A good friend sent me a fantastic set of gel pens a couple of weeks ago so I grabbed one of the new stencils and created a super colorful mandala in my art journal!
The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. This post also contains affiliate links. The opinions I share are solely my own.
The first thing I did was to tape down the 12×12 Infinite Lace stencil into my large Dylusions art journal. I then traced all of the shapes in the stencil using a black Sharpie pen.
The stencil has some wonderful open spaces in it…perfect to fill up with tons of doodling with my new gel pens!
The gel pens come in so many colors, including neons, glitter and metallics. I also added in a few more doodling marks with the black Sharpie pen.
A little tip if you have never worked with gel pens: they take a while to dry! It seems some colors and types dry faster than others. I was forever wiping my hand across wet pen marks since I was not being patient enough to let each step dry. The smudge marks don’t bother me but they might someone else, so now you know!
The colors of the mandala were so vibrant but I knew that setting them against black would really make the design pop. I started by outlining the edge with a black Pitt artist pen.
I then painted the rest of the art journal page with black acrylic paint. To finish off the design, I used a white gel pen to add a few doodles around the edges.
I can’t stop looking at it! I love all the sparkly gel pen doodles that give the mandala that fun extra.
Thanks for joining me today!
The Crafter’s Workshop Design Team Member
belle réalisation avec ces stylos gel en effet, que de jolies couleurs.. il m’est déjà arrivé d’embosser avec ceux qui sont lents à sécher (écrit une phrase ou un mot et rajouté de la poudre à embosser transparente).
Superb!!!
WOW WOW WOW! This is STUNNING and AMAZING! Love the details on it!
This is incredible & must have taken you forever!!
Wow- the details are amazing!
Thanks so much for all the comments and compliments!
Beautiful project Consie that I feel is totally attainable, I love how the whole image pops with the black background. Thank toy for sharing xx
Sorry I got distracted by my daughter and didn’t proof read lol. It should have read ‘ I feel that is totally attainable’ and also ‘Thank YOU for sharing’ not toy, I’ve no idea where that came from hahaha. Sharon xx
Gorgeous!
Love this! So creative, I love me a good mandala.