Alternate Take On Christmas Art Journal Page

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. For the month of December, the team is doing an Alternate Take on Christmas theme. For my journal page, I colored the pines with color blue instead of the traditional brown. 

The stencil I used on this page is BPM Pinecones stencil.

Since I am doing a multi-color inking on the stencil, I masked the areas I don't want to apply the blue ink on. There are masking papers available in the market but I used Post-It Notes instead.

I started with the lightest ink color, blending this all over the pine cones. I used a larger blending brush for this purpose. For the detailing, in which I applied the darker blue ink on some parts of the pine cone, I used a smaller blending brush. I wiped off the blue ink before proceeding to the next step.

 

I applied brown ink on the branches. I also used a small blending brush for this. Since the brush is smaller, a mask is not necessary. I needed to hold the stencil secure. I don't trust my inky fingers. To keep the pine cones free of another ink, I used a Post-It Note to put my fingers on as I keep the stencil down while I blend the brown ink on the branches.

I used another small blending brush to blend green ink on the leaves.

You can stop here but I did not like the uncolored spaces in between the prickly parts of the pine cones.

Using the left over ink on the blending brush, I blended ink on the Post-It Notes that I used for masking. 

I only blended ink over the pine cones.

I cut an opening on this Post-It Note. I cut off the stenciled pine cone.

I positioned this mask back on the art journal, lining the opening to the ink blended pine cone on the art journal. 

I blended a lighter blue ink on this open area, over the ink blended pine cone.

I inked the BPM Handwritten Note Art rubber stamp with gray dye ink.

I tapped this to the open areas surrounding the pine cones. I did not use a stamping block since I just want a part of the stamp impression. 

I even used second generation stamping to add some interest to the background.

I wrote a pine cone quotation. I blended ink on the edges, using a rectangular paper to mask the center portion of the page. 

I hope you like today's project. 

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Maria Giselle B.

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