Morning friends! Today I have the second art journal page I mentioned previously, This is another GSL DT post and for my inspiration, I will be showing another way to use the journal prompt cards that I made in this post.
To make this art journal page, I am going to use the prompt cards I mentioned above. There are many ways to use prompt cards and this is only one way. In the previous post in this series, I only pulled six cards. This time, I will keep pulling cards till I feel like the page is finished. I will be drawing one card at a time and obeying it before moving on to the next card. I shuffled my cards and then drew one prompt card as follows: SPRAY
I don’t much like spraying so I wasn’t so happy about drawing this card but I must obey the cards, so I used a Prima Color Bloom spray in Dark Tulip and added some water to make it spread around the page.
After drying with a hairdryer, I shuffled and drew a second card: COLLAGE
I chose to use these gel printed backgrounds for my collage and a few other bits and pieces that were lying on my desk.
I used matte gel medium to stick everything down on my page.
The next prompt I drew was: FOCAL POINT
This is something I might chose at the beginning but prefer to add at the end, however, I am obeying the cards so I had to add it to my page now. I had this image of Marie Antoinette on my desk and also this frame which I had previously painted gold, but the photo is the wrong shape for the frame so it was time to improvise.
I glued the image to the frame and then used the excess to fill in the gaps.
I used some Pitt artist pens to blend it all together and hide the joins in the paper a little bit.
Focal point added, it was time for another card, and this time I drew the COLOUR CARD. This card has six options and I rolled a 5 which was BLUE. I was a bit worried about adding blue to this page, but if the cards demand it…
I chose a Prussian Blue heavy body acrylic and painted it carefully around the sides of my page and other places, hoping that they didn’t clash too much.
Time for the next prompt and it was another colour card: BLACK OR WHITE
I chose WHITE as I thought the page needed a break from all that colour. I used Titanium White acrylic and a palette knife to apply it randomly over my page.
Once the white paint was dry, it was time to pull another card: SOMETHING METALLIC
Technically I already had something metallic on my page thanks to the gold frame, but that was not done specifically for this prompt so I decided to add more metallic to the page. Firstly a Champagne metallic Gelato scribbled across the page on top of the white paint. Then some gold ink splatters and finally some of the gold leaf collage pieces leftover from making the prompt cards themselves.
Time, for another prompt and this time it was: MAKE SOME MARKS
I used black pencils to make my marks around the edge of the page and to draw around the gold leaf collage pieces..
No drying time required so time for the next prompt: BOOK PAPER
I had these scrap squares of book paper on my desk and they were already painted blue, but a different shade of blue to what I used before, but I decided to use them anyway. So I glued them together to make a larger journalling block and then wrote this quote by Oprah Winfrey in white pen:
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness
So there we have it, after eight prompts, the page feels finished to me so I decided to stop pulling prompt cards and called it done.
Thanks for making it all the way to the end. Let me know what you think in the comments!
Challenges
#The100dayproject – Day 71-75 Book-to-Movie WIP
So why ATCs and why these books? Well in order to make it easier on myself and therefore make it more likely that I could do all 100 days, I thought ATCs would be perfect. Then I thought of book quotes handwriting them, perfect way to practice my lettering and also indulge my love of books. So what books? The first 25 books are all books with elements of magic in them (fantasy, supernatural, urban fantasy, vampires, witches, werewolves etc) and then I changed to modern fiction and so on but now with only 30 books left I have some difficult choices to make! As with the first 25 books, all books must be taken from my shelves and be actual physical books, no ebooks, no audiobooks! I have also started taking elements from the book covers and incorporating them in the ATCs so they are starting to look like mini book covers and we’ve been playing “name that book” in our book group lol. [icon name=”book-reader” style=”solid” class=”” unprefixed_class=””]
Blog Along with Effy – Day 24
Links to all the days of the April blog along
April 1st – Day 1 – You don’t have to be perfect to be amazing
April 2nd – Day 2 – Cat hammocks and sneak peeks
April 3rd – Day 3 – Favourite Children’s Books
April 4th – Day 4 – Green Crochet Socks Story
April 5th – Day 5 – A Short Family History of Scones
April 6th – Day 6 – Happy Tartan Day
April 7th – Day 7 The Unbearable Lightness of Old Wallpaper
April 8th – Day 8 Off with their heads my Queen
April 9th – Day 9 – Andy Warhol Cat
April 10th – Day 10 – Tiny Book Covers WIP
April 11th – Day 11 – Happy National Pet Day
April 12th – Day 12 – Collage Fodder, Recycling, Stealing from Kittens
April 13th – Day 13 – Company of Liars ATC Book Cover
April 14th – Day 14 – This is What Happens when you Make all the Things
April 15th – Day 15 – A Short History of Blogging, Tips, Tricks, AMA
April 16th – Day 16 – I just want to drink tea, pet cats and read books
April 17th – Day 17 – You Can Never Have Too Many Cats AJ
April 18th – Day 18 – Days 61-70 of #the100DayProject 2021 – Book Quotes on ATCs
April 19th – Day 19 – They Were A Thing of Strange Wild Edged Beauty
April 20th – Day 20 – There is nothing like a dream
April 21st – Day 21 – You are capable of more…
April 22nd – Day 22 – Earth Day AJ and Daniel Smith Swatching
April 23rd – More Tiny Book ATCs for World Book Day
April 24th – Today!
This month I decided to join in with Effy Wild’s blog along – 30 posts in 30 days and hope I can think if enough things to say. every. day. I’ll do my best to keep up. The idea is to blog every day but also to comment on other people’s blogs to keep the conversation going. There is a facebook group where you can link your posts and find other people’s to go visit and comment. During April you can find all the Blog Along posts linked on my home page for convenience. If you leave a comment, I’ll be sure to return the favour!
Art Journal Journey – Inspired By… April Challenge – This post was inspired by all the little leftover bits and pieces that were lying around on my desk and wanting to recycle as many of them off my desk and into my journal! I don’t like to throw anything out that can be useful but often it all ended up collected somewhere and not used, so this was a chance to use some of it up and make it useful!
Project Recipe:
Flourished Frame Elizabeth BB66A
In the gel prints: PE126ES Seaweed Circle *coming soon*, PE129ES Oceanic *coming soon*, Leafy Swirl C7G
my art journal, Prima color bloom spray dark tulip, collage materials, gel medium, photo, black pencil, heavy body acrylic, gold ink, PITT pens, gelatos, book paper, white pen, and of course, the journal prompt cards!
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I really love how your spread turned out.
Maybe I need some prompt cards 🙂 for when I’m stuck.
Ooh this is fun! Love the pages and the quote!