Hello my crafty friends. I hope you're having a great day. I'm back with an art journal page. I looked through my stash of things, and found a few products that I wanted to use and then picked the ones that would go together on the page.

I started with a piece of watercolor paper trimmed down to 5.5 x 8 inches. It was from a pad I bought form Michaels, but any paper that is heavy enough to hold up to a little wet mediums will be fine. 

I added a layer of white gesso over the paper first.

 

Once that was dry I added some stamping with archival ink in the color potting soil with some stamps from this stamp set from Hero Arts.

You can find it here:

https://tinyurl.com/5cy6sczu

Then I added a little archival ink in the color sepia around the edges with an ink blending sponge. Then I sprayed the ink on my work surface with some alcohol and smooshed it onto the background as well. Just one way to use up all the ink, right. lol.

After the ink blending and smooshing, I added some burnt umber acrylic paint through this stencil from Finnabair. 

You can find it here:

https://tinyurl.com/pvrebnf5

But that wasn't good enough for me, so I added some 3D matte gel to the paint and using a pallet knife I added that through the stencil as well.

When that was all heat set and dry I added the rub on transfer from 49 and Market.

You can find that here:

https://tinyurl.com/2wwymrdr

Now it was time to add the die cuts that I had chosen. 

I used some form a Stamperia set, I think was designed by Vicki Papaioannou.

I bought them here:

https://tinyurl.com/yfrnjb3t

The last part of my images was the fairy from the washi tape roll I bought from The Washi Tape Shop. I added the fairy and some of the butterflies. 

I didn't see this exact tape on their website, but I'll link the store so you can check them out here:

https://thewashitapeshop.com/

Before I finished the focal images, I added a piece of pattern paper from my stash to the back. I do this to keep the back of the page looking nice and because I have a ton of paper that needs to be used. 

Then I added the final piece, a die cut that says "home". 

I covered all the dies and washi tape with fluid matte medium to keep them stuck down and get rid of the shine. Then I punched holes so that I can add the page to my A5 binder that I use as an art journal.

I signed and dated the page and it was all finished. 

You can watch the video here:

https://youtu.be/6iFu4MiOjrU

Thanks for stopping by.