Hi everyone! My name is
Jen (aka ozegran)!
Today I'm using Pam
Carriker's Door to Heart 9 stencil which I absolutely fell in love with the
moment I spotted it!
So then came the art
journal process!
I tore a page from my
160g (98lb) Canson Mix Media Watercolor journal and started on the background.
I decided not to apply
gesso to the page but went directly to my background using Tim Holtz’s Distress
Oxides in ‘cracked pistachio’, ‘mermaid lagoon’, ‘broken china’, ‘peeled paint’
and ‘peacock feathers’, and a 10”x 8” Gelli plate.
I applied the distress
oxides onto the 10”x 8” gelli plate using a mini brayer, then lightly spritzed
water onto the gelli plate. I had to do this a few times because my paper was
larger than the gelli plate, but that gave it more interest I thought.
As the distress oxides
are very muted I thought I’d add some Lindy’s Stamp Gang Magicals to add some
shimmer to the background. I used ‘bavarian blue’, ‘Naples yellow hue’ and
‘bratwurst brown’. I strategically applied the Magicals where I wanted them
based on the layout of the Door to Heart 9 stencil.
Then I
turned to my favorite colors (blues and browns) and just go for it! So I
positioned the stencil down onto the page, took some ‘paynes gray’, ‘prussian
blue’, ‘mars black’, ‘burnt sienna’ and ‘iridescent copper’ acrylic paints and
started sponging.
I wanted the door frame colored, so I took some Prussian blue and painted it as well as
the steps.
Next I took some ‘pearl white’ Lumiere acrylic
paint and swiped it over the blue which gave it some texture.
Once the base of the
door frame and steps was done I decided to add a couple of birds on the
branches. The stamps I used were from the ‘13th hour’ set by KaiserCraft. For
this I heat embossed one bird and inked the other. I also had them facing away
from each other.
I used VersaMark clear
embossing ink and Ranger ‘turquoise’ antiquities embossing powder on one of the
birds. The other I stamped with Ranger ‘jet black’ archival ink.
As soon as I saw this
stencil I looked at the heart and immediately thought of the name for my page –
LOST. So I decided to stamp the word LOST using VersaMark clear embossing ink
and heat set it with Celebrations of Australia ‘saturn pearl’ embossing powder.
The stamp set used was the ‘blind melon’ alphabet set by Traci Bunkers.
Now I needed to blend it
all together so took out my water soluble oil pastel Portfolios in ‘black’,
‘cerulean’, ‘medium brown’, ‘rust’ & ‘white, along with a ‘prussian blue’
water soluble wax pastels by Reeves. I also added some Faber-Castell ‘gold
champagne’ Gelatos to the mix!
You could tell where the
steps of the stencil ended with a straight edge so I decided to blend the
darker colors into that bottom left corner.
Once the shading was
done I knew it needed something else added to it because it just looked too
dark. So I took a white uni POSCA 0.9-1.3mm paint pen and added a quote along
the right side, then took a white extra fine point Sharpie paint pen and
defined the steps a bit more which gave them some much needed highlights.
Next I took some Heidi
Swapp ‘gold’ Color Shine and added some splats, then watered down some gesso
and using a fan brush added more splats!
Thanks so much for visiting StencilGirl® Talk today!
You can follow my
journey on social media here:
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/ozegran
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ozegran/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ozegran
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com.au/ozegran/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ozegran
Google+: https://plus.google.com/+ozegran
Thanks so much for the amazing opportunity to be a guest blogger 😄 Your stencils make it so easy to just play and have fun!
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Jen
Really great way to use the stencil! Love the colors you used!
ReplyDeleteYOU ARE AWESOME!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou are biased lol but thanks Kerry-Ann 😀
DeleteThanks Diane �� Still dark but there are bright colours too ��
ReplyDeleteLove this - and love the way your video showed your whole working process.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Terry. I include everything in my how to videos to show the struggles, the fun, the uglies and that it doesn’t always come easy. Those new to art journaling need to see the mess before the success of a completed page that they are happy with, or not. It’s a process that should be free of rules and just plain fun and play ��
DeleteCongrats! Always love how you create your backgrounds <3
ReplyDeleteThanks Zandra 😀
DeleteIs it me that I see a woman's head with a Shaw on her head and the birds and such as her facial features? I suppose not because allot of us artist see faces. Love ya Jennie.... well done!
ReplyDeleteLOL Dar, we always see faces in our work 😀
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Beautiful work and article!! Thank you for sharing your talents!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ketsia 😀❤️
DeleteAbsolutely love it Jen. Do hope I get to connect live with you one of these days. Will try and get notifications set up on youtube. Congrats on the designer gig. You deserve it.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much Sandi 😀❤️
DeleteI stream Thursdays 8pm Eastern USA time until they go back to standard time, in which case it will be 7pm
What a surprise to see you here as a guest designer. Doorways are great to work with and yours is awesome. thanks as always for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThe stencil I used was just calling out to me to be used. As soon as I saw it I had to use it. There are so many ways to use this type of stencil. Thanks so much 😀
DeleteWhat an amazing gorgeous art journal page! Loved the process, thank you for sharing!
ReplyDeleteI love this stencil too. Love all the supplies you used to create your finished project. Thanks for sharing!
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