What an exciting day for me! It's my first official post for Helmar, and I couldn't be happier to be posting here as part of the design team. And what fun to be working this week with Viva Las VegaStamps!
I wanted to share an art journal page I created using Helmar Decoupage and Craft Paste and Helmar Zapdots, as well as some beautiful texture stamps from Viva Las VegaStamps.
Here's the final page, but I would like to show you different photos as I stepped along the path to the final product:
I generally like to start my art journal pages with various scraps of paper, cloth, lace and book paper. I arrange them randomly without putting too much thought into where they'll be, and what will show. This is primarily because as I'm working on an art journal page, I don't generally work with a final product in mind, but rather let the process take me there instead.
I used the Helmar Decoupage and Craft Paste with a paint brush to adhere the paper, lace, fabric and book paper to the kraft paper base. Then I begin to layer on other embellishments that are typical to scrapbooking, such as journal spots and a photo, but first, I needed some additional texture and little pops of colour. So I used the stamps to get me that extra pop.
It's starting to take on some shape, and structure. I use Helmar Zapdots to pop up some embellishments for dimension. In this case, I popped up the doily and the photo. Don't you just adore that Instagram stamp?
Finally, I added some washi tape, Color Shine spray, and finally some Perfect Pearls to add some random accents without adding a lot of additional layers.
I really like how it turned out as a final page. I hope that you'll give art journaling a try using Helmar and Viva Las VegaStamps, and just play! I'm looking forward to seeing your layouts, altered art and art journal projects this week!
