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Hello fellow Crafters,

Today I made an art journal. I enjoyed making the pink birthday card last week and decided to do an art journal with the same colours and techniques. This is it :

This is my Moleskine sketch book. I gessoed the page with Liquitex gesso which is a bit gritty and is a good base layer for Pan Pastels I find. I then used 2 shades of pink and then stamped the letters (Dylusions stamp) over the background with white ink. I also stamped a mini from Paperartsy which has numbers.  I then splattered some thinned black paint on the page and used a top from a toothpaste tube to make the circles. I used my Archival black ink pad to go around the edges of the pages. I then dug 'Miguel Has a Gift' by Stampotique out of the drawer an decided to replace his box with a cupcake! He was stamped on white paper and water coloured and clear embossed. I didn't have a cupcake stamp that was the right size so I drew one, coloured it the same way as Miguel and embossed it. I also stamped the middle bit of Miguel again so I could colour just the hands, cut them out and glue them around the cup cake.  Lastly I stamped the sentiment (from the internet) on some gessoed book text and glued it in place. Oh, and of course Miguel was placed on some washitape and I used a bit more of this here and there on the page to balance it.

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Hope you like it !