You’ve seen my favorite spray inks, you’ve seen how I experiment and play to learn about spray inks, and today I’m going to share with you how I quickly build a background in an art journal.
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Supplies Used:
Inks Used: Memories Mist was the permanent yellow, Hero Arts neon was the painty one, Lindy’s Stamp Gang was the orange shimmery one, Dylusions was the very strong vibrant one, and Color Blooms were the soft blue.
I so enjoy the colorful journey. Thanks for the chance to win.
Glad you’re enjoying the journey pjay!
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I am really enjoying your play dates.. would love to win a stencil
Love your videos … I have the worst luck with sprays and now I know why, not understanding the nuances of each brand. Thanks!
Yea! I am thrilled these Play Dates helped Kim!
I love how you demonstrated sprays with different qualities and how they worked together! Using the permanent inks as a background layer is a great use for that kind of ink!
Carolyn, you just rocked that word stencils with all your ink sprays, love the spread you created!
more more more!!! Love lots of sprays and color.
Thanks so much for this week of play dates, Carolyn! As always, your pleasant enthusiasm and relaxed “just have fun” attitude make me want to go pull out my toys (aka papers and sprays) and play, too! āŗ
Such an informative video. Thanks!
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Carolyn, I love, love, love this background. I am waiting impatiently for payday so I can order some inks and a stencil! Thanks so much for the inspiration!
Love how you incorporated all the sprays, using their different qualities to make an amazing background!
Another fabulous video Carolyn! I’ve learned so much about the different sprays. One of the most important things I’ve learned is that I can go get a bunch and just try them out! š What journal are you using?
It is a homemade journal with cheap watercolor paper (size 12×18 I think that I folded in half to make the signatures).
I’ve never thought about combining different types of sprays. I love the variety of looks you get. It really gives an added dimension. Thanks for sharing your play dates with us.
Wish the sprays were more permanent. Love how they look in your background. xox
Me too- that would be one thing I would really wish for from the manufacturers!
Love, love , love this stencil and thanks for the chance to win it, as it doesn’t seem available here in the UK…..love your videos Carolyn …..xx
Love, love, love the stencil Carolyn but searched over here in the UK and cannot find it so thanks for the chance to win it….xx
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Love the trick of holding the stencil down with the palette knife!
Yes, the palette knife idea is genius!
I love the idea of Playden video’s and I love your style thank you
I love watching all of your fun videos, Carolyn! I find out so much about art supplies and their use from you.
Thank you! I love watching a blank page turn into such a great background and love seeing how you use the sprays.
I enjoy all the colorful journeys a lot and I like to be part of it. But please don’t let me win as I will be punished for it by dutch taxes š
Love that Color Bloom/Dylusions combo – wiping the drool off my face now!
I have learned so much from these videos. Thank you. would also love to win the stencil. : )
Always fun and enlightened to see what you have to share with us… Thank You
I’m lovin these Play Dates — simple, sweet, to the point and packed full of Carolyn Dube muse!!! Lately, I have been using my spray inks in water brushes for painting. But I love spraying stencils with them and inking up silk flowers.
I love your ideas. This was great fun.
Carolyn – I just love all your videos. And YES, I want that stencil.
You did it again, Carolyn….another great video for us to learn from. Thanks for the chance to win your fabulous stencil.
Carolyn you are an inspiration. I spent most of the day in my studio. I did organize spray inks and have a play with my gelli. It was fun playing with you and spray.
