 Γεια σας! Είμαι Βικη και σήμερα θα δημιουργήσω ένα νέο αργενατικό λαϊόνι. Για το μήν μου σήμερα θα χρησιμοποιήσω πανπαστέλες. Τα πανπαστέλες έρχονται σε αυτήν τα πανπαστέλες και είναι πανπαστέλες που μπορείς να χρησιμοποιήσεις με πανπαστέλες πανπαστέλες. Τα πανπαστέλες έρχονται σε αυτήν τα πανπαστέλες αλλά υπάρχουν also some plastic trays that you can place them. They have a nice lid and they are easy to store and they are very easy to use if you have them in store. They come in many many colors and what I like about them is that they are very easy to blend and that's why they are great for creating backgrounds as well as shading. You can apply them with these tools, they are called soft tools and you can see that there are so many different sizes of sponges and you can choose which one you like depending on what you want to do. So for my background today I am going to show you how I can use my pánπαστέλες to create quick and easy backgrounds. So first of all I am going to stamp this text stamp and just to add a little bit of interest on my background and I am using VersaMarking. This is watermarking, it's actually transparent and all it does is that it applies some kind of stickiness on the page. So now I can apply some pánπαστέλες and you will see that where VersaMark was it will grab more pastel color than the rest of the page and I will have a nice tone on tone look. So now you can see that I will be using my bigger sponge since I want to cover up a bigger area and you will see how beautifully they blend together. I apply them super easy, I don't pick up too much paint and you can see that I move from one color to another without cleaning my sponge. It's very difficult to contaminate them and even if you move some paint from one pánπαστέλες to another you can just wipe it off. So I am mainly staying with three colors which I am going to list below in the details area so you know which colors I have used for my background. And if you look closely you will be able to see the text from the stamp that I used at the beginning. Now just because this is very delicate I don't know if you can really tell but you will see the effect since I will do it again with another stamp. Once I am happy with the background I am going to clean my sponge. You just wipe it off on a piece of kitchen roll paper and now I am going to do some stamping. I am using this brick stamp, this is by Prima and I am going to stamp it again on my background with VersaMark ink. I am not going to be neat as I don't really want to have a square block of bricks but I really want to create the effect of having a wall as my background. So once I am finished with all the stamping I will go ahead and use my pánπαστέλες and this time I am going to use a darker shade and I am going to go with the sponge all over the stamped areas. And you can see here the effect better of how the VersaMark ink grabs the paint and gets darker in this area. Pánπαστέλες are really easy to use for quick backgrounds and they really blend perfectly together. So here is the outcome, a closer look and maybe you can see the effect of the text stamp and just because these are pastels you need to somehow fix the paint on your page and you can use a spray fixative once or twice would be great. However in my case I won't be using any fixative but I will cover the whole background with my gel medium. I am doing that just because I want to use a certain technique of shading later on using my big brass markers but if you are not using big brass markers for your shading this stage wouldn't be necessary. So now I am using my pencil and I am drawing a template. So this is a boot for my witch and I am going to cut it out with my scissors and this is going to be the template for cutting out two identical boots for my layout. So today the layout is going to have a Halloween theme and although we do not celebrate Halloween here in Greece that was a theme that was really popular and everyone was asking for a Halloween layout so there you go. If you want me to create a certain themed layout on my art journal then make sure to leave me a comment just below and I will try to make the most popular ones. So now I have both my boots ready out of black cardstock and to create my scene we will be using some scrap papers. These are scrap papers from a paper pad that's really old. This is the paper pad I am talking about and it's by Basic Ray. It's a really old paper but I believe it's from 2009 but when you are doing such layouts where you cut and paste paper it's a great way to use all your old scraps. I am using this dark green and with my scissors I am cutting out some strips of paper which I am going to stick at the bottom to be the ground. Now first of all I will be using all those pattern papers to cut out all the elements for my layout and then I will use my glue and stick everything down. At this stage I am not worried at all about shading. I just want to have all the pieces ready and decide where everything is going to be placed. So now I am using the purple pattern paper and I have cut out the legs for my witch and of course I need to give her a dress. So I am using the black cardstock again and I am going to draw with my pencil a basic witch dress and I will go ahead and cut it out with my scissors. Now from the same pattern paper I am looking for some pattern papers that have more designs on them and I am going to cut out small pieces which I am going to add on the dress as fabric patches. This is a great way to embellish a witch's dress and of course just because this is a halloween themed layout I just have to add a couple of pumpkins so I am drawing with my pencil a bigger and a smaller one which I am then going to cut out with my scissors. Of course a proper witch needs to have a black card so I will draw a black card as well and finally I will give her a magic broom. Oh and if you want to recreate this type of layout but you don't feel confident about your sketching skills then you can always find some templates online. You just google images about pumpkins or boots or anything else that you want that you can use as a template. So I am going to put on some music as I am cutting out all those little pieces for my layout and I'll meet you up again once everything is ready to glue. So this is where I have all the little elements cut out and I am trying to decide where everything is going to go. Once I am happy with the placement I am going to use my gel medium and stick everything down. I did cut out the cut's head from her body so I could move the head and she can have her head on an angle but you will see that at the end I decided to have her looking straight up. Now I decided to give her a little witch's hat because I think that's super cute. Now I am pretty happy with the replacement so I know where everything is going to go and I can put everything at the side and what I am going to do now is to work on the background just a little bit before I stick everything on top. I will be adding this spider web and I am going to white emboss it so first of all I am going to stamp it with VersaMarking and then I am going to apply some white embossing powder which I am going to melt with my heat gun. I know where everything is