Washi Solution: Organization or On-The-Go

Today I was deciding what washi tapes I wanted to use in my planner and how I could take them with me on-the-go.  I started looking for old packaging I could use that had a plastic feel.  I couldn't find anything, so I cut up a 12 x 12 card stock into strips that would easily fit in the pack of my planner.  I ended up making four strips and laminating them to get the plastic feel.  Having the plastic coating allows the washi to be removed easily.  

I started adding the washi!

Every couple rows I would make marks with a ruler to keep them straight.

I ended up using the last of several roles, which is fine because I plan to put away the box of washi until I need to replenish sections of the laminated card stock.

I ended up making a lot more room in the tray I use for storing washi.  

Here is the final product!  I really like them and I plan on keeping them in my small tote I use for my planner, handlettering, and bible journaling.  It pretty much just hold my go-to products such as alphas, microns, markers, glue.....and so on.  Now I have all my washi in one place, and its so compact!

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Love

 Hello!  I'm back with another process in pictures post.  This one is one of my favorites because of the pretty colors and grunge look.  I started by laying down torn book pages using matt medium.  

I set chipboard letters on my page and sprayed over them with "berry" alcohol ink.  I added black acrylic paint to the right edge and dry brushed over the rest of the page to make the book page edges stand out.  

I made puddles of blue alcohol ink, made splatters by hitting my paint brush in it, and added some on other places on the page to make some purple.  I prayed a piece of burlap with "butterscotch" alcohol ink and adhered it with matte medium.  I went over the black on the page with sandpaper to give it more of a grudge look.  

I added a peice of washi, random clump of thread, and a button.  I wish I wouldn't have but I added gold acrylic to the burlap.  I also added some more black acrylic to the washi.  

I added butterflies with a stencil and StaZon metallic silver ink.  The circles are a stamp that I made.  I also added unreadable writing stamp with blue StaZon.  I went around the edges of the letter and butterflies with a super fine painters pen.  

I added gesso over the entire page with a card and added a black stamp to the top butterfly.  I went around all the edges with the painters pen, smearing as I went.  The smaller letters are stamps that I went over again with the painters pen.  

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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!! :)