finnabair Art Basics 3D Matte Gel - Transparent
5" by 7" Canvas
A1 Craft - Mixed Wooden Buttons
Dylusion Sprays - Calypso Teal, Fresh Lime
Little Birdie Crafts Metallic Paint - Mossy Glaze, Caribbean Teal, Lime Crush.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Handmade by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

❤

Christmas Animals Art Journal

Hello my dear lovely crafty friends. Welcome back to my blog.

A very warm good evening to you all. Hope everyone is safe and enjoy the Christmas holidays. 

Today I'm sharing the 2021 last design team inspiration post for My Time To Craft Challenge and this fortnight our theme is Christmas Animals. 

I have created an art journal page in my 7" by 7" Watercolor journal book so that I can play with plenty of water to move my colours. 

I have used 4-5 types of blues to create the background. Next I did stamping on my page to give some visual effect. Next I took few Christmas Critters and fussy cut it and adhered it using liquid adhesive. 

I hope you like it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe. 

Created by 

Meenaa Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

Scrapping4fun Challenge #196

Hello  my dear lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is doing fine. 

Welcome back to Scrapping4fun Challenge and this fortnight our theme for the challenge is

And this time we have 2 lovely sponsors for this challenge is 

I have created an art journal page this time using the digi by Bugaboo Stamps.

This time I have created a simple page but it looks like I have done lot of work on it.

To create this page I have used Dina Wakley Collage Collective book's page. I have trimmed the page to 7.45" by 6.45" so that I can put it in my journal file. I took print on watercolour paper and coloured it using Prima Classics Watercolor Confections set. I fussy cut it out and arranged it on the page, once I was happy then I adhered it. Next took few 1/2" strips from same book and created border on all 4 sides. Added few doodling using white gel Pen and created random border using Black pen near the border. 

Hope you like it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Handmade by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

Scrapping4fun Challenge #187

Hello  my dear lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. How are you all doing?? How is the weather at your place??? Here in India, summer has started.

Today I'm sharing an double page art journal which I created as my design team inspiration post for Scrapping4fun Challenge and this fortnight our theme for the challenge is

 And our lovely sponsor for this challenge is 

I have created an art journal using the digi by our sponsor. 

First I coloured the background using distress ink. Next I did few stamping on the background using faux stitching stamp and polka dots stamp set. Coloured the digi image using watercolor and metallic accents and fussy cut it. Adhered it on the page using liquid glue and finished it with handwritten quote which I took from Pinterest. 

Hope you like it. Please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself more.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe. 

Handmade by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist. 

Scrapping4fun Challenge #186

 Hello my lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog.

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is doing good and staying safe.

Welcome back to another new challenge at Scrapping4fun Challenge Blog. This fornight our theme is

And our beautiful sponsor for this challenge is

I have created an art journal for this challenge using the digi by our sponsor

● First I took the print of the digi, coloured it with Gansai Tambi watercolor and fussy cut it.

● Next I created my background using immix Chroma Burst in 2 different colours, blending the colours using little water and brush. 

● I added few splatter on both page to give little texture and using stencil and distress oxide, I added more texture on the pages.

● Now I adhere my fussy cut digi images on the both page.

● I took some stencil which I took to give texture, that stencil have a beautiful sentence in it. I used glimmer paste and that stencil to add sentence. While adding the glimmer paste, I did boo boo on the word DREAMS 😔.

I hope you like it. Please do give feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

● Materials Used ●

●All Dressed Up stamps - Follow Your Dream digi.

●Gansai Tambi 36 Watercolour set. 

●Metallic Accents 12 Colour Set - Prima Marketing Watercolour. 

●Ranger brush no.2 Round.

●Ranger brush no.3/4 Flat.

●Silver Black Velvet ●Brush no.2 Round.

●Brustro Watercolour paper. 

●Crafter Empori Artistic Journal Book. 

●Heavy Gesso White - Prima Art Basics.

●Fresh Water - immix Chroma Burst. 

●Galaxy Purple - immix Chroma Burst. 

●Frosty Soft Shell - immix Chroma Burst. 

●Dream Catcher Stencil - Mudra Stamps. 

●Faded Jeans - Distress Oxide. 

●Rose Gold Glimmer Paste - CrafTangles.

●PIGMA MICRON 05 Archival Pen. 

Created by 

》Meena Gauthami Herale《

A Bedridden Artist. 

My Time To Craft Challenge

Hello  my dear lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good evening to you all. How are you all doing??

Welcome back to My Time To Craft Challenge and this fortnight our theme for the challenge is LOVE.

