Weekend School Project & Art Journal Pages

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.



Journal - Faux Old Wood Journal

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:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoysArt360
 

Thank you for stopping  by and hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.  Until next time, happy creating.

Journal - Coffee Journal

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:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoysArt360
 

Thank you for stopping  by.  Until next time, happy creating.

Journal - Black and White

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:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoysArt360
 

Thank you for stopping  by.  Until next time, happy creating.

Journal - Faux Leather

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 Tim Holtz ephemera.  I used a faux leather print pattern paper for the cover and then used Staz-on ink to ink the edges.  Here is the journal that I made and some of the pages showing pockets, tags and a bookmark.

And here is a video showing a flick through this journal if you would like to see more:

I have been having a lot of fun making journals lately and am thinking about selling this journal, along with several others, on Etsy.  Hope you try making your own journal sometime. 

You can see a video on how to make a basic journal here:

https://youtu.be/bGldmY_9Zek

Until next time, happy creating.

Journal - Purple Butterflies and Birds

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is having a good week.  This week I have a flip of a journal that I made recently during a work retreat, while teaching other co-workers how to create their own journal.  We made the journals out of cereal boxes, pattern paper, card stock and stickers.  After making the basic journal at work, I brought it home and added pockets, tags and other decorations using stamping and other stickers.  Here is the journal that I made.

And here are the journals that co-workers created.

And here is a video I made showing a flip through the journal I made:

We all had a lot of fun making our journals.  In my previous post I show you how to make a basic journal and I save all the scraps, from making the journal, to add pockets and tags.  I ended up donating this journal back to work for a raffle that they will be having to raise money for a local charity.  I hope you try making your own journal sometime, they are fun to make and can be used for any purpose - diary, notes, smash book or art journal.  Until next time, happy creating.

Creating a Basic Journal

Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a great week.  This week I have a basic journal that I created and a video showing how I created it. I created this journal to see if I could make the basic journal, cover and signatures (pages), within a couple of hours for a work project.  Turns out, I could.  I saved the scraps from making the journal and used them to add pockets and tags to it afterwards.  Turns out the decorating part is what take the most time. I also make another journal at the same time, using different pattern paper, which I do not show in the video.  It was made using the same process, just different paper.  I took both journals to work to show my boss and one of my co-workers bought the first one, which is the one in the video.  I didn't take any pictures of this journal before taking it to work, so I only have this one picture that I created from the video to show you.

Here are pictures of the other journal that I made at the same time using different pattern paper and used my scraps to add pockets and tags to it along with some other ephemera from Tim Holtz.

 

And here is the video showing how I created the basic journal.



 

I have been having so much fun making these journals and am thinking about make a couple of more to put on eBay and/or Etsy. We did end up making journals at work, which I will post pictures of the one I made next week, and it was a lot of fun.  I hope you enjoy the video and hope you try making your own journal.  Until next time, happy creating.

Antique Journal

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is having a good week.  This week I have a video of an antique journal that I created.  I wanted to make a journal that I could use to record my thoughts, lists and my day.  But I also wanted a journal that had decorations and images in it, instead of being just a plan journal.  I also wanted to give the journal an antique look, so I coffee stained the pages.  Then I used paint, stamps and ephemera to create the cover and the journal pages.  Here are a couple of pictures of the journal that I created.

 

And here is a video I made showing how I created this journal along with a quick flip through the journal.

 



 

I really like the way this journal came out, so much so that now I am not sure I want to write in it.  And I had so much fun making this journal, I have made several others since.  I hope you enjoy the video and I hope you try making your own journal.  Thank you for stopping by.  Until next time, happy creating.

Journal Page - The Birds are Watching and Happiness

Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is having a great week.  This weekend my granddaughter came for a visit, and it was her birthday, so we hung out and did some art journaling.  I have been having all kinds of fun with using junk mail on my journal pages lately, so I thought my granddaughter would like to do that too.  We glued down a tri-fold piece of junk mail on our journal pages and then paint, stamped and decorated them with pictures from magazines.  Here are pictures of the journal page I created:

This is the front:

 This is on the inside flap:

 And this is what the inside looks like:

And here is pictures of the art journal page my granddaughter created:

This is the front:

This is what is on the inside flap:

And this is what the inside looks like:

Have you used junk mail on your journal pages before?  I think it makes the journal pages more interesting and interactive.  Thank you for stopping by.  Until next time, happy creating.