Be an Individual Art Journal Page

Hello friends! I hope you are well and had a good weekend. We has beautiful weather and most of the trees are now becoming green. 

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This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog we have an Art Journal theme. If you have never tried art journaling, I hope you will do so. It is a lot of fun. If you don't have an art journal, you can journal on lose pages and later bind them into a journal. 

Don't miss the gorgeous art journal page by our May guest designer Cassie Lynch aka mk_knits.

I was looking through some stamp sets and came up on this large stamp from Tim Holtz Way With Words. I decided to use it as the focal point on an art journal page in my Small Creative Journal.

When I have left-over paint, I often use it on a page in an art journal. This page had first been coated with gesso and later I had added left-over Distress Paint and misted with water.

This is a large stamp with fine details in the form of small typography and dots and I didn't want to risk a bad stamped impression on the already painted background. Instead, I stamped the sentiment on tissue paper and tore around the edges.

Apply gloss medium to the background and place the tissue paper into the medium. Add another layer of medium on top and the tissue paper will become basically invisible. 

Sponge Hickory Smoke paint through Tim Holtz Focus Stencil to frame the sentiment.

Stamp with a brick stamp from Tim Holtz Ultimate Grunge and with Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background.

Mix a little white paint into texture paste and then apply with a palette knife through Tim's Bubble Stencil.

When dry, apply a little Sizzix Ivory Luster Wax on the dots and here and there on the page.

The blue dots were stamped with a border stamp from Simon Says Stamp Mix and Match Circles. I also added strips of Tim Holtz Trims Design Tape.

Stamping can be a challenge on textured art journal pages, especially if the other side of the page is already decorated. Using tissue tape works great, especially on a painted surface.

Simon Says Stamp Circle Loops were die cut from Lemon Glitter Paper. This is one of my all time favorite die.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial, focusing on one large sentiment stamp. 

I hope you will join us this week in our Art Journaling 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 stopping by here today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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