Hello lovely Butterflies!
Helen here to share a little fast art journal page with you! Sometimes it’s OK to go back to basics and just play for the sake of playing! That is just what I did with this spread! I used some techniques I haven’t used in ages and it was fun!
First of all… I took a piece of white tissue paper that I had from a shoe box and used some blue-violet archival ink and inked all of the stamps from France Papillon for Illusionary Artists “New York Stamp Set”. I covered the entire tissue just stamping randomly. Once it was dry, I crunched it up into a ball a few times, and flattened it. This allowed some cool creases in the tissue.
I then took some DecoArt Matte Medium and adhered the crinkled tissue paper to my pages.
Using DecoArt Tinting Base and DecoArt Fluid Acrylic in Dioxazine Purple, I mixed it up and spread it across my spread. I also added some of the Dioxazine Purple by itself around the edges to make them darker.
Once this dried on its own, I used the archival blue violet ink and stamped some numbers on my spread using France Papillon for Illusionary Artists stamp “Rock’n Rust”. I also used France Papillon stencil “Rock Formation – small” to add some grounding for my photo.
I need a heart! So, using France Papillon stencil “Rectangles – small”, I traced a heart, colorized it with the Dioxazine Purple, clear coated it with DecoArt Triple Glaze. I added my sentiment, and a little photo that I think is just so adorable, stuck it down and the heart!
And voila! My finished spread that was way to fun to do and a quick easy piece!
Happy creating!
((HUGS)) Helen
Products used:
DecoArt: Matte Medium, Tinting Base, Triple Glaze
DecoArt Fluid Acrylic: Dioxazine Purple
White tissue paper
Blue-violet archival ink
Computer generated sentiment
Photo from internet
Stamps: Illusionary Artists "London New York", "Rock 'n Rust", Click on the images to shop!
France Papillon stencils: "Rockformation", "Rectangles"
Versafine ink: Smokey Gray and Black
Posca pen, white
White embossing powder
Black card
Wink of Stella glitter brush
DecoArt Americana: Triple thick gloss glaze
DecoArt fluid acrylics: Green Blue Light, Phthalo Turquoise, Raw Umber, Quinacridone Gold, Titanium white, Carbon black, Pyrrole red