Art Journal Page with Robyn Wood

Hello! It’s Robyn Wood with you today sharing minimalist style art journal page featuring Helmar adhesives.

Helmar adhesives make sticking embellishments into an art journal so easy. The adhesives I have used dry quickly and remain flexible so turning pages is a breeze.

Sometimes I want to get creative with acrylic paint but don’t really know what I want to create so I paint a few random pages in my art journals. It gets my hands busy while my brain decides on the next step or simply has a little snooze;)

I decided I wanted to show you how I might work on one of these pages so let’s get started! Once my page is covered with paint, I might add a little bit of texture by collaging and this mesh style material is a good start. I’ve added it to three of the page corners.

I like adding areas of high contrast to my art journal pages so painted in a section of rough black rectangles to a corner of my page using black acrylic paint.

A tag is a great way to add an embellishment to an art journal page and I usually keep a stash of tags that have been made at different times for adding to my pages. This tag features a watercolour background that had been overstamped with a wet background stamp to give a random type texture. Some typed words, torn paper & coloured butterfly finished it off and added a lovely touch of colour to my page. The butterfly is attached with just a touch of Helmar Tacky Craft Glue in the centre of the body so that the wings can lift up.

To give the tag a little dimension, I used Helmar Scrap Dots on the back and pressed it lightly onto my page. I think this is a nice ‘first page’ for my much loved art journal. Actually I often skip over the first page in my journals until I come up with something that seems to capture what is on the rest of the pages & this one is full of little snippets of inspiration and colour.

Supplies:
Helmar Scrap Dots
Helmar Tacky Craft Glue
Journal – Dylusions Dyalog grid pages
Stamps - Darkroom Door

I hope you have enjoyed learning how this project was created and I’d love to see pages you have created with Helmar adhesives. Until next time…

Comments

[Raelene C]

Your Art Journal page looks really cool.

[Suzanne Franin]

Looks great Robyn love the orange x