Hi everyone! I hope you are well! I have a quick art journal page to share with you. I was in the mood for some color, and particularly for larger areas of color, and this was the result.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. With stamps by Dina Wakley.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzNuxwTm0kOaRcaUkt2zAmYiXEsqS3yU5kEBqN_l1nW6DlZwrNr9Cd17RihAg5b_TOM_yRQWintvJyX5XpKDhq0ZDQ_mhPl7gHiZ-xqsv3_iV5d3x2C_hD1FdyblItYzW5REzASX5GmoKv/s1600/watercolor-art-journal-page1-Layers-of-ink.jpg)
The page was done in my Dina Wakley Media Journal, with one of Dina's Lovely Women stamps. I like how large she is on the page. The stamp is just the face and the neck, but I prefer it when there is some kind of body attached to a head, so I drew a simple upper body, to give her more life. I used a bunch of encouraging sentiments on this page, inspired by both the determined look on her face, and by a stamp set by Simon Says Stamp.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Watercolor the page.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmUCT8vivYteDmY-ifLAenN0WtvvAFnWn9G9-hnfoQil50ZbLZpSg3jdbyND-d80wW2jw4B8-ILBo28xWEZV0aoqIR0XQPOJT9UStzZj_cqnQUJFu1AEvAtgOdwIAHwaTQ2Ld3Qm7_WXM/s1600/watercolor1a.jpg)
I forgot to take step photos when starting with the project. I worked on one of the cotton-rag watercolor pages. She was stamped with Jet Black ink and then painted with watercolors. When the paint was dry, I added more lines with a black pen.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Add stamping.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKfVwe2lsx_2YFiqaLMVxjdSD_bQiK4X3todwnz1SKO_cnVAyf7Zp5XfgZlEj6FBwZI7asNT29xXAK_6HjuaFLX1ApKeYxKbqpgbOZ54Q6wdJsMPIWMi18XMT33Dt6LirCd-NTQSPnAfGa/s1600/watercolor1.jpg)
Next came the stamping of the sentiments, using Dina's Handwritten Quotes and Scribbly Women sets, and Simon Says Stamp You Got This set. I wanted the background to be fairly clean, but also doodled some circles and added splatters of dark brown paint. It is hard to stamp on the cotton-rag paper in Dina's journal, but if you place something hard underneath the page, it is much easier. I used a Sizzix cutting pad.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Shadows give dimension.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSFEBNM3MUxMmVbkRKMEX7qKr_3an2lSYbBukT2PCZUQ31tOotG-WPqpFVzICrCSN2k3eF26Bh9m5mesFKQeH1YixSb6fOuMDonV2plSx7vTy9lCbS502AcUrN-tRtIbygoVrX9anhjKwa/s1600/watercolor4.jpg)
I painted the skin tone pretty pale, since I wanted her to look serious. By adding some shadows, you give more dimension to the face.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Found poetry.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3iUe2ZdPtfsH9LKAqBr6Gh1Zm0BXE2fQC79IwHMrzMjltXgbMcqjQvAhGM73Yil9Qc_Mls9QG-YLeyEj4yrTbaoBwJYDkiSDcKlxKSEgj1hdjEDGyKrb_ZySvkkJ8hqM2o4iuTHnaOAxE/s1600/watercolor2.jpg)
I cut out words and sentences from old book paper, to create a form of found poetry/journaling. It is really fun to sit and do this, and you'd be surprised to see the sentences you can find and piece together.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmirUa3Ed3cwS2pkG9df9M8EIHJNb-l7a-xbe62IxdLoNMG0T7DOirUZRcdLzO-fyGqq9m85XkjCsK-9f3biLSDmRM1_bmrhmyHDB1Pu6mfU38ERmp2qrOnElNj8JT4wK6HpR-xj3_Ceqx/s1600/watercolor3.jpg)
The stamped sentiment comes from the SSS You Got This set. The set is from the Fresh Bloom release.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-CV1ESEEEbk8T4KYDd_R7bwe-f-A-nTnpkxxPvWl1XiwEfa9SB_Y2hMNFJCv94fIiH49Qreo8p8MROKJJMYs-RcBmbgASU6jgUfspSKPPi-XxDw0zf93UG8-hL-FNW_vXm0Sk9qwObPM/s1600/watercolor5.jpg)
This sentiment is so great and bold, and also works really well on cards.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Sizzix Pansy die by Eileen Hull.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIAjuVe12cYMbu0_huBixAs7l4XtbMSzHTwmJK2lTqxyFNDj7tpeMPy3xTb1x4Lf-V0q0gxvSLqxAKpxB_4RcNn-ZVWFTwF1KB6aaxXkf7mtXla-dq7r_FngMrFSklcYkybxxZMX1NfYYi/s1600/watercolor6.jpg)
The flowers were die cut with Eileen Hull's Sizzix Pansy Flower die and the leaves with her Caddy Bag die. They were left over from the leather wrapped journal I posted recently. The flowers look even better if you make them dimensional by giving them some shape, but I try to keep the pages in my art journal relatively flat, to make it easier to work in.
![Layers of ink - Watercolor Art Journal Page by Anna-Karin Evaldsson. Tim Holtz Sizzix Letterboard.](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuL1kLE5y9wHmJPil2MesmUD76VW5ZDVayEXrr2IOaahr1Zc4ZHpkhbR4M2J1Tf42LDr-Jv5-El33lGOHYnZeRs1MwJ088WHl5F2AGwYRMEvbRbp1eliXZcA7FmgdicelBx7SuVI6taLOj/s1600/watercolor7.jpg)
I die cut the title with Tim Holtz's Letterboard die, and sanded them slightly.
Thank you so much for stopping by here today! I hope you the project gave you some inspiration.
Happy crafting!
Anna-Karin
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Stamps: Dina Wakley Scribbly Birds in Flight
Paint: Daler & Rowney watercolor paint
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