Valentine's day is coming near so start preparing something unique gift and cards to your loved ones. 

I have created an double page art journal using my favourite Insta Transfer and I love working with it.

First I coloured the journal pages with distress inks using blending brushes and gave a coat of clear gesso on it.

To add texture, I took stencil and distress ink and started blending it.

Next I took cute old couples insta transfer images and applied it on the page upside down. 

Now take a wet sponge and start dabbing it on the image back and make sure it get fully wet, leave 5 to 10 seconds and slowly remove the backing so that image get transfer on the pages. Let it dry for 10-15 minutes, don't use any heat tool to dry it. Let it dry naturally. 

Next give a coat of matt varnish on the insta transfer images. 

Now I added few stamping to give more texture on my pages. 

Finally I added few washi tape on my pages.

Hope you like it. Please do give feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Materials Used 

*Small Journal Book - Dylusion.
*Worn Lipstick Distress Oxide - Tim Holtz Ranger.
*Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide - Tim Holtz Ranger.
*Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide - Tim Holtz Ranger.
*Blending Brush - Tim Holtz Ranger.
*Art Basics Gesso Clear - Prima Marketing.
*Ranger 1/4 Flat Brush.
*Couple Insta Transfer - iCraft.
*Round Lacey Stencil - CrafTangles.
*Decomagic Matt Varnish - Little Birdie Crafts.
*Carnation Red Archival Ink - Wendy Vecchi Ranger.
*Dabarah Stamp Set - Mudra Craft Stamps.
*Washi Tape - Local Store.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Created by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

A Bedridden Artist 

❤

Scrapping4Fun Challenge #185

Hello  my dear lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is doing fine. Everyone stay safe.

From few days I'm little away from blog updates because from December to January and now few days in February also. I was very busy with few custom order and with my 2 exhibition shows, one was held in January 5th and 6th and now the 2nd exhibition will be held on 11th and 12th of this month. Once these exhibition will finish then I will sharing lot of works on my blog.

Now coming on today's this fortnight challenge at Scrapping4fun Challenge blog and our theme for this challenge is 

And our lovely sponsor for this fortnight challenge is

I have created an double page art journal using the digi by our sponsor. 

First I add colour to journal pages using Tinted Metallic paint from Little Birdie Crafts and let it to dry naturally. 

Next I took digi print on watercolor ,coloured it using watercolor and fussy cut it.

Now I took black chalk paint and gave a border to it.

Now I started to arrange the coloured image on journal page and glued it.

Next i took archival pen and add few lines to make it as grasses.

Hope you like it. Please do leave  me feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Materials Used 

•The Classics Watercolor Confections Pan Set - Prima Marketing.
•Metallic Accents Semi Watercolor Cake - Prima Marketing. 
•Round Brush no.2 Ranger.
•Brustro Watercolor Paper. 
•Artistic Journal Book - Crafter Emporio. 
•Mossy Glaze Tinted Metallic Paint - Little Birdie Crafts. 
•Flat Brush no.1/2 - Ranger.
•Bugaboo Stamps Digi.
•Black Chalk Paint - iCraft. 
•Round Brush no.4 Camilla.

Linking to - **Art*Journal  *Journey* - Heavy Metal 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Created by 

Meena Gauthami Herale

A Bedridden Artist 

My Time To Craft Challenge

Hello my dear lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good evening to you all. How are you all?? How is Covid effect at your place?? 

Welcome back to another new challenge at My Time To Craft Challenge Blog. This fortnight our theme for the challenge is Glitter and Sparkle. 

I have created an art journal using some decoupage cutout.

● I gave a coat of clear gesso on my art journal page. 

● To add colours to the background, I used 2 shades of Chroma Burst, I first sprinkle the both the pigment powder on page and with the help of water and brush, I blended the colours. After drying, you have to see the shimmer effect of it. Photo doesn't do justice it.

● Now I adhere the decoupage cutout using Matt decoupage glue. 

● I want to add more glitter on my page so I added texture on it using dots stencil and Moonstone glimmer paste and let it to air dry.

● I took idea-ology Chitchat stickers and adhere it on my page to finish it off.

》 Materials Used 《

●Amber Gold - immix Chroma Burst.

●Lemon Verbena - immix Chroma Burst.

●Ranger Flat Brush no.1/2. 

●Art Journal - Brought from local shop. 

●Gesso Clear - Prima Art Basics.

●Hydrangea Floral Decoupage Paper - iCraft.

●Memory Dots Stencil - Mudra Craft Stamps. 

●Moonstone Glimmer Paste - Nuvo.

