Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge: Art Journal Page using Dyan Reaveley's Small Creative Journal and Dina Wakley's Everyone is Welcome Stamp Set

It's time to do some art journaling for this week's Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge!  We're also featuring Dyan Reaveley products, so I did a page in her small creative journal.  These pages are super-sturdy and hold up nicely to layers of paint and gesso and water.

I started the page out with a layer of Dina Wakley's white gesso.  When that dried, I mixed and smudged and smeared acrylic paint and water onto the page.  When that was dry, I stenciled on some stars using white acrylic paint and Simon's Scattered Stars stencil.

As that was drying, I stamped some images onto a separate piece of paper using Tim Holtz's Glitch 2 stamp set and a set by Carabelle Studio called Chromatic Grunge.  These mostly got covered up, but it's all part of the process!

I tore out some of the images, glued them to my painted journal page, then added more layers of paint on top.  I dabbed on some fuchsia dots while I was at it.

I sketched an arch using Dina Wakley's Scribble Sticks and stamped out the sentiment using Dina Wakley's Everyone is Welcome stamp set.  Then I found a picture from Tim Holtz's Portrait Paperdolls and added that, along with a crown I drew and decorated.

I love the sentiment and always hope I can be a lifter for someone else and not just a leaner all the time.

Here are the supplies I used that you can find at Simon Says Stamp:

• Dyan Reaveley Small Creative Journal
• Dina Wakley Everyone is Welcome Stamp Set
• Tim Holtz Portrait Paperdolls
• Carabelle Studio Chromatic Grunge Stamp Set
• Tim Holtz Glitch 2 Stamp Set
• Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks, Set 1
• Simon Says Stamp Scattered Stars Stencil
• Dina Wakley White Gesso
• Dina Wakley Acrylic Paint: Fuchsia, Turquoise, Lemon, Peacock, Night, Sage, White, Sky, Olive
• Dylusions Acrylic Paint: Tropical Sangria, Strawberry Daiquiri

Try your hand at art journaling and upload your creation to the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog for your chance to win a $25 voucher to the Simon Says Stamp store.