Textures of Travel in Collage - Class 10: 100 Days of Collage (Day 64-70)

1. Introduction: Welcome to the studio. It's Froyle here, and I'm so excited that you joined me for the next exciting chapter in our creative journey. As a mixed media artist with over three decades of experience, I'm passionate about two things creating my own beautiful layered artworks and encouraging you to discover your own artistic voice. Welcome to class 10/100 Days of Collage Mixed Media art class. This is the tenth chapter of our adventure exploring Textures of Travel in Collage. We're going to be having so much fun exploring the ways travel shapes memory, imagination and creativity. Together, we'll create collages that capture the spirit of journeys both real and imagined using maps, souvenirs, postal artifacts, and the fragments we collect along the way. Each artwork becomes a part of a visual travelogue, a layered story of where you've been, where you dream of going, and the beauty found in the in between moments. We're going to be traveling through days of 64 to 70 of 100 Days of Collage. Now, who is this class for? This class is for anyone wanting to develop your creativity, whether you're a beginner or a more advanced artist, you're going to be inspired and encouraged to really embrace your own artistic voice and push yourself past the boundaries of where you've been before with your creative expression. Whether you're just beginning your creative journey or you've been making art for years, you'll find plenty here to inspire and challenge you. And I'll be guiding you every step of the way, sharing the exact materials, techniques, and creative prompts that I use to help you create your own stunning personal pieces. And if you're a more advanced artist, this class will stretch your imagination and help you deepen your artistic voice. It's going to be so much fun. So where do you want to go? We're going to be working through seven prompts and a whole lot of techniques. We'll be working in an art journal format, and I'm here right with you every step of the way, cheering you on, encouraging you, showing you the exact materials that I'm using, and how you can create these proms as an expression of your own creativity. I can't wait to get started as we head off on our mighty vied adventure, so let's gather our materials and let's make art. 2. Material List: It's class number ten, so you should definitely have all of the art supplies that you need for all of these fabulous lessons. Pour them out of your cupboard. I haven't added anything or more surprises extra to the material list for this class than from the previous class. So you've got everything that you need. Of course, we have our fabulous art journal if you're using an art journal. Now, you don't have to. You could be working on paper. You could bind all the pieces of paper together at the end and create an art journal, or you might have made your own art journal, or you might be working on card stock or even on canvas. There's no hard or fast rules. I'm using an art journal because I absolutely love having all of the lessons and the classes in one place where I can go back and look through which I love doing and remember different techniques or different tips or different color schemes or different textures that I might want to reproduce again another day. It's like a treasure trove of fabulous ideas. And of course, a selection of my favorite acrylic paints. Now, you don't have to use the colors I'm using. You can use whatever it is that you personally like the most. You might have noticed I don't use a lot of green, and you might like green. So pull out the colours that you like and the paints that you really want to use to explore these fabulous prompts. Now, I also have some watercolor paints, and of course, it will be jelly printing. It would be wrong not to be jelly printing. So you'll need your favorite jelly printing supplies, some stencils and some stamps, and maybe some texture plates. They're really fun. Of course, we've got to have paper. I've got my favorite Japanese sketchpad rice paper. I'm also using wet strength tissue and some watercolor paper. You need all the basics, Brushes, watercolor brushes, a palette knife, maybe, a sharpie for doing a little pen and ink wash. Some scissors, baby wipes, all of the standard things that were used to create these fabulous clases. I've also got some stencil butter or the fabulous luna paste. This is one of my favorite at the moment. It's really soft. It's like stencil butter, just a little softer, beautiful colors. And, of course, my favorite spray gold mine. The zinc spray, which is getting harder to get these days. So if you've got some of this, hang on to that, baby. Scrap bags, don't forget the scrap bags. You might have some prints leftover from the previous class that you want to bring into these lessons. Easy, easy, make sure you rummage through all of your craft supplies and pull out some extra little trinkets and treasures because, baby, we're going travel. You can bring in some of your home memorabiliar, some tickets, some receipts or some souvenirs from the different places that you've been. It's going to be so much fun. I love the travel theme. I'm going to share with you some of my own personal travel experiences. And I know you're going to really enjoy this class. So gather all your bits and pieces, your art supplies, your craft supplies, dig them all out, get them all together because we're going to have an absolutely fabulous time. 3. Day 64: Postal Artefacts: W Here we are in class ten for our Travel inspired collages. And I'm so excited. I've really been looking forward to this particular theme because we can dream of faraway places, adventures to be had, and it's going to be so much fun. Now, we're up today 64 Postal artifacts. Craft a collage using old postage labels, counsiled stamps or vintage envelopes. Incorporate these postal artifacts to add a touch of travel and correspondence to your artwork. So exciting. Now, I really hope you've been traveling along and following this adventure consecutively because you're going to have a lot of the art supplies already. And with this theme, you can pull out a whole lot more from those craft supplies. I can't wait to get started, and I can't wait to show you my new obsession with Gel Print collage. Right, so I'm so excited to beginning our travel theme. I've got my 16 by 20 inch gel elf plate because I'm going to do a gel plate collage. It's something I've been experimenting with recently, and I'm pretty excited to share this technique with you. First of all, I'm going to put a little splash of some aquidone violet and my favorite iridescent bronze fine on the plate just to put a little bit of broken color. Because then what I'm going to do is start with the smallest pieces and add them on the plate and then get bigger and bigger pieces until the whole plate is covered, and then I'm going to pull it in one big pool. It's very exciting. It's very experimental. As you can imagine, you're working backwards. So you want to put your smallest pieces down first, because they are the ones that when you turn your print over, they're going to be sitting on top. I've just put a little bit of color on there because I find that the color then unifies all of the pieces together because they've all got a little bit of a shade of a particular color. So it's like creating the background or the base coat. And then I want to start with my smallest pieces. So I'm going to start by putting on just a heap of postage stamps because that's our theme. For our first lesson today, which is very exciting. I'm just going to put them on. I'm not going to stress too much where I put them or how they're going to look because we're going to build up our collage. Whoops. That one fell down there. Okay. That go there. That one's going to go there. I'm mostly putting them up the right way. I'm thinking, but it is all a little bit of fun and you don't quite know what you're going to get until you finally pull that print. Then I've got some of these craft papers. Now, these are actually stickers. What I like about them is they're really thin. When you peel the backing paper off, fabulous, nice and thin because we're building up a collage here on the gel plate, I have found that it is better to use thinner pieces. If you're wanting to do quite a few layers. Next is the next size up, which is going to be this size. Then I'll add some more craft paper on top as well. Now, you want everything face down that you want to be turned over when you pull the prick. Remember, we're creating backwards. But don't get too stressed out if something ends up upside down. It doesn't really matter. We're just creating collage paper anyway. Then I'm just going to build up the collage adding more and more layers and the pieces will just get bigger and bigger. Now, where I've got a sticker, the next layer will stick on easily, but where there isn't anything sticky, I'm going to add some gloss medium onto the plate so that it sticks together the papers I'm putting down and so that it all pulls off in a cohesive print once I'm finished layering all the layers on. And then some more bigger pieces on the very top. So whatever area didn't get the collage paper will now get covered in paint, and that will come through on the print. Now, I'm using unbleached titanium to pull the final print. And I do like to do a good coat on the plate, just so all the pieces of the papers get stuck together, and also it fills in all the little gaps that don't have any of the craft paper or the collage paper on them. You want to be able to have a good coat so that it all pulls off in one beautiful gel plant collage masterpiece. And then I'm using one vaga piece of wet strength tissue. Now I just have to wait for it to dry, and I do like to give it a good amount of drying time because you want it to be dry to pick up all of those different layers and textures and papers. Ideally, I like to do this in the afternoon and then leave the plate overnight to dry because that's how I found I haven't been tempted to pull it up too soon because it doesn't come off the plate. If you pull it up too soon, I know I've done it. It's much better to leave it to dry completely and then pull up your beautiful one pull gel plate masterpiece. So that's what I'm going to do. I'm going to leave it now overnight and then we'll see how magnificent it pulls up in the morning. Right, so it's now the next morning and time for the big reveal. I have found that pulling the paper up off the gel plate collars works better if I pull the plate off the paper rather than the paper off the plate. So flipping it over and when pulling it off this way, it just tends to work a little easier. I don't know why, but it does. Look how well that's coming up off the gel plate. We're getting no resistance. That's because I left it all night drain. And it's now perfectly dry. It's so exciting, and it creates this beautiful, big collage piece of paper in one magnificent paw. Tara, Tara. Yay. It's so exciting. Look at all the fabulous layers and colors. And what I like about putting that paint layer on first, you can see the paint layer here with splashes of color, a little bit of bronze, a little bit of the violet, the caqudon violet. It creates an overall color. So you get that same cohesiveness from the colour, the shade of that little bit of paint going through all of the areas. So it doesn't look like it's bits and pieces made together. It looks more cohesive. That's what I like about it. And creating the collage on the gel plate embeds all these beautiful little pieces into the paper. Look at that. It looks like it's just been made as one cohesive piece, which, of course, it has been. So I'm loving print has turned out absolutely fabulous. What a great way to start. Now, I'm going to decide on which sections of it I want to put in my art journal and whether or not I want to enhance it with anything else. Maybe a few more of the postage stamps. I don't know, man, we're going to have to think about it, but this is a beautiful print. I'm loving it. Didn't that page just turn out so fabulous? I love it. I love this technique. And yes, once I get started on something, I do get a little obsessed. So I had to make another one. Why make one when you can make two? This time, I started