●Chitchat #TH92998 -Tim Holtz Idea-ology. 

●PIGMA MICRON 05 Archival Ink Pen.

●Deco Magic Decoupage Matt Glue - Little Birdie Crafts. 

I hope you like it. Please do give me a feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Linking to - **Art*Journal*Journey* - Favourite Things.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Created by 

• Meena Gauthami Herale •

A Bedridden Artist. 

Scrapping4Fun Challenge #183

 Hello my lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog.

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is safe and well. How is the weather at your place?? 

Now Welcome back to the first challenge of this year's at Scrapping4fun Challenge Blog. This fortnight our theme for the challenge is 

 

And for this challenge our lovely sponsor is

I have created an double page art journal using the digi by our sponsor. 

1.  First I gave a coat of white heavy gesso on my journal pages.
2. Now I took my favourite coloring medium, which is Chroma Burst from immix. First I sprinkle the both the blue and green colour on my journal pages to create a bright background. I used flat brush with little water to blend them.
3. Next I took Stars stencil from My Favourite Things and gave few stars on sky using distress oxide and blending tool. For few stars I highlighted it using black pen.
4. Now I took the digi print on watercolor paper and I watercolored it using Brustro watercolor set. Once it dry, I fussy cut it and adhere it on my left side page using liquid glue.
5. I have hand written the quote which was provided with the digi image. I know my handwriting is very bad. Actually I'm bedridden person and I do all my work lying in bed so my handwriting is not good. 
6. Finally I finished my art journal using my favourite technique, splatter on both the pages.

I hope you like it. Please give feedback so that I can improve myself more.

●Materials Used●

• Ranger Brush no.2 Round 
• Ranger Brush no.3/4 Flat
• Silver Black Velvet Brush no.2 Round 
• Brustro watercolour paper.
• Brustro Watercolor Set.
• Polka Doodles Digi Astronaut Little Dudes. 
• Dylusion Small Art Journal Book. 
• Terrarium Olive Moss - immix Chroma Burst.
• Fresh Lime Dream - immix Chroma Burst.
• Fresh Water - immix Chroma Burst. 
• Galaxy Purple - immix Chroma Burst. 
• Heavy Gesso White - Prima Art Basics.
• Faded Jeans - Distress Oxide 
• Stars Stencil - My Favourite Things. 

• PIGMA MICRON 02 Archival Pen.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe

Linking to - **Art*Journal *Journey* Monthly Challenge - Favourite Things.

Created by

■ Meena Gauthami Herale ■

A Bedridden Artist

My Time To Craft Challenge

Hello my dear lovely crafty family. Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good afternoon to you all. Hope you all are doing good. How is the weather at your place??? Here at my place it's too cold and from 3-4 days its even raining. This cold weather has made me very crazy.

Today I'm sharing another art journal spread with you all which I made as my Design Team project for My Time To Craft Challenge blog and this fortnight our theme is Monochromatic Christmas. 

Here is my journal pages

I have used Dylusion small art journal book to create it. First I coloured the background with Distress oxide ink using blending foam, I didn't try to blend it very neatly because I wanted little texture with that so. Wanted more texture on it so took Craftangles Snowflake stencil and Linday's Stamp Gang Sidewalk Chalk spray  and started to spray on journal pages. Gave few splashes using same spray. Now I apply Prima clear gesso on it. I did a reverse job here because I wanted to Transfer Me sheet so. Next I took Dress My Craft Christmas theme Transfer me sheet and I fussy cut few design from it. Now the fun part begins, now I placed the image on the page so that my image goes down and the backing white paper comes upwards. Now take a sponge and wet it and remove extra water, now start dabbing the wet sponge on the image white backing, once it get wet, you will start seeing the image that means the white backing paper is ready to slide. Now start sliding the white backing paper slowly to reveal the image. Let it dry for 5 minutes. Once it dry seal it with any  sealer or varnish. Here I have used little birdie crafts matte varnish to seal it. Now I took Craftangles script stamp set and  Dark green Memento Dew drops ink and stamped it randomly on the pages. Again I took Craftangles Snowflake stencil and Distress oxide ink and did stencilling on the journal pages. I was happy with the outcome so I stopped there only. 

I hope you like it and please do leave your feedback so that I can improve myself more. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Linking to **Art*Journal*Journey *

The Meaning of

Handmade by 

❤Meena Gauthami Herale❤ 

Bedridden Crafter 

Scrapping4Fun Challenge #181

Hello my lovely crafty friends ,Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. 

How are you all doing??? How is the weather at your place?? Here at my place it's too cold. Now we are at the last month of this year 2020, it was a very worst year. Hope next year 2021 will begin with good things. 

