Hi Everyone! My name is Jo and I blog over at Let’s Art Journal. I’m delighted to be here at Swedish House Crafts as part of the Guest Design Team today.

With the Christmas season almost upon us, I created an art journal page inspired by the Glistening Season Pion Design papers, a Gummiapan stamp, some of my favourite Tsukineko Inks and also some pretty Swedish House Crafts Fabric Flowers.

To start, I created this dreamy vintage background by stamping a Reed Plant stamp from Gummiapan using Versamark Watermark ink. Then I coloured the page using Paris Dusk and Teal Zeal Memento Ink with a blending tool and added some Rich Cocoa Memento Ink and splatters of acrylic paint to give it more of a grungy look.

I cut out some of the images from the Glistening Seasons Pion Design paper and used scissors and Memento Inks to distress the edges, and then I arranged them onto the page with some die cut foliage and pieces of doily.