with a Sebritza of the Iaincs in gold mine, and then I'm adding the stamps onto the gel play. I thought I might try not doing the paint on it first, but just a little spritzer of the beautiful gold and see how that looks. Then I added my little stickers and my little shapes of my postage artifacts and started building up the composition. It's the same process as the first print. I'm putting on then layers of the craft paper, and I'm using the unbleached titanium, covering the plate fully with a nice thick layer and then putting on the wet strengtissu. Now, yes, I did wait for it overnight to dry. I really think that's a top tip. For this particular technique that has all of the thick layers, you do really need to wait until it's entirely dry before you pull this print. And have a look at it. Absolutely beautiful. I do think it turned out just as good as the first one, a little bit different because it doesn't have those initial paint layers, but it does have a beautiful shine with the gold mine. I love them both. Which print do you like better? I don't know, man. They're both pretty beautiful, and I'm going to use a section of each of them for my collage today. So here are my two beautiful prints. And the only problem is, this is my art journal. Which is a little bit small, don't you think? Man, it's gonna have to do. Now, it's getting quite fat, as this is class ten, how exciting? And I do think this is the second one that I've been doing in this series. I really hope you're continuing with me on this adventure. It's absolutely fabulous. I love it. I love the exploration of the techniques. I love the journey, and I love that you're here with me. So I'm going to cut a section of this page. And put it on there, maybe where it's got travel the world or one of these other ones. I don't know, man. It's going to be hard to decide. And then I'm going to cut a section of this one and put it on this side. Now, I really don't I actually need anything else on them because these beautiful gel plate collages just turned out so great. But I do have some stamps I'd like to use, and seeing this as postal artifacts, I'm thinking. When I was sick a few months ago, my beautiful patrons sent me cards. It was just so beautiful. And this one with the envelope came with these gorgeous stamps that are on there. So I'm thinking it's perfect for today's theme. And I'm going to put it on one of the sides. I haven't decided which one. And what I love about it is the designs of the stamp is absolutely beautiful. I love them, but also the meaning, the correspondence, the love that I felt from receiving the cards really did help me through some very tough days. So for me, these Postal stamps are really about the connection of my community and the love that was shown to me on the days, especially when I really needed it. So I'm going to do that, stick that on there, stick a piece on there. These on. I might put a bit of Coso paper under them so they pop out and more of a feature and a focal point. And I'm really loving that. Easy, easy. Yes, I'm very excited about our travel things. Have a look at how beautiful the pages turned out. I absolutely love my highlighted area of the stamps. They mean so much to me. Now, make sure you have a good experiment with this technique. It's really easy. You can't get it wrong, and I can't wait to see what you come up with. Ya. So let's move on now to the next lesson. O 4. Day 65: Journey Through Memories: Day 65, Journey Through Memories. Design a collage that revisits your favorite travel experience from your journeys. Use photos, souvenirs, and snippets of momentos to reconstruct the sights, sounds, and emotions of a specific adventure. Now, this is going to be quite a challenge for me because I have so many amazing memories to choose from. My first Viking cruise with my son was truly life changing. We started in Venice and finished in Barcelona. We had so many fabulous stops along the way, and the Viking ship itself was absolutely magnificent. The beautiful luxury and opulence. Oh, man, it was just amazing. But out of all of the fabulous stops that we did make on this particular journey, I'm thinking that Venice was the one that captured my imagination and was the one that truly inspired me the most. It was absolutely magical. I took so many photos of beautiful buildings and doors and all of the fabulous architecture, the colors, and the textures, even just of the walls was absolutely amazing. So today for my journey through memories, I'm definitely going to pull the inspiration of the beautiful trip to Venice. The textures, the colors, the buildings, the doors, the absolute beauty of this fascinating place. So first of all, I'm going to start with an image transfer on my gel plate. I've got one of these doors from my digital collage papers, my doors of Italy, and I'm putting this down with the muted violet. Then I'm using a stamp to pull up the thicker areas of the space because I want to break it up so the color can get in with the next layer. Next, I'm rolling on my favorite transparent red iron oxide, and I'm spraying it with water, creating that fabulous textural look. I'm wanting to create something that reminds me of the fabulous textures of the walls, the way the plaster is coming off and all of those layers underneath the history and the colors. Then I'm adding some of the iridescent gold fine and spraying it again with the water, creating another layer of that organic texture. Remember, you do have to wait for all of these layers to dry before you do the next step. So when that layer was completely dry, I put on the titan buff golden paint, beautiful color, rolled it over, and I've pulled it onto tea bag paper. I wanted to see how it would print. I'm testing different papers. As I create, I'm always testing something, and I wanted to see what the te bag paper was like. It pulled up absolutely beautiful. It's really soft, which I do like about it because sometimes the wet strength tissues are a little plastically, and it can crinkle. But the teabag paper turned out pretty good. The only problem is with this paper is it's frightfully expensive. Now I've got the beautiful print of the door. The colors are glorious. What am I going to do next? Well, along the adventure in Venice, we went to Brno, which is one of the islands, and the colors of the buildings were just amazing. It was such a fabulous story. My son and I wandered along the street laughing and talking and having an incredible time. So I'm thinking I need some more of these buildings and some more of these colors. So I've pulled out some little pieces of watercolor paper and some of these beautiful pastel tones. I've got pastel coral, naples yellow, and naples yellow, reddish, with some gold, as well, and I'm just brushing it on my watercolor papers. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but it does make an absolutely fabulous background. So I did a few of them, but of course, it wasn't too long before I pulled out the gel plate. So now I've got the fabulous little five by seven gel plate, and I've pulled out one of these texture plates. The texture plates are basically just a piece of plastic with sculpted textures or patterns or marks in them, fabulous, absolutely amazing. I put a link in your notes if you want to find out where to get them from. Or you can really very easily make your own. Pushed it onto the wet paint Terataa, it makes a great mark. And then when that was dry, I rolled on the fabulous pastel colors and pulled the little print. It looks absolutely fabulous. And then with the next print, I'm using one of my stamps. Same thing, pushed it into the wet paint, allowing it to dry. Pull the print. Now I've got some fabulous little miniature paintings on watercolor paper to put in my collage. But of course, I couldn't stop there. I I had to keep experiment. I did a couple more prints with the texture plates, and then I just went off on a tangent, putting the beautiful colors on the little jelly plate, and then putting the paper down and pulling the print, adding more colors, rolling it out, pulling another print. I let all the colors just build up on the plate. And it looks absolutely fabulous cause the little pieces of watercolor paper with the build up of the layers of the texture and the stunning paint colors look like my walls of the buildings. So this was a much better texture to create what it was that I was looking for, even though I didn't really know in the beginning what I was looking for. That's a really good lesson for us to think about. I started with one idea. It developed into another idea, and then I ended up creating these beautiful prints from the rough texture and layers of the paints that I absolutely love. They definitely remind me of the colours and the feel and the textures of my fabulous time in Venice. So now I've got all of these beautiful little paintings on the watercolor paper. I've got my image transferred. Hmm, I think I might pull out one of the prints from my doors of Italy. I better go and grab the art journal because now I have a ton of paper to start with for this fabulous collage. All my little paintings are dry now on the watercolor paper. That was a whole lot of fun. And what I found was when I printed them a second time, it created another layer or another texture on the top, and they just look better and better, so so if you are trying this idea and you don't like the first print, just wait for it to dry a little bit, and then put it back on the plate again. I absolutely love these. I love these ones the best. I like how it's got the little bits of patchy paint sections on it. I think they're nicer than the ones I painted. Although these are really pretty as well, but I'm loving the Venice fell of these ones, all this glorious texture and paint. Peeling paint off the walls. Look at that. These are really good. I'm really happy with these. These were the first prints I took with the texture plate and the stamps, and they turned out fine. Nothing wrong with them. I'll definitely use them for something. But today, I'm thinking that I really like these ones better for what I want to create with my feelings of Venice. So I've got these to use in my journal. I've also got the fabulous image transfer. That's going onto one page for short for short. Then I'm going to add some bits and pieces out of my scrap bag. I've got some really nice coso paper in here. Definitely, they're going to have to pull out some of that. Oh, maybe some other jelly prints that's going to go in with the colors as well. And I have some of the other doors, the fabulous doors of Italy printed out. These are absolutely gorgeous. Oh, I just loved it. Have I mentioned that? So if you want to join me in my Venice obsession, then I'll put one of these pages as a digital download in your notes, and you can print out one of these and cut out some of these if you want to put them in your aunt doo because it is a bit of fun. So, have a look in your notes if you want to use some of these beautiful doors of Italy. So I'm definitely going to put some of those in as well. And we'll see, we'll see how much I actually fit on the page, 'cause my art journal really is not that big. I'm not even really going to be able to fit this whole print on there, but I will definitely use some of it. Not sure which section of it I might use. Do I want the top with that texture, or do I want to have more of the whole door on it? I don't know, man. I'll have to think about that, and which one of these shall I put on this side? They're really not gonna fit that many on the page. Oh, man, oh, that's gonna match really well. Maybe I will use the one with the texture plate print. You never know till you start creating what you actually might decide to use. That looks really nice with one of these other colors as well. So maybe I will do that. I'm liking that next to that. Right. So then I've just got to pull out some coso paper and decide on which one of these doors I want to put on it. The one with the orange background, that's going to match fabulous. This one's going to work, the red one's going to work, that one's going to work. One with the yellow is going to They're all actually going to work in the colors, but I'm just going to have to make some decisions. So what do you think of my decision to bring in the blues? I absolutely