Guest Designer Frieda Oxenham

Here is the tutorial for this project that is inspired by the stencils I used, specially the Stencilgirl® Guts Bird shapes:

1.     Using a selection of previously painted or gelli plate printed papers, tissue paper, vintage book pages and postage stamps, collage them onto 2 facing pages of a 7x9” ring-bound art journal.

2.     Paint over the pages with watered down white gesso and drop some pink acrylic ink on top.

3.     Repeat step 2 but using gold acrylic ink.

4.     Add a final layer of watered down gesso

5.     Using a permanent black inkpad, stamp the pages randomly with a textured stamp. I used Circles and Dots from Carabelle, now sadly no longer available.

6.     Using  Distress Crayons, add a variety of colours to the pages and then remove using a baby wipe through the B stencil of the July 2024 StencilClub. Spray with some water to let the colours run. 

7.     Using gold paint and cosmetic wedge, stencil on the pages using the same stencil as in step 6. 

8.     Using gold acrylic paint and stencil S893 Triangle Leaves with Masks, add gold leaves to the pages and outling with black pen. 

9.     Using an 8 x 10” gelli plate add several colours of acrylic paint to the plate and take prints on copy paper.

10.  Add white acrylic paint to the plate and put the same stencil as used in step 6 on top of the plate, and take prints on the papers made in step 9. Remove the stencil and take more prints. Needless to say I made quite a few papers but in the end only used one for this project. Always good to have a choice!

11.  Using one of the birds from SG01 Stencilgirl Shapes – Birds and the paper from step 10, mark the shape on the paper twice, using a pencil and cut both birds out. Glue onto the pages and outline with a permanent black marker. 

12.  Glue on postage stamps and text to the pages and outline with a black marker.

13.  Edge the sides of the pages with a permanent black marker.

©Frieda Oxenham 2024