 Γεια σας, είναι Vicky εδώ και σήμερα είμαι σήμερα με την νέα λαϊκότητα νέα νέα, για αυτήν την λαϊκότητα θα χρησιμοποιήσω αυτές τις αδωρικές τάμψες, αυτές είναι από Πέπερα Αρτζι και θα χρησιμοποιήσω τα σύμφωνα και το βατερφλί. Υπάρχει also a stencil that matches perfectly the designs on my stamp sets and I'm going to open up the package so you can see what type of stencils these are so you can actually separate the inside design from the outside and there are many different ways to use them. Για αυτήν την αδωρική λαϊκότητα θα χρησιμοποιήσω αυτήν την λαϊκότητα. Υπάρχει usually a start by creating my background but this time I was so happy with these flower designs that I wanted to stamp them and see how they look. So first I'm working on a mixed media paper, this is by Ranger and I'm going to stamp a bunch of flowers and some of the leaves. The way I usually work with my focal points is that I stamp them on a separate piece of paper so I never stamp directly on my background and that's exactly what I'm doing here so once I have enough flowers and leaves for my layout I will go ahead and use my scissors to cut them out. Of course at this stage I don't know exactly how many leaves and flowers I will need so I went ahead and stamped a bunch just to have enough. And the truth is that I ended up using every image that I have stamped. I'm also going to use this beautiful butterfly and now I will go ahead and use my scissors to cut out everything. Now at this stage you can just take this piece of paper and go on your TV, watch your favorite series and cut them out. I just love cutting out images, I don't mind, I find it very relaxing so I really enjoy this process. And all the images are ready to go, I'm going to bring in my art journal now and work on my background. And I'm working on my Moleskin art journal, I'm going to directly apply some fresco finish paint, this is by Paper Archie, in my two favorite colors, the one is called Curry B&C, the lighter one and the darker one is Captain Peacock. You will find links down below in the description area to all the supplies that I'm using today, with links to many online stores so you can pick your favorite. I haven't prepared my pages at all so I haven't applied jesso or anything else, I am directly applying my paint with brush. And especially for this fresco finish paint by Paper Archie, this is chalk paint so it has enough tooth and you don't really need to prepare your pages with jesso. So I'm applying my paint with brush strokes vertically from top to bottom and I'm applying the first layer, you see I'm not doing any difficult technique here, I'm just applying my color there, just with vertical movements. And if you find it quite difficult to apply your paint all over your page, you can always dip your brush a little bit in water just like I am doing here, just to help me spread the paint easily. Now notice how I wipe the water from my brush, so now my brush is quite dry and I'm dipping the brush on the darker paint, so that's Captain Peacock. And I'm doing some vertical brush strokes again from top to bottom but this time I'm not trying to cover up the whole background, I just want to have those brush strokes there. These are going to add some dimension on my page, so nothing is totally flat there. Now I'm not going to do any crazy techniques on my background today since I want to work with my flowers and add crazy colors on them. So I want the background to keep it quite subtle and quite plain. And this is why I will not produce another color on my background, instead I am going to add some interest by using this stencil leaf and this comes from the set that I have shown you in the beginning, you will find the links down below. I am going over it with my dry brush and my darker paint, just to have a little bit of shadow there. And I hope you can see how it looks. So it blends nicely with the background and although there is something interesting going on back there, it still stays at the background. Now we'll go ahead and add this detail in different parts of my background but at this stage I don't know exactly where I'm going to stick the flowers. So most of these details are going to get lost once I stick everything down. But you will still be able to see some of that stenciling there. Now I'm happy with all the stenciling going on so I will go ahead and do some stamping. So we'll use one of these background stamps from the same stamp set as the flowers and I am going to stamp it all over the background. Now notice that I am using an archival ink, that's an ink that is permanent and it's very close to the color that the background is. I am using such an ink just because I want to keep everything very subtle. I don't want to stamp with, for example, black because this would bring everything in the foreground and it would look very busy. So now the stamping blends nicely with the background. And now another technique that I always like to do is to do some splashes. Now splashes are not for everyone, you do it only if you like it. I just love the look so I always do some splashes on my background. For this I am using snowflake which is another paper archifresco finish paint. And I have diluted it with water and I used a thin brush to do the splashes. And now I am repeating the same process with black this time. But again I am using a very thin brush which means that I will end up having tiny little dots that are not going to overwhelm my background. I like to use white splashes because they blend nicely with the white highlights that I always add at the end of my work. And black binds nicely with the black sentiments and black quotes that I will stamp at the end. So now here is a close-up look of how my background is looking at the moment. And now I am going to go ahead and play around with all the images. And just because I have cut out images and not stamped them directly on my background I do have the opportunity to play around and see how I like