love it. I'm so glad I did. I pulled out one of my scrap bags and Hanna look and decided I really liked the contrast against the beautiful, soft orangy tones. And this print here, this one from the texture plate. Once I put it down on the page and put it together next to the image transfer, I had to have it. I just had to have it. Even though when I printed it, I think I liked it the very least. Isn't that amazing? So remember that when you're printing. Sometimes you create something that at the time you don't think is very good or it's not a big deal, or it's not what you wanted. But if you put it aside, it might really work later on. You just don't know. I absolutely love this. And when I first printed it, I thought it was a shambles. I didn't make it. I was going to print over it, but I ended up leaving it, which I'm so pleased I did. I think the blues are absolutely stunning next to these colors. Now, these are all pieces of coso paper, and don't forget in your class notes, you will find discount code for Coso. I'm thinking my pages look beautiful. I might just add a little something. I was thinking about adding perhaps a little bit of the Agura lace onto, onto the page. I think that would look stunning, and also it dissolves really, rather beautiful. So you just end up seeing these fibrous, beautiful threads of paper pulp on the page once it has dried. So I might do that. I think that finishes that page off really nicely. And what about this side? Well, I could add a little bit on this side, as well, or I could add something else. I mean, it's really quite endless, what I could put on it. And it was quite funny trying to decide on which image I was going to put on because I could have really used any of them. And I had to have two because why would I only have one? But any of these beautiful little pictures of the doors would work really well with these colors and these textures. That one would work really well, too, with those colors. So it was quite a tough decision, but I did like the turquoise there. Of that door, I thought it went really well with the blues that I ended up putting into the collage, pretty happy with them. I think the pages are looking beautiful. That one would work as well. So don't forget, I'll put a page in your notes if you want to put any of these into your collage that you're working on. And where are you headed on your travels? That'll be so fun to see. So perhaps a little bit of the Coso paper. Maybe, baby, I haven't fully decided. And I might even pull out some of these stickers that I'm thinking about putting on, but I'm not too sure. I haven't fully decided if that's really what I want. I wanted to add something maybe on here. I thought about a key, but I've done that before. So I didn't want to do that again. I wanted to do something else. I'm not sure if I want to just put something like that on there, that kind of works or even just a number. Lucky number seven. Could work. I don't mind that idea. Or perhaps something with a bit more bling, do we want to pull out something that's got a little bit of gold on it? That kind of works. That's not too bad. One of these coming back to lucky number seven, and I'm definitely going to put the Coso Agura lace on there as well because I think the texture is really beautiful and it kind of connects both sides together, loving these, loving the colors. But then you do know how much I did love my time in Venice. This has been an absolute pleasure today. I'll give you a close up when it's dried and then we'll be on to the next spread in our fabulous art journal of Travel Moments. 5. Day 66: Passport to Imagination: Day 66, Passport to Imagination. Craft a collage that illustrates a destination you've never been to, but dream of visiting. Use your imagination and visual references to create a collage that captures the essence of a place you've only dreamed about. So where do you want to go? How very exciting anywhere anywhere in the world. Where do you want to go? Well, when I was on my Europe trip, we were supposed to stop in at Paris, but we didn't was actually riots at the time. We couldn't pull into the port. We didn't get there. Oh, man, so sad. So I'm going to have to go back another day. So today, I'm creating a collage with dreams of Paris. Patty, patty, how very exciting. And I've got two fabulous stencils that I've picked up. Have a look. They're glorious. They both have the Eiffel Tower and some words and some textures of paddy. That is so, very exciting. So, of course, I've pulled out my favorite luna paste, and the first one I'm doing is in the fabulous refined copper. I'm putting it straight down onto a piece of craft paper. I'm liking the vintage style, background color of the paper, straight over with the lunar paste so super easy. But when I pulled it off, I'm thinking I don't know, man. The texture of the background is really nice, and I really like it, but I think it's distracting from my stencil. So then I pulled out some coso paper, beautiful, soft handmade texture coso paper, using the same refined copper in the lunar paste, straight over with the stencil. Absolutely beautiful. I love the texture paper and the glorious color of the stencil. But then I put it onto a piece of black Coso paper. Oh, man, I'm instantly in love with this idea. Look how glamorous it is and how much impact there is with the refined copper against the black, beautiful textured paper. So totally loving this idea then I pulled out the second stencil and decided to put that on some copper Coso paper, so it would blend well with the black one that I'm now totally in love with. And I'm using the stencil butter in black, super super easy. You open the tub, you pull it out. You push it through the stencil, you're done. It's so easy, peasy. So I did a couple of these prints, one on the beautiful copper paper and another on a fabulous piece of Coso paper, and I've got all of these beautiful prints to use in very dramatic black and copper colours. I'm loving them. I think they're absolutely glorious. So that's going to make the collage for one side of my page. I'm not sure if I'm going to use the whole piece or if I'm going to rip up some different sections of the stencil. So that was why I decided to print a few because I couldn't really decide what I was going to do with them. My other inspiration today came from these fabulous craft papers with the glorious Eiffel Tower, and we are in France. Whew. They're absolutely beautiful. They look great. I like the vintage style, and then some of them have some very moody colors, which I'm liking. I can't decide which one I like the best. Oh, that's the problem with getting a pack of something. But I'm loving the autumn tones. I think I'm liking this one with a little bit of violet and some of the muted pink it looks like, but that one looks pretty good, as well. Oh, man. I'm only going to fit one of these on my page, so I will have to decide which one. But these colors is what led me into my next technique and application to create some papers because I need some background papers. So I pulled out my 16 by 20 fabulous gf plate. I love this and decided to squirt some of the fluid acrylic paint on it in the beautiful deep violet and in the magenta and in the gold. And I'm pushing it around with a silicon brush, because what I want to do is just get it really wet. I'm even spraying it with some water to get that movement. And then I've picked up a piece of tea bag paper. I've put it straight onto the gel plate, so it sucks up all of that rich and luscious wet paint surface, and then I've pulled it off straight away. I'm not letting it dry. I'm not technically printing with it. I'm more absorbing the paint into the beautiful natural fibers of the paper and creating an organic pattern. So then I just pushed the paint around the gel plate a little more, added some more water, and took some more prints. Now, you don't have to use one of these fancy silicon paint brushes. I think that's what they're called. You could use a credit card or a gift card or a piece of plastic or a catalyst tool or anything, just to push that paint around on the plate, give it a spray. The paper down, ta, ta. Look how stunning these papers are looking. I really can't call them prints because we're not technically pulling them off the plate, but they kind of are a print. They're an organic mark making technique that is quickly becoming one of my favorites. And look at these beautiful, rich, luscious colors, which were inspired by the little craft pieces of the fabulous Paris images. Now I took quite a few of these prints. The thing is you do have to have a fair amount of drying space. So I had laid down a plastic sheet, one of my plastic tablecloths onto the floor. Over there behind me in my studio, picked up the paper and literally turned around and put it down on the floor. I'm using wet strength tissue and the tea bag paper, and both these papers have worked out really well considering how wet and covered with paint I made them. You could do this with ordinary doll store tissue, but it would tear very fast when it becomes this wet, so you'd have to be very quick and not let it sit on that paint for too long. But if you'll notice I'm putting the paper down and pushing it and poking at it to create more of that organic line so that the paper sucks up all of the paint. You can't do that with ordinary dolls or tissue because if you go to pick it back up again, it will disintegrate and nobody likes that. So, you do have to use a little bit tougher tissue. But I laid them all out on the floor. They look absolutely beautiful. The colors the colors are magic. And the organic patterns and shapes, I mean, I couldn't hand paint those shapes in even if I tried. Now, once I was finished filling up my floor space with beautiful papers, I rolled on the paint layer on top of the gel plate and then put down a piece of wet strength tissue. I did leave this to dry completely then when it was dry, I pulled it up because what I wanted to do was clean off my gel plate of all that paint. Also, now I've got another beautiful full sheet of the wet strength tissue to use as background paper. I'm winning today. It's all glorious and it's all glamorous and it looks fantastic. Now, when the papers were a lot dryer, I picked them up, put them back on my table, and I pulled out my watercolors. I wanted to just put a little bit of tint onto the white areas just so it blended all of those shapes and textures together, just so it wasn't such a stark white contrast between the painted areas and the paper in between. They look beautiful. I'm just using ordinary watercolors, a little bit of pigment and a lot of water and just filling in those spaces. It's really therapeutic. In fact, if you just lightly spray the paper and drop in the pigment, it spreads really quick and really easy. I'm adding beautiful colors, and I'm trying some with more pigment and then less pigment and some with just mostly water. Then I pulled out the fabulous metallic watercolors, and I was doing the same just touching the white areas with some pigment, allowing it to run through all of the crevices. I'm loving these papers. They look fantastic. And this technique is so super easy. You can't get it wrong. You can't muck it up. They're absolute individual mono prints. You can't reproduce them, even if you try. It's so spontaneous in the application, and it creates such incredible organic textures and marks that you just can't reproduce. So, have a look now at all of the dried papers. Aren't they just beautiful Ops. Floating away. Some of them I put more paint on and some of them I put less, and I love all of them. You can see the beautiful bronze and the gold that I had put on the plate. And then here is the faded areas where I've put a little bit of pigment, lots of water just so I could merge all of those shapes and colors together to make more of a cohesive application of paint. Oh, that's the wet strength tissue. You can hear how crimply it is. This one's the T bag paper. I think today I'm really enjoying the tea bag paper because it is so soft. The wet strength tissue does look just as good and holds up just as well. Nothing wrong with it. Look how beautiful that is. That's got some of the copper. Now, remember all of the colors I'm using will be in your class notes. If you want to have a