Hi friends and welcome to another fabulous StencilGirl blog hop and giveaway! As many of you already know, today is Earth Day and in honor of the occasion, the StencilGirl Design Team is featuring projects done in our Resketch book. What’s a Resketch book you ask? It’s a mini-blank book that has a lot of recycled paper inside. It’s really cool and is perfect for art journaling, writing or for however you want to use it. It’s also small enough to take with you anywhere! I chose to use my book as an art journal. I was scratching my head (or rather trying to get my brain to work, lol) as to what to put inside when sweet Mary Nasser reminded me of a recent event that was definitely worth remembering and journaling about. Nearly a month ago, my first granddaughter, Kenley Mae arrived. She made an absolutely perfect topic and so here’s my beautiful girl enhanced by some great stencils. Let me show you how I created this mini-page.
First thing I did was apply gesso to the page,
and added puddles of watercolor paint. I started off with a pale pink and then came back in later with splashes of spring green. This was done in a random fashion.
I applied black acrylic paint to the Hash Marks stencil by MaryBeth Shaw and pink paint to the Never Ending Mini Calendar stencil by Carolyn Dube. Kind of messy but it so worked. Adding texture paste to Single Cross-Mini stencil by Andrew Borloz gave some dimension to the page. Notice I put it on three different places to create a visual balance.
I penned and watercolored Petite Posies and Petite Greens by Tammy Tutterow onto Arches watercolor paper then cut them out and scattered them around the two pages. I actually watercolored one and some leaves directly onto the journal as well.
Before putting the picture down, I added most of my pen and ink details. I love using both black and white pens. Any mistakes or uncertainties, are made unnoticeable by the “markings” of these pens. They pull everything together and make it all work.
After I adhered my photo, I went back in with Starlight Mini stencil by Lesley Riley and, using my white pen, added “stardust” just to the edge of the photo and onto the page. This tied into the sentiment that I wrote on the left side of the page “Stardust and moon beams”. Funny thing happened after I wrote that in. I remembered Kenley’s room is done in white stars. Perfect.
And this was the end result…
Page one and two are done! Do you do any art journaling? With this little Resketch book it’s so quick and easy to get started. No reason not to. I hope you will jump in. Needing more ideas or a different application? Just click on one of the links below to see what the other creative design team members have done. And the blog hop comes with a giveaway! Scroll down to see how to enter! Torrie Gass is up to something very good next!
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This is such a sweet page for the sweetest Kenley Mae! Lots of kisses and flowers and fresh Spring colors to surround her with love! <3 Just beautiful! ~Rachel Bell bellbrzs (at) cox (dot net)
Love your soft colors and oh that texture!
Beautiful work , so delicate and pretty , a super keepsake!
Gorgeous pages, love the way you used the flowers and stencils.
Stunning page! I love the use of watercolors!
I love the lovely colors with the black doodling. It’s very pretty!!
What a sweet page! I love the colors and textures you used!
Adorable!!!
So sweet!
What a sweet art journal spread! Love the addition of the cut out flowers.
Love the sprinkle of flowers.
Wonderful pages.
thanks for sharing
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Debi, this is so beautiful and such a treasure for your Journal. Nice start for your grand baby Journal. Dee
Great journal entry! Such good memories you have created!
So very pretty, Debi! I love the spring colors! Congratulations on your new granddaughter! Enjoy her!
This so BEAUTIFUL Debi!!! Kenley Mae is so blessed to have her Nina that has so much talent and can do anything!!! Amazing work as always but I’m truly in LOVE with your focus oF our ADORABLE Grand daughter!!!
What sweet simplicity with such a precious subject. Love! Thank you! happy Earth Day!
LOVE the size of this little book. Perfect for your subject!
So sweet!
I love the layers and colors. Thank you for sharing the steps. Just so lovely.
Lovely!
OMG. I just “saw” my gramma in the pink & green poseys! Now I have to check to see if I have those stencils! They’re awesome, inked!
Thank you!
Beautiful watercoloring on your journal pages. It is fun to see the photos of different steps in your process. Thanks for sharing!
Such a sweet page … stardust & moonbeams … love it 🙂
Your little granddaughter is adorable and your pages are beautiful! They look just perfect for a sweet baby! I love all the detail. I look at everyone’s wonderful work and I so want to try art journaling and mixed media but I just can’t figure out what to do. I try and it does not look good. I think I need to watch more videos or something.
So, so beautiful! Soft color palette..perfect for Spring and Earth Day!
What a sweet page. I love it all, but I am particularly drawn to the dimensional crosses and the 3-D flowers you watercoloured and then cut out. They are beautiful highlights on the page without being overwhelming. A memorable page for your beautiful grand-daughter.
Such beautiful pages to honor that beautiful blessing. I love that the resketch notebooks are made with recycled papers, and the size of this one looks perfect to pop into a bag and carry with you on your next visit to see that sweet one, to journal all the wonderful changes you notice! Thanks so much for sharing.
Love the softness of this project, beautiful xx
What fun. Spring is finally here!
Awww!!! Adorable and sweet pages!!! Love your project!!!
Really liked your use of cutting out the watercolor piece and sprinkling about the page. Great idea!
Beautiful creation,!!! 💖