 Γεια σας, καλώς ήρθατε! Είναι Vicky here και σήμερα είμαι σημαντικό να σας δώσει ένα τεχνικό που έχω δουλειάζει μέχρι την οικονομία. Είμαι δουλειάζοντας σε my Moleskine sketchbook και θα προσπαθήσω τις πρώτες παίδες με κάποια πρινταρία εκεί. Και θα παίρνω σε το My Black Jesho. Αυτό είναι από My DecoArt. Είναι από τη δημιουργία τους. Και θα πιστεύω πάνω τα παίδια μου με My Black Jesho. Είναι από το My Black Jesho με σπάτουλα, σαν έχωCTV, ή μπορείς να χρησιμοποιήσεις ένα μ στο καρετήκαρδι, μπορείς να χρησιμοποιήσεις το μπρόδυμα εισθανό, ε代λα. Είναι προσφετικά να προσπαθήσω με τον σπάτουλο γιατί θα με δώσει κάποια πόλρα σε my Pages. Βάζω το My Jesho, το κτρώπω, ρεύρωσανται τη πέτολα. Αυτό είναι από η μεγαιία Prema. Ανομ πάμε πολύ απλά, όπως μπορείτε να δεις εδώ, θα αφήνεται ξεκριστό. So this is going to add a lot of texture on your pages. Now depending on how you apply the paste you will get a different effect. So if you apply a thick layer you will get big crowdlars and if you apply a very thin oneyou will get smaller ones, tiny ones and not as textureed. Now you're supposed to leave this to hair-dry, but if you wish you can go ahead and use your heat gun to hit set it but remember that you will get a beautiful effect if you leave it as it is and you don't force it with a heat gun However, I'm very impatient that I didn't have time to wait for that So when the head used my heat gun to speed up the drying process I didn't get as many crackles as I wanted to but I do have some texture at the background Now I'm going to use 3 different colors by DecoArt These are from their media collection They are Fluid Acrylics and I'm going to apply some of them on my craft mat By the way, I'm working on a glass mat that makes it super easy for me to clean later on and I would definitely suggest a glass mat if you are into mixed media With a brush I'm applying my color on top of my page and it's going to be super easy for me to create a night sky since I'm starting with a black page All I need to do is to add a touch of blue in different areas Now I'm going to mix in some lighter colors of blue and I'm going to create a milky way So just add some touches of light blue on your sky, in a line just like I'm doing here Blend it out and you are ready to go Now it doesn't have to be perfect Remember this is not a painting, this is just an art journal and the purpose of it is just to have fun and play with your mediums Now you can play around with all those blue hues until you are happy with the outcome and now the idea is to create a big moon on my night sky so I have used the dies to cut out a circle Now I'm going to create the highlight of the moon So I'm tipping a stiff brush on white gesso and I'm just going to apply some white gesso just behind the moon and this is going to provide me a nice base for when I will try to add that shine from the moon and I'm going to leave it as it is for now Now I'm going to apply some white splashes I'm using white gesso diluted with water and I hope you can see how it transforms my night sky so you can definitely see how the milky way looks now and you don't have to apply as many splashes as I do I just love splashes and I can't stop myself and while my splashes are drying I just wanted to show you how easy it is to clean this glass mat if you get any dried acrylic paint on top of it just use a spatula like I'm doing here and everything is nice and clean Now I'm going to work on my moon and I'm going to apply some distressed oxide ink on top of my glass mat I'm spraying with water and I'm going to apply the moon on top I don't want to get a full coverage I like splashes here and there and just because that's how the moon looks Now the color that I'm using is fossilized amber which I think is the perfect color for my moon and I'm also going to add some darker spots by using some vintage photo Again I applied my ink on top of my glass mat sprayed a little bit with water and I'm even using my fingers to control the ink the way I want to I want to have some light areas but if you want to keep some light areas on your moon it's going to help it look more realistic and it's going to make it as if it is glowing and I'm going to repeat that one more time adding some more yellow ink more fossilized amber I'm using my heat gun to speed up the drying process and by the way the paper I'm working on is a mixed media paper by ranger so it takes water and any type of medium really well and it doesn't warp Now I'm going to bring the moon on top of my page and you will see how beautiful it looks against that background and since this is going to be an art journal I can play with my stamps as much as I like so I'm going to add more texture on my moon by using this stamp this is a textured stamp by an older team holds stamp set and notice that I'm not going darker I'm using the same fossilized amber color just to add a little texture but at the same time keep it quite subtle and here I'm using another textured stamp and this time I'm not introducing again another color I'm working with a vintage photo that I have already applied for the darker areas of my moon and I'm happy with how my moon looks at the moment so I will go ahead and stick it on my page to stick everything down I'm using matte medium and notice that I am covering up the moon as well I don't mind if I move the ink a little bit after all this doesn't have to be perfect but remember that if your brush is too wet it might react with the ink underneath and smear what you have created now I'm using a big brush marker to apply some white on different areas of my moon just to help it lighten up a little bit more this is going to help it look as if it is shining now I'm happy with how my background is looking at the moment so I'm going to work on some elements that I will stick on top of that to create my little scene so I'm going to use dyes from these two scissors sets so the city as well as the Santa here so I'm going to bring in my big shot and cut everything out of black cardstock now as always you will find links to all the supplies that I'm using for creating this art journal down below the description area