 Γεια σας, είμαι Vicky here, με το νέο αργένα λαϊόδη. Τώρα θα χρησιμοποιήσω αυτό το ελλεφάντος από Stampendous. Τώρα αυτό έρχεται με αυτό το φόνος που μπορείς να σκοτήσεις τη δουλειά. Το ένα στήρα της ελλεφάντης είναι σωλή και το άλλο δεύτερο δεύτερο σχέση. Και also there is a rubber stamp that matches perfectly the solid side. Η κέντω also comes with a stencil. Θα χρησιμοποιήσω τη λαγιά για εσύ, και για εσύ θα δούμε το εξαιρετικό δεύτερο δεύτερο. Και also today I will be working on my bigger art journal, this is by Dilusions, the bigger size, just because the elephant is too big to use on my smaller Dilusions that I usually work with. So you can see the difference here. To start with I am going to apply some acrylic paint and today I am using my Dilusions paints. I am applying everything with my baby wipe and as I am using the colors you can see which colors I am using on the screen. I am using two different baby wipes for each color but I am using both of them to blend everything on my page. I haven't prepared my pages with Jesus so I am working directly on the paper and also what I love about Dilusions is that they have beautiful bright colors. They are really easy to blend and to apply and just to deepen a little bit my background I decided to bring in a third color which again I am applying with my baby wipe. Now these Dilusions paints really dry super fast on your page so you have to move quite quickly if you want to blend them nicely but at the same time using a baby wipe which is already wet it's a great idea because it extends the time that the paint dries and makes your job a little bit more easy. Now since I was a little girl when everyone asked me what my favorite animal was I used to say always elephant so when I saw this set I just had to use it on one of my Arjuna layouts. So now I am using the stencil again I am applying the same colors that I have used for my background and I am applying it by using my blending tool the round blending tool by Tim Holtz. Using the colors that I have used on the background over the stencil is a great tip to keep your background quite subtle. So I am going to keep it as it is I am happy with how my background looks and I am going to work with my elephant. When you are working with foam stamps it's always nice if you spray a little bit of water before you start applying your acrylic paints. So you can see now I have sprayed just a little bit hope you can see how wet it is and this is going to help the paint stay only at the surface and also it's going to make your life easier when you try to clean the stamp. I am applying again Dilutions paints and I am going to mix up two different colors on my elephant I find it easy to apply the paint with foam brush and you can see that with the same foam brush I am going to mix up my colors directly on my foam stamp. Now if you want to contaminate your colors stay away from this technique you can always use two different brushes to apply it. Of course you can use the foam stamp and stamp directly on your project but you know how I live paper piecing so I just had to try it on a different piece of paper first and you will see that I am going to get a great impression and I really have so many ideas of using this elephant set that I probably use it again and again on my projects. So you see the impression here I really love it and since I have all that paint I am going to try and see if I can do second generation stamping and you can see I really get a beautiful texture out of that and I am also going to spritz a little bit of water and see if I can get a third impression and these second and third generation stampings give you beautiful texture perfect for our journal backgrounds. So now I am going to wipe it off with my baby wipe I went to the sink to wash it it was super easy to remove and you can see it's totally clean just like new. So now I am going to use the rubber stamp and I am going to stamp directly on top of my elephant by using my black archival ink. This stamp is going to give a great texture on my elephant and it's not a big deal if you don't stamp directly on top of it we just need the texture for now you see that I don't pay any attention on the fabric at the top of the elephant since I am going to stamp it again and paper piece it later on So for now I am going to use my scissors and cut out my cute little elephant and for the fabric that the elephant is wearing I am going to use my tear quiz and color just a scrap piece of paper and then I am going to use my black archival ink and stamp again this part of the elephant on this piece of paper now instead of placing the elephant on top of the paper I am doing it the other way around so I can get a better impression now I can heat set it with my heat gun just a little bit make sure that the archival ink is dry and then I am going to use my scissors to cut it out So although this is pretty much the same color as the elephant you will see that when I place it on top now I am using again another piece of scrap paper and I am going to blend in those two colors these are the same colors that I have used for my elephant again and I am going to blend them with my baby wipes and to add a little bit of texture I am using this stamp set which is again by Stampentus it has great textures for your original projects for your backgrounds but I am going to use this stamp that looks like a lace and instead of using any type of ink pad I am going to use the same paints on my stamp so that again I get a nice subtle result and I am planning to cut out an umbrella out of this pattern paper that I am creating at the moment so I am