Hi everyone,
I love creating lace cut pages in my journals, spending time cutting our intricate designs and messages which images and text can peek through from behind. But sometimes I want to create something similar in a quarter of the time. So if this sounds like you as well – this is the blog post for you!
To begin, paint a large red heart on your double journal page. I used the small 4 x 4 masks to help me work out what size heart I needed, but any size will do. Once I have painted the heart I chose to journal inside the space. I call this a brain dump as I just write every thought in my head down that is bothering me. I write in really messy writing, overlapping text and little to no spacing. I don’t want to read the journaling again, just getting the thoughts out, so it doesn’t need to be legible.
Once I have journalled, I use the 3 small masks to hide the journaling with black paint and create a faux lace cut page. If you don’t want to use text masks like me – any decorative stencil over the top will so – you just want to have the journaling peek through from below. Once I’ve finished stenciling, I neaten up the edges with the black paint.
To recreate the Greek chorus of advice echoed in my journaling, I used a mix of face stencils to fill in the background. Overlapping the images and focusing on the eyes helps to create a cohesive background. I also added some white paint pen to the whites of the eyes and a catchlight so that the eyes are a real focus on the page.
Finally, I added some extra line detail using a white paint pen around the border of the heart, a drop shadow on the lettering and some additional doodling through another stencil to add some extra detail and interest to large areas of black in the heart.
Here is a step by step video of me creating this page from start to finish:
Here is a list of the StencilGirl® stencils I have used in this project to create this art journal page:
Pretty as a peacock Mini M305:
Thank you so much for stopping by the blog. I hope that this video has inspired you to get into your journals and create something beautiful using the fabulous face stencils.
Happy Creating,
Niamh
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What a stunning background! I love the way the whole thing turned out. Thanks much, Niamh!
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