Guest Designer Frieda Oxenham

Here is my September project inspired by summer. Our Scottish summer this year hasn’t been the best but there have still been days when it felt and looked tropical. I always try and hold on to that during the winter months to come.

This is the tutorial:

1.     Working in a 7 x 9” ring bound journal on 2 facing pages, I covered the pages in paint using 4 different colours of acrylic paint, including one metallic gold one. While the pages were still wet I dropped water on them and then rolled a paper towel over them to dry the pages. I also rolled a textured brayer to add more interest.

2.     Brush white and gold acrylic paint onto the pages and remove again through the A stencil of the June 2024 StencilClub, using a baby wipe.

3.     Drip on green liquid acrylic ink and spray with water to make it spread. Distribute it around the pages by moving the journal in different directions.

4.     Repeat step 2 with both blue and green paint.

5.     Stencil on the pages using stencil S970 Yin with pink Stencil Butter and a cosmetic wedge.

6.     Using stencil L719 Jardiniere outline one of the vases on a piece of blue and white dots wrapping paper, embellish with permanent coloured markers, cut out and glue onto the pages.

7.     Using a variety of green acrylic paints, stencil on leaves using the medium stencil of the December 2021 StencilClub. Outline with turquoise permanent market.

8.     Add a flower to each vase by tracing through stencil L600 Mosaic Flowers. Colour with permanent paint markers. Outline with a black Stabilo All pencil.

9.     Using stencil L211 Simple Geo Circles and a previously gelli plate painted page (I used one left over from my July 2024 project) mark out circles on that page and cut out. Glue them onto the pages and outline with water soluble oil pastels.

10.  Using stencil S767 Crocodile Repeating, stencil on titanium white paint and pink spray ink. Spray with water to make the spray ink run. 

11.  Drip on some red Bombay ink

12.  Outline the circles with a permanent white marker

13.  Glue on text

© Frieda Oxenham 2024