On the first one, I did a little gel transfer action. First, I painted my background with some acrylic paints. I used some stencils that I picked up at Michaels. I made the stencil for the "rays" myself, by drawing it on some cardstock and cutting it out with a craft knife. The palm tree started out as a picture in a book. I made a copy, enlarging it a little bit.
Then I, liberally, brushed matte gel medium on the front of the copy and on the journal page in the area where I was going to place the transfer. I laid the palm tree copy, face down, on the journal page, using a credit card to flatten out the palm tree and remove any air bubbles. You want to make sure that the picture is touching the paper everywhere. If there is an air bubble, the ink won't transfer in that area. I waited a few hours for everything to completely dry. I suppose that I could have hit it with a hair dryer or heat tool, but I wasn't in a hurry. After it was dry, I spritzed water on it from a spray bottle and started rubbing the paper off. You have to keep spritzing and rubbing until it's completely removed. Voila!! I added some rubber stamping and washi tape and here it is.
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On the next one, I did some Zentangling. If you are not familiar with Zentangle, here's a link.
I started out by writing the words to the Rolling Stones song "She's like a Rainbow". Then I started zentangling. I painted some of the areas with paintbrush markers. I used a Pigma Micron 05 Archival Ink pen to do the zentangles.
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