It's been a while since I did any art journalling, so last night I got out the paints, some stencils and other 'tools' and had a little fun. This first image shows what I have done so far, with the little Post-It note squares (I cut them down to about 1.7") that I used as masks. The word June and the numbers are Tim Holtz masks.
We have this wonderful recycling place called Waste Wise in town. It's a huge warehouse full of wonderful 'junk' where you can pick up all kinds of interesting things for pennies. I found this plastic 'thingy'. My husband and I have no idea what it is intended to be used for*, but it makes a great paint stamp. I often keep little lids to dip in acrylic paint and stamp, so when I saw this I though it would be fun to be able to stamp entire grids of circles! If you look closely, you'll see the little black circles on my pages. I love that they aren't perfect circles...randomness perfected ;o)
*I just couldn't let it go...enquiring minds...so I did some research and finally found out that these things are inserts for ammo cases. I'm so glad I found a better use for it!
The stencil I used is one by the Crafters Workshop. I stamped over it using a make-up sponge (thanks to Creative Jumpstart for that idea...love it) and acrylic paint. My final colour addition came from some spray inks that I layered over top before removing the masks.
I still plan to do some black pen work to the page, although I'm not entirely sure what I'll do... I certainly have to add numbers to the journalling squares and I might outline the letters and numbers...I'll post again when it's finished.
A couple of days ago I showed you the spread for June, in an almost finished state, and explained a little about my process. 
