Hi and welcome to another Art Journal layout. It's Vicki here and today I'm going to create a really fun page. I'm working on my 8x8 Art Journal. This is a disk bound journal and here are a few pages that I have already finished. So first of all I'm going to apply some embossing paste with my spatula over this large stencil. This is by Dark Room Door and it keeps this lovely texture of dots. I'm applying my paste in different areas not trying to be perfect here and I'm not going to cover up the whole surface completely. And as always if you are wondering on what products I'm using you will find the list down below in the description area and there is a list on my blog. Now I haven't even let that embossing paste dry and I'm going to do some spraying so I'm going to use the Simmers praise by dilusions. I'm going to mix a couple of colors but I have applied water all over my surface in the beginning which is going to help those colors blend even more. So now I'm going to add even more water and let it drip. Everything blends nicely and I'm going to take it off the box. And I always like to do my spraying inside the box just because it kind of controls all that mess. And I love my background but before everything dries I'm going to use a paper towel and just dab over those embossed areas. The texture paste actually doesn't resist the spray which means that it's going to give a lovely texture but it's going to be colored. So here just because I want to have some variation on the color I'm just dabbing over those areas. So I end up having a colored area but at the same time it's not completely white. Now I'm going to do some stamping and I usually end up stamping my coat at the end but this time I'm going to do it in the beginning. So I'm using a dark room door coat stamp and this is the artist one that says maybe I'm an artist and maybe I ain't but all my best clothes are covered in paint. And I absolutely love this and I find that dark room door does have quite a few of those fun coat stamps which I am going to make sure to link you down below. So anyway I'm making sure that I have a nice and crisp image because this is watercolor paper so I have to stamp a couple of times. Now you can hear probably my stamp screaming. I am just cutting out all the parts so that I can separate the wards. I can always put them back together if I want to. So I'm going to stamp the main focal awards like the world that says artist and the other one that says paint and I'm going to stamp them on the edges. This is going to provide a lovely triangle, visual triangle with wards on my page. Now notice how my page doesn't move on my stamping platform. All I do is to use some repositionable tape on top of my platform so I never have to use the magnets. I'm using my blending tool with a black suit, this dress looks I think and I'm going to ink up the edges. I always like to have a darker border around my page. I find that it helps all those bright colors to pop even more and it also provides a lovely frame and gives my project a finished look. This stamp set is called Artist Brasses and it's from Darkroom Door. I will be using five of the brushes included and there are also bigger brush as well as lots of sentiments. Now I'm going to stamp those with black archival ink and I'm working on mixed media paper just because it takes paint nicely but you can now use any type of paper that you have. Now I'm going to use some acrylic paint and I'm actually using this dress acrylic paint here but you can use any type of acrylic paint that you have. You can also use markers or watercolor ink whatever you like. I'm just coloring the handles of all the brushes. I will use silver acrylic paint to color the ferrule which is that metal part of the brush and then I'm going to use some light brown to color the bristles. Once everything is dry I'm going to use my scissors and I'm going to fuzzle cut all those brushes since I am going to pop them on my project. Now I've also used this stamp which is also by Darkroom Door and these are some paints that I have already colored. Again, I used my acrylic paints to add some color and then fuzzle cut everything. Now I'm doing some spraying on watercolor paper using two shades of green. These are dilution sprays and they are the similar ones. Everything is nice and shiny and hopefully you can see how shiny this is here. I'm going to use this scrap of paper to cut out a few of the leaves which you can see here. This is a die by my favorite things by the way I believe. I am going to make sure to find out which one it is and you will find it linked down below. So now it's time to do my composition and the idea here is to create a bouquet of brushes. So I am creating my composition here trying to decide where everything is going to go. I'm only using one little foam square at the back of the bristles. So the rest of the handle is free. This is going to give me enough freedom to add more elements underneath later on. Now I am using my bouquet and I'm going to create two holes there and then I'm going to use a needle and some string and thread it through so that I can tie a little knot. I think I did a couple of wraps before tying the knot and I always like to add dimension or different textures on my project so this string adds something extra there. After all this is a mixed media project so the more different mediums we use the better. Now I'm going to use my white glue and I'm going to tuck in some of those paints as well as some of the leaves. So I end up having a lovely bouquet here and you can see the paints here, the leaves, really lovely. You can of course make it as full as you like. I decided to leave it quite plain and not add much more on it. Now I'm going to add some splashes and for that I'm using the two similar sprays that I used for the background so I'm not introducing any new colors here. These are going to add quite some shine as well as all those splashes really much perfectly with the theme of my project today. Here is a close up look on all the shine and how my project is looking at the moment and I'm going to add some little details, all those finishing details that I always love to add. So I'm working with my acrylic markers here, these are by dilusions. First I'm going to use some of the colors to add some paint on the bristles of my brushes. So in these markers there is actually acrylic paint which isn't translucent so you can see that it stays nicely on top of all the colors that I have underneath and it gives a lovely finished look. And also notice that I'm using colors that I have already on my background such as oranges and yellows and pinks so everything much is perfectly together. Now I'm using a white marker and adding some highlights in different areas. Now I'm using a thin black marker and I'm adding some sketchy lines around the leaves. Just because all the rest of my images, the brushes and the paints do have black lines around them. I want to add this detail so everything matches. And here is a close up look on my finished page. All I need to do is to put it back on my Discbound 8x8 Journal and you can see here a background that I'm working on. This is going to be my next art journal video. And that was the project for today. I hope you had fun that you got inspired. Here are some close up photos of my art journal layout today. Thank you all so much for watching and have a lovely day! Thanks for watching!