going to use my pencil and dry a nice curve at the top and then follow the line to cut my umbrella now I am going to use the bottom of that stamp impression as the bottom of my umbrella but as I cut it out I decided that it was too big for my elephant so I went ahead and cut it out even more actually I am following the lines of the stamp that gives me a nice curve down there but I have a nice umbrella for my elephant and now it's time to stick everything directly on top of my art journal to do so I am using a gel medium this is matte gel medium I am going to stick my elephant about in the middle of my page and I know it looks like it's flying up there but you will see that I am going to place him on top of a string there so I am trying to decide where my umbrella is going to go and once I am happy with the placement I am going to commit and stick it down with my gel medium I am also covering everything all my elements with my gel medium and this is going to give me the ability to use my big brass markers to do the shading later on so I am going to stick the fabric on top and you can see that although it's the same colour just because it's not blended in it stands out against the background of the elephant so now I am using my big brass markers for my favourite technique and I am going to add shadows all over the umbrella and the elephant and as I am doing that just to let you know that you can find a full list of all the supplies that I am using today just below the video in the description area as well as on my blog the elephant and the umbrella look more dimensional and now I am going to draw the handle of my umbrella as if the elephant is holding it to do so I used my thin black marker and I am also going to use this marker to go all around the elephant and this is going to help the elephant pop even more against the background I am not going for the perfect lines I am just going a little bit sketchy here and I am also going to do the same thing around the umbrella and you will see that after doodling all around the umbrella I made the lines to the centre of the umbrella just to make it look more realistic and I am also going to use my big brass markers there to do the shadows another one of my go-to techniques is using my white gel pen and adding details on my elements so I am going to do some white doodling now on the different parts of the elephant as well as on the umbrella and I find that just a little bit of highlighting here and there with the white gel pen really helps all the elements pop even more against the background and I love the look and since I was using my white gel pen I decided to do some details on the umbrella so I am drawing those tear drops just underneath to embellish my umbrella even more now had this idea to put this elephant on a string balancing holding his umbrella so instead of drawing the string I am going to actually use a piece of white string I have placed where I want the string to go and now I am going to stick everything down by using my gel medium you can use any type of glue for that but just because my matte gel medium dries totally transparent without leaving any gloss and you won't be able to tell where the glue was I always prefer gluing things on my page with that and since my white thread is going all the way from one page to the other and over the fold I decided to cut it out at the fold you don't really see where the cut is but at the same time it's going to help my book to open and close easier so once everything was glued down I used my scissors to cut out the excess thread and now it's time to work on my quote for my quote I am going with those chipboard letters and these have been on my stash for many many years actually I think those are the same chipboard letters that I have used on my kappa art journal layout for writing down the word cup so anyway I am just coloring them black and to do so I used my black marker I could have used my acrylic paint also and I am going to place them around the thread I am not going to place them straight I am going to make them follow the line so once I am happy with the placement I am going to use my glue and stick them down just to make sure that these are nicely stuck down instead of using my gel medium I decided to go with my taggy glue I am going to use my white gel pen to add some highlighting on the letters just like I always do on the big bold letters I think that it helps them stand out even more to stamp my quote I am going to use this clear stamp set and this is by kaiser craft and I am going to use my black archival ink when I am stamping on an art journal I always like to stamp 2 or 3 letters at a time and not the whole world just because I am working on a bulky surface I won't get another good impression if I do otherwise so now my layout is pretty much finished I am going to do the finishing touches now so again I am using my white gel pen adding all the highlighting on the letters just like I did with the big balance word I am also going to stick one tiny black enamel dot as the eye for my elephant and I am really really happy with the outcome and also I found in my stash those white tear drops these are enamel dots actually which I am going to stick underneath the umbrella just to give it a little bit of dimension there and that was the project for today I hope you had fun and got inspired and if you did don't forget to leave my comment as well as give me thumbs up on my youtube channel here are some close up photos of today's project and if you need more inspiration here are two more art journal layouts that I shared a while back thank you all for watching