Mixed Media Tutorial – Art Journal Page with Sketchy Birds

Hello, Samantha here today and I’m sharing a tutorial showing how I made another page ready for my art journal. I am creating a layerd mixed media background. My focal images is one of the cute Sketchy Birds 2. This was a joyful page to create with great colours and an upside down bird!

I created the background using white gesso, just three colours and the hearts stamp from the Mix It Up 3 stamp set.

I stamped the foliage stamp also from Mix It Up 3 and because I wanted to mute the colours slightly I scraped some white texture paste in random places.

I then stamped one of the cute birds from the Sketchy Birds 2 stamp set on to white card and coloured using coordinating coloured watercolours.

To arrange my page and to get the birds and their legs in the right place I stamped the bird on to my page, (they’re standing on a twig I painted with brown paint), doing this also let me plan more of the background and where I would stamp words from the Mixed Sentiments 1 stamp set.