Monday, April 08, 2019

{Mixed Media Tutorial} Find Beauty Art Journal Spread by Sanna


Hello everyone, it's Sanna Lippert here today again sharing another mixed media tutorial with you today. For this month´s post, I´ve prepared an art journal spread with steps. I hope you like it!


I aimed for a light and happy spring feel page and here is what it looks like:



And now to the steps:

Step 1: Start by adhering music note sheets onto the art journal with a varnish or a paper adhesive.


Step 2: Apply some gesso onto the music note sheets with a palette knife to create a slightly softer and lighter look.


Step 3: Take the Rose Garden stencil and some Distress Paints (worn lipstick, picked raspberry and twisted citron tones) and apply the paints thru the stencil onto the journal spread. I used two pink tones on the roses very randomly and created lighter and darker toned petals that way.


Step 4: Apply paint droplets onto the background with same paint tones using a water tank brush.


Step 5: Fussy cut butterflies and adhere to the page, add a stamped sentiment with black stamp ink.


Step 6: Take a tag die cut die and use it as a drawing guide and draw a tag pattern with a black pen onto the background.


Step 7: Color the tags with yellow acrylic paint and let dry properly.


Step 8: Add outlining to the stenciled patterns with a black pen.


Step 9: Add a quote or journaling to the tags and finish off with black ink splatters.


Here are some details of the finished journal spread.







I hope you enjoyed today´s step-by-step and get inspired to play in your art journal a little! Have fun creating!!

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See you next month with another fun project!
xxx, Sanna

Products used:
ARTplorations - Rose Garden
STAMPlorations - Blooming Buds

6 comments:

  1. This is absolutely amazing! Thank you so much for showing each step - it makes it look doable! When I saw the finished product, I had no idea how many steps went into making this gorgeous page and now I feel like I could actually do this. Wonderful inspiration, thank you!

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  2. Wonderful journal pages. They are all so well designed.

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  3. Beautiful journal pages! And inspirational sentiment!

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