look, I've got magenta, my favorite quinacridme, violet, copper, gold, bronze. My favorite colors, basically. And then the watercolors, I'm just touching it with a little bit of red, and this one's got the metallic watercolors on it. You can see it shine. Now, in some of the papers, right at the end, I pulled out my favorite zinc in gold mine and had a little spray. Now, this really is a gold mine, if you've got some because it's being discontinued. Heartbreak. It's my favorite gold spray. So it's getting harder to find it. But I did spray a little shimmer. Oh, there's some there. I can see it there. On some of the papers, a little shimmer of gold mine spray. It looks beautiful. I think I'm really loving this one. I love that organic pattern. I love the mix of the bronze and the copper, and then the subtle color of the watercolor in between. Yes, this one's my favorite. Okay. Now, this is the paper that I haven't touched up with the watercolor. See the white of the tissue, which does look quite good in the contrast. So depending on what you want to create, sometimes leaving it completely white looks just as good as touching it up with some watercolor. You see the difference there. This has got the stark white of the tissue, and this has got the soft blended look of the watercolor. Both are absolutely beautiful. Now, what you can do with your pieces that you leave and you don't fill in color, that the tissue or the tea bag paper will actually dissolve when you glue it into your collage. So when you put this these areas here are going to show whatever layer you've put underneath. So if you put something pattern or something text or something strong in another color, those areas are going to show through because of the translucency of the tissue, which is fabulous, and it makes beautiful layers in your artwork. So remember that, if you're trying this technique, leave some perfectly white. Try some with a little bit of tint or tone or color of some watercolor and see which ones you like better or just so you can have a whole heap of papers and a variety of options when you're creating your collage. Right. Now, I think I have enough papers to fill my very small art journal. Oh I loved making these papers. Oh, I made me so happy. It's so easy to do. You can use any colours, throw them on the plate, move them around and drop the paper down. Baby, it doesn't get much more easier than that. So I'm going to use one of these or some of these. This is definitely my favorite one. But then I have to decide which one of the Paris images I'm going to use and which one of these beautiful stencils. Look at that. Look at all of these together. That is making fabulous inspiration. Right, so now comes the hard part deciding what to put in my in my art journal. I love how these papers turned out. I think they're absolutely beautiful. And I would like to experiment some more with leaving the white tissue paper there and putting another texture underneath. If we have a look even at this one underneath, you can see that texture coming through. Hmm. Maybe text, Book text would look good or music sheets. Oh, that would work really well. I think that's another idea for the future because it just looks like a beautiful painting. Love that. That one's worked really well. Fact, they've all worked really well. Don't forget. You need a lot of drying space when you pick them up off your gel plate and lay them on the floor, make sure it's on plastic. And when I was doing the touch ups with the watercolors, I also had them on a piece of plastic, like a file folder. It's called an l pocket in New Zealand. It's just a plastic folder that I like to cut in half and then have a nice plastic surface. So that was really good for putting the paper on and touching up with the watercolor brush. Still in love with this one, what can I do? I just have to have it. That's all there is to it. I think I would just stick the whole thing on that side. Like that. Beautiful. Looks like a painting. So that decision has been made. Next decision is, which one of these am I going to choose? This one looks nice. They actually all look nice. That one looks nice, a little bit of green, and it kind of goes well with the bronze, don't you think? That's got a nice highlight of the Eiffel tower. I'm loving the warm tones in that one very autumn. That one's probably my least favorite. It's a bit too blue. This one was my original inspiration that determined what colors I was going to make the background paper. So that's got a high chance, not that one today. And that's okay, but no, we're going with that one. So do I want to tear it so it's not the entire page and maybe put something else on the page? That's quite possible. Or do I want it to take up the whole space? Hmm. I might pull out my scrap bag, perhaps add something else to the page, as well, but not too much because I don't want to cover up my beautiful background. Now, on this side, I absolutely fell in love with this print when I printed it. I think it's the drama of the black and the beautiful copper. Just like that, I could cut that off there and put that whole piece on there. Tra tra. But do I want to do that, or do I want to add some of this beautiful stunning one, as well? Oh, man. Too many choices. This would look good and it would work well. But if I put anything else on here, it's going to cover up the stencil. And I don't think that I really want to cover up the stencil. I could add some of the white on there, but I don't know, man. I think it would detract from the actual beauty of this particular stencil and the drama of the black and the fabulous copper color. So, such dilemmas. Tough decisions to be made. But that's where I'm going to start. I will pull out my scrap bag. I might add a little bit of something. Not sure yet. Usually, I don't know till I actually get in the process of making it. So the papers are down, and don't they just look beautiful. I love this print. And have a look at how beautiful this one is on the other side with the glorious refined copper of the luna paste so easy. It's got a beautiful raised surface on the fabulous Coso paper. It looks glorious. Now, I thought about adding other pieces to it. I pulled out my scrap bag. I had to look through, but to be honest, it's so beautiful and it's so nice. Even the composition I really like that I'm thinking I'm just going to leave it as it is, because it's such a stunning page all by itself. Maybe if it was a bigger size page, I could then add some of the stencil on the white, which would look stunning or some on the copper. That would be great if it was bigger. But if I put some of these elements onto this page, I'm thinking it's just going to take away from the simple beauty of the stencil. So I'm going to leave it alone, but I am going to mark it in the back of my mind for another day. I'm thinking I could create something on a bigger canvas with these beautiful stencils on these fabulous papers. So note to self, try and remember that. And this side, I'm definitely going with my original inspiration, which was this one here because these colors really dictated what paint I put on the gel plate. So let's stick with this idea. I'm going to tear around the edge so it's not so hard and stiff. And then I'm going to think about how much of the image do I want on my page because it takes up the whole space at the moment, and I don't really want to take up the whole space, even though it's a great image. Because I'm really loving my background. So then the question is, do I want to bring in any other elements from my scrap bag? Because, you know, I have so many copious amounts of fabulous scraps. So there's the picture there. How much do we want on the page? Maybe that much, okay. I'm being brave now. I'm just going to tear it. And see what we got. Oh, I like that. Now, again, if the page was bigger or I was doing it on a canvas, I would probably add some written text to the page or something else to add some more elements. Baby, baby, let's have a little rummage in here. I'm really liking the idea of adding some written script onto the page. I'm not sure why I just want to Okay. So I'm going to pull out. Now, this was my stamp of my fabulous palm script. It looks fantastic. Stamped on in the bronze, iridescent bronze fine, of course, my favorite onto ordinary dolls store tissue. So the tissue dissolves some, and then you just see the fabulous bronze script, and it looks beautiful. So let's put some of that on there. I also have some of this absolutely beautiful Coso paper. It came in a new pack of the Agura lace. And look how stunning this one is. It's really quite amazing how different they are, and you know that's because they're handmade. So I might put a little piece of the pink on there because we are in pay. The colors have to be beautiful. So I'm thinking a little bit of this. Yes, that's going to work. I like this idea. A little bit of this. On the top edge, under or over is the question. I'm thinking maybe over the edge like that. And then on the bottom here as well, I really do like the look of it because of it being on the white tissue, it will dissolve a little, and you'll see some of that background colour coming through. No room for any more. Do we want a little bit of the pink? You know, I really do because it's just so pretty. What about if we put the pink Agura lace on the bottom and change that out like that. Maybe some of this texture on here. Like that. I think that's looking pretty beautiful. And just like that, it's all stuck down. Looking absolutely beautiful. You'll see once it's dry how much the white tissue dissolves into the background, and you can see those glorious colors coming through. It just has a little bit of texture with the script stamp. It works so well with the background. It's looking fabulous. I'm loving it. There's my Eiffel Tower. Off, we go to Paris. Right, so I'm going to leave the other side just how it is because I don't want to add anything else to it. And I think it compliments really nice the pretty textured layered patterns of this side. I love both the pages. I love the thought of dreaming of going to France. That's so exciting. I'll give you a close up when it's dry and we'll be traveling on to the next adventure. 6. Day 67: Map of Wandering: Day 67 Map of Wandering. Create a collage using fragments of real or handmade maps. Highlight imagined routes, pathways, or borders to symbolize the journeys we take both outward into the world and inward into ourselves. Sounds pretty exciting using old maps. So I'm going to start with this absolutely fabulous stencil that I found of the world Map, and I've put it onto some. It's not actually watercolor paper. It's a printer paper, but it's a beautiful textured paper, and I'm drawing around the map with a sharpie pen. Now, this is a really, really easy technique drawing around the stenciled areas. I wanted to have a little play, pull out some watercolors, splash some paint around and think about what I might want to create with this map idea. So because the maps quite detailed and my beautiful little sharpie pen is so fine, it gave me quite a bit of time to think about as I'm tracing around the map. Then I splashed on some blue or watercolor paints. I didn't really know what I wanted to create. I just wanted to enjoy the moment. It's quite therapeutic with the little pen and wash technique, and I wanted to just play with some colour. The blues looking rather beautiful. Then I pulled out some copper to add some brown, toned pigment to the landmass and some green, of course, we've got to have some green. So I played around with the watercolors. I even put a little bit of metallic copper into it, and then I pulled out my fabulous zinc spray, gave it a little spritzer of bronze. I wanted to create some texture. I didn't want a perfect painting. I'm not really good with the realism. I'm more of an abstract expressionist, so I just wanted to splash the watercolors around. Now, I did say this wasn't watercolor paper, so it could buckle in the playing of my paints. It doesn't matter. It's just the first textured paper that I'm creating today for this fabulous collage. I think it dried up pretty good, considering it's on printing paper and not watercolor paper, I like the washy mix of the colors, and I like the texture that's spraying it with a little bit