 Ευχαριστούμε και καλώς ήρθατε back to a new art journal layout. Τώρα's layout is all about Christmas and I did share a couple of them during the last month. Lately I have been working on my discbound journals in different sizes as you can see but I decided that today it would be fun to grab my good old art journal that is actually a book. So this is the Ranger one, the Dilutions Art Journal and I will be working on this one today. For my background I will be working with Distress Oxide Inks. I grabbed two colors from the latest released oxides and these are Chipped Sapphire and Weathered Wood. Now I am going to apply them on my pages with my blending tools and you see that I don't really care if it is splotchy. You see I don't mind if I do a good blending I just want to add a first layer of color on my pages. Now once I have a first layer of color completely covering my pages I will go back again on top and this time I am going to add more ink this time I am going more softly with my blending brush and this is going to blend all those colors nicely. Now if you want a list of all the products that I am using you will find it down below in the description area as well as on my blog. You will also find there a discount code that you can use just for today. Now I am going to add some water I am using a spray bottle here to add fine mist as well as splotches of water all over the place. I am going to leave this to react with the ink for a few seconds then I will use my dirty towel and just blot everything from the page and you can see how this actually leaves some of the color and makes a more interesting background. Now I am adding white splashes white gesso that I have diluted with water and white splashes always add more to a wintery looking background or to a Christmas one like I am working on today. Now I am moving on to do some stamping on the background I want this to be very subtle and that is why I am using the lightest color from the Distress Oxidings that I used on the background so this is weathered wood Now the rubber stamp that I am using here is full of Christmas words so it matches perfectly the theme that I am going for. Finally I am going to do some stenciling again with my Distress Oxides and this is Chipped Sapphire Again I am not introducing any new colors I am just working with the colors from the background this way I know that I will not end up with a very busy background and everything is going to be nice and subtle. So this is a stencil from a previous years released by Tim Holtz that has lots of Christmas words which I am going to spread out all around the border of my pages Now I am going to work on my focal points and for that I will use this glitter cardstock this is by Tonic Studios and I will cut out 3 of those snowflakes Now the snowflakes are actually by Cizix and these are the Flurry 1 and Flurry 2 I could go by cutting out 3 snowflakes using the same die but since I have both of them I decided to add some variation on my page Now these are very intricate ties but I am using here a metal sheam and I am also running it a couple of times through my big shot and you can see that it cuts out without any problem at all and the detail on those snowflakes is absolutely gorgeous it looks like a snowflake lace and it is sparkly as well and now it's time to stick those snowflakes on top of my pages for that I am using MatMeTube Now by sticking down all those gorgeous snowflakes the layout is pretty much done you can stop here and it's going to look gorgeous you can even add some gems at the center of your snowflakes all around your page you can write down your sentiment like a Merry Christmas or anything else that you find fitting and you are done but I am going to show you how you can take this page a step further by adding some fun elements at the center of your snowflake So here I have used the same glitter cardstock and two circle dies one inside the other to cut out those rings I am going to stick those rings on top of my snowflakes and these are going to provide a nice area where I can nest my other elements Now if I was working on an actual page like the disc bound journal that I am lately working on I could run it through my big shot and cut out a window at the center of fit of those snowflakes so that I have my elements popping from behind but since I am working on a book I do have some limitation but I am going to make this idea work Now at the center of your snowflakes you can add anything you like really like a pronsettias and such I decided to go with this really fun scissors die set this comes with 24 different dies that cut out all those fun figures I am cutting out the Santa the reindeer and the snowman and as you can see I cut out all the pieces that I needed out of white cardstock and of course I am not going to torture you by showing you how I colored each and every little piece and how I put those images together but here they are ready to go they are really adorable and for the reindeer I actually used a red gem on his nose so he is a Rudolph So I used my white glue to stick them on top of my snowflakes and imagine if these snowflakes had actually a window with those little images popping out and of course I could have stopped here the page looks gorgeous at this point but this is where I keep on adding more and more details on my pages and I can't stop so here I had the idea to turn those snowflakes into ornaments and that's why I am threading a little white string making sure that it is straight coming from the top and just securing everything at the back with some double sided tape Now here is my finished layout all I have to do is to add my quote for that you can of course go ahead and write it down you can use pretty much any die that you have or any stamp I decided to go with my new C6 dies again and this is the Shadows Creep Christmas you can mix and match these dies to create different fonts like with shadows very bold or very thin and I did play around with them just to see what works best but I decided to go with a very thin one since my snowflakes are also intricate and very thin as well so this was the layout for today I hope that you had fun that you got inspired don't forget that there is a coupon code in my blog for a 15% discount on all the C6 dies just for today and before I go I want to wish you all Merry Christmas I hope you will all have a great time with your family and your loved ones and I'll see you all after the holidays Thanks for watching