Autumnal Art Journal Page by Melina Dahl
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Hello!
It´s Melina here today with a
step-by-step on how I made this autumnal art journal page.
Here´s what I did:
I started by drawing a tree shape
and glued down some buttons to make the tree crown more dimensional. I cut it
out and coated the whole tree with That's Crafty! White Gesso. I then added
That's Crafty! Texture Sand Paste on the tree trunk and Light Texture Paste on
the tree crown.
While the tree was drying I
started on the background. I stamped the script stamp from That's Crafty! Textures Stamp Set 1. I then took That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints in Red, Green and Yellow , diluted with water to get a watercolour look and
painted/splashed onto the page. When dry I stamped the birds from Lynne's Affirmations Set 2.
I painted the tree with That's
Crafty! Multi Surface Paints in Brown, Green, Yellow and Red. I adhered the tree
to the page with That's Crafty! Multi Purpose Craft Adhesive. Once again I
diluted the paints and painted a ground for the tree to stand on. I stamped my
sentiment directly on the page using one of the quotes from That's Crafty! Inspirational Quotes Stamp Set 2.
Here I was not too happy about
how dominant the black birds looked, and wanted to push them a bit to the
background. I diluted some white gesso and went over them to make them softer.
Finally I used brown Distress ink and a waterbrush to outline the tree and my
page was finished.
Product list:
That's Crafty! Multi Surface Paints: Brown, Green, Red, Yellow
Thank you for stopping by today!
7 comments
Fabulous!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful composition Melina and fabulous dimension achieved with the pastes. An inspiring piece that would be a joy to look at each morning.
ReplyDeleteBig Hugs Tracey xx
Amazing capture of a tree!
ReplyDeleteIt is so very beautiful Melina, and a wonderful button idea :-) Hugs, Dorthe
ReplyDeleteA gorgeous textured journal page Melina and the button idea for the treetop is inspired. Beautiful background too.
ReplyDeleteFliss xx
Really beautiful Melina, what a pity we can’t reach out and feel that yummy texture though :)
ReplyDeleteHugs
Donna xx
What a fabulous idea for added texture, great make
ReplyDeleteLove
Amanda x
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