hi everyone its Keren here and welcome back to my channel today I have a brand
new video tutorial of an art journal process using some tape I use some washi
tape some masking tape and drywall tape and I want to show you how to create
texture using tape in an art journal because once you see how to use an
Internet journal then you can use it on any type of project to create that
beautiful texture that you can cut with mixed-media I've listed all the products
below in the description area including the links to drywall tape to the washi
tape and two regular masking tape I'm working inside my 6x6 disc bound juggles
art journal which is composed with really thick watercolor paper that is
perfect for mixed-media and I'm using some washi tape from my Prima planner
these are amazing planner tapes that you can also use for any type of project I
think they're from the travelers collection and there's two sets of washi
tapes here there's two different tubs and I use washi tapes from both of them
and it's really fun to use the washi tape because you can rip it and create
texture or you can use it whole depending on the size so the thicker
ones I tend to rip and the create texture with them while the other ones
are more there for the image like these numbers that I'm applying as well to the
background and you can just add them randomly there's really no science to
this you can just add any type of washi tape it doesn't have to be these ones
you can use old washi tapes any tape that has an some kind of embellishment
or as some kind of beautiful images or elements I really like that these
specific ones because they're very vintage and they have beautiful
butterflies and some written images so I'm excited to use them and create the
texture that way one of the main reasons why I like working with tape is because
it doesn't have to have any glue in order to stick it on so
you could create a mess amazing texture by just sticking it on to the background
and then you can definitely seal it later with some glue but you don't have
to make a lot of effort in order to apply it so you can recycle tape so you
can use things like washi tape or you can use things like masking tape or any
type of tape and all you do is you just glue it to the background and it has
that stickiness behind so you don't have to do much it just creates that easy
texture for you without having to put much effort another option if you don't
have washi tape is to use things like painters tape or masking tape or even
electrical tape or duct tape basically any type of tape works because it's
really easy to create beautiful texture with it you can rip them like you see me
doing this with the masking tape and create like that rip texture but mostly
it's just recycling things and doing things that are easy to use and that are
cheap another easy way to create texture for our journaling backgrounds or for
any type of background is to use drywall tape and drywall tape comes in two two
different type of textures you have with the netting texture which is the one you
see me applying here and all I did is cut it with some scissors it has some
sticky background so it's really really easy to apply and just stick onto the
background and you can just cut it in any type of shape or any type of size
and just apply it to the background and although it's see-through
when you add the mediums and the paints you will see the beautiful texture come
out there other type of drywall tape is this one that looks like a puncheon Ella
and this one I think is available only in the US and the Home Depot's in the US
or on Amazon while the other one is the more a Canadian one or maybe it's
available also in the US so the nice thing about this one is that it also has
a tape behind it it's sticky on the background but in this case you'll
remove the backing and you use the tape area you can also keep the other side
which is the one that doesn't have the stickiness and you can use it as
background for any type of project so you could use it also as textures the
brown part that I'm peeling off can also be used to create texture but in this
case I'm only using the tape because of the same reason I mentioned before
because it has that stickiness so it's really easy to just glue on and not have
to add anything else I realized that I was working inside the journal and the
reason why I like this journal the most is because you can actually remove the
pages and work with them without having to work inside the journal so all I did
is remove them from the 6x6 journal so I can work with them separately in order
to seal all the tape and make sure that it doesn't come apart
I took some thinner bare soft matte gel from Prima and just using my silicon
brush added a thin layer to the background so you just seal all the
tapes and make sure they don't peel off sometimes washi tape tends to peel off
when you're adding other mediums because it has very little tape behind it that
way you can easily remove it when you're using it in your planner but when I'm
using it for mixed-media I want to make sure it stays put in the background and
it just belongs to the background and the texture of the layout a heat set of
a gel really well and then I took one of the joggle stencils and some premium
marketing thin aware modeling paste and I wanted to create some more texture in
the background so I use this stencil to create these bubbly lines going across
in the same direction as the tape all I did is just use my silicon brush to just
add some texture and I didn't add it everywhere I just added in some areas
where the tape was and use the stencil in different lengths to make sure that
it wasn't even I did this to both backgrounds on either side and
then let it heat set with my heat tool the next step and this is an important
step is to add a little bit of a thin layer of gesso to the background you
could add clear just so if you want to leave all the background the way it is
and not have it covered up or like I'm doing here I'm using a very thin layer
of white gesso which I've watered down with some water this is easy to do as
you take a little bit of the white gesso and you just spray some water in it and
mix it that way you get a really thin layer it still protects the background
before adding the sprays but at the same time it doesn't cover the whole
background it doesn't cover the images that you have in there and you can
always add more gesso in those places that you want to cover so some places
are added more gesso and in some places added left just so depending on how much
coverage I want it but it becomes a really good primer too when you add the
sprays all you have to make sure is that once you added you dry it really really
well before you add the sprays once everything was dry really well it was
time to add this phrase I recently bought marabou acrylic sprays and let me
just tell you I'm in love with them they were on sale at JoJo's calm and I just
went ahead and bought myself a bunch of colors I bought some of my favorite
colors one of them is of course this turquoise looking color and I will list
all the colors below I can't remember the names of all of them but I will just
