Saturday, December 31, 2016

Created a mini Holiday Journal

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is having a good holiday and enjoying time off with family.  I have been enjoying my time off and found some time for creating, in between the family holiday festivities.  I created a mini holiday journal using 6x6 cardboard panels that I cut, used white Gesso on the front and black Gesso on the back of the panels, and then used spray inks to add color and texture to the panels.  I then went online to Graphics Fairy and found some Christmas themed clip art to use in the journal.  I coffee stained music note papers and burned the edges of the one for the front cover.  I used stamps and other ephemera from my stash to complete the pages.  And then added jump rings and ribbons to bind the journal together.  Here are pics of the mini Holiday journal that I created.

 




 
 
And here is a quick video showing how I made this journal.
 

 
I've been having a lot of fun making these mini journals and have others that I created in different themes that I plan to share; however since this was a holiday themed journal I decided it should be shared sooner rather than later.  I really like the way this journal turned out and hope it inspires you to create one too.  Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a Happy New Year.  Until next time, happy creating.

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Art Journal Page - Dreams

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is had a good holiday and is having a good week.  My holiday was good and my week has been going well so far.  So after creating my inspiration sticks last week, I decided to put them to the test and create an art journal page using them.  The sticks I pulled in order were glitter/sparkle, stamping, paint pens, tape transfer and oil pastels.  I realized after creating this page that I did not have any color on the page and would have preferred to start out with some kind of color on the page first.  To finish this page I sprayed it to add some color and then found a title and a couple of quotes from my stash to add to that page.  I then made a couple of more inspiration sticks that I painted purple and added supplies from my stash to them that would add color to the page.  So next time I figured I could pull one of the purple sticks to add color to the page first and then pull from the other sticks to add more to the page.  Here are pics of the journal page I created.



 
And here is the video showing how I create this page.
 

 
Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a wonderful new year.  Until next time, happy creating.

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

Created Inspiration Sticks

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is having a good week.  My week has been good, but busy at work.  Have you ever been at a loss for what to do on an art journal page?  I think most art journaler's have at one point or another.  Well I have been seeing where people have been making inspiration sticks and thought I would make a set for myself.  I decided to go through my supplies and make a list so that I could put them on the sticks and that way use supplies that I have not used in a while or in some cases not at all.  I painted the sticks with Dylusions paints and wrote on them with Posca pens.  I also added techniques, like tape transfer, scrape in paint, etc.  And shapes, like hearts, butterflies, etc.  Here is a video showing how I made my inspiration sticks.


These will help me when I am feeling stuck or have no idea what to do on an art journal page.  Over the next couple of weeks I will post art journal pages that I created using my inspiration sticks.  Have you made a set of these yet?  If not, you should, they are fun to use, even if you just want to mix things up.  Thank you for stopping by.  Until next time, happy creating.

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Art Journal Page - Be The Voice

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is having a good week.  Mine is going well.  This week I have another art journal page that shows another way to add animals to your journal pages.  For this page I painted a background using Dylusions paints, I affixed a picture of a turtle to my page using clear gesso and then used watercolor paints to add more color to the turtle.  Here are pics of the page I created.




And here is a video showing how I created this page.


I like how this page turned out and am planning to add more animals to my journal pages.  Hope you like the video.  Thank you for stopping by, until next time happy creating.

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Art Jounral Page - Lift Your Spirits and Cedar Keys Vacation

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is having a good week.  My week is going well.  I've been getting caught up from being on vacation last week.  Me and my husband went to Cedar Keys for a couple of day and had a good time.  Here are some pics from our visit. 






Cedar Keys is a nice little town on an island off the coast of Florida.  The last picture was taken while on a boat tour that we went on of the islands around Cedar Keys.

This week I have an art journal page that I created using ink sprays, Posca pens and ephemera from my stash.  In the video (below), I wanted to show how you can add animals to art journal pages without having to freehand draw them.  I love drawing animals and wildlife, but sometimes I don't want to spend the time drawing an animal and not everyone can draw animals, but may want to include them in their journals.  Here are pics of the journal page I created.





And here is a video showing how I created this page.



I hope this helps inspire including more animals in their journals and I hope everyone has a great week.  Until next time, happy creating.