Open Landscapes Journal Page

Hi crafters! It is the last day of May. This month went by so fast and saw nature transform very quickly, almost by the day. Today I have an art journal page to share celebrating nature.

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This started out as a page where I used up left-over paint and it ended up looking like an open landscape, almost (but not completely) by accident. It made me think of a clear, but windy, day, and an open landscape not too far from the sea. Somewhere in the distance the sea is hiding. I used Distress Paint, stencils and stamps to create the page. It was done on double page in my large Dylusions Journal. It is 11.5 x 16.5 in.

The page had been coated with gesso already. I try to have a few pages in my journals already prepared with gesso. Using paints left over from another project, I applied the paint with a palette knife, scraping pretty much to cover all the surface with the fairly little paint that I had. 

Stamp trees from Simon Says Stamp All Seasons Tree with green and brown Archival Inks.

Add clouds to the sky with Simon Says Stamp Clouds for Days and texture to the grass with Tim Holtz Burlap stencil.

Stamp birds in the sky with Hero Arts Sunset Over Waves set and the little dog with Potting Soil ink.

Stamp a title with Tim Holtz Worn Text and a whole bunch of sentiments.

Apply texture paste through Tim's Bubble stencil with a palette knife.

Add shading under the trees and to some areas of the sky. Apply green to the trees with a tooth pick. Add some grass around the trees with a black and a white pen.

Stamp Simon Says Stamp Crackle Background in the foreground with Potting Soil ink.

I also added flowers with acrylic markers. Here you can see the leaves of the trees better, applied sparingly with a tooth pick and with an acrylic marker. 

This sentiment comes from Tim Holtz Life Quotes.

Shades of green is my best description of this time of the year. The stamp is from Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery. I also used a few strips of Design Tape Trims.

The texture in the sky acts as clouds, together with the stenciled dots and the stenciled clouds. The sentiment comes from Simon Says Stamp Document It.

Here is a better look at the wind-worn texture of the background.

Don't worry if the stamping isn't perfect, such as the one bird here, it will just look like it is further away.

If you want to, you can make the cloud patterns more pronounced by using darker colors, but I only wanted a hint of them. 

The title was stamped with Tim Holtz Worn Text using Jet Black Archival Ink.

The little dog is filled with joy at the sight of this big field.

Adding a little blue from the sky also to the grass brings the scene together. The blue might be puddles or it might be flowers.

I hope you enjoyed this project and that it inspired you to make a random background from left-over paint and ink and then use it.

Thank you so much for stopping by here today! 

Anna-Karin

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