hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel today I have a brand
new video tutorial it's an art journal process and I'm really excited because I
recently got Mary bue sprays I went and bought a bunch of them because I just
love their consistency and color and I just wanted to have more colors than
what I had all the products are listed below in the description area and I will
explain everything step by step I'm working on my joggles disc bound art
journal this is the six by nine hour journal and I'm actually working
horizontally on it I wanted to have a journal that will have layouts only in
the horizontal way that it will flip kind of like a calendar and I would have
the disks at the top of the journal they started spraying three colors in the
background sunshine yellow, tangerine and raspberry
these are marabu sprays and they're acrylic based sprays that are permanent
when they're dry so you can set the layer and then add more color on top if
you want this joggle disc bound journal is a watercolor based paper and it's
amazing for any type of water coloring or mixed-media because it takes mediums
really really well therefore I didn't have to prep the page or add any gesso
before spraying with these acrylic sprays I am working only on one side of
the paper I am not doing a double page layout like I usually do I just figured
that it would be easier to add a lot of mediums on just a one page and since I'm
working with it horizontally I'm able to have a bigger spread even though it's
not a double page I heat set the first layer and then I realized that had a lot
of ink still on my mat so I ended up soaking it up so I wouldn't waste it and
adding it as a nice layer to the background and then heat set this as
well since the first layer was dry I knew I could add other colors onto the
background and they would not mix with their original colors because these
sprays are permanent so I could add cool colors even though the background had
all warm color so I added first the Reseda green which
is kind of like a lime green and then I added a little bit of the aquamarine and
finally the gentian which is a very dark blue which is almost like a cobalt blue
and it's very very beautiful I spread the colors all around because I wanted
to have different colors in different areas of the background and then I heat
set everything well as well which was the second layer then I went back with
the original colors to add a little bit of more of the bright colors like the
yellow and the raspberry pink that way the background would have different
colored areas I heat set this layer as well the next step was to add a little
bit of a stamped texture I took herbals art print texture stamp this is called
circles and using a marabou black crayon I added it to the background of the
stamp and then I slightly wet it and stamped with it that way it gave the
background a very distressed look and the stamp looked really cool when it was
stamped and it doesn't give you a full effect which is what I wanted I wanted
to have a de-stress in the background I did this a couple of times until I was
able to stamp enough of the image in my background I really wanted those nice
circles to appear in the background I even used the stamp without wetting it
by just applying the art crayon and it was perfect to actually stamp with it it
was a little bit damp from before so all how to do is add more of the art crayon
and it gave an amazing effect it's really cool to stamp with art crayons
and that's a really good technique for our journaling once I was done stamping
I took a number stencil I think this is the crafters workshop it's a 6x6 stencil
and I put it on top of my layout I made sure that I flattened the layout really
well and then I took my black marabou spray and started spraying in certain
areas of the layout just to create that really cool distressed looking
number pattern I even flip the stencil and stamped with it with the residue of
the spray that way you get the negative image and it creates our very cool
pattern as well I heat set this black layer as well and to tell the truth I
really loved how it came out I almost did not want to do anything else to it
and just keep it that way but I got this mask from juggles that I really really
wanted to use this is called wonky houses and I've wanted to do a
journaling spread with houses for such a long time and I thought that these
houses would be perfect to mask on top of my art journal looking back I wish I
would have not added the black to the original spread in the background
because when I ended up masking these with the black again it actually hit a
lot of the areas and it became too dark so I might do another journal again
where I actually don't use black in the background and might work really well I
took one of the masks and I cut off a little piece of the peak I wanted to
make it look more like a house and less like a church so I went ahead and cut it
I could always have it in the background and put it again if I want to I could
always stick it on if I want to but I really like the house the way it is so
you could always amend stencils if you really want to once I had the
arrangement the way I wanted to I took some tape this is the microspore tape
and just held the masks in a couple of areas so they wouldn't move I guess I
could have stuck and glued them to the bottom as well but I just wanted a
little bit of tape so when I spray the spray doesn't go underneath my masks
once I was able to attach them all together then I went ahead and sprayed
with the black marabou spray all I did is just spray around the homes and to
cover the background and make sure I hold them down so it doesn't run
underneath the stencil and I just covered the whole background the idea
was when I lift the masks you only see the pattern underneath the houses while
there rest is black and it looks like it's a
nighttime I took a paintbrush and just spread some of the ink around since I
had a lot of it on my mask just to cover everything really really well then I
heat set everything well I wanted to make sure it's fully dry before I lift
those masks however before I ended up lifting them
I took the golden marabou color and I started splattering it in the background
to create golden stars because since this had turned into a night layout I
figured you need I needed some stars in the background so all I did is just take
a spout of the golden color and just sprinkle it in the background then I
remove the masks and heat set anything that wasn't dry of course the edges were
not perfect but I knew I could fix that using markers so all I did is dry up
everything again and then I went and outlined everything with white markers
here you can see what I mean about not adding black to the background because
you can't really tell where the windows and doors are because I have a black
pattern underneath so in retrospect I guess I should have not added the number
pattern in black but as it is with our journaling i always go with the flow and
try to correct whatever it is that I make mistakes on I always feel like I
can always work with something and fix it and that's why I love art journaling
that's why I love mixed media in order to outline everything I took my white
paska marker this is a three millimeter pasta pen and I just started outlining
everything I started outlining the homes especially around the roofs and the
windows and the doors just to make sure that you can really see the outline of
each of the houses the pen wasn't dark enough so I did end up making two layers
of the outlines and I also do it all a little bit in some places to create some
more accents for the doors and for the windows then I took a white gelly
roll pen and I started writing a quote that I had found in the internet I found
two quotes that I really loved that had to do with home theme and I went ahead
and journal along the edges of the roof and the houses to make it look very
distressed I really liked that look and I just went ahead and wrote two of the
quotes all around I even took the gelly roll pen and went ahead and added some
more doodling and highlighting more of the edges of each of the houses I put
the art journaling page back into the disc bound journal it is so easy to pop
in and out so that's why it's so easy to work with it on a flat surface but I
realized that I wanted to add a little bit of a sentiment to it so I took a
couple of words from the Tim holds small word stickers and I added it to the
background just so I could have a sentiment for my spread and just to make
sure that the words wouldn't come off I took some of the Prima fin ABARES soft
matte gel medium and just added a little bit to the top to seal the words to the
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