Acrylic & Stencils on Art Journal

Hello! Welcome back to the BPM blog. I have an art journal page for today's post. I repurposed an old, unused planner into an art journal. This is a where I can experiment with my craft supplies and just be playful.

I used the following Blank Page Muse Products on this page:

• Summer Wildflowers Postoids Collage Art Rubber Stamp
  
• Sunflower and Dragonflies reusable plastic art Stencil

I stamped the collage stamp on a lightweight paper using a brown dye ink. I adhered the rubber stamp to the stamp positioner using a washable glue stick.

I pressed the inked stamp to the paper. The great thing about using a stamp positioner is that I can re-ink and re-stamp the images if I I did not get a good initial stamped impression. 

I cut the stamped postoids separately so I can create a frame on my art journal. 

I positioned the postoids on my page, making sure that there are no alike postoids next to each other.

I adhered the postoids to the journal page.

After I adhered all the postoids, I created a window on this page using a craft knife. I placed a small glass cutting board underneath this page so as not to cut the next page. I cut an x on this page.

From the x cut, I created the window using a pair of scissors and using the postoids as a guide.

My postoid frame came out shorter than the journal page. I trimmed off the excess. On hindsight, I should have started adhering the middle postoids to evenly distribute the postoids on the page length.

I used the craft knife to smoothen out the inner edges of the frame.

Now, I have a window opening. Time to work on the next page.

I die cut a white lightweight cardstock using a postage die. I want to keep the postage edges white so I masked the edges with an artist's tape. To lessen the stickiness of this tape, I adhered it to my skin and pulled it off several times. You can also do this on a piece of cloth like your shirt or pants if you don't want to do it on your skin. 

I adhered the tape on the postage edges using the stitched lines created by the die as a guide.

I positioned the stencil over the white postage die cut. I used a sticky mat which keeps the stencil in place. You can use tape and/or a temporary adhesive spray for this purpose if you don't have a sticky mat.

I colored the openings of the stencil using acrylic markers. 

Acrylic markers are more opaque. The beauty of it is you can color on top of another color without altering the original color. This property of this marker makes blending a bit of a challenge.

I colored the center of the sunflower with a brown acrylic marker.

I used black for highlight since I have limited colors of acrylic markers. It worked though.

I colored the stem with a green acrylic marker. I did not like the first green marker I used. I colored over the green ink that I did not like.

I continued coloring until all the openings of the stencil was colored. 

I actually love how the strokes of the marker added texture to the flower.

Moving on with the project, I traced the window of the first page on the next art journal page.

Using these pencil lines as a guide, I adhered a yellow washi tape to frame the postage die cut and also add a pop of yellow to the page when viewing it from the window.

I hope you like today's project. 

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Have a blessed, brilliant and creative day!

Maria Giselle B.

of Maria Giselle's Creative Cuts 

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