February Art Journal Pages

 

February. A new month and that means an art journal page swap in Creative Crafty Friends. This month we made two pages. One was supposed to have animals and the second was supposed to be some of our own original art. Let me show what I made and mailed out. 

I began like I do most projects - with a gelli print. I trimmed it down to 5" x 7" and inked those edges with black Archival ink. The black dots for texture were added with a stencil, a finger dabber and the same ink pad - using my dab and stab technique. The washi tape was a surprise sent to me from Joggles. And the mushrooms are a snippet off one of Barb's collage sheets. This was the base for my animals page. 

These are the animals and critters I wanted to use. Plus I had a couple backups in case this didn't work. Here I was just playing with placement of elements - where each would look best. I knew the rabbit and the cat were my primary pieces. 

Each of these animals and birds came from collage sheets Barb has on the Joggles site. I ran them through my sticker machine, trimmed them out and popped them in place. The sentiment came from a Studio Light Art by Marlene set. Looking good so far, but missing some finishing touches. 

The pink and teal dots (those are my colors) were made with Jane Davenport's Paint Over Pens. I used watercolors to fill in the glasses and the detail work on the bunny's shirt. 

These critters really didn't need much help, all I added here was some little white dots along the edge of the sentiment. And called page one done √

I have made several similar to this recently so I won't bore you with the steps. It did begin with a gelli print which allows for plenty of texture. I used techniques I learned in Tracy Weinzapfel's 5 Day Postcard Challenge class. Two art journal pages complete and already sent off to their new home. Hope she loves them!

The gel prints were made with my Gelli Arts' gel printing plates on Bristol paper from Hahnemühle. The perfect combination!

Gel printing plates can be purchased by clicking here.

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