paperCARDinal: what matters - Art Journal - The Crafter's Workshop July 2018

Friday, July 27, 2018

Hello lovely crafters! I’m super excited to share this new Art Journal spread I created for The Crafter's Workshop a couple weeks ago.

The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own.

Below are the stencils and lots of various mediums I used.

After prepping my pages with the Clear Gesso, I pulled lots of stencils with repetitive patterns on them and several sheets of Altered Pages vintage printables. I also used part of a Gold Foil sheet on the Mixed Media Foam from ThermoWeb & Rebekah Meyer that I had left over from Christmas.

I used gelatos for the base color of my spread.

After I blended the gelatos with water, I used the Gel Medium as a glue to make a collage with the Altered Pages printables.

After the Gesso dried, I used the plain Light & Fluffy Modeling Paste across parts of the pages.

I also stenciled some of the Heavy Body Acrylic paints over the 6x6 Micro Dots stencil.

Next, I added some Distress Inks over the Paste and the edges of the pages.

I wanted to create a focal point for the girl I planned to paint, so I used this large patterned circle stencil and inked it to the left side of the spread using Distress Oxide Ink.

I cut two angel wing shapes out of this piece of the gold foiled medium base. Using the wings as a guide, I painted a small shape of a face and torso.

After painting an outline of this girl, I added some of the luscious Champagne Gold Modeling Paste to this 6x6 stencil.

I continued to add detail to my girl and planned for her to hold a butterfly, from another 6x6 stencil, in her hands. The butterfly didn't come out as clear as I had intended, so I tried to outline it with white gel pen and some other colors.