{"id":3701,"date":"2023-07-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/?p=3701"},"modified":"2025-09-26T15:14:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T13:14:17","slug":"stamp-and-stencils-firework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rubberdance.com\/blog\/art-journal-inspiration\/stamp-and-stencils-firework\/","title":{"rendered":"DIY Zine Tutorial – Make a Mixed Media Mini Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For my last blog post of my July guest design I wanted to use as many Rubber Dance products as possible, so today I show you how to do a Mini-Zine. It’s super easy and so much fun to create your own mixed media mini book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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First I used the stencils, some stamps and my gelli plate to create a couple of collage pages with Acrylic paint and alcohol inks.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Then I did some tissue paper with the stencils using black paint, texture paste and golden effect paste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Next  I did a collage on a 29,7 cm by 42,5 cm sheet of paper. <\/p>\n\n\n

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To convert a the sheet to a mini-zine it needed to be cut in the middle as shown in the picture below.<\/p>\n\n\n

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This is the result of folding and glueing it together to a mini zine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now that the booklet is done it is all about decorating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the first page I used the houses from the Textured Houses to create a day and night scene. The day houses I coloured with normal water colours, the night houses I coloured with pearlesent colours on black water colour paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the background I used pieces of the tissue paper I created before. I stamped with stamps from the celestial stamp set and embossed them with Distress embossing glaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The second page is with the Grungy Butterflies, the Textured Flowers and the Sketchy Leaves stamp sets. This time I stamped with the Pencil Marks 5 in the background, again I embossed with embossing glaze.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I added some tissue paper with golden texture paste.<\/p>\n\n\n

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For the last page I used the stamps from the Textured Sea Creatures set. This time I took some crackle texture paste through the small ink dots stencil before adding some embossing glaze to emboss it in blue. I stamped with the spiral stamps and again added some of my texture paste tissue paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On all pages I added sentiments from the Mixed Sentiments set and embossed them with Distress embossing glaze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On the outside of the mini-zine I stamped with Carved Collection 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I hope you like my idea of a mini-zine from collage material with the new stencils and  decorated with Rubberdance stamps. I very much enjoyed sharing inspirations with you during my July guest design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take care and have fun creating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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