of water, a little bit of easing Bronze. Kind of created. I bought a bit of a motliq texture on it. Love it. Now, you can use this technique in so many ways. Just make sure you're using a waterproof pen. So I used this one, this sharpie pen, and it didn't bleed when I splashed on the water. So that is always helpful. Then, of course, I pulled out my favorite lunar paste. How could I not and spread it across this fabulous stencil. I'm putting it on some craft paper, silver lunar paste. Look how stunning it is. It's just beautiful. Of course, I couldn't do it once. Yes, I did it on two different pieces of craft paper because it just looks so great. I'm loving it on this piece of paper, this textured craft paper, and the silver shines beautiful. You know what I love about this stencil? D. Well, 'cause I live in the country of New Zealand, which is this little slither of land mass right there, it's usually on this side of the map. Like if I look at this map here, this land mass is always on the right, and that land mass is on the left. But on this sencil here, it's the other way around, which means New Zealand right in the middle. I'm in the middle of the universe. Did you know that the country of New Zealand is the country that is most left off well mapped? Because we're at the bottom here, the bottom of the planet, it looks like on a map like this, we often get left off. But this map here with this densil New Zealand's right in the middle. It's just so fun to me. Fun, trivial fact about the maps. So anyway, this turned out beautiful. I love it, and this one turned out great, as well. I think it's a little too much pattern behind it, but you have to try these things. You have to try your ideas, try some different papers, try some different textures, 'cause you don't know until you try. So then, of course, I had to pull out the gel plate. It'd be wrong not to. We can't go past a lesson without jelly Brendi. So I put the stencil on the gel plate with the beautiful Prussian blue. Waited for that to dry and then splashed on some cobalt teal. Gorgeous colour. Sprayed it with water. I think it was a little bit too much water, not to worry. Then I put on some serleimb sprayed it again. I really wanted that texture, watery spray, especially in the ocean. So then I pulled the print with my favorite iridescent bronze fine. And look how fantastic it came out. I'm loving this print. I love the watery texture that it creates from spraying it. Remember, you do have to wait for each of these layers to dry. And then we've got the glorious bronze. Oh. Yes, it's one of my favorite colors. I'd love to buy it in a bucket. So, here I am. Little Old New Zealand. You can hardly see me. I think this print turned out beautiful, loving the colors, loving the texture. So I've got all of these prints now. I also have some of this craft paper with some fabulous map type themes on them. Oh, there I am. I'm there. I'm on that one. It's a little hit, Miss. But I've got these, as well, and they're all in the beautiful blues and turquoise and little bit of ochery brown color on that one. This one's pretty nice. So, what am I going to do? I better pull out the art journal and decide which of these I'm going to start with, I might actually rip them up and put a couple of the pieces of the different land masses together. Why not? Right? We can do anything. Right. Well, I really like the blue and the bronze today. I'm thinking those colors is where I'm heading. So I have to have some of this print. I really like this one, as well on the craft paper. That's fun, but clearly, I'm not gonna fit everything on my page. I do really like my pen and ink wash Map of the world. It came out better than I expected. So I don't know, but if I can fit it all on, so maybe not, but I do like a little bit of this craft paper. So perhaps I might tear some of the different land masses and put some of one of these on and some of the other. What about that? That's not a bad idea. I think it's going to just have to be a matter of trying and deciding as I go along, I do tend to create my collages in a spontaneous kind of intuitive approach. I like to create them as I'm moving along and playing with the papers. So I don't think the world has to go any one way. It is a globe. We are all the way around. So I think I can put these land masses wherever I want. And I kind of like New Zealand being in the middle instead of at the bottom of the planet that everybody forgets about. I like this side, too. So I'm almost tempted to even put this one on this side, because the colors are just beautiful. The print turned out absolutely fabulous. And, of course, I also have my scrap bag, and I do want to put some of these beautiful coso papers, these fabulous textures on there. I've got some of them in the beautiful blue colour handmade, glorious pieces that I'm pretty sure I'm going to have to have on my collage today. So that's where I'm headed. That's what I'm going to do, and I really won't know until I start putting the pieces together as to whether or not I really want them. So I'll have a little play. I'll glue some things down, and then we'll see where we're at. Well, that is a great start. I'm loving my pages. I love the colors. And I repeated some of the shapes of the land masses. I know that they're not in the right places, but I'm creating an abstract design based on the theme of the world map. So it doesn't have to be completely realistic. Let it go. Allow yourself to freely create without having to make the picture perfect. The colors are fabulous, and the combination of the craft paper and my printed decils here with the map have worked out really well. I'm definitely adding some of the fabulous Coso paper. On here, I'm thinking like, how far do I want to go? I don't know, man. I don't know. I'm going to just tear it down this way and put some on here. I'm thinking like that. And then maybe a piece up here. That could be nice. Yes, I'm liking that. Well, maybe it should go a bit further. C need a bigger piece? Maybe a bigger piece. To go across like that, maybe not that big, just a matter of tearing and ripping and deciding what shape you really want. Then once you glue it on and you've made that decision, you can make the next decision. That's what it's all about with intuitive collage. You put down a piece, you think about it, and then you put another piece down in reaction to that first piece, and that's how it slowly develops. I'm thinking I want to add some of this beautiful layered coso paper over the top. I'm not sure how much I want to add until I start putting it down. And then that will help me to make the decision of what I want to use for the next piece. Just like that, perhaps, perhaps, do I want it to go over there? Not sure. And what about this side? Do I want to add? Maybe, baby, just a little piece, this beautiful cosot paper. It dissolves really well when you glue it down. So you'll just see the beautiful fibers of the handmade paper. You can still then also see the colors and the textures that's underneath it. So let's put a piece here like that. And you'll see all of those fabulous soft blue fibers. On that side. Yes. And yes. That's all I can say. We'll put this beautiful piece here. Then decide if I want to add any more of it, I'm definitely putting a piece up here. And just like that, we have the next layer on the page, beautiful, fibrous handmade coso paper looking rather glorious. So, what else do we need? Do we need anything else? Maybe because I'm a little bit excited about all this beautiful texture. Maybe I might just add a little piece up here in this corner. Now, I do have some fabulous Travel stickers. These ones I actually got from Timo really cheap in a pack. If you want to have a look on that website, just type in Travel stickers and you'll get so many. You won't know what to do with yourself, man. So I bought a pack of these. Oh, they're so much fun, and they're so easy to put on, and they were really cheap. So I think I'm going to add a couple just to make my pages more fun. Which ones do I want? Well, I like to explore. Mm. I like this one there. That's an option. But then I like this one, as well. So Oh, man. Now I'm going to have to decide. Maybe I could put that on this side. We're exploring both sides? What about an airplane? I like the airplane idea. Oh, yes, I do like that idea. That could go up there. I do like the compass idea, as well, but I don't want to put too much on it because I don't want to distract from what I've already got on the page ca I'm really liking it. So I'm thinking maybe not that. And I did like this one over there. So I'm going to put those on. Then I'm going to let it dry, and I'm just going to think about if I want to add anything else to it. I'm pretty happy with it. I think it's really beautiful. It's got all the different parts of the world. I like that it's abstract. That makes me happy. Do I want some more of this down here? You know, I possibly could. We could add a little bit of this continent down the bottom just to continue that color. Oh, I got ripped off. Bye bye, New Zealand. You're off the map again. So I'm liking the color of this. I think I might finish this side by putting that down there. Just like that. Have a look at how beautiful the pages have dried up. I'm so excited. I'm really happy with my round the world adventure. Where are we going? Round the world in 80 days. Wouldn't that be amazing? We could hop all over the different continents. I think it's looking beautiful. I absolutely love the Czo paper. See how well it dries up and you see all of that beautiful fibrous textures. My little stickers are pretty fun. They add just a bit of pop of color and a different texture, and I'm absolutely loving this stencil with the different continents on it. The colors are good. I'm really happy. It's looking absolutely fabulous, and I had so much fun creating it. I can't wait to see what you're going to do with your absolutely fabulous world maps. Right. So where are we off to next? 7. Day 68: Souvenir Stories: Day 68 souvenir Stories. Now, today's prompt says to base your collage on a single travel keepsake like a postcard, a coin rubbing, a brochure fragment, or even a menu, build layers around it to recreate the memory. But how am I supposed to choose? From all of these fabulous treasures that I've collected along the way. These souvenir stories came from my second Viking cruise that I went on with my beautiful little treasure. We started in Barcelona, what a stunning city. Then we went to a few more ports in beautiful Spain and traveled on to Portugal. The incredible cultures and textures and patterns and inspiration of this trip has really given me so much to create with. In Fo Mouth, England, we went to St. Michael's Mount, and what an absolute, incredible destination this was. Whole trip really was a bucketless experience because from there, we went to Portsmouth in England and visited Stonehenge, something that I always wanted to do. We were supposed to stop in France and visit Paris, but we missed out because of the riots. We pushed on to Belgium and spent a day in the Netherlands. Of course, we had to go and visit Vincent. Van go is one of my absolute favorite artists, and what an incredible pleasure it was being able to see his paintings up close and in the flesh. From there, our fabulous cruise finished in Bergen. Look at the fabulous colored buildings. I was absolutely fascinated. We had such a fabulous time walking around here, and I did, yes, get a little obsessed with all of the little colored buildings. I went from shop to shop and ended up with quite a huge collection. So I'm thinking today I should use some of these fabulous, little Bergen buildings and create some jelly prints. Do you think they would jelly print? I don't know, man. I'm thinking they might. They got a really nice texture on them, and we can only try. So I'm gonna pull out the gel plate, pull out some fabulous colors, and see if I can create a print from these glorious little souvenir stories. I'm starting with deep violet on the plate, absolutely beautiful color, one of my favorites. And I decided to use the fluid paint because I'm thinking that a thin layer of paint might be able to pick up the texture of the little I want to say houses, but they were actually shops. Of the beautiful little Bergen