Lisa Bakker

Hi Friends, Thank you for stopping by to see my latest art journal page! I'm so happy to of had some creative time this past week, keeping this page simple, I was able to get one done and published quickly. I broke into my stash of my most favourite paper, the Farmhouse Paper Company's BTW collection, choosing the lined note pad paper for my background. I applied two coats of Liquitex clear gesso, drying with a heat tool in-between layers. Next, I applied modeling paste randomly through my Moroccan circles stencil, from Shnibblybits, I let it dry overnight. Next came the colour, I haven't used Twinkling H2O's in quite some time and found that the exact colours I was wanting were in the sets that I have. I sprayed the page with water and used the already moistened H2O's, just by adding some to the page and getting it to run with extra water. Once I was happy with the colour I let it dry overnight. This page sat for a few day's until I figured o

Hi Friends, Thanks for stopping by to see my latest art journal page! The past few weeks have been a doozie for me and am thankful to have completed a page to share. My husband suggested moving my creative space, which resulted in doubling my work space but it really put me in a funk that was hard to shake, the weather being so poor really didn't help either. I posted on Instagram some amazing vintage books that I acquired, which also overwhelmed my situation, it's funny how less is actually more, and more is too much! Luckily, I can see the light and am pushing through. As most of my pages do, this one stared with old book pages and some Tim Holtz tissue wrap. My favourite thing about cutting my own stencils are the "negative" pieces! I used the "negative" pieces from a  Shnibblybits   Moroccan Tile  stencil, just using all purpose glue to adhere them to the page. Once the glue was dry I gessoed the whole thing. Next, I added a thick layer