We hope you are all having a pleasant weekend. Whether it’s self-love, Valentine’s, or just a beautiful day we offer all of our love to you. Take some time to look at this beautiful anniversary mixed media journal entry.
What You Will Need:
- Stencil1 Soft Chains Stencil
- Stencil1 Industrial Font Stencil
- Stencil1 PATTERNS #2 Stencil 8 Pack
- Baked Texture Powder from Seth Apter, White Cloud, Eclipse, and Taos Sunset (or other embossing powders)
- Paper Artsy Fresco Finish Paints, Sand, Blah Mange, Bubble Gum, Cerise, and Inky Pool. (Or like acrylics)
- Golden Shading Gray Fluid Acrylic
- Small Paint Brush
- Dictionary Pages
- UHU Glue Stick
- Paper Artsy EM53 Stamp
- Script Stamp from Dawn Houser
- Archival Ink Pad in Black and Coffee
- Clear Embossing Pad
- Navy Blue Or Black Thread
- Collage or Marbled Papers
- A standard Hole Punch
- A Waxed Seal Stamp
- Watercolors or Gouache Paint
- Vintage Collage Elements
“Hitched” is a journal entry inspired by a prompt “pink” in the #creative6daychallenge. I painted two adjoining pages in a Stillman and Birn journal with PaperArtsy Sand mixed with a little White Gesso. I next painted a few vintage dictionary pages in PaperArtsy Blah Mange, Bubble Gum, and Cerise. I ripped these into strips and glued them down with a UHU glue stick in a shingle-like format.
I used some brown Archival Ink on a stamp with some French writing over the shingles in spots for some added interest.
I next used the Soft Chains Stencil and sponged on clear embossing ink from a pad through the design and removed the stencil. I sprinkled White Cloud Baked Texture Powder onto the clear wet ink and shook off the extra onto a piece of paper. Heat setting the powder with an embossing or heat tool reveals the magic of the embossing powder and makes such a crisp image from the stencil.
This brick pattern stencil from the Patterns #2 Stencil 8 Pack was next calling my name and used it by sponging Brown Archival ink through in random spots. I heat set and then replaced the stencil back over the pattern and sponged on clear embossing ink in spots and used Taos Sunset Baked Texture Powder to add that real brick texture.
I remembered a great wrapping paper with cherry blossoms from The Paper Source that I used and cut out the image, gluing down with a glue stick in the upper right over my “brick wall”. I then pulled out The Industrial Font Stencil to graffiti my wall with my and my husband’s initials also using clear embossing ink with Eclipse Baked Texture Powder (I created the plus sign with the lower case L.). I also added a bit of Eclipse Texture Powder at the right top and left pages to tie in the initials.
I added some punched circles in marbled paper and glued down pencil lining after placement so they were a bit more dimensional.
I also outlined the individual pink shingles with Shading Gray Fluid acrylic ink from Golden to shadow. I next watered down some Inky Pool PaperArtsy paint and splattered over the bricks and cherry blossoms (covering the collage elements to protect). Using custom gold marbled wax, and the stamper, I took the Japanese calligraphy and stamped it with the string right below it. The string was tied into a neat little bow.
I colored the collage element with some Japanese watercolors and edged the outside of both pages with brown and black ink to the border and typed “5 Years 2-14-21” which is my 5 year anniversary and slipped it on the side of the calligraphy. Best Valentine’s Day Ever ;).
Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️❤️❤️
This is another beautiful post from Tracy Hickman (@anonymous.palette on Instagram).
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