 Hi everyone and welcome back. It's Vicky here with another art journal layout. Now I usually work on my Moleskine or my Dillusion's journal. I just love the size of them. I like the quality of paper But I'm going to show you another type of art journal that you can work on which is really fun and It really removes the pressure of working on a book and you may end up with a page that you don't like so a great idea is to work on art journals like this one and These are disc bounded which means that you can take off the page Work with any medium that you like and then if you like the pace you can put everything back together There are different sizes. I will be working on the six by six one today But there are even fun shapes such as this which ends up being a fun circle There are even a heart-shaped art journals and I get those from juggles You will find links down below So I'm going to take off one of the pages and I can work on that with any medium I like So just because I don't get the limitation of this page being inside a book and I can work with my jelly plate I can spray with inks without being afraid that those inks might ruin the other pages Plus the size that I chose to work with the six by six one I think is perfect for beginners since you don't have such a big area to fill in And I think it is going to remove some of the stress of the beginners now about the paper. This is a Heavy watercolor paper that is going to take any type of medium So you can work with acrylics you can work with your sprays your inks any type of medium you like So today I decided to do some jelly printing I'm going to apply a couple of colors on my jelly plate, and this is the six by six size So it's exactly the same size as my paper. I'm using deco art media acrylics These are fluid acrylics, and I'm going to apply them on my jelly plate with my brayer So I'm going to bring in a stencil to place that on top of my jelly plate Just to add a little bit of interest And now I'm ready to do my first print so I'm placing the paper directly on top of my jelly plate I'm going to press with my fingers all over the place and you can use your brayer for doing that If I if you wish, so I'm going to leave and you can see the first print now You will never like the first print. This is just the first layer. I will start building up the layers and This time I'm going to bring in some green as well And the fun part about doing jelly printing is that you never know what you're going to get and The good thing is that you can always if you don't like the result You can go ahead and do even more layers on top of it until you're happy with the outcome And of course you can mix colors You can go really crazy with the colors that you are going to use for your background in my case I knew that I wanted to use a flower stamp and I usually work with my flowers in yellows, oranges, Pinks and reds, so I decided to go with blue and green for my background So this is going to give the opportunity to my flowers later on to stand out against the background Now I'm using this cream color, which is going to mute the background colors just a little bit Now I want to create a frame for my layout and that's why I'm going to do a fun technique So I'm using a smaller jelly plate as my palette I'm applying there my gold paint and working it with my brayer, and then I'm going to apply a thin layer of Acrylic paint on my bigger jelly plate only on the sides Now I can understand that jelly printing can be a little bit overwhelming for some people But I want to I want to let you know all that it's really fun to work with and it's really addictive and as you can see I can even have some type of control on how my Layouts are going to look so you can see I did frame my layout there and Now since I have all that paint the gold paint on my jelly plate there I'm going to dilute it with a little bit of water I'm going to do some splashes and then with the rest of the paint I'm going to go all around the edges and add even more golden paint Which is going to give a nice finished look on my edges Now when you have your Jelly plate out on your craft table you can go ahead and create lots of different background just play around with your acrylic paints and Any type of acrylic paint would work here So you can use your dilutions. You can use your distress paints any type of thick paints anything you have just try it out and You can create many different backgrounds and have them ready for another session where you will be finishing them off with your Focal points now today. I just worked on this art journal So I haven't created anything else I'm going to clean my jelly plate just with a baby wipe and it's ready to go for another time Now these are my art foamy's these are a set of leaves and I'm going to use one of them to Stump some leaves on my layout now. I'm going to use a dark green color of my deco media paint and Again, I'm using my small jelly plate as my palette. The good thing about this is that you do not waste any paint that you apply there So I'm going to use that to work the paint so that I can apply the paint with my brazier on my stamp But at the same time I'm not wasting the paint on the jelly plate because I can always pull a print and have something ready for another time So I'm going to do that one more time so that I can stamp one more leaf And this is what's great about art foamy's you can use acrylic paint to stamp with them Which is not something that you would normally do with your rubber stamps or your clear stamps So all I'm doing to clean my stamp is just stamp off Make sure that it doesn't have any more acrylic paint on top of it and it's ready to go I don't bother to clean