buildings. Then I rolled on some yellow, some orange, and some blue because I wanted to have the look of the fabulous colors. And I've printed it onto wet strength tissue. It doesn't look too bad. Thing. I think it's a whole lot of fun. You can really see the little buildings. You can see the windows and the doors and the textures of how they're constructed. And it's a whole lot of fun. It's not a perfect print. It's not brilliant, but it's our first one, so I'm going to give it another try. The next one, I started with cilian blue. I'm still using the fluid paint because I'm still thinking that a thin layer of paint might work best on the plate. Pushing the little buildings down into the plate to get a nice textural mark and let's see how this one prints. I've decided to use some cobalt turquoise in the middle of the yellow and the orange. And this one I've printed onto my Japanese sketch rice paper. It's printed quite well, not too bad. It's a whole lot of fun, and I do really like the colors coming through the texture mark from what are actually fridge magnets. It's working pretty well. There's really not a whole lot of texture on the fabulous fridge magnet. So that's why I thought the fluid paint might work best. And it's not too bad. You can actually see the textures of the buildings. It really is a whole lot of fun. But what I liked even more was the stamping. So when I put it on the gel plate, of course, it got absolutely coated in the fluid plate. So then I turned it over and stamped it onto paper just to basically clean off the fridge magnet so I could try to get on the gel plate. But I'm loving the stamping. I think the stamp looks even better than the gel print. So the next one I took, I used the quinacotVolet, my favorite. And when I pushed the fabulous little fridge magnet into the gel plate, I stamped it on some much better paper because the stamping is looking amazing. This time, I pulled the print with some ozo yellow, and you can see that fabulous color coming through next to the quinacoto violet. It's pretty nice. It's pretty fun. Then I thought maybe I should try the full body paint perhaps I could get a clearer print out of it if the paint's a bit thicker. So in this one, I'm putting on the muted violet and trying to see if it's going to print any better. I had a bit of trouble with this print. I really don't know why, but when I put the paper on it, it didn't seem to absorb or stick to the paint layer. I had a beautiful layer of iridescent gold. That was my idea. But I don't know, man. Something went wrong with this print. So I pulled the paper straight off, and then I put another layer of paint straight over the top, one of the beautiful yellows, because I wanted to pick up the rest of that print layer. So it kind of looks a bit weird as I had pulled some of the color off by pulling the paper, but it's not too it's a whole lot of fun, and you do have to keep trying. You have to get on a bit of a roll when you're jelly printing. Sometimes it goes really well and sometimes it just doesn't. And I'm actually thinking I still like the stamping even more than the gel prints. So with this print, I decided to focus more on the stamping than worrying about the printing, by now, I've decided that's what I liked better. So I've got the beautiful deep violet on the gel plate. I'm pushing on the fridge magnet and stamping it onto a really nice piece of printing paper. Tada, tada. Look how fabulous it looks. I'm loving the little houses are slash shops. They were originally houses. I was chatting to one of the gentlemen in the shop, and he was telling me the history of his family, how they had lived in that particular building for generations, and it was originally a house. Aren't they gorgeous? They're so cute. These buildings. This print I pulled with the Titan bath, it looks pretty nice. It's got some really nice shape to it. I think I like this one the best, and this was the one that I tried the least because I was more focused on the stamping. So now I've got two beautiful papers of the fabulous stamped little buildings on them, and I pulled out my watercolors. I'm putting in some beautiful colors in warm tones, and I pulled out the metallic watercolors, as well. They look absolutely beautiful. I had a whole lot of fun at dropping in the watercolors, and I added a little bit of ink, a little bit of metallic, as well. And, of course, I had to spritzer it with a little bit of gold mine. Everything's always better with a little spritzer of gold. Have a look how beautiful these pages are. You can see the glorious metallic watercolors and a little spritzer of the gold. I ended up doing the same colours. I wasn't going to. I must have just been in the zone for these colors because they've ended up both the same. So now I've got all of these fabulous prints. I definitely liked the stamping. I thought this was far more successful than the jelly prints. Oh, even though this one turned out quite good. So what am I going to do with them now? Mm, I'm going to have to tear them up to put in the art journal. Not sure exactly what kind of composition I'm thinking about. And I think I'll pull out my scrap bag, maybe some coso paper, and let's put something together with these fabulous, little cute little Bergen houses. I do think this really was a fun idea and such a great way to use the souvenirs that I came home with so many little houses. So I'm thinking, what about if I ripped a few and put them on that side? I like the idea of tearing them vertically. Like, so maybe something like this down this way. I could do something like that. Perhaps, perhaps perhaps put a couple of them on there. Maybe on the other side, I might put the beautiful stamping yeah, I like this. A couple of them because I really like the bright colors of them. They're absolutely fabulous. And the whole area was so beautiful and so fascinating. So we have to have some of these beautiful, bright colored houses. I just don't know how many I can actually fit onto my original binge. Same old story. How much can I bet on the page? Do I want them to be beside each other? I don't think so. I think I'm going to alternate them. So it's more of an abstract type design. Oh, I have to have some of this one cause I really like the yellow on the blue and Zi. Turquois. That looks really good, too. So perhaps some of this one, as well. Then that has some of that fabulous bright color. Or we might put it, something like that. Something like that on that side. Not sure. Not sure. I've got some of this one, as well. Then there's that one which got stuck, which is really quite interesting. And then I added some extra ink onto the page that I had pulled off. And it's a little patchy, but I really like it. And I'm thinking that this would make a really good background for a different collage. But you can see some of the little buildings there. I don't know what happened to that print. You know, do you have that? Sometimes something just goes a little upside down? So I'm putting one of these. I'm not sure. They both ended up the same colors, which was hilarious. That one's probably got a clearer image of the stamp, but I think I'm liking the swirly patterns on that one. So I'm going to put some of this one. Not sure if I want to fill the whole thing. I don't mind it. It's pretty nice. Or I can fill some of it and add some hose paper from my scrap bank, which, of course, I have tons of. So I think oh, even some of that would be nice with the script writing. Yeah, I like that idea. Maybe I'll stick it down first and then put a few pieces of something else with it. That could be a good plan. Anyway, however I stick them down, I definitely have enough prints. So what do you think of my cute little beautiful Bergen colored houses? I think the collage turned out absolutely fabulous. It's a whole lot of fun. I really enjoy jelly printing with the fridge magnets just to try something different. And my collage has come together pretty well. So now what am I gonna do with all the other souvenirs? 8. Day 69: Found Along the way: Day 69 found Along the way. Create a collage from travel finds and fragments. Think of this piece as a collection of things picked up along the journey. Ticket stubs, leaflets, patterns seen only in passing. Combine textures, text, and torn edges to create something that feels like it was gathered from many places and pieced together to tell a textured story. Now, doesn't that sound like so much fun? These bits and pieces that I have, these ticket stubs and travel bits from along the way actually wasn't from my recent trim. I bought this packet from Timo. And how fabulous is it? It has the most amazing collection of tickets that I've ever seen. So I was so excited to have this packet of ticket stubs that I decided to pull out my 16 by 20 inch gel elf plate, and I'm going to do a gel plate collage, one big pool with some wet strength tissue. So I line up the little tickets. On the gel plate, I go vertical and horizontal. Was actually quite therapeutic sticking them all on the gel plate. Because it's going to be a gel plate collage pull. You don't actually quite know how it's going to look because you're putting everything face down. I did pull out the ones that I thought the colors would match better together, but I still wasn't exactly sure how it was going to work, if it was going to work, or if it was going to look any good. I'm loving this technique at the moment. I think it's so fascinating and there's so many possibilities for what we can create. So once the ticket stubs were all down on the plate, I pulled out the liquitex unbleached titanium and I started brushing it over the tickets because I'm thinking if I roll it with the brayer, it could actually pick them up and roll them off the plate. So I'm brushing it with a brush, and I was quite happy with it, but it was a little bumpy and the texture wasn't so smooth. So once I spread out the paint a little bit further, I did pick up my brayer and roll it across the tickets. And, yes, it did exactly what I thought it would do. It picked up a ticket and took it off my plate. So then I had to peel that off the brayer, wipe away the gel plate, put it back on, and continue. I do think the brushing was more successful in keeping the tickets in place, but I did want to smooth out that paint, so I couldn't out myself. I had to brayer it, even though it was a little bit of a hassle. Once I got it all covered, I then put on my fabulous wet strength tissue. Smooth it all down. I'm so excited. I can't wait to see how it's going to look because I had in my mind how it might work, but you don't quite know, do you? Until you pull up that gelprint how it actually looks. So I left the whole plate drying overnight. I didn't want to pull it up too quick because I didn't want to lose my fabulous tickets. Ah. So I did this lesson in the afternoon so I could pull it the next morning I wouldn't get impatient and pull it up too quick. So it was the next morning that I decided to pull the print, and I turned my plate over. I have found that if you roll the gel plate off the paper, it's more successful than trying to pull the paper off the plate, especially for this kind of gel plate collage technique, where you've got a lot of multiple layers and papers and textures on that gel plate. And tara tara it came off the paper really easy, super easy, much better than I expected it would come. It looks absolutely fabulous. I love it. What a great idea. I'm going to do this again. I think the ticket stubs look absolutely wonderful, and I do like the balance of the colors and the contrast of the blues and greens with some mutual colors. And, of course, all of those fabulous warm tones. Now, when I put the ticket stubs on, I started in the center, and then I worked around and out further and further and further. I just thought it might make a better pattern. But of course, you could start from one side and cover your plate going over to the other or from the top and work down. It really doesn't matter. But I do like the way they're sitting together, both vertical and horizontal. I think that makes them pretty interesting. So, what am I going to do with this beautiful, big piece of collage paper now? Turns out quite good doing this jelly plate collage. I'm thinking to put it in my art journal, which is here. I'm definitely going to