going to go so at this stage I know where I want the spider web to be so I need one at the bottom just behind the broom also at the top of this page I have quite a lot of empty space so I am going to stamp a web there as well and to bring everything together I am going to stamp once more on the other page. So now it's time to bring everything together and assemble my layout so I am using my Matmedume by Ranger and I am going to stick everything down the brush that I am using is nice and soft and it's totally dry I don't dip it at all at water Now I get a lot of questions on how you can keep your brushes the ones that you use with Gelmedume nice and soft Well I keep them dipped inside the Gelmedume while I am working and when I finish I dip them in a jar of water so once I finished with the whole layout I then go to the sink and wash them with soap and hot or warm water Now my brushes the ones that I use for Gelmedume are always nice and soft so if you keep maintaining them just like I told you so they will not get hardened at all Also at this stage notice how everything looks totally flat I like the scene and the composition but to bring everything together you really need to do some shading and highlighting So once I finish gluing everything down I'll show you how this is done So now that I finished gluing everything down I put my brush inside a jar of water and it will stay there until I finish everything and go to the sink to wash it out So now I am using my heat gun to speed up the drying process and once everything is nice and dry then I can go ahead and do the shading You can achieve shading with many different techniques and I will show you a few although I usually use my big brush markers I will show you that you don't really need to have those but you can use other mediums to do the shading So depending on what you can find and you can decide the way you do the shading So first of all you can use a pan pastels which are very easy to use but you need to remember that once you finish shading you need to spray everything with a spray fixative Applying pan pastels with these little tool brushes are really easy to do and what I usually do is using a slightly darker color than the area that I want to shade Pan pastels are not only easy to use but they are very forgiving So if you don't like something you can use an eraser and erase everything off And just for demoing I did a little bit of shading on the pumpkins and you can see how different they look now they bring everything more to life So another way you can use is pastel pencils these are by Faber-Castell and you can smudge them with your fingers So I am going to apply it here and smudge it and you can see how deep those edges are now on those pumpkins You can find many different colors and you can use them for all your layouts But for today I will be using my trusted big brass markers by Faber-Castell I have already demonstrated these big brass markers many times on my videos but I get a lot of questions about them so you need to remember that this barrel contains indian ink and to be able to smudge the indian ink as I am doing here with my finger you need to be working on a non porous surface and that is why I covered up the whole background with gel medium Notice that I go with darker colors all over the areas and finally I always go with my dark brown What I love about those markers is that they give me a few seconds to move the ink around and smudge it with my finger so that I can create soft shadings and once it dries permanent so it will not move or react to any other medium that I put on top This is where I decided to embellish my cat's hat just a bit more so I am gluing a piece of green paper and I continue doing my shading until I am happy with it Once I am happy with the shading I will go on with a black marker and I am using my micron marker and I will go all around the images Now, micron markers and any marker actually work great on an art journal but there is one tip you need to remember that everything has to be dry on your page so no paint and no gel medium should be wet because actually gel medium is glue and if the tip of your marker touches gel medium it will ruin the marker and it will stop writing So this is a great tip to remember always have a totally dry page Once I finish with my black marker I will go ahead and use my white gel pen to do some highlights and at this point I am actually drawing a spider that is coming down from the cat's hat I did draw the spider web white just like I did with the other spider webs and of course the spider is black I will go ahead and add white eyes on the spider later on I will be working on those boots to embellish them a lot just because I want those to be the focal point of my layout today and that's because the quote that I will be using at the end will have to do something with those boots So I am using my white gel pen to add some force stitching and bring them more to life and I wanted to use some gems to embellish them even more but I didn't have any green ones so I decided to color the ones that I already had with alcohol markers I am using Copics here but this would work great with any alcohol ink or any other alcohol marker that you have So I am going to add 3 gems on each boot The colors that I am mainly using are the halloween colors so I stay a lot with purples oranges and greens I went a little bit crazy with highlighting here I also gave my cut face as well as eyes on my cute little spider and my layout is pretty much finished all that's left to do is to add the quote At the moment I am using Hero Arts alphabet stamp set but this is quite old and it is discontinued so you will not find a link to this stamp set below As always you will find a full list of all the supplies that I am using just below in the details area as well as on my blog This is an alphabet stamp set that is by Simon's stamp and it's really great because it looks like a typewriter font So I did stamp with both stamp sets and I really love this quote I think it's really cute and I am totally happy with how this layout came up I am also doing some highlighting on those letters and to finish off my layout I will stamp the date I decided to stamp it with black archival ink on the side of the broom and finally I am adding with the distress paint some little dots just to make her leggings polka dot ones were very plain and dark So I wanted to bring this more to life As you can see I am not using a brush but I prefer to use this tool which makes better tiny little dots So that was the layout for today I hope you had fun and got inspired and I really did have a lot of fun creating it although I don't celebrate Halloween Here are some close up photos of the layout today and don't forget to leave my comment as well as give me thumbs up on my youtube channel and if you are new to my channel don't forget to subscribe because this is the way to tell me that you love my videos and you want to see more For a more inspiration here are 2 more how to art journal videos click on any of the videos on screen or if you are watching from a mobile device you can find links just below or you can click the info card that just popped on your screen Thank you all for watching