list them all below and then you can purchase the ones you want or the colors
that you want they are highly pigmented they're
acrylic based and once you heat set them they're permanent so they don't
reactivate with water the way other sprays do so all I started doing is
adding them with a small paintbrush onto the edge of my art journal and then
spraying water and letting it drip down between the different textures that I
added with the tape once I finished adding the turquoise I went in with a
second color which is a darker blue almost like a royal blue I think it's
called gentian this one I do remember the name and when they were mixing
together it created a beautiful color and now you can really see the tapes and
the textures especially the ones from the drywall so you can see how it's
going in between the netted tape and the one with the punchin Ella and it makes a
beautiful beautiful texture it's also going around the texture from the
stencil and it creates that beautiful pattern as well I did this exact same
thing on the other side I just went ahead and added some of the turquoise
color first and then I sprayed with water I did it the same way first with
the turquoise and then added the darker blue and it's really really beautiful to
see how they interact with each other although I love how it looks right now I
wanted to introduce a darker color this is a darker green or teal and it's also
really beautiful it's in the same shade of colors and it looks amazing together
with this one so what I did is I added some of this so it could drip in between
the textures and really add some darker shades to the background I did this of
course on both sides and as you can see that the edges are darker but you can
still see some of the designs from the washi tape which is what I wanted to
accomplish I only added a little bit of this darker shade and then I went ahead
and did the same thing on the other side so whatever I did to one side of the
page I also did to the other you don't have to work on a double journal page
you can only work you can go ahead and just use one side and do this on one
side or on a canvas or whatever you want these sprays work on any type of surface
I wanted to add a little bit of that lime green color again I don't remember
the name but I will definitely add it to the list underneath and I just
splattered a little bit and since the background was still a
little bit wet they kind of spread and created really nice highlights in
between the textures so first I just went ahead and did some splatters but
then I went with my paintbrush and just added a little bit of that greenish
yellowish tint on to the background I did have to heat set the darker colors
first because the lime-green was kind of mixing with the darker colors and I
wanted it to stand on its own so by heat setting the background I made sure that
the ink in the background is permanent and that way I can add some splashes of
the lime-green color and have it stain the background without mixing with the
other colors the next color I added was black and in retrospect I wish I would
have not added this black because I really loved the way it was looking with
the blue and greens but once I added it I realized that it was too dark so I had
to go with it and although it made it look beautiful and it really brought out
those colors I really felt that I could have done without it it did look really
nice with the black but I think looking back
I would have probably liked it without it as well
I did end up adding a little bit of black only and wiping it off the edges
and just adding at the top and letting it drip down and I tried not to add too
much because once I realized it was too dark I didn't want to add too too much
on it so and you can always add water in dilute things more in order for it to
become less dark I did the same thing of course on the other side and lent and
then dried it up I heat set this really well so I could then add some gold to it
probably I would have not added the gold had I not added the black but I wanted a
lighter color so I could kind of lighten and highlight the black a little bit
more since I had already added that black and because it changed the
look of the background I felt like I needed something a bit more shiny to add
to the background now this gold is really interesting this gold spray
because it has an element that looks almost white when you apply it the
medium inside that is mixed with the gold it looks white when you when it's
wet however once it dries it actually becomes a beautiful shiny gold and I
really liked how it looked because of that so although you see it looking kind
of whitish gold when it dries you're gonna see the beautiful shininess of the
gold itself and I did this on both sides just to add a little bit of that
beautiful shiny shimmering gold I heat set the gold really well so I could see
that beautiful shininess and then I took the same gold and I sprayed a couple of
leaf swags that are part of the joggled collection these are the watercolor art
parts and all I did is just spray them with some gold and then splatter them
with a little bit of that turquoise color that I had used at the beginning
this turquoise kind of mixed with the gold and spread and diffused and that
made it look really cool and then I dried it really well
these art parts watercolor art parts are made out of watercolor paper and they're
almost like laser-cut chipboard but they're made out of watercolor papers
you can paint them and use them for different things in this case I wanted
to add this Leafs onto my art journal and I wasn't sure how I was gonna do it
but I just painted two of them just in case because I wasn't sure how many I
needed when it came down to it I ended up cutting them and only using the top
of the leaf on both sides just to have the movement continue on towards the
center and then I grabbed two acetate words from Heidi Swapp which say enjoy
today and just added it to my I took some premising of airsoft matte
gel again and using my soft silicone brush I just glued the leaves and the
words to the background I tried not to add any gel on top of the Leafs because
I knew I wanted to outline them with a black marker
I took my black pasta pen and once the gel was dry I went around and I
highlighted some of the Leafs and created some designs and drilling inside
the leaves you have to make sure that the gel is fully dry and some places it
wasn't fully dry and it can ruin the tip and it did ruined it a little bit for me
but I tried to be very careful and not go where the gel was once I added all
the little Leafs and the outlines I was done with the layout but of course
before putting it back in the journal I took my gold spray again and started
splattering in the background I wanted to create some golden splatters to tie
it all in and match it to the rest of the golden elements finally I took the
two pages and I added them back into the journal by clicking it to the discs it's
quite easy to do and it makes it so easy to use these pages because of it thank
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