Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week has been going well. This week I have a video showing a couple of quick art journal pages I created in my pocket journal using ephemera from my new ephemera journal that I made. Here are pictures of the art journal pages I created in my pocket journal.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Creating in my Pocket Journal
Tuesday, October 20, 2020
Inktober, Lifebook Taster Journal Pages and Filling up my Ephemera Journal
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week and staying safe. My week is going well. This week I have some more Inktober drawings I've done, a couple of art journal pages I completed for the LifeBook Taster week and a video showing how I fill up my Ephemera Journal that I created. Here are some of the Inktober drawings that I completed this week.
I also created a couple of art journal pages from the week of LifeBook Taster sessions. Here are the art journal pages I created.
Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Book of Days, Inktober and Decorating My Ephemera Journal Cover
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week and staying safe. Me and my family are doing well. I have been busy creatively. This week I have a couple of art journal pages I completed for Book of Day, a couple of my favorite Inktober drawings I've done so far and a video showing how I fixed my Ephemera journal cover and decorated it. Here are the two journal pages I finished for Book of Days.
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
Creating an Ephemera Journal Part 1
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe. We are doing good. This week I have an ephemera journal that I created to put some of my ephemera in and use when creating journal pages and other projects. I saw one that 49Dragonflies created and was using in one of her projects, so I decided to make one for myself. I decided to use an old book for the cover and some page protectors to create my pages and pockets to put my ephemera in. The plan was to keep the book cover as is and perhaps add some ephemera to the front to decorate it. However by the time I was done creating the inside, I noticed the spine was splitting so I ended up having to completely redo the outside of the cover as well to fix the spine an decorate it. The video was so long that I had to split it into 2 parts. The first part is showing how I created the inside and the pages, part 2 is how I fixed the cover and decorated it and then I also created a part 3 showing how I filled it up and the types of things I included in mine. Here is a picture of the complete journal filled up with ephemera.
And here is part 1 of the video showing how I created the pages, decorated the inside and bound the pages into the journal.I am really happy with my ephemera journal and know I will get a lot of use out of it. I now have one place where I can go to for a variety of ephemera to use in my projects. If interested the video that I saw from 49Dragonflies is located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpdwMsMHJI Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. Please let me know if you have any questions. Until next time, happy creating.
Tuesday, September 29, 2020
I am Grateful for Smiles from Strangers Art Journal Page
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is doing well. I've been doing good and looking forward to taking some time off of work this week. Here is an art journal page that I created for the Dina Wakley Year of Gratitude. This is for the August challenge "I am grateful for smiles from strangers". So I'm getting caught up on these. Here are pictures of the journal page I created for this challenge.
Tuesday, September 22, 2020
I am Grateful for Reflection Art Journal Page
Hello creative friends. I hope you and your family are doing well and staying safe. Me and mine are doing good. This week I have an art journal page I created for the Dina Wakley Year of Gratitude Challenge and the prompt for September is "I am grateful for reflection". Here is pics of the art journal page I created for this challenge.
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
Inktober ArtSnacks Unboxing and Book of Days Pages
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is staying safe and surviving in such an unpredictable world. I've been doing ok. Getting stir crazy being at home for so long. Going on six months of working from home and very grateful that I am able to and am still working. This year has been a challenge for me to get motivated to do much creating, but I am planning to participate in Inktober this year again and hoping to be able to do it all month. I ordered the Inktober ArtSnack box again this year and then after found out about the plagiarism accusations. I watched the video from the accuser and some of the points he makes seem very compelling. I guess we will have to wait and see what the courts say about it all. Because of all of this I was reluctant to do an unboxing video, but decided to anyway, not to promote it, but so people can see what came in the box. Again this year they did not tell you what was in the box, however if I had known what was in it, I'm not sure I would have bought it. Anyway, if you are interested here is the video showing the unboxing of the Inktober ArtSnacks box.