Today is Your Day Art Journal Pages

Today is your day...your weekend! 

So, let's create art pages using leftover Ephemera Elements!

Simple Storie Vintage Weathered Garden Bits and Pieces are used here. 

Begin by using Prima Tropical Watercolors to create a marble effect on your pages.

HINT: Make sure each color dries completely before adding the next!

Stamp borders from Stampers Anonymous Urban Tapestry using Vintage Photo ink. 

Stamp background images using Stampers Anonymous Faded Type Stamps and Orange Blossom ink and Fern Green inks. 

Lay Stampers Anonymous Grime Layering Stencil on pages; apply crackle paste with palette knife. Dry. 

Stamp sentiment from Stampers Anonymous Urban Tapestry stamp set with black ink. 

Ink Ephemera Bits and Pieces with Vintage Photo inks. 

Add prepared pieces to art journal pages using matte gel medium. 

Go around edges of bits and pieces with Derwent Graphitint black pencil. 

Doodle lines on pages with black pen. 

Color open areas of stamp sentiment with orange ink. 

Spatter with white gesso and Ranger Distress Black Soot and Wild Honey Sprays.

Enjoy creating your art pages using leftover bits and pieces. 

Pam

Supplies

Arteza Watercolor Sketchbook

Stampers Anonymous Grime Layering Stencil, Urban Tapestry Stamps and Faded Type Stamp

Liquitex White Gesso and Matte Gel Medium

Simple Stories Vintage Weathered Garden Bits and Pieces

Ranger Distress Sprays and Archival Inks

Derwent Graphitint Black Pencil

Pigma Micron.0005 Black Pen

Inspire Art Journal Pages

Happy Saturday!!!

What better way to start the weekend but create and be inspired using stencils?

Lay The Crafters Workshop Felicia Daisy Stencil on art journal pages. 

Apply Terre Verte and Crimson Stencil Butter from The Crafters Workshop using a palette knife. 

*HINT: Mask off center and edges of stencil to create clean lines using washi tape.

Allow stencil butter to dry before changing colors.

Apply sprinkles of mica to pages, mist with water. Dry.

Spray Yellow Oche on craft sheet.

Apply with paintbrush on pages. Dry. 

Stamp Lattice Background stamp on pages with spice ink. 

Add rub-on words and butterflies to pages. 

Stamp Postage Stamp images to pages with black and red inks. 

LEFT PAGE

RIGHT PAGE

Finish by spattering both pages with black, gesso and Yellow Oche paint. Dry

Enjoy! Pam

Supplies:

The Crafters Workshop Stencil Butter - Terre Verte and Crimson

The Crafters Workshop - Felicia Daisy Stencil

Wild Whisper - Postage and Lattice Background Stamp

Gesso

Red Geranium, Black and Spice Archival Ink

Black Soot and Yellow Oche Spray

Arteza Watercolor Sketchbook

Rub-Ons Words and Butterflies

Mica Powders

 

Encourage Hope Art Journal Pages

Crazy Cats going after those little trials of life! Let's Encourage Hope in our art journal pages! 

Add washi tape randomly on pages. 

Stamp cats on circles and bugs on scrap paper. 

Fussy cut bugs out. 

 Adhere to cats and bugs to page with matte gel. Dry. 

Stamp sentiments and elements on pages with black ink.  

Lay stencil on pages; apply crackle paste to top. Dry. 

Apply whitewash of gesso over pages. Dry. 

Mist pages and apply small sprays of distress over pages. 

Dry between colors 

Add graphitint black work around images on page. 

Add line work with pen. 

Stamp background randomly with red ink. 

Spatter with black soot distress spray ink and white gesso

Supplies:

Ranger Distress Sprays: Wild Honey, Saltwater Taffy, Evergreen Bough, Spiced Marmalade, Black Soot, Rusty Hinge

Ranger Speckle Stencil

Stampers Anonymous: Going Somewhere Stamps, Specimen Stamps, Crazy Cats, Mixed Media Stamps

Arteza Watercolor Sketchbook

Liquitex White Gesso, Matte Gel

DecoArt Crackle Paste

Derwent Graphitint Black Pencil

Archival Red and Black Ink

 .005 Black Pen

Washi Tape

Palette Knife

2 1/2" Circle Punch

Americana Art Journal Pages

Fireworks, Kisses and 4th of July Wishes!!!

What better way to celebrate the 4th of July but having fun creating Americana art journal pages. 

Begin by apply gesso to pages; dry. 

Add bits and pieces of book paper and washi tape using gel medium. 

Lay crackerjack stencil randomly on pages apply crackle paste with palette knife, dry. 

Apply gesso over top of dried pages. 

Apply sprays to pages and mist with water; allow to dry to between sprays. 

Stamp images with inks. 

Add line work with black pen. 

Left side of Page. 

Apply glossy accent dots to center of fireworks and on page. Dry. 

Spatter with gesso and blue spray. Dry

Write "Land that I Love" under stamp. 

Right Side of Page

Stamp sentiment with black ink. 

Hope you are inspired to create Americana Art Pages! 

Enjoy Pam

Supplies

Arteza Watercolor Sketchbook

Diamond Press Mega Stamp Set

DecoArt Crackle Paste

Liquitex Matt Gell and Gesso

Distress Mica Stain - Flickering Candle

Distress Spray Stain - Prize Ribbon 

Blank Page Muse Stencil

Book Paper

Spectrum Sherbet 4" Lace Washi Tape

Ranger Archival Ink: Fossilized Amber, Colbalt, Vermillion, Leaf Green

Palette Knife