 Γεια σας, είμαι Βικη και καλώς ήρθω σε ένα άλλο σχέδιο σχέδιο σχέδιο. Σήμερα είμαι σχέδιο σχέδιο σχέδιο σχέδιο σχέδιο, και για να παρακολουθήσω ό,τι έχω underneath, θα χρησιμοποιήσω ένα σχέδιο σχέδιο, για να μπορώ να χρησιμοποιήσω τα σχέδια μου για να δημιουργήσω ένα εύκολο σχέδιο. Πρώτα από όλα θα πω ένα λίγο νερό, ελπίζω να μπορείς να δεις πόσο νερό έχω εκεί. Αυτή η λίγο νερό really helps the blending of the colors, and then I'm going to mix two different colors of my oxide sprays. The colors I'm using are Fossilized Tumber and Picked Raspberry. Now both those colors are much really beautiful together, I love the color combination, and of course you can go ahead and spray even more layers if you like. I'm adding even more water on top and then I'm going to use my heat gun and just make sure that everything is dry. Now all the colors look very bright at the moment, but once the pages are completely dry, it's going to give me that chalky finish look that you get when you use your Distress Oxidings or Sprays. However, later on in this video I'm going to show you a little trick that you can use if you want to brighten up the colors again and bring them to life. Now I'm using a stencil and with a baby wipe I'm going over the pages. This kind of lifts some of the color from underneath and creates a ghost effect. The more you leave the page wet, the more this is going to show. So I'm going to add some stenciling here and there and then I'm going to use my heat gun and make sure that everything is dry. Now the heat gun that I'm using is by wow and it has two settings. One is for embossing and the other one is for drying, which makes it a great tool to have. Here is a close up look on how my pages look at the moment and just to add some more visual texture at the background, I'm going to do some stamping. Now for that I'm using two stamps that I have with text. I'm not using any stamping blocks since I don't want to have perfect images at the background. The ink that I'm using is Distress Oxidings and that's a vintage photo. It's one of my favorite things of all times. Now if you are wondering the stamps that I'm using are stamps that I have been using for years. These are from the etc collection by Team Holds. I absolutely love it because it gives you lovely details to add on your backgrounds and I have been using it in my latest videos many, many times. Using the same ink pad and a blending tool, I'm adding some shading only at the edges just to darken them up a little bit and that helps the colors to look brighter at the center. For my focal point I will be using images from this adorable stamp set. This is called Let's Stick Together and it is by my favorite things. I do get lots of stamps throughout the month and I usually make cards but I get so many requests on making an art journal and today I decided to show you how you can use the stamps that you probably have on your stars to create art journals. Just remember that stamps for card making can be easily turned into an art journal. So here I'm picking all the different cactus designs. I'm using black archival ink which is permanent to stamp them and this will ensure that no matter what I do on top of these images, they're not going to smudge or smear and after stamping them a couple of times with my stamping platform to get a good impression, I'm going to use my scissors and cut out everything. And you can see here I even stamped the different designs of pots that come in the stamp set. There are actually magic dies for cutting all of those images that you can use or if you even have a scan and cut then it's even easier for you. However, I decided to use my scissors just because I don't like to have that white border all around when it comes to my art journaling. So I took my time, I really don't mind fuzzy cutting at all and here are all the images ready to go. I also used my paper trimmer to cut out thin strips of craft cardstock. Now I didn't measure anything and some of them are even wonky. However, these are going to be my selves where I'm going to put the cacti on top. So I'm just using a very old wood grain stamp that I have and I'm sure you all have one. If you don't, you really need to grab one of those. They are great for adding patterns. And all I'm doing is stamping on top of those thin strips to make them look like wood. By the way, I used black ink for that. And now back to my art journal. I'm going to lay all the cutouts on top of my pages so that I can try and decide where I want everything to be. I am going to play a little bit with the shelves and then place all the little images on top. And once I'm happy with that placement, I'm going to commit and stick them down. Now there are many ways to put together a page like this. You can always color all the images, cut them out and stick them with glue at the back. Or the way I am doing it today, which is a more mixed media way, is to just stick them as they are in black and white with matte medium and then color them on top. So now if you notice, I am using my matte medium underneath the images and to cover them up. And notice that when my brush with matte medium touches the background where I have that distressed oxide spray, then it becomes quite vibrant. So remember, if you want to keep everything quite dull as they are at the moment, make sure to use glue only at the back of the images. It can be a white glue, it can be matte medium or some tape adhesive, but never touch the rest of the background. Or just go ahead and cover up everything with matte medium like I'm doing here. And you can see that all the colors just come to life. So it really depends on the look that you are going for. Now make sure that the brush that we are using is not dipped into water. Here I'm using a brush that is completely dry from water. I'm just dipping it inside my matte medium. This way I don't move the colors underneath. When matte medium is going to dry, then the page is going to keep the brightness, as you can see it now. It's not going to be shiny at all, but it's going to give a certain finish on the page. So as you can see, I covered up completely the first page and I'm going to do the exact same thing or the second page. One of my all-time favorite ways to color images when I do collage on my art journal is to use my big brush markers. This is Indian ink and I have been using them for years. I never had to re-ink them. I never had to buy the same color twice, even if I use it again and again, just because they have quite a peak of a barrel and I use such a little bit, I just touch the nib on the images and then smudge them with my finger. They really last a long time. And to tell you the truth, I find them more satisfying to use and color images rather than using different colors of alcohol markers. Just by smudging with the finger, you get different color variations, shadows and highlights that it would take you ages to get with alcohol markers. Also keep in mind that although I can move them with my finger, after a few seconds they are completely dry and become permanent so I am not able to move them anymore. But I can always build up color on top of them. And while you see me coloring the images, I can talk a little bit on how I choose colors for the background. I always know the focal point so here I knew I would use those adorable images which they are going to be colored mainly green. So I needed colors for the background that would help that green stand out. That's why I used fossilized amber and that picked raspberry. And you can see how the cacti pop on top of them. Θα добавesting shading on my images until I am happy with how they look. Of course I am going to color the pots as well. Θα στηθεί ένα λιγούν ετοχοκογή να κάνουν και κάνουν λιγούν. Μαnite να β这样, και να βρεις λίγες μεκαινές και να βρεις λίγες μεκαινές κυπογθυμμένα εγώ για να σημαίνω οι χρήματα. Αν μιλά τα βράδια υπηρευθμί μου βραθούν οι λίγες. Άν HQV-θασα και μεγκραφί με καινο φουνεκαρμίνει όμως δεν έχω δυνατότητα, αλλά δεν έχω δυνατότητα στους ανθρώπους. Είναι αυτό που βλέπω εδώ, οπότε όλοι είναι σχετικές. Και το άλλο εύκολο πραγματικό πιστήριο είναι να βλέπω στους ανθρώπους με my white gel pen. Δεν παίζω πολλές αυτούς για να πω πού είναι η σορσή λίγη και τίποτα. Θέλω να έχω ένα σχέδιο και ένα σχέδιο καρτονικό σχέδιο. Έτσι, θα βλέπω στους ανθρώπους στους ανθρώπους. Αυτό που βλέπω είναι να παίρνω ακόμα πιο πιο ανθρώπους στους ανθρώπους. Θέλω να αγαπώ το σχέδιο. Υπάρχει κάποιες τεκνίκες που θα πάρω πάνω και πάνω σε όλες τις ευκολογέντες. Έτσι, πρέπει να κάνω κάποιες σπλασσές. Εδώ θα χρησιμοποιήσω my diluted white gel pen. Και βλέπεις ότι χρησιμοποιώ κάποιες σχέδιες για να κοβω τα σπλασσά μου. Αυτό είναι φυσικά ευκολογέντες. Δεν έχετε να κάνετε τα σπλασσά μου στον ευκολογέντες. Γιατί έχω πολλές ευκολογέντες για αυτό. Δεν έχετε πράγματα στην ουσιακή γυναλία. Πάτε ό,τι θέλεις. Αυτό κάνω πιο πιο ευκολογέντες. Jso στον σπλασσά μου δεν γράφει πολύ πιο σύμφωνα. Αν δεν θέλεις κάποιες σπλασσές, μπορείτε να βλέπεις πάνω με το μάτυμα, που είναι το πιο ευκολογέντες που κάνω με κάποιες σπλασσά μου. Βέβαια, αν έχεις ένα πιο ευκολογέντες, μπορείτε να πινάψετε πρωτογεγέντες, αν θέλω να σπλάσουν, και έχω δύο διαφορετικού αλφαβετές που βλέπεις εδώ. Πώταση αλφαβετές και έχω κομμάσει πολλές ευκολογέντες γιατί κόμπω να τους χρησιμοποιήσω και να τους χρησιμοποιήσω. ίσως πολλές αλφαβετές που βλέπω, αλλά υπάρχουν πολλές διαφορετικούς αλφαβετές ότι είμαι πίσω ότι θα βρεις το ένα που θέλεις. Πάω στον ίδιο γελπινό μου και αυτή τη στιγμή θα προσπαθήσω κάποιες εγγραφίες around the bigger of the letters and I always like to add motivational quotes or my art journal so this one is Life is like a cactus, thorny but beautiful so I'm going to add those highlights on the right side of the bigger letters which helps those pop even more. To bring my images more to life I'm going to add black nouveau drops on their eyes now of course the same design you can use it for a card and there are lots of sentiments that go along with the adorable designs on the stamp set and I think that on a card it would look awesome if instead of black nouveau drops you added googly eyes on those cacti. I'm super happy with how this page looks really bright and happy I'm going to stamp the date and I'm going to call this one done and as always you will find the full list of all the supplies that I used linked down below so here are some close up photos where you can see in detail many of the different elements of my page so I hope you had fun that you got inspired don't forget to subscribe and like and also leave me a comment down below thank you all for watching and I'll see you all next time.