Art Journaling with NEW Art-C Paints!

I was fortunate enough to be sent some of the brand new goodies that Art-C is debuting at Winter CHA this weekend. They're releasing paints! COOL paints! And some texture mediums as well.

Whoever packed my box, I think they knew how much I love gold and turquoise :D I got a few metallic paints, some cool chalk paint, some gel stains, their new Luxe paints (in the tubs) and some texture pastes. Before getting started with my project, I got out a piece of cardstock and tested how each one of them worked - opacity, draw-down color, how it worked on paper, etc...

It's hard to see the texture and shine in a photo, but I was very pleased with all of them! I decided that I was going to use as many of them as I could on an art journal page. So here's the page I made with my goodies, and below is a little mini-tutorial to show you some of the steps on how it came together. (I just wish that I could capture the true color and the shimmer and shine and texture on this page... I really love it!)

I started by using the pearl colored texture paste with a Momenta self-stick stencil and just spread it randomly in the background. Then when that was dry, I painted the entire background with brown gel stain. I knew that the texture paste and the paper would take the color differently giving me some nice variation. I used the gorgeous, deep brown Luxe paint with my Groove tool to start adding variations, then I did the same with the turquoise Luxe paint.

While the paint was drying (which it does extremely quickly here in Utah right now!) I pulled out various sheets of paper - some patterned paper from Art-C ephemera packs, some old maps and book text, some cardstock I'd stamped on to test handcarved stamps... I took different paints and stains and painted over them - most were transparent enough that I could still see words or patterns, some were quite opaque (like the chalk paint or the copper metallic paint.) That's totally cool too! I wanted lots of different looks.

Once those were dry, I started cutting them into circles, then distressed the edges of each circle with Luxe paint. I layered them up, then I took some wooden buttons from an Art-C ephemera kit and stained them with the gel stain and glued some cute little Art-C charms on top.

I glued all the layers together and then adhered them on the background. Next it was time to add some details! You all know how I love my dots, so one of my favorite things about the metallic paints is that they came in tubes with fine tips! Not ultra fine, but enough to do dots and add some writing. I used the copper metallic paint to put dots around each circle, then I used the gold metallic paint to add some illegible journaling down the page in a few places. Those are actually words!

So there you go! My finished art journal page with the fabulous new Art-C paints. They have them in lots of colors, and I can't wait to get my hands on more of them!

Look at all the wonderful sparkly grungy texture I got in these layers! I'm in love...

A huge thanks to the team at Art-C / Momenta for letting me work with more of their products! This was a lot of fun, and I absolutely LOVE the new paints!

Comments

[Patricia]

I really like this journal page. Where can you get Art-C products?

[Gwen Lafleur]

Thanks so much Patricia! Most of these were just released at CHA so I'm not sure if they're in stores yet... I know Michael's is carrying Art-C, and you can also check with your local scrapbook / stamping store. I've seen some Art-C product at Hobby Lobby as well. I believe you can also call them directly (they should have a number on their Facebook page, I think.)