Good Morning all! Helen here with a little art journal spread for you today using a variety of Mandala and stencil shapes! Mandala love!!!
![Finished art journal spread using mandal centers colored black onto gell press background paper, cut out into circles and added to black art journal, with image and sentiment](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecraftersworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ML-1.png?resize=674%2C754&ssl=1)
The Crafter’s Workshop provided me with some product to create this project. The opinions I share are solely my own.
To start off my art journal, I first had to make some background pages! I did this using my Gell Press plate, some white acrylic paint, and some Color Sparkx!
I first added a thin layer of white acrylic paint directly onto my Gel Press plate. I then added some spots of the Orchid ColorSparkx from TCW9055 ColorSparx® Berry Punch and the Cerulean Blue and Chartreuse ColorSparkx from the TCW9057 ColorSparx® Poolside.
![Using a gell press plate, apply white acylic paint over and sprinkle with ColorSparkx. Smoosh around with brayer.](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecraftersworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ML-2-796x1024.png?resize=398%2C512&ssl=1)
I then used a brayer and smooshed these around!! Love this effect!
![Smooshing around of ColorSparkx using brayer](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecraftersworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ML-3-820x1024.png?resize=410%2C512&ssl=1)
Once this was dry, I used all the stencils listed here to make some circle shapes. I traced them using a Micron black pen and colored them in.
![Tracing the inside of the mandala stencils using a micron epn onto the ColorSparkx background paper.](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecraftersworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ML-4-928x1024.png?resize=464%2C512&ssl=1)
![More mandala centers colored in.](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecraftersworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/mandala-4-768x1024.jpg?resize=576%2C768&ssl=1)
After having colored them, I cut them out into circles. I then used TCW9907 Clear Gesso and applied a thin layer to my black art journal page using a brush. I splattered some White ink over my page next using the tube in my ink bottle. I adhered the cut out circles to my page using TCW9011 Matte Gel Medium .
![Cut out circles and adhere to a clear gessod black art journal page using Gel Medium](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecraftersworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/mandala-5-768x1024.jpg?resize=576%2C768&ssl=1)
Once all this was dry, I doodles in some of my circles using a white pen, and added some shading around the circles with a Cobalt Blue and Black PITT pen. I added my little guy, with some washi tape and a sentiment! Voila.. done!
![Mandala love art journal page completed with image, washi tape and sentiment.](https://i0.wp.com/www.thecraftersworkshop.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/ML-1-1.png?resize=674%2C754&ssl=1)
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The Crafter’s Workshop Design Team Member
Awesome job Helen.
Thanks Colleen!!! ((HUGS))