Love the way you combined spray inks on these pages. Right now I only have 3 different Dylusions spray inks. Will have to start buying more/different spray inks so I can play more
Thanks so much for all your work, Carolyn. I’m learning so much. I’m going to have to go back to the earlier Play Date videos to work out which are your three favourites sprays. That won’t be a hardship. More chance to take on board your tips š
Got your fav three – LSG Starbursts, Color Blooms and Dylusions. To carry on the conversation, I have a question I hope someone can answer. Today a friend and I had a gelli printing play day, but she also brought her Starburst sprays. I was excited, remembering Carolyn’s use of them the other day. However, out of the six she has, only one was an attractive colour. This was the one called Ponderosa Pines Olive. It was a nice mid green, not olive, imo, but pretty. The others all sprayed as brownish, not nice, with tinges of the colour in the name as they dried, but mostly the ugh brown look. Names like Bucket of Blood Red and Bucaneer Bay Blue, they came out nothing like their names. Can someone please tell me what I might be doing wrong, as I would love to use them in a similar way to Carolyn? Has anyone else had an issue like this? Solved how? Many thanks, Marina
Hi Marina,
Some of the older Lindy’s products were called Moon Shadow Mists. They were made with a Walnut Stain base with some hidden color.(ie Blood Red, Bay Blue, Tawny Turquoise) I have quite a few with the brownish base of walnut stain, because I do a lot of Vintage Collage and it is especially nice with Heritage photos. I love to add more color with the Dylusions and Color Bloom. Hope this helps
It helps wonderfully, thanks Mindy. Mystery solved and all is clear now. My friend’s sprays are a mix of the two types, now I have had a closer search of their labels. She called them all Starbursts, but not so. I can see the Moon Shadow Mists having a place in various works, but I was expecting to see red and blue, etc, so it was a major puzzle. I’m grateful for your explanation, and can now put Starbursts back on my shopping list š Sprays like this are hard to come by in New Zealand, and mostly come via online shopping, where you don’t get to discuss them with a shop owner. Thanks again, Marina.
I am really enjoying play dates. I don’t clean, and I don’t organise, I also don’t art journal. I think I am going to give it a try.. I have always been wanting to paint whimsical people and stuff like that.. but I don’t have the patience or the time or the inclination.. but then I realised that your pages were about what you wanted to say, and just playing.. I think I could do that, and seriously enjoy it. It would probably help me learn about the ways to push the envelope with my supplies too. I cut and design my own stencils and find it hard to use other people art work in my own.. but I am sorely temped by that clock stencil, and Rembrandt’s words.. they are stunning on their own let alone interacting with each other. I loved the two blues, the vibrant one and the light one.. I do’t think I would have ever added to that piece, just put it up somewhere to make me happy. I love that this is the colourful journey.. not the destination š Thank you. <3 Anna
Love the palette knife tip!!!
I love to use a brush and paint with soray inks. Am also sharing on facebook
I must have these stencils! I love them! I am really enjoying watching this series of videos and am fighting the urge to decorate my walls with sprays. Must stick with paper. Must not spray walls!
thanks so much foe going thru this ink comparison this week. I really learned a lot and appreciate the effort it took to put the videos together
last chance at words. thanks as always for sharing.
I LOVE the bright colors of inks! Thanks!
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Thanks for these wonderful Play Dates Carolyn. Like you I have some of each of many of the different sprays. I love to use them, but never have “played”with them before to test their many qualities and attributes. Thanks for inspiring me to sit down a test out the products and make notes on likes and dislikes. It really helps when you are working on a project to basically know how a spray will react!
P.S. I love your stencils, too!
Thanks for this very helpful tutorial on spray inks! I have a variety and appreciate getting tips on better ways to use them!
Thanks for the great week of inspiration!
Absolutely lovely background! I need to be able to do this! So now I need some inks. Going shopping soon! Thanks again for all of the wonderful opportunities you’ve given for prizes this week, and thanks for having a teaching heart! Your videos are so much fun!
It’s about time someone talked about the different qualities of spray inks. I sure wish the manufacturers would label sprays with at least whether it was permanent and also how it plays with others, though it’s fun to find out by playing. I love your playful attitude and thanks so much for sharing this info!
Thanks I learned something today about the memories spray (which I have). Thanks for sharing!
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I have really enjoyed your playdates, as I do all things on your blog. What fun it would be to win.
Thanks for another chance to win.
I have really enjoyed the play date series. Please keep doing them.
Well, all caught up now.
Loved all the colors together. Great background!
Great tute – love all those words in various sizes, fonts and colors!
Thanks for the great videos on spray inks. I love them because they are so easy to use, can cover a large area quickly and they add so much interest to a page.
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So much fun! I am going to (finally) clean my art table off so that I can catch up on the One Pull Wonders AND get my spray inks out.