Hi There friends 🙂
When I got send my new Design team box, all the pretty flowers immediately caught my eye, and I knew this was going to be a fantastic term on the design team.
Today is my chance to show off some of this magnificent stencils on an art journal page for you.
**The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some products to create this project. The opinions I share, however, are solely my own. :)***
This is the end result of the page –
![Image of the completed art journal spread showing a girl face, a colorful background and a garden of Irises.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #face](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-10.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
You can watch the full process video here, and the step – by – step instructions are below:
I started off with some orange paint already on my page from wiping my stencil clean. The stencil pattern you see here is called TCW875 – Pine needle Print 12 x 12. I added torn papers from the Dina Wakley Collage Collective, and glued it down using TCW Matte Gel medium.
![Picture of orange stenciling in the background and some torn up pattern paper glued in random patches. #TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #collage #glue](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-1.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
Now I add color using Dina Wakley media paints, in blue, pinks and I also add lots of white to make it blend. Using a brayer, I move the paint around.
![Picture of a colorful background with Pinks, blues, orange and white.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #background #brayer](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-2.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
I have some collage tissue paper left from my Dina Wakley faces range, and decide to adhere this to the left page of the double spread. I use TCW Matte Gel Medium.
![Picture of TCW Matte Gel Medium.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #mattegelmedium](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-3.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
![Picture of the colorful background with a collaged face on top.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #collage #face](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-4.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
The tissue paper looks nice and blended which makes it part of the page, instead of just sitting on top. I love this look on art journal pages.
The next step is to add this magnificent Iris Flowers stencil. The stencil I am using is TCW864 – Irises 12 x 12. With this stencil I used a dark purple for the flowers and a olive green for the stems.
![Picture of #TCW864-Irises being sponged with purple paint.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #stencils](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-5.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
I am so in love with the look of this flowers. It did feel like they got a bit lost on this busy page. To fix this, I made a thinned down watery solution of the same purple paint, and proceeded to fill in the entire flower with this softer shade of purple. I did the same with the green for the stems. The result made me very happy!
![Picture of the irises mostly painted inside with purple paints.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #face](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-6.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
Next I added color to the face and hair. I used Dina Wakley media paints for this, in Apricot, Blushing and Cheddar. For the eyes I used the color Night.
![Picture of the collaged face colored.
Picture of the irises mostly painted inside with purple paints.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #face](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-7.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
The last step to this process is to include some word stenciling. For this I used TCW Black Gesso, because its my fav black – super opaque and quick drying.
![Picture of TCW Black Gesso.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #face
#blackgesso](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-8.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
![Picture of TCW585 - inspired words with black gesso.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #face #blackgesso #stencil #love #dream #peace #create #imagine](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-9.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
I use stencil TCW585 Mini Inspired Words 6 x 6, with this black gesso to create some bold wording. Once dry, I go over the black words with a white gelli roller pen to make it pop.
So happy with this page, it truly made me happy to create these flowers and with these colors. Mmmmmm, happy place!
![Finished picture of the art journal page showing the girl face, colorful background and purple irises.
Picture of the irises mostly painted inside with purple paints.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #face #TCW585-inspired words #TCW864-Irises #TCWBlackGesso #TCWMatteGelMedium](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-10-1.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
I hope you enjoyed this project and got inspired to create yourself.
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![Picture of the left side of the art journal page showing a close up of the flowers on the colorful background, the purple irises and the black words.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #face #TCW585-inspired words #TCW864-Irises #TCWBlackGesso #TCWMatteGelMedium](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-11.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
![Close up picture of the left side of the page, showing lover half of the girl face and the Irises underneath.
#TCW #TCWStencils #Artjournal #mixedmedia #flowers #Irises #face #TCW585-inspired words #TCW864-Irises #TCWBlackGesso #TCWMatteGelMedium](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-12.jpg?resize=800%2C800&ssl=1)
![Very close up picture of the Right page Iris and background, showing the textures and colors.](https://i0.wp.com/tcwblog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Garden-of-Iris-13.jpg?resize=579%2C579&ssl=1)
Beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration. Have ordered the faces.xx
love it! thanks for the demo
I love this! Very colorful and pretty.