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Art By Marlene Art Journal Page – May Flowers

Today I am sharing another Art Journal page using the gorgeous Art By Marlene Products. During the month of May we have a Flower challenge over on the FaceBook page so it is fitting that Flowers are the theme for the entire month. I have been playing around with interesting edges for a while and I loved how this edge turned out.

I have being loving interesting edges so this page was always going to have an edge using a flower stamp and cut out to form my edge. But let me tell you about how the background started.

I had a left-over piece of a large Prima rub-on and added bits and pieces onto my page. It had some colour on it with lots of bare space. Next I added a stenciled Art By Marlene Butterfly using navy blue acrylic paint. It didn’t quite go where I had envisioned it….
{here you can see my next paint peeking through on the edge of the paint – it adds so much interest to the page as well}

So I painted the entire page with a layer of white gesso. Enter the stamped Art By Marlene floral stamps on the edge of the page. I only added colour to the center image using a combination of watercolour paint, and alcohol markers.

I added a sentiment sticker and some final finishing touches using my scribble sticks, paint splatters and white acrylic paint.

I love how this page turned out – the stamped edge and the bright pink is my favorite part of this page, but the butterfly peaking through on the background has my heart.

I hope you are inspired by stamping some flowers on the edge of your pages and creating some interest – and remember to add layered of paint and ink and elements. Until next time – keeping on creating and throwing paint on a page. Jow x

Mindfulness while Making – Alcohol Inks

Has lockdown gotten to you yet? If it has, you are not alone – just know that it is OK to not be ok right now. But maybe it’s time to try to do something creative – even if it’s in your pj’s and your hair needs a wash and the house is a mess…it’s all OK. I try and do something creative every day, even if it’s just throwing ink onto a piece of paper and not really making anything – the paper might even end up in the trash. And that’s OK. Really it is.
Today I added ink onto white sticker labels – I didn’t make anything. I just coloured labels and it was a good day.
Here’s how I did it…I used white office labels and Couture Creations Alcohol Inks to add colour to them. Add some blending solution onto the labels and then drop some alcohol ink in a single colour onto the labels. Use a hairdryer on slow speed and cool setting and move the ink around until dry.
Add some more blending solution and a second colour of alcohol ink and again move the ink around until dry.
Use StazOn ink and stamp quotes onto the labels or names or flowers or anything that grabs your fancy.
These labels can now be turned into something, anything really – they can be used on an art journal page, as name labels on your kid’s school books or as decorative elements in your diary.
But what’s important is that you made something – you added some colour to your day, you sparked that part of your soul that needs you to be creative, and even if that is the only thing you did today – it was a great day!
You are OK, we are OK.

Products Used

Art By Marlene Mixed Media

Are you playing along with the #MayflowerMarlene challenge during May? Then pop on over to the Facebook group and come and play along with us.
I am a couple of days behind but playing along as and when I can – its all about flowers, and with all the gorgeous blooms from the Art By Marlene range you shouldn’t have any issues playing along.
Thanks for stopping by – see you over in the challenge group.