have to cut it. So I'm thinking I would really like to cut maybe a circle shape. Because that would be a whole lot of fun. And then I could put that on the page with some background behind it. What am I going to do with that side? I'm not sure exactly, but I don't want to just cut it square and stick it on 'cause that's boring. We need to have some multiple layers, and am I going to put anything on the top? Hmm, that's another question. Although I really do like this beautiful collage piece, so I don't want to add too much to it. I don't want to cover it, but I want to add a couple of layers, maybe some different shapes. And where will I start? I don't know, man. There's so much to think about when you've got such a beautiful, big piece to put on such a small little space. Think I'm going to go with my circle idea and then see where I head after that. Right, so I pulled out my circle makers, very high tech circle makers that I have here. And I've pulled out some Coso paper to put maybe baby in the background because I want to have another plain color underneath so that my fabulous little ticket stubs are shown off to the best. Now, I really like the way I started in the center here and then created around it. So I'm thinking I'm going to use that right there, like that. Then what I might do is use the section that I cut out and create the other side on the other page with maybe that round shape. I'm thinking. It's just a thought. I'm not sure until I start creating the page, what I actually want to create or how it might work. I've got this other shape, and I've got some smaller circle makers, as well. But I think I'll start with this idea. And then I guess we'll just see as we get moving along. It's pretty easy to cut. It's not too thick. Which is good. I really like this gel plate collage idea. I think I might try it with some more different kind of textures and papers because I do love the one big pull. That's really fun. You do have to think about your composition backwards. That's a bit of a trick. But once you get used to thinking backwards, then it's really not too hard. I know I picked the middle piece of this and it's probably the most ineffective way of using the paper. Oh, my. But I really wanted the middle piece. So, whoops, that's what I'm doing. I'm cutting it out because I want it. Then I'll see what I can do with the leftover pieces as well. Right. First circle cut like that. So if I get my fabulous art journal back, it's going to fit very nicely on there, and then I'm thinking maybe some black with this little gold fleck in it. That's coso paper, of course. Absolutely beautiful. I could put that on the background, just like that. How super easy is that and put that. Look how dramatic it looks with the colors. They just pop against the black background. Look at that. That's going to be cut like that. Yes, I'm doing it. And then I don't think I actually want to add anything to it because I just want the ticket stubs to be my focal point and the whole purpose of the collage. I love the red one in the middle. That makes me happy. Right. So that's going to go on that side, and then what will I do on this side? I was thinking of using the section that was cut out and putting some background underneath it. So I might do that just like this and then put some of the so paper underneath it. I've got these beautiful colors in the so paper, so that would work under there like that. Maybe, baby, not sure about that, but loving this. So I think I'll start with that and then think about that side. Well, that was a whole lot of fun, maybe. These pages. I think my ticket stubs look absolutely fabulous. I mean, they could be tickets to all the things I went to on my travels, but they're not. But they resemble the feeling of going to all the different places. And I did go to quite a few. Don't they look fabulous. I love the consistency of the size, and I like that they're vertical and horizontal, and I like my little cutouts. The background looks great with the black on this circle piece. And that's the center where I started. I'm really happy with them. I think the pages look fabulous. Now, am I finished? That's the question. Well, I'm thinking that I don't really want to put anything over this because I just love the tickets. Look at them. Cinema tickets. D one. Admission. That's so fun. But I would like to put a little something in this section here. And I've got these stickers. So I'm thinking something like that, but maybe not that. I don't know, man. It's gonna be difficult to decide. Anything could work really of these fabulous stickers. Oh, I do like that one. I do like the number three pointing that way. That's fun. Alright, put that in the maybe pile. Number ten looks good, colors look great, the same kind of font style of the numbers, so that works really well. Oh, man, there's so many here to choose. What do you think? Should we use that one or I did like this one, too. That was kind of fun with the arrow. Maybe that one? Yeah, maybe, baby. Oh, man. I can't decide. I can't decide. Do I want the arrow or do I want the color? Mm. The arrow. Okay. If you voted for the arrow, you must be hearing me 'cause I'm gonna go with the arrow. Now, on this side, I'm not going to put one of these, but I might put a trinket. These are stickers, how cool eight? So super easy. If you find that they don't stick, you can't always put a little bit of the mat medium under sometimes I do that, sometimes I don't just depends, but that's stuck down right. That looks beautiful. Now, I'm thinking, maybe, baby, one of these. I bought these when we did our seam punk class. I ended up with a whole heap of trinkets 'cause I do get a little carried away with the themes and get lots of options for our collages. So, oh, look at that one. I ended up with quite a few. That's maybe a bit too chunky. But I would like to add maybe one of these keys there. Why? I don't know, man. I just think it would be fun. Ooh, or going down like that, that's kind of fun. I like that idea. Just a little something on the page. Maybe Oh, that one's flatter. That one might be better. Maybe, maybe too. Maybe, baby. There's so many to choose from. Yes, I did get carried away buying little trinkets. But I loved that lesson, and that class, it was so much fun. So I'm going to decide on which one I'm going to put on there. And then I'll let the pages dry. I'll give you a close up when they're dry. And then moving on to our last lesson for this class, didn't that come round so fast? I loved this Travel theme. I think you might have noticed that sharing with you all my fabulous journeys, I love those Viking cruisers, both of them pretty keen to do another one. The next lesson, I'm using leftovers of the different print and papers from each of the lessons, and we're creating miniature collages as postcards. So I'm pretty excited for that because we get to use lots of leftover, bits and pieces, and I do like using leftovers. And I love creating miniatures. So once I actually decide if I'm putting on one or two, I do like the two of them. I'll glue that down. Let it dry. Give you a close up and n yippee. We're on to making postcards never sent. 9. Day 70: Postcards Never Sent: Day 70 postcards never sent. Now, I'm pretty excited about this class. Our prompt says to make a collage in the style of a postcard from a real or imaginary journey. And what I thought was to use some of the papers and prints and bits and pieces that we've collected from all of the previous lessons and create fabulous postcards with all the leftovers. Now, I did get a little carried away, but I had the best time. I absolutely love making miniature artworks. I find it really therapeutic that I can stop and be a little bit more still and just pull out fabulous little bits from my scrap bags. And I had so many papers to use. From the first lesson, I had the fabulous jelly plate collage, which I had pulled with all of the fabulous postal artifacts. I loved these. Print actually made two of them, and my gel plate was 16 by 20 inch. So it's pretty big. I had a lot of paper to use. I had to use it all up. It was so super easy making postcards with these leftovers because I just cut a section of the gel print, glued it straight onto a piece of the watercolor paper, and then I added a bit of Coso. Easy, easy. Oh, I also added a couple of stickers to enhance the composition some more. But it was so super easy, and I had so much of that fabulous jelly print collage that I made a whole heap. It was just so super easy to add a few more stickers with the background of what I had already made, stuck it on some watercolor paper. Or some card stock. Whichever one I had laying round, that one's watercolor paper. And a little bit of coso paper. Oh, man, I ended up making all of these from that fabulous gel print collage leftover piece. Aren't they absolutely fabulous? And, you know, I could send these as postcards. I actually could put a name and address and a stamp on it. Wouldn't that be fun? I really do think it would be fun. A little bit of coso paper, a few stickers with my gel print. And look how many I ended up with. Then I pulled out the fabulous leftovers of the little Italian doors. You know, I had to use those. And from the second lesson, I had the fabulous painted, little six by four watercolor papers. Also, I had the ones with the jelly prints on them. So I already had a fabulous painted and textured background. I'm already ahead. So I made a few of these, put the beautiful little Italian doors on, some Coso paper, and they turned out absolutely beautiful. It really didn't take much to add to the fabulous painted background, super, super easy, and that was really fun. A few of my scrap bag pieces, the fabulous picture of the door and a stamp. Don't forget the stamps. A few bits and pieces, some of my travel stickers, some scrap bag. And I really love making these. They would be so much fun to send or I could put them in a little frame and make a little miniature artwork out of them, or I could send them as a gift or even a thank you note. Love making these miniatures. Now, in the third lesson, we're off to pay. I'm using some of the fabulous paper that I had with the beautiful Eiffel Tower. Those colors, the colors in these papers are beautiful. Putting it with some more of my fabulous little stickers and some off cuts from my scrap bag and some Coso paper and voila. Woah. Within a few minutes, I have a stunning little beautiful miniature. Work. These turned out absolutely beautiful. I made a couple of them with a fabulous patty paper. But then I pulled out that fabulous tea bag paper that I had painted on the gel plate. Oh, man, this is so beautiful. So I cut sections of that up in the size of my fabulous little six by four watercolor paper piece, and I've used them for the background. Then I'm adding some of the stencil that I had printed out. I have so many leftovers, so many bits and pieces. I think this was a great way to finish our class. Maybe I'll do this again next time. Because I love using up all of the bits that I've already made, and I absolutely love being able to focus on that size of the miniature and really create something beautiful and texted with the multiple layers. I created quite a few with the Paris theme, and look how stunning that background paper work. You know, I think I might have to do that again with that particular paper, painting it like that on the gel plate, and then maybe we'll put it on a canvas and create a bigger artwork. Wouldn't that be fun? I think it would work really and it looks so stunning. It looks like a painting in the background when you glue it down on something. And then with the fabulous stencil over the top, a few little stickers and a stamp. And Walla we have a postcard from Paris. Even though I haven't been yet, but this is the one. The lesson that we said, Where do you want to go? Maybe next year. The next one was the map of wandering and I'm using the fabulous leftovers of the globe that I had the world map on the craft paper. I'm loving it. I ended up being a fabulous background, a few little bits and pieces on top and Walla. Absolutely beautiful. And, of course, I got to change up the colour scheme, added a little bit of blue 'cause it really went well with the silver. And this one, I pulled out a piece from my scrap bag with a compass