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Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good weekend. Mine is going well. As mentioned in my last post, this weekend is the Creative Arts Collaboration group's March 2016 event #CACFantasyArt. I have not done a lot of fantasy art before, but had a lot of fun doing this art journal page. So much so I plan to do more fantasy art like this. Here are pictures of the journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this page.
If you are interested in seeing other artists videos created for this event, search #CACFantasyArt on YouTube to see all the other videos. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a great week. Mine is going well. This past weekend I was busy creating art journal pages. I created an art journal page for the Creative Arts Collaboration groups March 2016 event #CACFantasyArt. I was going to post it tonight, but then realized that we are not suppose to post it yet. So I will be posting that video this weekend and if you are interested you can search #CACFantasyArt on YouTube this weekend to see all the videos that will be posted for this event. The video I'm posted today is a page that I created using paint, book pages, junk mail, tissue paper and ephemera. After gluing down a piece of junk mail, coving with book page, paint and tissue paper to create the background, I looked through my stash and I found the phrase "Let it Go" and thought it was perfect for this page. I found other phases, quotes and pictures to go along with the page to finish it. here are pictures of the page:
And here is the video showing how I created this page:
I hope you join us this weekend for the Creative Arts Collaboration groups March 2016 event #CACFantasyArt event. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time Happy Creating.
Hello Creative Friends. Hope everyone is have a great week. Mine is going well. Recently I saw a video from Mike Deakin on the March Mission Inspiration challenge, so I decided to take the challenge and create an art journal page this weekend going through the steps. It was a challenge, but a lot of fun. I put more on this art journal page than I typically put on an art journal page, but I really like the way it turned out. Here is the art journal page that I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this art journal page:
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a great week. Mine is going well. This week I have a lot to share. First is an art journal page that I was originally creating for the Creative Collaboration groups #LoveSpringArt event, but was unable to get it completed and the video ready to upload in time for the event. Anyhow, this journal page I created using strips and pieces of pattern paper, gel pens and colored pencils. Here are pictures of the journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how this journal page was created.
Next, I went to my mom's house this past weekend and we all made journals. My mom, sister, granddaughter and niece were there and I showed them how to make their own journals. We had a lot of fun creating these journals. Here are pictures of the journals we created.
My journal
My Mom' Journal
My Sister's Journal
My Niece's Journal
My Granddaughter's Journal
Not sure why my granddaughter made a wedding journal, because she is 13 and we don't know anyone who is getting married, but that is what she wanted to make and it turned out really cute.
Finally, for my upcoming birthday my wonderful husband put up shelves in my craft room so that I would have more room and be able to get more organized. Here are pics of the before and after.
Before Scrapbooking/Painting Area
After Scrapbooking Area
After Journal Making/Panting Area
Before Art Journaling/Sewing Area
After Art Journaling/Sewing Area
Before Art Journaling Desk
After Art Journaling Desk
I had a lot of fun making the art journal page and making journals with my family. And I am so excited about my craft room overhaul and can't wait to start creating in it. It is so much more organized and inspirational. I have so much room now to work. Before it was so dark, cluttered and not very inspiring. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope your week is going well, mine is going good. This past weekend I completed a journal page and was hoping to have it ready to post for the Creative Arts Collaboration group and event this past weekend for #LoveSpringArt, but was not able to get it completed and edited in time. I also was not able to get it ready to post today, however I was able to get another video ready to share on a junk journal that I created the weekend before last. I saw a video that Shannon Green posted on YouTube showing a junk journal that she created and it inspired me to create one myself using junk mail, advertising, cards, envelopes, packaging and scrap paper that I have been collecting. I figured this would be a good way to repurpose and recycle all of this stuff I have been saving and put it to good use. I can use it to play around with paints, markers and other products and supplies; And experiment with new techniques and ideas. This video shows a flip through the journal I created, but does not show how I put it together. Shannon's video is the best I have seen on YouTube showing how to create and bind a junk mail journal and can be found here if interested in seeing how she put hers together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxjsW0-4b7M
Here is the video I created showing the flip through the journal I created:
I will be getting the video of the journal page I created this past weekend edited and post by next Tuesday. Hope you try putting together your own junk journal. Thank you for stopping by. Until next time, happy creating.
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.