of my youtube as well as on my blog and I'm making sure that I link to most of the supplies in both US and UK online shops for your convenience now when I place the buildings on top of my background they don't stand out the background is so busy and so dark that it's very hard for them to stand out and that's why I'm going to work on the background again and that's the beauty of working with acrylics you can go over them again and again and make them work out for you so all I'm doing here is applying a wash of light of blue and as you can see I'm covering up completely all those white plashes and by doing that it kind of makes the background more subtle and pushes all those stars more at the background and now I'm going to lighten up the bottom a little bit more so that when I apply the black buildings on top they will stand out another thing that is going to help the buildings stand out against that night sky is if you add highlights so I'm using a finger dumber here and with the same fossilized amber stress oxide ink that I used for the moon I'm going to lighten up only one side of the buildings so I'm working only on the right side and I'm adding some ink there I'm going to do that for both my cutouts now before sticking down my buildings I went ahead and worked again on my background so I added white splashes and now I have a beautiful sky with blue stars that look as if they are far at the background I have white splashes that they look as if they are shining a lot and I'm also going to add some gold splashes just because I can I just love splashes I think I'm going to create an art journal just by using this technique and here is a close up so you can see all those beautiful colors on my sky and here is how my skyline looks with the shine on one side of the buildings and I'm going to exaggerate that a little bit more and since I introduced gold paint on the background with the stars I'm going to add some of that with a thin brush on the sides and I don't have to be neat I can be as messy as I like it's going to look beautiful at the end and now as always I'm going to use my matte medium and stick everything down and of course for sticking down the elements you can use any type of adhesive that you like you can use a stick glue a white glue, whatever you like I just happen to love my matte medium and I tend to stick everything down with that now I'm going to use this gold nuvo marker and I'm going to add some details here and there there are actually cut out windows but they look black at the moment since I have a black background and that's exactly what I'm doing I'm just filling in those gaps with my gold marker but of course you can do it with a brush and the gold acrylic paint to highlight the buildings even more I'm using my white gel pen and I'm going to add some lines on the right side of my buildings this is the technique that I really love to go back to again and again it's going to highlight the buildings even more and finally to finish off my scene I have to stick down santa and just because this is a long die cut I'm going to stick a part of it on one page and just the first reindeer on the other page again as always I'm using my matte medium to stick him down and again I'm going to use my white gel pen and add some highlights on my die cut but I'm going to zoom in for you so you can see how awesome it looks with all that highlighting now I have these ribbons by Tim Holtz but I'm going to apply in different areas in the package there are these black ones but you also get white ones that would give a great contrast against the black background so for the moon I'm going to add some of the text and this is all about Christmas and I had these ribbons in my stash forever I don't think they are still available but there are other Christmas ribbons by Tim Holtz again and they come in different colors like in gold and I'm going to make sure that I link you down below in case you want to check them out now I'm using the white ones and I'm going to apply some of the words along the buildings just to add some interest there now when I started the page I had the quote in my mind so I was going to go with believe in the magic of Christmas or something like that but when I finished the page I was in a very fun mood and I decided to go with something more hilarious so I picked some of my chipboard letters and I'm going to write Dear Santa I can explain these chipboard letters are in my stash forever they have a pattern on top of them and I believe they are by 7 gypsies I don't know if they are available anymore but I believe they are discontinued and just because they don't match the rest of my theme I am just covering them up with my acrylic gold paint and I'm going to stick all those letters on top of my layout I am using Nuvo Deluxe white glue to stick them down but of course you can use your matte medium or whatever else you like and just because these are not available anymore I will try and find similar chipboard letters to stick them down below I have printed out the rest of my quote and I'm going to stick that down with my matte medium so the whole quote says Dear Santa I can explain and now for the finishing touches I am using a flat brush and I am applying some gold paint around the edges of my layout just to frame it a little bit I don't have to be neat again you can go as far in as you like and I always like to have borders around my art either with stencils or with stamps or just applying it with paint just like I'm doing here because I find that framing my layout always makes it look more finished now I'm going to use the small from my Faber-Castell pens there and I'm going to add some lines around my sentiment I keep my lines very sketchy I don't want to have anything neat there and this is going to finish off my layout for today I hope you had fun and got inspired and if you did don't forget to leave my comment as well as give me thumbs up on my youtube channel you will find links to all the products that I used down below in the description area as well as on my blog thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you tomorrow for a fun release