Love Yourself

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge]
[Challenge win: Spotlight at Arty Divas challenge]

Here’s a recent art journal spread of mine –

I started the spread with a lot of gel printing fun using acrylics and stencils. I also used stencils and acrylics without a gel plate. This started giving a grunge-y effect.

I then brushed some paint over the using a palette knife to add to the grunge. I also made some acrylics drips from the left edge.

For the focal hearts, I used gel printing scraps, which I hand tore in keeping with the grunge spirit, and adhered to the background. I outlined them with a fineliner. I also adhered a fussy-cut printed quote to the spread, with some finerliner outlines.

I then added more outlining to the hearts with a Posca marker and a water-based marker, and spritzed water to dissipate some of the marker ink. That finished the spread, ta da!

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With this spread, I’m joining these challenges –

613 Avenue Create Challenge – Feb – Anything Goes (optional twist: My Whimsical Valentine)	A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge – Feb – Anything Goes
Arty Divas Challenge – Feb – Anything Goes	CrafTangles Challenge – Feb – Celebrate Love
Happy Little Stampers Feb Stencil Challenge	Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge – Art Journal
Simon Says Stamp Wednesday Challenge – Anything Goes	Stay Crafty w/ A Blog Named Hero: Feb Challenge – Anything Goes