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Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week is going well. As I mentioned in my last post, the weekend before last I created two journals pages. The Happy Valentine's Day journal page I posted last week and another journal page with butterflies. I affixed 7Gypsies tissue paper to the journal page and then painted over it with blue paint. I used my Silhouette machine to cut out butterflies from plain card stock and decorated them with metallic paint, gears and keys. And then I used my Silhouette to cut out flowers and affixed them to the page. I finished the page with doodling and a title. Here are pictures of the journal page I created.
Here is a video showing how I created this page.
I also created two more journals to add to my Etsy shop this past weekend. A Tea Journal and a Weathered Wood look journal. Here are some pictures of the two journals I created.
I've been trying to get a number of journals completed to have in my Etsy shop. There are 12 journals in my shop now, so that should be good for a while. I am looking forward to getting back to doing more art journaling. If interested in seeing a flip through any of the journals I have listed, just let me know. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, happy creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. My week has been going well and I had an awesome weekend. Unlike my last post where I struggled for 3 weeks to complete one art journal page and was still not completely happy with it, this weekend I completed 2 art journal pages, and love them both, and created 2 new journals for my Etsy shop. I was on a roll this weekend. One of the journal pages I created is for Valentine's Day. At my work they bring in a cake each month, for everyone's birthdays for that month, and this month it was a chocolate cake with strawberry filling for Valentine's Day and they had the cutest Valentine's Day napkins. So being the hoarder creative person I am LOL, I had to bring one home and use it on a journal page. Here is the journal page I created for Valentines Day along with some close ups.
After affixing the napkin to my journal page, I painted in between the hearts with black paint and then doodled around the hearts with a white Signo pen. Then I cut out the Happy Valentine's Day with my Silhouette and added it to the page. Here is a video showing how I created this page:
I will post the other journal page I created, along with a video of it, next week.
And here are picks of the two new journals that I created and added to my Etsy shop:
Faux Wood Journal
Love Journal
To see more picks inside these journals, or if interested in purchasing one, visit my Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoysArt360. If you would like to see a flip through any of the journals in my Etsy shop, please let me know.
Thank you for stopping by. Hope everyone has a great week. Until next time, happy creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone had a great holiday and new year. Mine was a challenge. With recovering from surgery, the holidays, family, work and several classes I had to finish for work to renew my certification, I have been having some difficulty doing anything creative. I decided this weekend to finish up a couple of projects that I started. One was an art journal page with my word for 2016: Renew. I chose the word Renew for this year so that it will remind me to renew my soul, my creativity and my commitment to my art. I started this page three weeks ago and have been struggling with completing it. My husband bought me a Silhouette Cameo machine for Christmas, so I took a hand cut Lion stencil I created last year, scanned it into my computer and made a cut file for cutting other stencils of it in different sizes. I cut this 6x6 stencil of it, however I had some difficulty figuring out the right thickness of plastic to use with the machine for cutting the stencil. I tried using plastic material for making stencils, but it did not cut all the way through, even after going over it several times. So I found a thinner plastic to use for cutting the stencil from. Then I used the stencil to create my art journal page with my word for the year. However, I struggled with this journal page and was not happy with how it was turning out, so I went back and added more to it over the past two weekends. I still don't feel this is one of my better journal pages, but decided I was ok with it and decided to call it finished. Here are some pictures of the journal page I created using my new lion stencil:
And here is a video showing how I made this journal page:
The other project I finished this weekend was another journal for my Etsy shop. I started the journal before Thanksgiving and it has been sitting on my desk ever since. I decided this weekend to get it finished and posted to my Etsy shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoysArt360 (if interested in seeing all the journals that I have for sale).
Here are pictures of the new floral journal I created:
Hope everyone is having a good year so far and is renewing their spirit and commitments. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. I am still recovering from surgery, but have returned to work. This weekend my granddaughter came for a visit and had a school project that she needed help with. She had to build a castle and the one she picked was the Chateau de Foix. Luckily I had all the materials needed to complete the project. Here are pics of the castle:
She also wanted to do a journal page while she was here, so we both created an art journal page. I had a page in my weekend journal that had purple paint on it left over from a previous journal page, which I like. She liked the journal page I created with the graffiti wall and wanted to do a similar journal page, so we broke out the stencils and the texturing paste. After the texturing paste dried we then used spray inks on our pages. I used a script stencil with the texturing paste and found a picture of a rose and some quotes in my stash to complete my page. Here is my finished journal page:
My granddaughter used a brick wall stencil with the texturing paste and found several words in my stash that she wanted to do tape transfers of the words to add to her journal page. Here is her completed journal page:
We both had a lot of fun working on the castle and creating our journal pages. Hope everyone has a great week. Until next time, happy creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. My surgery went well and I have been recovering. This week I have another quick flip of a journal that I made recently using pattern paper, mixed media paper, brown paper and ephemera. I am calling this journal the Old Wood Journal, since the pattern paper used looks like old wood. I added pockets, tags and a bookmark to finish this journal. Here are some pictures of this journal:
This journal can be used as a travel journal, junk journal, art journal, diary or for whatever purpose you could imagine. Here is a video showing a flip through this whole journal:
I really enjoy making these journals and decided to sell this one, along with others that I made, on Etsy. If interested, you can view all the journals I have for sell in my Etsy shop at:
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. I have been working a lot of overtime lately and spending my spare time with family and tomorrow I am having surgery. Too much going on and not enough time to get everything done, such is life. Anyway, this week I have another quick flip of a journal that I made recently using pattern paper, drawing paper and ephemera. I am calling this journal the coffee journal, since the pattern paper used is coffee themed. I added pockets, tags and a bookmark to finish this journal. Here are some pictures of the coffee journal I made:
And here is a video showing a flip through the whole journal.
I really enjoy making these journals and decided to sell this one, along with others that I made, on Etsy. If interested, you can view all the journals I have for sell in my Etsy shop at:
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. This week I have another flip of a journal that I made recently using pattern paper, drawing paper, stickers and ephemera. I made this journal out of black and white pattern paper and stickers. I added pockets, tags, a few gems and a bookmark to finish this journal. Here are some pictures of the black and white journal I made:
And here is a video I made showing a flip through this journal.
I really enjoy making these journals and decided to sell this one, along with others that I made, on Etsy. If interested, you can view all the journals I have for sell in my Etsy shop at:
