Art Journaling: Field Notes with Shari Carroll
Welcome to the Blog everyone!! It’s Shari here with an art journal feature using Jane Davenport Collage papers and Vicki Bouton acrylic paints. This was the first time I tried these papers and I had a blast!! They are so colorful!!
I started the page out by tearing portions of the papers and gluing them down in my Dina Wakely Media journal using Clear Gesso. Have I ever mentioned that you can use Gesso to glue papers down? You can! I used it because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to use watercolors or acrylic paints afterwards. Watercolors need a better base to hold onto and gel mediums aren’t the best choice. I ended up using acrylic paints.
I used a bit of embossing paste with a Tim Holtz Dotted stencil to give it a bit of texture. I added my paints first by diluting them with water and ended up finger painting with them full strength. This gave me faded areas along with bright areas.
I used a piece of vellum to white embossed some butterflies from the Beautiful Day stamp set, I die cut them and glued them to the page.
I have filmed a full process video showing how this was created, you can view it below or on our YouTube channel HERE.
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Wowee what a beautiful and colourful page, love it!
love the bright colors and lovely texture:)
Great colors and tips! I didn’t know you could use gesso like glue.
Very beautiful layout. Love the gorgeous colors and textures.
This is Amazing!!! I love these Jane Davenport napkins!!!
Beautiful layout. Lovely colors :)
I would not have thought this was your first time using these papers, because you looked really comfortable with them! While it was nice to see the video of the whole process, I also very much enjoyed this blog post so I could understand what you were thinking as you created. Thanks for sharing!
Fascinating project. tfs
Oh how beautiful. I’ve just recently gotten into mixed media, I’m not very good, but I’m learning.
I wish my journal looked like Shari’s. I already follow by email.
Stunning work!
Love this, it is amazing!
I like the white embossed vellum, as well as all the other things you did!
Beautiful Art Journal Pages ♥
That was so fun to watch. Love it.
I love the bright colours and the vellum butterflies!
So creative and beautiful!
Such bright & beautiful colors…love it!!
This is stunning an so beautiful!!!!
Fun colors!
Another artful creation created by Shari.
lovely …
Oh wow, this is just stunning! Love the colour scheme!
Stunning layout and gorgeous products. So fun to watch your creative process Shari. Great tip to use clear gesso rather than matte medium. I’m a newcomer to multi media project and this will be something to remember.
Great use of colour and texture!
WOW!!! That is amazing and gorgeous art journal.
Thank you for sharing the video too!
I have been paying a lot of attention to the art journaling. I love it. I have always been a doodler. This certainly fills my need to doodle.
Love it!! And I love the colors!! The butterflies give it a special touch and more dimension, love them!! I always love your journal pages!! Thanks for sharing!!
What a fantastic, so joyful creation !!
Your pages are beautiful! I really like all of the different elements and textures that you used on them. Thanks for sharing with us.
these colors are so beautiful and vibrant, nice page!
I look forward to your art journal pages so much! As always, this is beautiful, I love the color combinations.
WOW! awesome journal pages! Thanks for the video!