piece on it there, a little bit of Coso paper, some of the fabulous map, some stickers. And, of course, this is actually a New Zealand stamp. It's not a real one, but it does make me smile when I think of my beautiful little New Zealand down there. I really like these. They do make great postcards. It's a whole lot of fun. Have I said that yet? The next lesson was the one with the fabulous Bergen houses. Now I only made one postcard from there because I figured I was just going crazy. Maybe I should woo up. But the buildings look fabulous. I have some off cuts from there. I pulled out the off cuts, tore them up, put them on with some beautiful background paper and my Coso paper, and they looked great. I wasn't happy with these prints when I first made them. But when you do things like this, cut up sections of them and create little miniatures or put them together as collage with other bits and pieces. The fact that they didn't print absolutely perfect, it doesn't even matter. Look how good they look as a postcard. I'm actually quite excited. I could have made a few more, and I do have more of those scraps. So, you know, I just might. But I was a little busting to move on to the next one because I had so much scrap paper left from the fabulous tickets, and I absolutely love the ticket stub, jelly print collage that I pulled off the plate. I think it turned out so good. The colours are beautiful. The size of the ticket stubs, I really like, and it worked out way better than I thought it would. So I cut some of the leftover piece of the gel collage, cut it into the size of the watercolor paper. Easy peasy, glued it on tra tra. It's already done. That was so super easy. And then I just added some of these little pieces. Here, I think this one looks so good, and it's so fun. Adding a little bit of graphic to it. Love the big three. The background looks beautiful with those receipts and ticket stubs. What a great idea that was. I think we should do that one again, too. I'm absolutely loving them. They look like postcards. All ready to go. You could write an address on the back and put them in the post. Or I could actually put them in an envelope and post them that way. So many options. And I just might do that. Absolutely loved making these postcards. I really hope you enjoy this as much as I'm enjoying it. Music or your leftover bits and pieces, your gel prints, if you bought stickers and ticket subs and stamps. And travel bits from your journey. It really is a whole lot of fun. So I'm going to choose a couple and I'm going to put them in my art journal. Now, my art journal is on to the end of it, so I'm going to put extra postcards in it just to fill up some pages because the next class class number 11 in this series, I'm going to start with a new art journal. I bought three when we first started because I knew that I would need that many to get through 100 day. 100 is a lot. But it's such a fabulous journey. I'm loving making these classes. I really hope you're enjoying them as much as I am because I'm stretching myself and learning so much and really experimenting with these techniques. Now, the hard part is going to be deciding on which ones I want to put in my art journal, cause clearly, I can't put all of them in there. And I really might actually send some as gifts or thank you cards. So I'll think about which ones I can't live without. Pull out my art journal. I'll put a couple in there. I'll show you when those pages are dry, which ones I chose. And then, oh, man, then we're going to be on to the final words. Which lessons did you like? The best? Which techniques have you enjoyed? Oh, man, I loved making these postcards. But then I loved all of the lessons of this class, so I'd have all of these papers to make the postcards. I knew this class would be one of my favorites because I am dreaming of traveling. So where are we going? Now, I've pulled out my art journal, and let's have a look. See how there's only a few pages left till the end of the second one in my series. How bad it is. I love working in the art journal because it's such a treasure trove of incredible techniques and ideas, besides all the beautiful artwork. And I was thinking I wanted to put two postcards on each page, and then I could put a whole heap on here, but it's actually not going to fit. They're not going to fit two. Oh, man. Maybe on this side, but then I don't like that they're so squashed. So I'm not going to fit two. I'm only going to fit one. And then what I think I'll do is put some beautiful colored tissue or coso paper or whatever I can find underneath first on the background like that. And then I'm going to put just one postcard on there. It looks pretty good, don't you think? I think it looks pretty good. I might put this one like that and then that one like that. So that's pretty nice for the first page. And then I'll have to find some more. I was really keen for these ones. I love both of these. They would work, too. Yes. There's a whole heap I can't live without, and I do like these ones as well. So what I think I'm going to do is pull out some background papers and glue those down, and then I'm only going to fit one beautiful postcard, which makes it a bit special, don't you? I might add some more, but I'm not sure if I want to add any other pieces around it or if I'm just going to put the postcard on by itself, I probably won't know until I start putting the pages together, but I am going to do a few. I'll put these two on. I'll let this dry, and then I'm going to continue and do a couple more pages because I'm going to use up the rest of this. Probably not all with the postcards. I might then add some digital college papers just to finish the book so that with the next class, I'm going to start with a brand new one. So that's the plan. Haven't fully decided which ones I want and what color backgrounds I want. I'll probably just make that up as I go along, but I will definitely show you once I actually make the decisions of which of these stunning, beautiful miniature artwork slash postcards, I'm going to you. 10. Let's Celebrate: Well done. You've made it to the end of Class ten. What a huge achievement. I really hope you've enjoyed Textures of Travel in Collage as much as I have. I really love this travel theme, and the prompts were so much fun. And I particularly enjoyed sharing my own stories with you. I can't wait to see what you're going to create, what trips you've been on, and what you're going to share from your adventures. So don't forget to post a pick in the project section and show me what collages you've been making and where you've been. Have a look at the class. Notes for more information on the art supplies. But remember, you don't have to use all of the art supplies that I've used or even the same colors. You can use the ones that you are inspired by and definitely what you have at home already. But the information is there if you want to know exactly what I've used or where to get it. And that can always be so helpful. Don't forget the treasure maps also in your class notes. I think it's a bit of fun. You can take off which classes you've really enjoyed or even circle which lessons and prompts you've liked the best because then you can always return to them and create from that inspiration again another day. I also just really like seeing a map of where we've been and where we're going. It's so exciting. We're really going to have to celebrate when we get to 100. Now, if you are looking for paper and products from my recommendations, don't forget to have a look for the discount codes on your class notes. And if you have any questions, you can email me directly frol at frol.com or find more information on my website. And don't forget you can join me in my Facebook group, creative adventures, making art and show me all of your fabulous classes. I'd love to see your photos. So which of these prompts or days or themes you enjoy the best from this class? I don't know, man, if I can actually nail it down to one, because I really enjoyed all of them. I think the travel theme for me was so much fun. And Paris, yes, I will be going one day. Now, as this was class ten of our series of 100 Days of Collage, Day is 64270, my art journal is actually now four. Well, it's full enough for me to have finished it. I have found that I can get five classes in each of these fabulous art journals, and I bought three of them when I started this adventure. So this is the second journal with class six to ten in it, and it is quite full and quite thick, and I absolutely love it. What I love the most about the art journal experience is it becomes a treasure book, really. You can look back through it and you can see what you created, the techniques you use, the colors you use, the different papers, and what inspired you. So you can return to it another day. You know where to find it if you want it. And it just keeps all of the fabulous ideas in one place. Now, this was the last lesson that I put the postcards in. I really could have kept going with those postcards. I had so much fun. In fact, I ended up with quite a few that I'm going to turn into gifts or even thank you notes. So then I put in some of these papers. This was a leftover from one of the lessons with that beautiful paper that we made on the wet paint on the gel plate. That was a lot of fun. And I kept going with the leftovers from this class and put them in just to finish the last few pages of my journal because class 11, I'll be starting a brand new one. This is a leftover from another class and, of course, image transfers. I always have so many because I just love making them. More image transfers. Some gel plate printing. And I'm just finishing off my fabulous journal right to the very end with my leftovers and bits and pieces from the lessons. Oh, it's just absolutely fabulous to look back through this wonderful treasure trove. So many great ideas or so many beautiful textured papers, and now we're at the end. Look at that. Look how fat it is. I'm actually quite impressed that the journal has held up as well as it has. Art journal number two of our series. Now, if you've missed any of the classes and don't forget, you can actually go onto my profile and have a look there and find the ones you haven't watched yet because it's a fabulous series. We continue all the way through from the beginning and each class builds on the next class. And each of the lessons, we're creating different techniques. We're trying different applications of paints and papers. And don't you love the deco foil? I love to the deco foil. So what I love about this adventure is the exploration. I've learned so much and I've really enjoyed so many of the prompts that I don't think I would have normally sat down and created, especially with class number five, when we got to the outer space one. Did you like that one? Are you traveling along with me? I'd love to know. Leave me a comment and let me know if you're traveling along with me in this journey, have you been through all the other classes? That's the question. More Deco foil. Don't you love that one? So don't forget to keep all your papers and prints. You might want to use them for another class or another lesson. I've repeated a few of my papers, especially at the end of the journal there where I wanted to fill it up. Of course, you don't have to use an art journal. You can use separate pieces of paper. Or even on canvas or cardstock, smaller pieces or bigger pieces, the idea is for you to create with no pressure, with no stress in a way that's really going to empower you to enjoy your creative expression. You're learning fabulous techniques along the way. Wonderful tips and tricks for your arts practice. And I know that when you're finished 100 days, we're both going to be in a whole different place creatively. Right. So that is my second fabulous journal of this series. Don't forget to check out the other classes. If you've missed any of them, you can check the treasure map to find out which ones you've done and you haven't done that. And we still have a mighty fine adventure to continue. So I hope you're going to continue with me on to the next class. That one's going to be just as creative a whole heap of new different techniques, and I so look forward to seeing you for class number 11, keep up the good work and happy creating.