Art Journal Layout: Happiness Blooms From Within

Good morning friends!

Today I have a little something different to share than a normal card project.  I had a Friday evening last week completely all to myself...no kiddos and no hubby! Its been a long long long time since I hand any quiet time to myself like this! lol!  So for the evening, I literally buried myself into my art work.  It was a little while since my art journal found its way out onto my desk and I thought what a perfect opportunity to do something!

I wanted to get inky for this project and create a background that was two toned blue and green...to represent a blurry sky and grass. My overall goal was to create whimsical, bold and bright flowers that stood out over everything else.  I used dylusions sprays and a lot of water to get my background, but i think it turned out beautifully!

When I was finished with my background, I really had to let it dry for a while because it was saturated with water and ink. So while that was drying, I took a sharpie and drew large flowers of different shapes onto a piece of water color paper....

You can see a bit of the journal page peeking out on the left :). Also on the page, you can see black text that I stamped...this was a stamp that's been in my stash since the beginning of my crafty time and honestly, I have no clue as to where this came from! I hate when that happens! lol  You can also see that I too a stencil and used white pigment ink to get some soft white splotches of texture around the page as well. I like the soft look, especially once I added my gel medium over it...it took some of the distinctness away from it, which drew more attention to the texture paste that was created with the same stencil in the end.

I used my Gansai Tambi Watercolor paints to water color the flowers. I feel that these took FOREVER to dry...but I think it was because I need to upgrade my watercolor paper...lol.   After the flowers were all dry, I fussy cut them out and began adhering them to my page either by gel medium or foam adhesive. The large purple flower on the right page was adhered with foam so it stood out over top the other flowers.  For the leaves, i just glued the tip of the leaves down so they were more dimensional and popped off the page.  I used my Faber Castell big brush markers to add highlights and shadows across my page. Lastly, I added my quote in black glitter thickers...and that was it!  Here are a few close ups of what my page looks like:

Here are some of the supplies that I used in today's project:

Zig Kuretake Gansai Tambi 24 COLOR SET	Dina Wakley Ranger #4 ROUND STIFF BRISTLE Brush Media MDA41658	Tim Holtz Layering Stencil DOT FADE THS006	Liquitex MODELING PASTE Gel Acrylic Medium 5508	Ranger 4 Oz. MULTI MEDIUM MATTE Paint Glue INK41535
Ranger Dylusions Ink Spray LONDON BLUE Dyan Reaveley DYC33899	Ranger Dylusions Ink Spray FRESH LIME Dyan Reaveley DYC33875	Faber-Castell WHITE Stampers Big Brush Pen 770013	*Faber-Castell NEUTRAL Stampers Big Brush Pens Set of 3	Faber-Castell BLUE Stampers Big Brush Pens Set of 3 770053
Faber-Castell RED Stampers Big Brush Pens Set of 3 770050	Faber-Castell GREEN Stampers Big Brush Pens Set of 3 770052	Faber-Castell VIOLET Stampers Big Brush Pens 770009	EK Success CUTTER BEE Scissors EKCB01	Simon Says Stamp BIG MOMMA FOAM TAPE ROLL Foam72
*Dyan Reaveley SMALL CREATIVE JOURNAL Ranger Dylusions DYJ34117

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