them So now I'm using my black acrylic paint on top of a big art foamy flower I'm going to apply the paint there and just stamp the design and you will see that it gives you a beautiful design And I'm going to use my scissors to cut out this flower Now I used a brush and with a fresh lime that paint by dilution So I just fill in the leaves there So you can see that light green inside the leaves and then with my Posca a white marker I did some highlights now I'm going to move on and do some doodling and this time I'm going to use a pen holder with some ink Now usually I would go with a thin black marker and you can definitely do that But I found that when you work with a pen like this Then you can go over different types of mediums like paste and acrylics and so many things that you might put on top of your mixed media layout and it will not ruin your pen So I can go as thin as I like Depending on the nibs that I'm using and I know that I can always clean the nibs and they will be as brand new So I don't have to buy all the time new thin markers for my doodling That end up clogged or dry or full of gel medium that they don't work at the end So anyway, I'm really happy with the results I definitely suggest you to try it out. I think you will be really happy with the results And remember you don't have to be a calligrapher to do that You can easily switch colors just clean your nib and dip it in another color of ink And remember this is Indian ink, which means that it's going to dry permanent So it's not going to smudge or smear no matter what you decide to do on top of your page So after doing some doodling around my leaves, I am also going to create a border So after having fun creating my border, I am ready to stick my flower down I'm using my matte medium to do so And I'm also going to cover up the flower with my matte medium as well I'm using my heat gun to speed up the drying process and then with my scissors I'm just going to cut off the excess of the flower Now of course you can use any type of medium to color your flower You can even create a lovely background on your jelly plate and then stamp on top of the flower And cut it out and stick it here You can even stamp the flower on patent paper, so many ways to do that I decided to go with my big brush markers just because I love them and you know that One great thing about these markers is that they are translucent As you can see although I'm going all over the place with the black lines and everything They do not cover up the black lines Which is something that I absolutely love about those markers When I want to color in images with black lines So now I'm going to go on the inside of the petal to add a darker color And then I will go ahead and add an even darker color to the center Which is going to help my flower look dimensional and help it pop against the background When you hit set the ink it's going to turn the ink into permanent So you will not be able to move it anymore Now with my Posca white pen I'm going to add some white dots at the center of my flower And I'm going to embellish my flower as much as I can I'm just playing around here and having fun with my mediums So I'm going to add some white dots at the perimeter of the flower And I think this is a lovely flower design for art journaling And I like the size of it, it's nice and big So it is going to be a real focal point on your pages I also used my white Posca thin pen to add some highlights around my flower But they don't show as much as I wanted to So you will see later on at some point on this video That I will go over them with the thick Posca pen And I'm just doing some finishing touches here and there So adding some shadow on my leaves And for my quote I decided to go with this sticker book by Tim Holtz And this is the Big Chat sticker book So I'm going to choose some of the stickers here to create my quote Which is going to end up saying choose to be happy I'm going to stick them down on my layout And it is always a good idea if you are using stickers To go over them with your matte medium Or add some glue at the back just to make sure that they are going to be nicely stuck there And now finally I'm going to go around the perimeter of those stickers With my pen holder and my ink there Now I like how white those stickers are They stand out against the background If you don't like that look you can always color them Go over them with some ink to blend them more with the background I'm also adding some white splashes which is something I always like to do This is just white gesso diluted with water And finally I'm going to add some texture with my embossing paste This is gold embossing paste I'm going to use this very loved stencil To add some paste in different areas of my layout And if you notice the flower now You will see the thicker highlights that I added On top of the thinner ones that I did earlier on Just by using my thicker post cap pen So that's it my layout is ready I'm going to stamp the date And I'm going to put this page back on my book So I have my first art journal page on this book ready to go Now notice that the page is quite heavy So it hasn't warped at all And I can easily work at the back if I want to Now this art journal doesn't have a cover But I would suggest to stick two pages together To make them heavier and you can turn this into your cover In my future art journal videos I will be sharing more ideas on what you can do on this book As well as on my normal art journal books that I usually work with So I hope you had fun, you got inspired Definitely give this disc bound art journal a try I think you will really love it Thank you all so much for watching and I'll see you next time