See The Process Tutorial

BE INSPIRED

At the beginning of the year I treated myself to a beautiful Dylusions Art Journal and this was the first piece of mixed media art I created in it, inspired by MixedMediaJenn.  In fact my twin also treated herself to the same journal and bought it with her when she came to visit me this year.. We followed the YouTube tutorial and each produced our version!  This is my finished piece!  Twinee's, although very similar, did look quite different.  I have posted a picture of both pieces at the end of this post.

- Being Creative Souls -

I thought it would be nice to show you the process using pictures, so here goes.

Materials We Used:

Dylusions Journal
Watered down acrylic paints to go in spray bottles - blue, jade, purple -
Black acrylic paint
White acrylic paint
Twine
Tissue papers - orange, pink, purple -
Gel Medium
Coloured card or paper - pink, white -
Alphabet stamps
Stamp pad - black -

Step one - spray paint

1.   Using the three acrylic colours which have been watered down. Spray across the centre of the double page.  Note - practise on paper first to get the look you like as the effect is different depending on how close or far you are from the paper.

Step two - black vertical lines

2. Squeeze black acrylic paint into a flat paint pallet, then using a credit card, or something similar, dip into paint and then press onto journal page until you have the desired effect.

Step three - white vertical lines

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3.  Same as step two, but this time use white acrylic paint.

Step four - twine

4.  Using a gel medium, glue areas of the page and then choose a coloured twine, I chose yellow, to snake around the page and stick down onto the gel medium.

Step five - tissue paper.

5.  Cut out shapes from your chosen tissue paper colours and glue on top of twine and areas of the pages.

6. Using alphabet stamps, decide on your quote, mine was Being Creative Souls, and stamp onto paper, tear out and mount on a contrasting colour, then glue onto picture.  Date and sign piece.

Here are both mine and Twinnee's finished pieces.  You can see how different they look!