BEAUTIFUL - Mixed Media Art Journal Page Process

Hello ,

I hope you all are doing good !!!

This is Bela and today I am here to share a beautiful and vibrant art journal page with you all.... 

Thank you all for liking my previous art journal pages and all the lovely comments. This surely motivates me to do more... Also let me know in the comments section if you would like me to make a video tutorial.

As of now I am using a archival journal with 400 gsm cold pressed paper. This page is very thick and I don't have to worry about the paint or my colors bleeding onto the next page.

For this Page first I added a vibrant fushia pink and orange with a sponge roller onto my page. the page was totally covered with the paint without leaving any white. I took white gesso on the sponge and dabbed onto the stencil . once white gesso was dry then I dabbed golden paint onto the stencil . basically white gesso was used to bring out the gold. the stenciling can be seen clearly in the picture below.

After I was happy with the way my page looked I took a beautiful vibrant tissue from my stash which had these huge orange flowers. I adhered the tissue using decoupage glue. I purposely adhered the tissue in such a way that there would be wrinkles. I love the texture they give and it adds little more interest to my page.once it was dry I stamped the script stamp with black archival ink to left and right edge of the paper.  Also I used texture paste to add some script to the center of the page and some here and there. Also after this white texture paste was dry. I dry brushed gold acrylic paint onto the script texture.

I stamped the sentiment beautiful at couple of places on the page and also filled up the negative space to give the bold font. 

last but not the least I distressed the edges of my page with black archival to give it more depth and definition.

 I absolutely loved the way this page turned out . Vibrant background with almost same colored flowers... stenciling, flowers, stamping everything complimenting each other and making the art journal page so BEAUTIFUL

some more close ups....

I hope you all love this page as much as I do.... Thank you for stopping by.

Love & hugs
Bela
colors-n-creations

Create Art - Mixed Media Art Journal - Step By step Pictorial

Hello Friends

I hope you all are rocking and also enjoying all the amazing projects done by all my DT friends.

Today on Itsy Bitsy blog I am here with a beautiful art journal page .

For me Art journaling is something where I can put my heart, mind and soul into the creation without thinking about the outcome or the choice of materials .

Art journaling is so amazing that you can do your trial n errors , get to know some beautiful color combos and the use of some mediums and get an amazing outcome... even if you don't its still a trial and you get to learn a lot from this. Also art journal is an awesome way to express the creative feelings and create something which you can go back to whenever you need any kind of inspiration or carry it around whenever the creative mojo strikes you or even flip through .... The artwork on the pages can be super simple like doodling or something very complex depending on the mood and the materials which you can get your hands on at that point of time.

Today I have done a beautiful mixed media journal page where I have combined the mixed media techniques with decoupage. I totally enjoyed the page and it was kind of a trial for me to see if this will work or no as I was trying something like this for the first time.  my main product in this art work is the crackle medium which is newly launched by Little Birdie and I couldn't wait to try my hand on it.

I used a beautiful art journal from the store which is 440 gsm handmade heavy weight and its made with 100% cold pressed and cotton papers. For me this art journal was perfect as I was attempting a mixed media technique and it can take all the textures, layers and mediums without warping the paper.

I started with choosing a beautiful decoupage tissue with huge roses , fussy cut them and adhered the paper on the left side bottom corner of the left page and the right side top corner of the right page with deco magic glue. This glue is perfect for any kind of decoupage on any surface.

After that I randomly applied the crackle paste with the stencil as I wanted the pattern as a part of my composition. I left it to air dry till small cracks were formed and the paste was totally dry.

I lightly brushed white gesso to the plain areas of my paper to prime it n prepare it for the splashes I was gonna use. I splashed the page with the colors at some places and some places applied with the brush as I needed to be in control where the color flows .. I didn't want it all over the flowers.

Once I was happy with the way my page looked after the colors I dried it completely and again fussy cut some butterfly n dragonfly from the left over tissue and filled in some blank spaces by adhering these to the page.  to add little more interest to my page I used a script stamp  to add some texture to the page especially left n right side edges . For this I used archival black ink.

Once everything was done then I added a coat of soft matt gel to seal the page and bingo !!! My page was done.... I hope you all like the way I have merged Decoupage and mixed media techniques to make this art journal page and I also hope you all give it a shot as I m super happy the way its turned out.

Don't forget to leave some comments on how you liked the page as I absolutely love to read them. Till the next creative post you all take care and have fun!!!!

Love & Hugs

Bela

Love - Mixed Media Art Journal

 Hello !!! Hello !!!

This is Bela Shah and welcome to my blog Colors-n-Creations..... 
I am super excited about this post today as this one turned out totally different than i thought or imagined.... I am a person who goes with the flow , usually don't know how my project will look like but at least there's some vision.... however in this project with loads of trial n errors I made the fabulous art journal page. Only thing in my mind was that I wanna do some kind of collage .... rest all fell in its place...

 

Off lately I have been hooked on to art journaling as it gives me the freedom to play with colors, words, mediums, textures & its doesn't have to be perfect, complicated or expensive , just my space which can turn out amazing or not but in process you are bound to learn something that's for sure.

You all can give it a shot and make something unique.... For this one I primed my page, did collage or opp side of my art journal, played with texture paste and added coordinating colors to the center of my page. also added some interest by splattering black white n purple..... added the hearts as they complimented  LOVE sentiment .

 

Enjoy the pics and I hope this will inspire you to create a art journal page. Give it a shot I am sure you will be surprised at the outcome.

Thank you for stopping by ... 

Love & Hugs

Bela