Getting Back into the Swing of Things...Messily
A case in not remembering the things you just taught yourself
Behind the Page
If yesterday was dipping my toes back into the waters of Daily Pages, today was wading further in and getting myself reacquainted with the tools and supplies that I have on hand.
I started out taping down a homemade stencil on some paper. The first paint that I picked out was a little too runny/liquid — so I swapped over to the Blick Studio Paints, (which are definitely my favorite right now) and those worked really well with the stencil.
If you look closely, you can see I didn’t have any bleed through at all with the Blick paint (red), but the thinner iridescent paint (pink) had a little bit of bleed in a few spots. So, for what it’s worth — in my opinion, thicker paints work much better when stenciling.
Technique of the Day
Man. I made a mess today. As soon as I noticed the first smudge, I remembered telling myself a few weeks back that we use StazOn ink on gel prints — otherwise we make a mess.
And you know what — it’s totally fine, this is the price of getting back into the swing of things. You’re gonna forget some of the lessons you previousl y learned. And I’ve found this to be especially true with some of the things I’ve learned most recently. It’s like the Last In — First Out method, but lessons learned instead of data points.
For me, this is one of the reasons why — when I’m getting back into the swing of things — I like to play around with the stuff that I left out on my desk, or whatever’s in arm’s reach. Those are usually the same things
How It’s Made
Supply List
Paint — Blick Studio Paints
Stencil — Homemade
Stamp — Ali Edwards
Quote Card — Ali Edwards
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Tips & Creative Wisdom
Apologies for the different video today — I’m still getting back into the swing of correctly recording everything to go along with Daily Pages. So today we had to use our backup recording to make these videos. Still great, just a little different today.
Hope you have an awesome rest of your Tuesday <3
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