My Newest Addiction

I got my new ESV journaling bible today and it is beautiful!!!  There may or may not have been micron and gellyroll pens purchased as well.  Oh how i love this new journey of combining three great loves that i have: Bible + Art + Journaling. Yes, how great it is. Here is my first page in my new bible <3

Be Bold

This page was super fun and super super messy!!  I started by sharpening gold, pink/red, and orange crayons.  The first layer is gelatos (gold, blue, orange, and pink).  I made a cylinder out of paper, put a pile of crayon shavings inside, and used my heat tool to melt the wax.  You could probably use a chunk of a crayon as well, or a wax warmer.  After it was a puddle I tilted my page different ways.  Most of the wax is in the top left hand corner, but there is some gold coming from the bottom left corner as well.  I added the chevron stencil, writing stamp, carved into the wax with a fork, went over the "Be" with a painters pen, and stamped the "be you" at the bottom.  The silhouette is a magazine cutout.  I gesso'ed her first then applied acrylics.  I used a metallic jellyroll pen to add detail to the hair and fly-aways.

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Be Intentional Today

This is my first blog post on my art journaling.  I took pictures throughout the process so that I could make this post showing what I used and how.  I found a free book at the library about raising adolescent children, and since I have two young girls I decided to use it in my creative process.  I modge podged all of the ripped book pages down.  I then spread gesso all over the page.  I used a diamond stencil to help create the kite. 

I used gelatos for the background because they are transparent.  I put down the red first, then orange around the red, and yellow everywhere else.  I left the kite alone.  

Using a stencil and baby wipe, I wiped off some of the gelatos.  After this step I added modge podge over the entire page to keep the gelatos in place.  I had to add a pretty thick layer so that they wouldn't smear with my brush.  

Using a stencil and "Bleu Turquoise" acrylic paint I added the blue swirls randomly, again leaving the kite alone.  

I used H2O's shimmer watercolor to paint the kite.  The dragonflies were made with a stencil, a make-up sponge, and StaZon Jet black ink (my favorite ink ever).  I added two pieced of ephemera from the Maggie Holmes ephemera packs after distressing the edges.  I added gelatos around the edges of the camera to smear them in.  

I painted strips of book pages and cut them out with an xacto knife.  After adding them I added shading to the bottom of them.  

This is the final product.  I am happy with everything except the writing on the kite strings.  I either need to change from using modge podge or find a good pen to use for writing.  I went around the tree branch and edges of the page with a charcoal pencil.  

I hope you enjoyed this process post.  Please leave me comments!! :)