9 Dina Wakley-Inspired Projects to Spark Your Creativity

Dina Wakley’s signature style is full of bright, pops of colors and grungy goodness. With these projects from The Studio, you can capture Dina Wakley’s look, and find inspiration for creating your own grungy canvases, tags, and cards. Each of these tutorials use Dina’s Stampington-exclusive art stamp line, featuring beautiful script, stunning silhouettes, and edgy textures.

Mini Art Boards Project by Dina Wakley Using color washes, paint, and cling mount stamps, Dina provides the inspiration to make these art boards easy. After stamping the images, Dina used free-motion stitching to add extra texture and detail.

Grungy Cards Project These cards incorporate vintage book text with the bright colors and stamps that capture Dina Wakley’s signature style. Combining waterfall blue and raspberry paints, this project is perfect for making a quick note for a friend or sending out a “thank you.” Add depth to these hand-stamped cards with stitching and vintage shirt buttons.

Artistic Scrapbooking Project by Dina Wakley Dina’s artistic scrapbook page is a mixture of painting, stamping, gluing, and stitching, making it a true mixed-media masterpiece. The watered-down acrylic paint is dripped across the side of the page to create a watercolor effect that makes the stamped hearts and script really pop.

Colorful Canvases Project by Dina Wakley These colorful canvases can be made with all your favorite colors of acrylic paint. Create any color scheme you’d like, and then stamp the images directly on the canvas. Consider incorporating book text images, found objects, or hand-painted shapes and designs for extra personality.

With One Palette Journal Project by Pam Carriker Even artist Pam Carriker, who has been published often in Somerset Studio, Art Journaling, and Artists’ Café,  has experimented with Dina Wakley’s designs in her artwork. With watercolor backgrounds, these art journal pages are composed of turquoise and green hues, abstract collage images, and edgy layering techniques to create a strong statement about the power of limited palettes.

Art Canvases Project by Dina Wakley These art canvases layer the different elements for a creative, collaged look. Try adding ephemera that has been sprayed/dyed with color wash sprays to create a cohesive canvas with plenty of textures and interesting details.

Fun & Funky Holiday Gift Tag Project This gift tag doesn’t have to be reserved for the holidays. You can use bright colors and Dina Wakley’s stamps to create tags for gifts all year round. To achieve this look, spray the tag with ink, and stamp with texture and white paint. The star creates a sharp contrast with its brightly colored background and provides a beautiful focal point.

The Grungy Canvas — A Dina Wakley-Inspired Project This project was based on ideas and techniques from Dina Wakley’s book, “Art Journal Courage,” and calls for layers of acrylic paint to be added with your fingers and a dry foam brush. Apply white gesso with a palette knife to add variation to the canvas. The end result is a natural-looking, textured canvas.

She Art Collage Cards Project These plain, white cards become vibrant with a coat of light aqua paint.  The artist used Dina’s Garden Grunge stamps in the background of the card and added accents of red paint with torn paper to create charming cards to give to the artsy and girly friends in your life!

 

With these Dina Wakley-inspired projects, we hope you’ll experiment and find an artistic style that is all your own.  Whether you’re applying bright colors or adding some grungy edge to your pieces, our Dina Wakley stamps can help the creative process for all your mixed-media, stamping, and card making projects.

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