Hey Quietfire Fans! For today's project I'm sharing with you my Look For The Dream Art Journal Page. By combining a variety of stamps, dies and the Modern Gilding Powders, they were perfect for creating my page. You'll want to grab a cup of your favourite beverage and learn how to recreate my Look For The Dream Art Journal Page at home.
To start, choose two pages in your art journal. Using a paintbrush, cover the two pages in a light coat of White Gesso. Once the gesso has dried, spritz Dylusions Spray Ink in Vibrant Turquoise, Fresh Lime and Lemon Zest on the two pages. Spritz the spray ink with water. Use a paper towel to remove the access ink. Allow the pages to dry.
With the pages dry, apply Emboss It Ink to the Grid Background stamp and stamp randomly six times on the right hand page. Reapply ink to the stamp as needed. Sprinkle Copper Scroll Modern Gilding Powder onto the stamped grid pattern. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Apply Emboss It Ink to the Grid Background stamp and stamp randomly five times on the left hand page. Reapply ink to the stamp as needed. Sprinkle Copper Scroll Modern Gilding Powder onto the stamped grid pattern. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.
Apply Emboss It Ink to the Leafy Acanthus Background stamp and stamp randomly seven times on the right hand page. Reapply ink to the stamp as needed. Sprinkle Forever Platinum Modern Gilding Powder onto the stamped leafy acanthus pattern. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Apply Emboss It Ink to the Leafy Acanthus Background stamp and stamp randomly six times on the left hand page. Reapply ink to the stamp as needed. Sprinkle Forever Platinum Modern Gilding Powder onto the stamped leafy acanthus pattern. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool.
Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Grid Background and stamp onto a piece of Collage Paper. Reapply ink to the background stamp and stamp two more times on the same paper. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Leafy Acanthus Background and stamp onto the same piece of collage paper. Reapply ink to the stamp and stamp onto the same piece of paper.
Tear up pieces of the Leafy Acanthus collage paper and the Grid Background paper. On the right hand page, adhere two pieces of Leafy Acanthus paper and one piece of Grid paper using a glue stick as desired on the page. On the left hand page, adhere one piece of Leafy Acanthus paper and two pieces of Grid paper using a glue stick as desired on the page.
Using the Peacock Feathers Distress Crayon, rub crayon along the edges of both pages. To add some highlighting around the embossed areas and collage papers, rub Distress Crayon in Twisted Citron and Squeezed Lemonade as desired.
Die cut a 2 1/2" Stitched Oval out of a piece of watercolour cardstock. Spritz Vibrant Turquoise, Fresh Lime and Lemon Zest onto the oval. Spritz the ink with water. Remove the excess ink with a piece of paper towel. Dry the oval with a heat tool. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Look for the Dream stamp and stamp onto the middle of the oval. Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the grid background and stamp randomly onto the oval as desired. Ink the edges of the oval using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.
Die cut the Flourished Oval Frame out of black cardstock.
Apply Peacock Feathers Distress Ink to the medium Flourish Corner stamp from the Flourished Corners stamp set and stamp onto a piece of white cardstock. Reapply ink to the stamp and stamp on the same piece of cardstock. Apply Squeezed Lemonade Distress Ink to the medium Flourish Corner stamp and stamp onto the same piece of white cardstock. Reapply ink to the stamp and stamp on the same piece of cardstock. Fussy cut all four corners out. Ink the edges of all four corners using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.
From the Flourished Frame die, die cut two scroll piece using black cardstock.
From the Butterfly Flourish die, die cut two small butterflies, one medium butterfly and one large butterfly out of white cardstock.
Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the large dragonfly from the Butterflies/Dragonflies stamp set and stamp onto a piece of watercolour cardstock. Apply Emboss It Ink to the Dragonfly word from the same stamp set and stamp onto a piece of white cardstock. Colour the dragonfly in using Turquoise and Lime Scribble Sticks with a waterbrush. Sprinkle Forever Platinum Modern Gilding Powder over the word. Tap off the excess powder and emboss with a heat tool. Fussy cut the dragonfly and dragonfly word out. Ink the edges of the dragonfly and word out of Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.
Apply Jet Black Archival Ink to the Tea ring from the Tea & Thee stamp set and stamp onto a piece of white cardstock. Reapply ink to the stamp and stamp onto the same piece of white cardstock. Fussy cut both rings out. Remove the center from one of the rings as well as the knob. Ink the edges of the rings using Black Soot Distress Ink and a blending tool with foam.
Now we will start assembling the left hand page. Adhere the two scrolls 1/4" from the left and 2 1/2" from the top of the page. Adhere the peacock feathers corner 3/4" from the left and 1 1/4" from the top of the page. Adhere the squeezed lemonade corner 3" from the left and 1 5/8" from the bottom of the page.
Adhere the flourished oval frame to the oval. Foam square the oval 3/4" from the left and 1 5/8" from the top of the page. Adhere the medium butterfly to the bottom left side of the oval. Adhere one small butterfly to the right side of the oval. Adhere the remaining small butterfly to the right of the peacock feathers corner.
Now we will start assembling the right hand page. Adhere the peacock feathers corner 1" from the right and 1 3/4" from the bottom of the page. Adhere the squeezed lemonade corner 2 5/8" from the right and 1 3/8" from the top of the page. Adhere the large butterfly 2" from the right and 7/8" from the top of the page.
Foam square the tea ring that doesn't have the center cut out 1 1/8" from the right and 1 3/4" from the top of the page. Use adhesive and foam squares to adhere the other tea ring 1 1/2" from the right and 1 7/8" from the bottom of the page. Adhere the dragonfly to the middle of the tea rings. Use adhesive and foam squares to adhere the dragonfly word 1/2" from the right and 1 3/4" from the bottom of the page.
Here are a few closeup photos of the finished art journal page.
Here is the finished Look For The Dream Art Journal Page.
Quietfire Design Supplies Used:
Other Supplies Used:
- Tim Holtz for Ranger Ink: Distress Ink - Black Soot, Peacock Feathers & Squeezed Lemonade, Distress Crayon - Peacock Feathers, Squeezed Lemonade & Twisted Citron and Blending Tool with Foam
- Dylusions for Ranger Ink: Dylusions Ink Spray - Vibrant Turquoise, Fresh Lime and Lemon Zest
- Dina Wakley for Ranger Ink: White Gesso, Scribble Sticks Set #1 - Lime & Turquoise and Collage Paper
- Ranger Ink: Jet Black Archival Ink and Emboss It Dabber
- Elizabeth Craft Designs: Stitched Ovals
- Misc: Black Cardstock and White Cardstock
Thanks so much for joining me today and I hope that I've inspired you to recreate my Look For The Dream Art Journal Page.
- Katelyn
