A Little Hope Journal Spread

 

Hi There! I've moved away from pastel colours this week and I have a journal page for you. 

I began by smooshing Mustard Seed Distress Oxide onto a double page in my 5x5 notebook. 

When this was dry, I drew a rough circle in Salty Ocean Distress crayon on the right hand page. I brushed over this with a damp brush to blend it a little. 

Using Picked Raspberry Distress Oxide ink, I added some dots using a dinkable. 

I used the same colours of ink to add stamping using Journal Art Elements 3, randomly around the page. 

Next I used the 4" circle easy frame to add a pink circle using a paint marker....

and also a white circle slightly offset.

On a small piece of vellum/ parchment paper, I stamped and heat embossed the Doodle Art Butterfly in white, and cut it out. 

Then I splattered the page using distress Spritz in Picked Raspberry. 

I added the butterfly to the page using matte medium.

I felt it still needed a few white and pink pen dots here and there, so I added some in. 

Finally, I added a wordy sticker sentiment. 

Here are the finished pages once more.

I used:

Journal art Elements 3 stamp set

Doodle Art Butterfly stamp set

Dinkables set #2

4" Circle easy Frame inkable

Wordy Stickers 3

Distress Oxide inks - I used Salty Ocean, Mustard seed and Picked Raspberry

Distress crayon - I used salty ocean

Posca Pens or paint markers

Embossing ink

White embossing powder

Vellum/ parchment craft paper

Matte Medium

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I will be live this evening at 8pm over on the Bee Crafty Facebook page. Hope you can join me and thanks for looking! 

Let Them Stare Journal Page

Hi There! I am sharing with you how I made this journal spread today, but it is a long one so grab yourself a cuppa and take a look! 
 

I began by stamping just the face and neck of Dream onto stamping tissue using Versafine Clair ink.

I used a wet paint brush to remove the excess tissue and create a feathered edge to the image.

Using drops of dylusions paint in peony blush and desert sand, I mixed a skin tone shade and painted it over the bottom right corner of the page in my dylusions mini journal. 

I used blue lagoon, periwinkle and laidback lilac to add colour to the rest of the page in vertical and horizontal blocks. 

Once this was dry, I dry brushed over most of the page using white gesso, with some heavier and lighter patches.  

I used matte medium to add the stamped face to the skin tone area and left to dry.

Next I used the paints, a white gel pen and a coloured pencil to add some more detail to the face.

I painted a scrap piece of card using all the paints except for Desert Sand and left it to dry. 

Back on the journal page I used the Squircles Grande Inkable to add some patches of Villainous potion Distress oxide. 

I used the same ink to add some stamping using Journal Art Elements #2.

Now the painted card was dry, I stamped 2 different sizes of flowers from the Dandedaisy set using black versafine clair ink and cut them out. 

I also stamped and cut out the sentiment from Mixed messages 4.

I added the sentiment and the flowers (for her hair) to the page using matte medium and added some white highlights with the gel pen. 

A final splatter of white ink and it was finished...

And here's a close up. 

I used:

Dylusions mini journal

Dream Bundle (today's January Saver featuring Dream, Journal Art Elements #2 and handwritten words)

Versafine Clair Nocturne and Twilight

Bee Crafty Stamping Tissue

Dylusions paints in Peony Blush, Desert Sand, Blue Lagoon, Laidback Lilac and Periwinkle

White Gesso

White gel pen

Pencil crayons

Matte Medium

Inkable Grande - Squircles

Distress oxide inks in Villainous potion, Peacock Feathers and Blueprint Sketch

Dandedaisy stamp set

Mixed messages #4 stamp set

White Linen Dylusions spray

Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoyed seeing how I did it. 

Don't forget that we have the 3bs challenge and the alter a playing card challenge over in the Bee Crafty stamps Facebook group. There are also January savers every day this month, to chase away the January blues!