Let Your Dreams Bloom

Hi Friends!

Sharing her personal approach to art journaling and an absolutely stunning rich spread, Sanda summed up ever so beautifully the whole ideaof this art form.

Sanda also played and experimented with my new Impasto paints and I'm sure you will want to try her ideas yourselves!

I'd also like to announce the winner of my New Products Giveaway!

Thank you all for your sweet comments that really warmed my heart. :)
Everyone was so enthusiastic and you have to know that this is what always keeps me going - to know you will take my products and express yourselves creating more beauty in the world...

There were many comments I really liked but I had to choose just one person and this person is...

... Anna K. ...

Anna - congratulations! Please, contact us sending your mailing address to missmoth1@gmail.com to claim your prize!

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Hello wonderful people,

Today I’m back with an art journal spread that I hope will brighten your day with its cheerful colours and message.

I wasn’t always an art journaler, but lately, I am drawn to it more and more, as I find it a very freeing exercise as well as a totally safe space where I can always go and experiment with new techniques, try out new supplies or just tell a story and create to my heart’s content.

I started my page by applying a coat of Heavy White Gesso to my pages using a Finnabair brush and dried it with my heating tool.

In order to paint my background, I diluted a few of the new Art Alchemy Impasto paints, applied them randomly on my pages, spritzed more water on top, covered the page with plastic wrap (trying to create as many crinkles as possible) and left everything dry naturally, which will take about 2 hours.

As you’ll see in my video, I tried to experiment with quite a few different techniques in applying my Impasto paints, to give you a taste of how they behave and react and I must say they are just gorgeous!!! So easy to work with, their consistency is perfect, very good load of pigment not to mention the luscious colours 😊 They are a must on every crafter’s working table, my friends!

Going back to my pages – after I repeated this step several times, adding more colours each time and let my background dry completely, I sketched two gerbera daisy-like flowers with a white charcoal stick.

In order to create the centre of the flowers and give my pages some really cool texture, I glued down a mixture of Mega, medium and Mini Art Stones with 3D Matte Gel.

Next, I painted the centre black and, while the paint was still wet, I sprinkled Black Micro Beads, Black Glass Glitter and fine Glitter for a bit of sparkle. I am not a very “glittery” person, but I must admit I absolutely loved the effect.

My next step was to give the petals a base coat of paint using the Impasto paints and then, I did some shading and put the highlights using the Art Alchemy Metallique acrylics which brought my flowers to life giving them a wonderful, soft shine which enhanced perfectly the base colour.

Then, I fussy cut a lovely old photo of three little girls from Finnabair Vintage Collectibles Ephemera pack and collaged the image, a few chipboard tiny stars and the stamped words using 3D Matte Gel.

As a finishing touch, I diluted some Snow White Impasto paint and using the end of a brush I painted some dots on my petals.
I have also highlighted the texture using Art Alchemy White Gold Wax and Mica Powder.

Here is my video where you can watch my creative process and see all the products I used.
Enjoy and have fun!

I hope you enjoyed and got inspired by my new art journal page and you are ready to create some magic of your own. 😊

Have a wonderful day and a great and creative week, my friends,

xoxo

Sanda

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