 Hey everybody, so I shared not long ago a picture of this journal page Just you know Some kind of fun things. I was just you know working on in my journal Honestly, this is just kind of a wipe off page. The whole thing is a wipe off page So the pain in the background was I was wiping off a brush The ha the washi tape came in some happy mail and I stuck it on here And then I put some music note paper on here I thought now we'd spend a little bit of time pulling the whole thing together and actually making some kind of journal page out of it So we're gonna use my arrow stencil, which is one of my new stencils and I was playing with it earlier So first thing that we want to do Is take this and we're gonna wipe it off. I'm gonna get out a baby white. This is the gold Um Metallic Dimensional cream that I mixed up Hey, that's a good name for it That I mixed up in a previous video I will try to remember to link it in the description below if I forget somebody tell me So we're gonna clean this off really quick oops You want to clean this Stuff off of your stencils. You don't want to leave any Dimensional texturing gel medium type product to dry on your stencils. It'll Clog up your stencils at some point and it will be a lot harder to clean it off So just go ahead and clean it off right away So there we go All right So now what we're going to do is I'm going to take my arrow stencil And some painters tape And I love my arrow stencil, but I think for this project I want to isolate a certain design in the Stencil uh by masking off the rest now. I initially thought I would do this part The little three dots this part with the dots And I may do but I think to start with I think I want this end part of the arrow where it sort of looks like chevrons or arrows So I'm going to take some painters tape. Do I want to do that or do I want to just cut it off? And I'm going to take my page And my dimensional cream I'm going to hold the stencil down pretty tight to the page And I'm going to push this through the stencil That one's a little messy, but that's okay I wasn't holding it down tight enough. So see You can of course do this on paper and let it dry and then collage it on which it might be a little easier Especially if your journal is not flat Like mine is not really flat anymore I think that's good. I want to stop there. So I'm going to do that Now you need to let this dry completely before you do anything else So we're going to do that But I want to take the rest of this cream and I'm going to take one of these pieces of paper And I'm going to use the opportunity that I have by having all this extra cream To create some more collage paper You could do the whole arrow take the tape off or you could just do the parts This cream really won't keep So it's best if you Make it that you just go ahead and use it all up Don't try not to make too much more than what you're going to need To get your page done And again, if you want your stenciling With the cream to come out perfect Then you really want to not use too much of it Make sure it's flat to the paper like you see these over here. They're really nice and crisp Um, I take a little more time with it than I just did but anyway, I'm okay with what came out I am going to let that dry and we're going to finish with our page and I'll be right back Okay, so you're going to see some footage right now. I'm going to cut to The footage right here And where you see me working here on the background now our Melted metal embellishments have Dried completely and now I'm able to go in and around and over them with some golden high flows and Just a little bit of water and I'm really just letting the paint Drip and do what it may And add more texture to the background The only thing that I am doing is I'm blotting it off the top of our liquid metal metal Embellishments so that they continue to shine through So once you do this like with the embellishments the look the melted metal Look, we have to let this dry completely and then we can move forward Okay, I picked a couple of different quotes out of my word box that I think are going to be great on this page um And this is all completely dry. I actually just let it dry overnight So it's nice and dry. So now it's time to embellish it. So I pulled a couple things out I have no idea which I want to use but We'll see I have a couple of these sort of I don't know borders and chipboard and laser cut wood. I've got this bin of this stuff This is I think chipboard And I'm not sure which one I want to put I'm thinking I actually want to use the littler one. This one's nice and all but I keep thinking I want to do that Which I might want to do So let's just do that and let's not think about it too much And let's just create and have fun because that's what it's all about, right? Okay, so I'm gonna cut this a bit shorter And hopefully in a way that I can save that little piece and use that again I think I kind of want to put it there Now this is also going to have to be trimmed because it's going to be too Um big to fit in the seam here. I also though have this sheet of black um It's from recollections It's a corrugated paper. It's black and it has It doesn't have a black cord has a brown core. I'm kind of thinking I want a piece of this on here Yeah, see it's got a like craft paper core But I'm thinking I want to just tear it. Well, hope I want to tear it because I just did So hopefully I want to tear it And I'm thinking I want to right so the