Good afternoon!
I am just now posting my Weekly Art Journal Thursday Video #7. I know that it is not Thursday, but I have had family visiting this week, and then have been down with a persistent bug that doesn’t seem to want to go away!
So, better late than never!! 🙂
Here is this week’s video:
Here is a complete list of materials I used:
- Delta Ceramcoat acrylic paints: OJ (02649), Pop Pink (02646)
- DecoArt Crafter’s acrylic paint: Tropical Blue (DCA102)
- Folk Art acrylic paint: Neon Pink (2850)
- Liquitex white gesso
- Miscellaneous sheets of deli paper that I had Gelli plated on a few weeks ago (video is posted below)
- Scissors
- Golden’s Fluid Gel medium
- Ranger Dyan Reaveley’s Dylusions Stencil, 5 by 8-Inch, Blocks
- Punchinella
- Black Stabilo pencil
- Water brush
- Black pilot ink pen, from Scarlet Lime
- White Signo ink pen
- Thick carpenter #2 pencil
- Paper towels
- Black thread
- Aleene’s Fast Grab Tacky Glue
- Letter stamps
- Ranger’s Archival Black ink pad
This week, I must confess, I was a bit distracted! I had family in town, and I was going to see if I could squeeze this spread, sneakily in, without cause for disruptions, which meant I was talking to my sissy while I got this layout started! You might notice that at some point in the video my jewelry disappears and I end up with black and white striped sleeves on! Yep, jewelry was me chatting with sissy, while creating, and jewelry-less was after they left, which by that point I was struggling through a really bad cold (those are PJ sleeves!)!! I am just thankful you can not hear all of my coughing going on!! 🙂
The only real plan I had for this spread was that I wanted to use some of the Gelli plated deli papers I had created a few weeks ago.
That video is located here:
I loved the way the deli papers ended up a little bit translucent so that the background could peek through.
What I didn’t like is that, because my attention was not 100% on what I was doing when I started this layout, I realized when I went back to finish this spread after my family had left, was that this page was a mess of colors!
I wasn’t really sure if it were going to be possible to tie it all together!
I loved the idea of using used paper towels as the background to my thought for this week, and I especially love the idea of adding some stitching on my sewing machine – I am going to have to use that technique more often!
and of course doodling!! You know I love me some doodling!!
The message of “Be Free” is particularly meaningful this week. You may know that I have been on hiatus from my analytical career for the past 5 months. Well, this week, I have made the decision that until my creative career gets off the ground, I am going to have to go back to that analytical job, at least until I can get my nest egg built back up again! This is not exactly what I want to do, but I know it is what I have to do if I truly want to be free!!! and FREEDOM is the goal!!
So, big changes are a-comin’!! I will keep you posted!! In the meantime I really hope you liked the way this week’s spread turned out! It ended up making me very happy!! 🙂
If you have any ideas, or techniques that you might like to see me try in one of my future layouts, please let me know in the comment section and I will see what I can do to be accommodating! Also, I really do LOVE answering any questions you may have about art journaling, mixed-media, or anything you might have seen me do here! Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, and I will try and get back to you in a timely manner!!
Until next time!
Have a FABULOUS week! 🙂