Welcome back to yet another challenge at Scrapping4fun Challenge Blog and this fortnight our theme is 

And our lovely sponsor for this challenge is

I have created another art journal using the digi by our sponsor. When I first saw this digi, only art journal came into my mind.

First I took print of digi on watercolour paper and watercolour it. To give it a shiny look, I used Prima Metallic watercolour, next fussy cut it. Now I coloured my background using iCraft chalk paints, to add more texture I did stencilling using Craftangles stencil and Distress oxide. Next I took My Favourite Thing tiny dot stencil and Hero Arts White pigment ink and add it on my background to give more texture, when the ink was still wet, I sprinkled Ranger Clear embossing powder and heat set it. To give a snow effect on ground, I took a music note paper from Kaisercraft Christmas paper pack and adhere it on journal background. I created few whimsical trees using few scrap papers from same paper pack and distressed the edges using Distress Oxide Vintage Photo. Now I started to adhere my Snowman and Whimsical trees on snow effect ground. Finally I took white gesso on a dry brush and started tap on the journal page to give more snow effect. At last I add Merry Christmas die cut on top of the left page.

Hope you like it and please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself. 

Linking to 

**Art*Journal*Journey* challenge - The Meaning of 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Handmade by 

❤Meena Gauthami Herale❤

Bedridden Crafter 

Scrapping4Fun Challenge - #180

Hello my lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog. 

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is doing good. 

Today I'm back with another design team project for Scrapping4fun challenge blog and this fortnight our theme is 

And our lovely sponsor for this challenge is 

I have created another art journal pages using the digi by our sponsor. 

I first coloured the digi using watercolour crayons and I fussy cut it. Next I gesso my page and started to add colours using Tim Holtz Distress crayons. Now I started to adhere the coloured fussy cut elements on my page, added few dots and hand drawn stars to add more textures. 

To participate in our challenge please click HERE 

Hope you like it and please do leave me feedback so that I can improve myself. 

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe 

Handmade by 

Meena Gauthami Herale 

Bedridden Crafter. 

Shabby Window Shape Album

Hello my dear lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog.

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope you all are doing good and staying safe.

Today after a long time I'm sharing an album that to in a window shape using St. Tropez from Frank Garcia Prima.

I used iCraft ready to use album, in a pack we get 2 ready to use album with pre cut and scored. We have to just cut pattern papers accoding to it, adhere it and decorate it. 

Here are the inside of the album with tags, place to add photo and floral decoration,

Hope you like it, please leave feedback so that I can improve myself more.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe

Handmade by

Meena Herale Gauthami

Bedridden Crafter.

Scrapping 4 Fun Challenge - 179

 Hello my lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog.

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone is doing good and staying safe.

Welcome to a new challenge at Scrapping4fun challenge blog and this fortnight our theme is

And this fortnight we have two lovely sponsors for the challenge,

I have created an art journal using the digi by one of the sponsor - Digi Doodle Studios.

• First I took the print of digi on watercolour paper.
• Watercoloured it with Altenew 36 halfpan set, Prima Mettalic colours and fussy cut it.
• Fussy cut few elements from Mintay Floral Book 3 and distress the edges using Vintage Photo Distress Oxide.
• Die cut THANKS word using Mudra die.
• I used Dylusion small art journal book, started colouring to create the background using Distress inks. Here I have used only 4 colours to create it.
• Next to add texture, I took stencils and distress inks and started to create texture on it using finger dauer.
• Now I started to adhere the elements on the background using glue.
• Atlast I glued Thanks die cut on left page and sentiment on right page.

I hope you liked it, please do leave feedback so that I can improve myself more.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe.

Handmade by

Meena Gauthami Herale

Bedridden Crafter

Scrapping4fun Challenge #178

Hello my lovely crafty friends, Welcome back to my blog.

A very warm good morning to you all. Hope everyone fine and safe.

Its a new challenge time at Scrapping4fun Challenge blog and this fortnight our theme for the challenge is

 A our lovely sponsor for this challenge is

I have created a mini canvas using the digi by our sponsor.

I coloured the digi using Distress marker and fussy cut it. Next I took a 6'' by 6'' canvas and decoupage it using a autumn theme tissue paper and next started to arrange my elements on it and glued it using hot glue gun. I have used  Mudra chipboar and vellum elements from Amber moon collection, flowers are from Little Birdie Crafts.

Hope you all like it and please do give feedback so that I can improve myself.

Happy Crafting and Stay Safe

Handmade by

Meena Herale

Bedridden Crafter.