first thing we're going to do we're going to trim this Question is how do I want to trim it? I think I want to just trim it in half Hope I do because I'm going to Okay, and actually I think we're going to use this piece up here I'm going to use this down here And I'm doing this in real time because I know some of you would like kind of prefer to have that I have some other things here, but you know what? I'm not going to even get them out because I I I like the way this looks so let's get this all attached and or glued down So we're going to use The timholz tiny attacher for the corrugated cardboard I like the industrial look of just stapling these to the page And I'm not worried about the staples showing through to the other side Especially because that page has staples on it I'm going to get this on here and I want this to like hang off the bottom I like the way that looks I have a bunch of like clothing tags that I've recently taken off things Just laying on my desk because I haven't put them away yet Not really for any other reason Except that they just didn't end up where they were supposed to okay. I want to glue these down. So we're going to get out some Heavy gel medium not because we need it for the die-cut paper because we do need it for the chipboard and a palette knife It won't hurt the die-cut paper at all, but that um thick cheap chipboard You're going to have trouble sticking down if you don't use a good heavy glue And I'm going to You can't see that I've got the palette. Oh, yeah, you can the palette knife's balanced over there. So let's stick like one staple in there Okay, maybe two There we go. I want to get like at least most of it stuck down. Well At least in the fold here for sure I don't care if some little pieces over here are sticking up. It's not going to hurt anything Let's do that up here. I'm thinking too much I need to just stick it on there This is golden's extra heavy gel Um, you don't have to have a golden use what you have I understand that um Amsterdam acrylics makes a really nice um heavy gel medium. So Use what you can get And or have I have this big jar of golden that i'm trying to use up Okay, and this dries clear so you don't have to worry about the extra White bits that are on here They're not going to show Okay, i'm going to leave the glue open for right now. I want to trim my wards and see how they're going to work into our page And kind of make double sure that We're not going to use any other Embellishments on the page. I don't think so. It's pretty busy already. I'm just giving these a nice Neat trim now. You don't of course have to you could be leave a messy and ragged you could tear them out of your Um Booker magazine like that there. And then what if we put this down here? Yep I like that. I like the way that looks. All right, let's get that down there We're going to just use the gel medium because we have it out. Have a scrap piece of paper And put the gel medium on the back of this other part of this quote that I want to use an old gift card or um Starbucks card something like that is really great for pushing um your items into the gel medium So that they stick really well and of course as soon as I say that this is the one stick Of course not. I like the way that looks Very much. I don't even know if it needs anything else. That's pretty That's pretty busy, but I do know a little something that I want to do so I have another high flow color here that I didn't use yet and this is called shading grain It's like a transparent gray and this is actually this is the same as this They now call call these high flow acrylics They used to call them airbrush colors and this is an old bottle Which says airbrush color, but they have the same color still in the high flows. It's called shading gray And I'm going to get a tiny little brush And I'm going to take some of this I'm going to actually pull the top off of it And I'm going to just stick the brush right in The bottle out some water I'm going to need that scrap paper again It dries a lot lighter and more opaque than it looks like right now on the page You're going to have to just trust me But you should have your baby wipes handy And then I'm going to just you can use a squirt bottle or you can just drip some water I'm using the water that's in my Water jar here for my paint brushes I have a little more control over where the water goes and the paint goes if I do it this way, so That would be why I'm doing it this way just in case anybody's wondering Now we're going to take A baby wipe I'm going to have to get some more baby wipes out soon And I'm going to just dab it off Where I don't want it or if there's too much big puddles that I don't like It's going to absorb into some of the paper But you know what I'm okay with that Okay, there we go I really like the way that page turned out. I hope you do too and above all I hope it gave you guys some ideas of what you can do with just a few simple bits and pieces A stapler and some gold paint So there you have it. Have a great day Support my channel if you can Or join one of my facebook groups the links for my Etsy shop the facebook groups My happy mail address all that's in the description below. Don't forget to like share and subscribe if you're new here And of course leave a comment if you would like to have a question answered or anything else And uh above all have a great day. Do something nice for yourself because you deserve it and I'll see you later. Bye guys