Brave Wings Art Journal Page

Hello friends! I hope you are well and that you had a good weekend! Today I have an art journal page to share with you.

This week we have an 'Anything but a card' theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge blog. Don't miss the last project by our February guest designer Estelle Palumbo.

I made an art journal page this week and it is a double page in my 8 x 8 in Dylusions journal. I wanted large lettering on this page to match the large night butterflies. Lots of texture in the background too.

Coat the paper with gesso first and then paint with Distress Paint. This was a page where I had used up left-over paint. Stamp with bubble wrap and black paint.

Apply texture paste through the Simon Says Stamp Bubble Wrap Stencil. Let dry.

Paint the dots with white paint. You can also skip this step or mix a little white paint into the paste before doing the previous step.

Stamp here and there with the Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background stamp and High Dive ink.

For a little bit of orange, I added splatters with an orange Scribble Stick. Dip in water and flick a paint brush against it to create splatters.

Finally, I added some Teal Raspberry Opal Blaze Polish to the paste dots.

I didn't have dies large enough for the letters so I decided to draw them. Draw the letters with a pencil on watercolor paper.

Watercolor them with Distress Ink. Smear the inks on a craft sheet, mist with water and pick up with a paint brush. I worked from light at the top to darker orange at the bottom, for an ombre effect.

Cut out and add highlights and some lines with a white gel pen.

Stamp the letters with sentiments from Tim Holtz Tiny Text set.

White emboss the night butterflies from Tim's Specimens set on vellum.

Color them at the back with colored pencils. I used Faber-Castel Polychromos.

When you turn the butterflies around, you'll get a soft coloring showing through the vellum.

On the ones with more detail and less open space, not much of the color will show, but it still adds interest.

Stamping on the letters was fun and the stamps fit well, even though I had not planned to stamp on the letters initially.

I really like the sayings in the Tiny Text set.

The Crackle Background stamp looks great with colored ink too and that gives the crackles a softer appearance than if they would be stamped with black ink.

I also added a few strips of design tape.

I hope you can see the effect of the polish a little better here. It adds a great subtle shine to the dots.

I hope you will join us this week in our Anything But a Card challenge. You have a chance to win a $25 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you so much for taking the time to stop by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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