Winter Night Art Journal

Hello crafters! I hope you are well and that you had a good weekend. Our beautiful snow didn't last long, but in my art journal it can last forever. 

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This week we have a Night Sky (stars/universe/planets) theme at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog. I hope you will join us! Don't miss the last project by our February guest designer Cassie Lynch aka mk_knits.

I made a winter night art journal page this week, with a snowy and hilly landscape, a full moon and a sky filled with stars. The page was done in my Stamperia Happiness Mixed Media Journal. I have enjoyed working in this journal lately and really like the tall pages, which reminds me of tags. 

Draw a hill with a pencil and then paint the sky with watercolors. Mix all the colors before you start painting and let them blend wet-into-wet. When this layer was dry, I darkened the upper part since I wanted a darker looking sky.

I stamped the trees with Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery, which is one of the stamp sets that I designed. Ink with three shades of Distress Ink and mist with water before stamping.

The stamped Distress Ink was a little light on the dark sky and I added watercolor paint to the trees, to make them stand out better. Paint shadows and some texture on the snow. The bits of yellow is the same color as used for the moon.

For the stars, I used Winsor & Newton Permanent White Gouache. Mix a little water into the paint and splatter it with a small paint brush.

Stamp sentiments on the background. Ink the small deer with two shades of Distress Ink, wipe the ink off from the bottom of the legs and mist with water. Wiping ink off makes it appear as if the deer is standing in the snow.

Die cut the moon from Tim Holtz Sizzix Vault Christmas Magic set from watercolor paper and paint with watercolors. 

Glue the moon to the background and dry brush a little gouache around it for shine.

Some of the sentiments were stamped with Archival Ink Cobalt on white paper and cut into strips. All the sentiments come from Simon Says Stamp Forest Scenery.

Glue one of the sentiments partly overlapping the moon. 

The splatters could also be snow, but on this night, the skies were clear and there were lots of visible stars.

The bottom sentiment was a little crooked and I restamped it on white paper instead, it also looks nice with a third blue sentiment strip on the page.

I covered the trees when splattering, but then decided to add just a hint of splatters on them too, for highlights.

It is fun to combine Distress Ink and watercolor paint and they blend really well. 

Join us this week in our Night Sky (stars/universe/planets) 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 visiting today! 

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

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