Mixed Media - create a "messy" page | Art Journaling

Hi everyone 🌷 I hope you are all doing well.

This is my first post of 2025 and one of my goals this year is to boost my blog! I know blogging seemed to be on the downward trend a few years ago, but personally, it had always been my favorite form of communicating. So, trendy or not, I will endeavour to increase my posts this year.

We've been having exceptionally cold weather and even a light dusting of snow. I have been in my studio working on a series of small paintings on wood panel. Like with my other crafts, I enjoy mixing things up and in between paintings I have done some art journaling and created a few mixed media pages. Some of these I share the process on my YouTube channel. Here is one of them. Since I'm working in my A6 journal the page is easily done and includes fun tools and plenty of layers with an assortment of stamps and stencils.

I'm mainly working with acrylic inks in this tutorial. I find I like the ones from Liquitex, as they are highly pigmented and come in a large color range, including neons and metallics. Using an old, small plastic bag I spread the inks randomly on the surface. 

Applying scraps of collage, grungy stamps and fun stencils. All supplies are listed in the video description. You can watch the entire process from start to finish here:

Creating this art journal spread with its many layers and textures was enormously satisfying. Are you a fan of "messy art"? Let me know in the comments.

Have a great week -