Art Journal page using Alcohol Inks

Good morning

Today's post shares an Art Journal page that I created using Alcohol Inks for my background

I don't use alcohol inks very often and am by no means an expert with them 

but I am very happy with the way my page turned out.

I have used Office One A4 180gsm Gloss Photo Paper for my base.

This paper came from my Mum and is not as glossy as some of the other gloss photo papers I have.

I wasn't sure if it was going to work but figured I would give it a try, nothing to loose right...

I sprinkled blending solution onto half of the A4 sheet. 

I decided to work on half the sheet at a time because the alcohol inks 

dry quite quickly and I did not want them to dry before 

I had the opportunity to move them around and get the look I was going for.

Next I added the alcohol inks.

I am using Paper Mill Shimmer alcohol inks for this page.

The colour I used are Lime Green, Grass, Ocean Blue and Sea Breeze

I also added a few drops of Slate, this is not a shimmer.

I used my Couture Creations "puffer" tool to move the ink around, adding more blending solution and ink 

as needed to get a nice all over cover

I then added several drops of Ranger Fixative in Gold. 

I did not move this around because I wanted it to look like gold splatter.

I set this aside to dry. You can dry it with your heat gun 

but I find that moves the colour around a bit more 

and I prefer to let it dry naturally.

To add more interest to my beautiful shimmery background 

I splattered some slightly watered down acrylic paints using my fan brush.

The paints I used were 

Black Gloss, Golden Turquoise, Sparkling Sapphire Pearl and White Frost Pearl.

The focal point for my page was created by using my Big Shot to die cut white cardstock 

using a Hexagon die I purchased from Downunder Scrapbooking. It is GD2056.

I cut it from both white and pearl gold cardstock to see which one I preferred.

I chose the white because it stood out from the background better.

I used Art Glitter glue to attach the hexagons to the page.

To help my hexagons look like they are part of the page 

and to help them stand out a little more I used my Stabile All pencil in black

 and a water brush to shade around each hexagon.

I used a black fine point Sharpie to draw a double lined border 

around the page and then coloured black squares between those two lines.

A Copper 250 Opaque Texta marker was used to fill in the blank squares in the border. 

This colour is very close to the colour of the gold splatters in the background.

A fine white scribbly border, made with my fineliner bottle and watered down acrylic paint, 

was added to the inside of the border to finish it off.

I like to mix fonts for my quotes so I have used 

Kaisercraft's DD735 Uppercase Alpha die and black cardstock

 to cut "OPEN" and then printed "your mind" onto copier paper

to complet the quote.

I used Art Glitter glue to attach the title to the page.

A 0.7mm white Posca pen was used to highlight the black letters.

I have to say I really enjoyed making this page.

I love the look you get with alcohol inks and plan on using them more frequently in the future.

I have a process video

I hope you enjoy watching it.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

 

Live your best Life Art Journal page

Hello, hello

Welcome to my blog today where I want to show you an art journal page I have just completed.

I used Gelatos to colour the background. The colours I used are

Lemon, Red Cherry, Tangerine, Gold Champagne and Butter Cream

Once the colours were dry I gave my page a coat of Boyle Matt Spray

to seal it so the colours would not move when I added any other mediums.

I cut the circles from both white and black cardstock using Kaisercraft DD942 Stitched Circle Die.

I used pearl acrylic paints to colour the circles.

I gave each circle a couple of coats of a light colour 

then shaded around the edges with a darker tone of the same colour.

The colours I used are Duncan brand pearl acrylics

Lemon Drop, Powder Blue, Sparkling Sapphire, Bright Turquoise, Golden Aqua, Golden Lime, Golden Turquoise, and Green

I also used Folk Art Metallic Pure Gold

I stencilled onto the background using a 13@rts broken circles stencil.

Firstly I used Duncan Natural Texture (gritty paste) in Pumpkin

then Duncan Pearl White acrylic paint.

The stamping on the background is done with Archival Jet Black Ink 

and an assortment of circle stamps.

One of the stamps is Kaisercraft's Stains stamp set 

and the other two are unknown brands.

I used my black Stabilo All pencil and a wet brush to shade around each of the circles 

before giving them a scribbly border using slightly watered down

 black acrylic paint in a Fineliner bottle.

The same bottle of paint was used to draw a scribbly border around the page.

I gave each of the circles a highlight using a flat brush and some watered down white acrylic paint.

The same watered down paint was used with my fan brush to add a good amount of splatters to my page.

The quote has been stamped using Tim Holtz Cling foam stamps from the block lower alphas set.

The centre part of the quote was printed using my Brother PTouch label maker.

There is a lot of texture and shine on this page.

Here is my process video for you to check out

As always, thanks for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe,

Hugs

Julie