everything to go down on my pages. Once I am happy with the placement I will commit and stick everything down using my matte gel medium. Now as I am sticking them down I will make sure that I cover them up with my matte medium just because I am planning to color everything with my big brush markers. Now all the images are down, my matte medium is dry and I am using my scissors to cut out the excess paper. And notice here that I don't like to work back to back on my layouts. So if I get an idea to thread something or to make a slit or anything else or even if my paint bleeds I will not ruin what's at the back. When I finish I can stick everything together. So now it's time to do my coloring. For that I will be using my favorite big brush markers. I am going to spread a little bit of ink at the beginning with a lighter color and then I will move on to a darker color and do the shading. I am smudging the ink with my fingers. And remember that I can do this technique just because I am working on a non porous surface which means that just because I have applied matte medium all over my images I am able to do that. And why I love these markers is that they dry permanent. So no matter what I do on top they will not smudge or smear once they dry. This is the technique that I really love. I keep back to it again and again. And I think that it's not only very rewarding because the look that you get is amazing but at the same time it's really quick. So I am going to put on some music and let you see how I colored some of the images and then I will catch you back once everything is colored. So I had a lot of fun playing with my markers and coloring all the flowers in crazy colors and now I am using my white gel pen and doing another favorite technique of mine. I am going to work on top of the flowers and add some highlights here and there. Notice that my gel pen wasn't working on top of my inked flowers and that's because the ink wasn't dry. So I used my heat gun to speed up the drying process and now everything is dry so my gel pen is working perfectly now as you can see. Now I am just doing random lines here and there. There is no reasoning really, no right or wrong. I just try to separate one flower from the other as well as adding some highlights. Notice that I don't draw big white lines, they are not perfect and they suddenly are very short and sketchy. So to this way I match the rest of the design. I am going to repeat the same process for the other page, so the butterfly as well as the rest of the flowers. And I am also going to use a black pen, that's a thin marker there, to add the antennas on my butterfly. Now I always like to have a border on my layout so I am going to use a marker and draw a line all around the edge and then I am going to use a thicker brush marker and color outside the line. I usually like to add borders on my layouts because they frame my art and they make it look more finished. And here is another thing that I always like to do, I use my white gel pen and make a thin white line just outside the black edge. This helps my page pop even more against that black border. And now it's time to stamp my quote. For that I am going to use these alphabet stamps, these are foam clink stamps by Tim Holtz and I am going to stamp the word happy with black archival ink and this is where I make the mess. I wasn't able to stamp correctly, I had to stamp on top once more but my stamp isn't clear. I made the mess, I am not able to wipe it out since this is archival ink and it's already permanent. So I am just going to show you how I am going to cover up this mess and make it work for my page. Now of course when this happens there are two easy ways to cover up things. One is to use the same acrylic paint that you used for the background and cover up the mess. The other thing is to cut out another flower for example and stick it on top. But in my case this is not that bad. I will go ahead and use a black brush marker, make sure that I have a nice thick letter there and then I am going to use my white gel pen and go around the letters. This way I will add some definition to the letters, help them separate from each other and at the same time I am going to bind everything together and when I have all those white details on the flowers I think it's going to work fine. So I will normally use my white gel pen and add the highlight only on one side of the letter if everything was stamped correctly. But in this case you see I am outlining everything. You will see that everything is going to work fine at the end. And that's the beauty of archival ink. There are no mistakes. You can always work it out and look as if it was intended to be like that. And just because I don't know when to stop with little details I went ahead and added some dots on my letters just to make them more happy, more whimsical looking. And I would stamp to stamp the rest of my quote and that comes from another Paper Archie stamp set and I am going to use the one that says being happy never goes out of style. But just because I always want to highlight the most important word of my quote I wanted to have happy bigger and that's what I did. So as I am stamping I am going to omit the word happy from the stamp and I am going to stamp the rest of it. And my layout is pretty much finished. I just decided to add some dots here and there using my NuvoDrops and I am using the white one. I always like to add three of them on each area. And I think these little dots complete that whimsical and happy look. And that was the layout for today. I hope you had fun and got inspired and if you did don't forget to leave me a comment as well as give me thumb up on my youtube channel. Here are some close up photos of the art journal that I made for today. Don't forget to click on my face and subscribe if you haven't done so already and if you need more inspiration you can click any of the two videos that I have done a while back. Thank you all for watching.