Welcome everyone, Ingrid, here for today’s post with the Art journal Specials collection. This one will be my first one, after being on the design team for over 3 years now. Hopefully, I may give you some inspiration working with the coolest ArtJournal item!
I have made a mixed media Art Journal page with the lovely Butterfly from the latest release, Journal Elements. Let me take you through the next steps.
Step 1.
I took some A4 size black cardstock which I treated with different colors distress oxide sprays. I have used Victorian Velvet, Spiced Marmelade, and Fired Brick, all from Ranger. After that, I sprayed some water and dried it with the heat gun. It curled up a bit, but after some more heating, it turned flat again.
Step 2.
Here I took out one of the stencils, Journal Stencils 3. I like those plusses. I have used some crackle paste, by Ranger, through that stencil with a spatula. The color of the white paste took the color of the oxides. After drying I discided to give it some more color with the oxidesprays.
Step 3.
The page I diecutted with the deckled edge page from the Lost in the woods special. To brighten up the colors i have used the normal distressoxides and blended them on the paper. The outsides I distressed with some Vintage Photo, Ground Espresso and Black Soot. I took out a sandingtool and sanded some bits to give it a little used look.
Step 4.
Here is the beautiful butterfly, the solid one of the Ornate Butterfly set, coming in. I die cutted it out of the corner of the page. For behind that butterfly spot I created another page. The same deckled page out of black card stock. I took the script stamp, Script from the past, and used it with Versamark and white embossing powder. After that i glued the black page behind the colored page. I die cutted the wings of the butterfly out of a leftover of the black card stock.
Step 5.
I glued the the black wings with a small stripe of glue in the middle of the solid butterfly. I folded them a bit, so they stand up a bit. After then I glued the butterfly, with a small stripe in the middle again, on to the middle of the punched out butterfly, right on top of the embossed script. I cut one of the phrases from the stamp set Journal Phrases 3, glued them on a black border and put it on the page with a stapler, with some cheese cloth underneath. For the finishing touch, I splattered some black and ochre acrylic paint.
I hope you got some inspiration with this great collection of the Art Journal Specials. Thank you for stopping by and I hope to see you next time.
Happy crafting!
Love Ingrid.
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