For The Men: A Vintage Art Journal Page

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Hi everyone,
It's Dot here today with a tutorial for you using one of my favourite
Lost Coast Designs's stamps - Thick and Thin Men.

This is an Art Journal page. I thought it might be fun to do a little image transferring.

Someone had told me that 'Vogue' magazine is the best mag to use
so I was keen to give it a go.

It would be fair to say that image transfers have been a bit hit-and-miss

for me over the years. But I really liked how this page has turned out.

The image transfer went straight onto a page from my Art Journal.

The picture was painted with gel medium, as well as the
art journal page and then the image was attached face-down and allowed to dry.

 I started gently rubbing my finger in circles (dipping it in water every now and then)

until the image started to appear.
You can see where I might have taken off too much of the image, but that's okay
because I had already decided to create a vintage piece
so it kind of adds to the effect.

To finish this part I painted some gel medium over the whole piece to seal it.

To create more of a shabby chic look I swiped a little white paint in from the edges and

stenciled a pattern in a matching paint tone.

Stamping was all that was needed to finish the page off.

I stamped Thick and Thin Men onto photo copy paper

and cut the image out.

The ATC Grunge Set has some wonderful stamps that are ideal for background stamping.
I used one of these to add a little more interest to the background.

As an after thought, I also added a little shadow effect with water colour pencils around the men's feet, for grounding.

I hope you enjoyed this tutorial.

Lost Coast Designs has a challenge this fortnight called

For The Men.

You only have to use real stamps with a men's theme and you could be in with a chance to win a prize.

Happy Stamping!

Dot x