Art Journal

Hello everyone Candy here with another Off the page project. A group of my friends came to me and wanted to make an art journal, so I put my thinking cap on and this is what I came up with.

I started with an A4 2 ring binder , covered it with some canvas that I pulled off an old canvas from my stash. Then I painted it all with some gesso this is to help prep the canvas and to seal it. I used a flower/swirl mask and some texture paste.  Inside and out and then waited for this to dry. I used different coloured sprays and waited for it to dry again. I used a script stamp and archival ink and stamped here and there, then run the stamp pad over the outside, just to give it some colour.

I used the 12x12 inch round butterfly frame from Memory Maze, cut it in half and daubed some texture paste over it and dried it well. When it was dry I sprayed with gold and sepia sprays. The extra butterflies form the pack I coloured with the prima ink pads and glued one on top of each other.

I glued half to the front and the other half onto the back of my folder.

Memory Maze product used

12x12 round butterfly frame

Products from my stash

A4 2 ring binder
Canvas and gell medium ( I used this as glue)
Gesso, Texture paste and flower/ swirl mask, rose/word mask
Prima gold foil and cotton candy sprays
Lindy's steam punk sepia, wild honeysuckle coral and time travel teal sprays
Prima chalk inks blossom tree, teal damask, pastel peach and knotted wood
Archival inl coffee, small script stamp
lace and dyed seam binding
Metal embellishments, white doily I coloured this with gold spray
hand made stick pins