Hello there my crafty friends. I'm back today with a new art journal page. I have been a flower of Mike Deakin's channel for years and have been participating in his Mission Inspiration challenges for almost as many years. You can find his channel here:https://www.youtube.com/@MikeDeakinArt
This year Mike has gone back to the monthly art journal challenges and has given a theme, some ideas and a list of ingredients to include. This month's challenges are:
I used all the theme ideas in some way. I choose the snowy landscape and goals for my idea and used all of the ingredients suggested this month.
I started with some tree die cuts from Honey Bee Stamps. I used this lovely layers die set.
You can find that die set here:
I cut a bunch of the trees and didn't use them all. In fact, only used one.
I went through my gel print pages and clean off pages to find some papers to use in the collage parts of the page. Like the background and the triangles.
Here are the pages I chose.
The first thing I did was add a layer of clear gesso to my art journal page. I used CansonXL mixed media paper and art deco clear gesso. Both of which I bought from Amazon and can be found here.
paper: https://tinyurl.com/yc4mus9h
matte medium: https://tinyurl.com/ytdzpdbr
The next step was to tear up the white kind of shiny paper to create a snowy hill side landscape.
I adhered the pieces with Liquitex liquid matte medium, also purchased from Amazon but can be found at any art supply store. When I had all the pieces down where I wanted them, I dried them with my heat tool. Mine is a Wagner. I think I bought it at Simon Says Stamp a bunch of years ago.
After the page way dry, I trimmed the edges off and added some shading to the hills with a blue water color pencil. Water color pencils are exactly what they sound like. Water color pigment in pencil form. I just added some pigment where I wanted it and blended it out with a small paint brush. The pencil I used is General brand that I bought from Hobby Lobby. I'm sure you can get water color pencils just about any where though
After the water color pencil was dried, I went about trying to figure out where I wanted my trees. Since they weren't the focal image and just part of the background, I ended up only using one of the taller trees. I tried to position the tree out of the way of the dog die cut and the place I wanted to put my quote.
Before I adhered the tree or the dog down, I used the blue gel print to cut some triangles. I cut a few squares with my paper trimmer, the cut he square in half diagonally. I then cut some of the triangles in half as well.
I added the triangles to the sky area mostly to represent clouds. Then I adhered the tree and the dog die cut onto the page. I used the matte medium for that.
The dog die cut was a stamperia chip board piece. I cannot remember what collection it came from but I think it was one of Vicky Papioannou's sets. Here is the dog I chose.
I was the only die cut dog I had and I'm tryin to use my stash. I did add one of the larger blue triangles behind the dog to pop him off the page a little.
Next came my magazine typography and my quote. It reads "New year, same me, better choices." I used the website called https://www.ransomizer.com/ to make the magazine fonts.
I did cut them all into individual pieces and glue them to my page. It took up a lot of the page, but that's ok. It's right in with the theme this month.
Once i had everyting on the page how I liked it, or where it landed, I dried and trimmed down the page. I added it to a blue cardstock panel, and them added the recipe card to the back. After I had that all put together I added some glitter paste from Lawn Fawn to the tree to add to that snowy look.
And that was it. Here is a photo of the finished page.
Thanks for stopping by. Here is a link to the video process.
https://youtu.be/s_ia0h-ieJU
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