My Favorite Things...

Hello and welcome! Today I made a double page journal using Cottonwood Arts Coldpress Notebook and SinCity Stamps.

Todays supplies include:

Sin City Stamps Terri Sproul Art Journaling 2

Cottonwood Arts Coldpress Notebook 6.75 x 12

Stencils

Dictionary Paper

Molding Paste

Matte Medium 

Watercolor Paints

Lindy's Sprays 

Grey Stazon Ink

Black Stazon Ink

Gesso

Magazine Picture

Cardstock Flower

small lid

This month we are teaming up with a fabulous sponsor Cottonwood Arts. They have produced a line of coldpress journals and notebooks that can handle a large amount of medium for mixed media projects.

Today I am showing a double layout journal page featuring 

Sin City Stamps.

I started  with some ripped dictionary pages.  I placed small pieces horizontally and glued them down with Matt medium.

Next I used stencils with some molding paste. I knew roughly where I was going to place my focal image and worked around it.

With Grey Stazon ink  I started stamping with the background images from the Terri Sproul Art Journaling 2 line.

I also wanted these images in white so I used white gesso with my stamps. Keep in mind Gesso is an Acrylic so cleaning your stamps immediately is a must.  I used my finger to apply the gesso directly to my stamp. I used a small lid with white gesso to create  circles.

Next I started laying down some color with watercolors. I got a really cool resist effect when coloring on top of my stamped images.

I glued my focal image of Marilyn down with matte medium being careful not to get any medium anywhere but under my image as it will resist any colors I place on top. I wanted to tone down my colors so I created a wash with water and gesso and covered both pages. Seeing my focal image is black and white I wanted some darker colors. So I brought out my sprays and went to town with green, gold and browns.

More Stamps! Layers, layers, layers! Brick background stamp in black stazon. Next more stamping with gesso. I stamped the background words, I also stamped "My Favorite Things" beside her coffee cup.

I placed a cardstock rose in her hair and I made some of my texture pop by outlining certain elements with a black fine point pen. 

I hope you have enjoyed todays tutorial. I have to say I added alot of water and medium to this coldpress notebook and there was no piling or warping. Very impressed with this fabulous journal/notebook from Cottonwood Arts.

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Warmly, Peggy Oliver