hi everyone is Keren here and welcome back to my channel I'm really excited to
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the description area I created an art journal page and I use the toggles six
by nine watercolor art journal I love these journals because you can
remove the pages and create anything you want on them while the paper is off the
hinges the pages are connected with some plastic discs this is why it's called
the disc bound watercolor journal for the background I use Stamperia rice
paper and I cut out the elements from the paper so I could create a collage in
the background this rice paper is unbelievable now we'll list a bunch of
these below because they're just amazing to have for any type of background I
wanted to cover the whole background but at the same time I wanted to keep the
moth or the butterfly intact so I cut around the moth itself to keep it as an
embellishment and then I used the rest of the papers to cover the background
now I could have used a larger art journal if I wanted to but I really
loved the size of this our journal so I wanted to make the images fit in the
background I felt that if I use a bigger one then i'm basically not doing
anything and I love collaging if I was just using them for the in the size that
the paper comes in then all I'm doing is just gluing it to the background without
doing much so I really wanted to do something more fun and collage some of
the images in the way that I like it so all the leftover images that I had cut
out from around the butterfly and also from the other pieces of paper I decided
to keep and use as collage mediums to glue the collage pieces I wanted to use
something very Twitty so I took my liquitex matte
medium which is a very fluid gel like medium and I used it to glue everything
to the background I started by pouring a little bit on the page and then using a
paintbrush just spread it across the background then I started applying the
papers to the background and I didn't care that I was covering the slits where
the discs go because I knew I could cut this afterwards so I took the different
papers and I would stick them to the sticky glue background and then I would
use the same gel to just seal them on top of the paper
these paper are so thin almost like tissue paper but they're made out of
rice and they're a little bit translucent which make it perfect
for this effect so all I did is just fill in all the white parts of the
background until everything was covered and you have to make sure that you are
sealing it as well because when you adding the mediums afterwards you want
to make sure the paper doesn't rip this is like a decoupage technique and you
can definitely use gel medium or Mod Podge for it as well once I covered the
background I still had a piece of rice paper that I didn't know where to do
with but I did I knew that I would have to use it for the background if I were
it was a Halfmoon clock so all I did is just stick it at the bottom and then
seal it with the same glue then I went around the paper and cut all the
leftover pieces so it would remain straight to cut them though I had to
heat set to the background really well so it wouldn't be wet when I'm using it
with the scissors I also cut all the little slits at the top so I could
easily put back inside the disk bound journal for the moth I really wanted
that to be a 3d effect so I took some craft foam in the beige color and I
traced them off all around using a pencil
then I took my scissors and just cut around the traced area that way I could
use it to create a 3d effect underneath the moth and it would stick
out from the background paper I used the same matte medium as before to glue them
off onto the craft foam so that way it would dry up until I was able to use it
on my background I also used the gel to seal the moth to the background to make
sure that it doesn't get ruined when I add all the other mediums for the
background underneath the moth I wanted to create a little bit of a rusted
background and I decided to take the Prima Finnabair rust pastes to do this
I also wanted to create a nice rusty edge to the whole journal so between the
edges and also we underneath the moth I decided to add the different rust paste
I started with the dark brown which is really nice to put underneath and I used
a little bit of water to diffuse it both at the edges and also afterwards
underneath the moth I started with the edges just because I really love framing
my art journals I always find that they look better when they're framed and
adding water just help diffuse everything towards the center I place
the moth in the middle where I wanted it to be and then I started adding the rust
paste underneath it by lifting it up carefully and putting it only at the
edges I didn't glue the Moss until I was happy with the colors because I really
wanted to create a shadow underneath it then I sprayed a little bit of water and
just let it diffuse that way it would create a really nice texture underneath
and create a shadow for them off then to make it look more oxidized
I took some of the red rust paste and added some of it as well through the
edges and also underneath them as well now I already had the outline of
the moth so I didn't have to put it back on and check if it was the right outline
or the right color going underneath all I did is just dab a little bit of the
red color and then I went back again with my water spray bottle and just led
the two colors diffuse together if you add too much water or too much color you
can always use a baby wipe to just wipe off the excess now I thought it would be
nice to add a little bit of a patina color this is a turquoise color from the
patina rust effect paste and I wanted to add a little bit of this color because I
wanted it to look a little bit more rusty and also I wanted to break the
monotonous color that was in the background so I had added a lot of
Browns and reds so adding a little bit of that patina color really broke the
pattern a little bit and made it look so much more oxidized which is what I was
looking forward to do it really helped bring out more color into the background
and I really love the patina effect so that was perfect for this background I
also took the dark brown and added a little bit of the paste around the edges
of the Moss to create a little bit of a dark outline around it and make it look
more like a shadow this really helped to have them off stick out from the
background and have more depth I heat set the background a little bit
because it was too wet and I really wanted to add more to it but I knew that
if I didn't heat set it it would become a big mess the last color that I added
is the golden yellow it also comes with the brown and red rust paste and it
really helps to bring some light and highlights to the background when it's
mixed with the patina color it makes a beautiful greenish color which looks
even more like a patina effect and I just added it very little bit in some
areas just to highlight the background I heat set everything really well and once
everything was dry I took some prima sin of air art basic soft matte gel and went
ahead and glued the butterfly to the background all I did is use a paint
brush and added it everywhere so it would stick really well to the
background the nice thing about it is that even though it's 3d and it has
craft foam behind it it is still flat enough that it fits perfectly in in our
journal page although the pattern in the background was very busy I still felt
like it needed something to tie it all in so I took my black archival ink in a
script stamp and started stamping it in different areas around the background to
tie in the vintage theme I really love adding stamping elements to certain
backgrounds especially when it helps to tie it all in then I took three words
that say capture the magic from the Tim Holtz ideology ward set and using my
footed ball black marker I outlined the words and I also outlined the edges of
the moth I went all around and created an outline around it and this helped to
bring out the depth even more this marker by Ranger is really great for any
type of art journaling or mixed media art journaling because it really goes on
any type of surface and I'll link that below so you can see what I mean
and what I did is I started creating these really nice borders around the
edge of my art journal I was just doodling
and started creating lines just so it would kind of create a nice rectangular
border around and I was trying to be as loose as possible in terms of the lines
I didn't want them to be exact I really wanted them to be uneven because it
makes it look more realistic and more distressed and then I started adding
lines even not in the borders just to kind of frame things so I started adding
lines in certain areas even in the middle of the page because I really
wanted to have some more distressed looking elements in the background
finally to tie it all in I took a little bit of the white impasto paint and I
apologize that I actually put it on the side of my mat where you can't actually
see it but I took some white impasto paint and I diluted it with water I made
a very liquidy solution and then I took a paint brush and started splattering in
the background this really tied it all in because it really helped to create a
distressed look once I tried everything and heat set it I went ahead and put it
back inside my art journal which was really easy to pop back in the list of
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