Welcome to my art blog. Join me in exploring art through drawing, painting, art journaling and mixed media; Using different tools, supplies and techniques; And finding inspiration.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week has been going well. This week I have a flip through of my Smashbook Scrapbook Journal that I've created and am working on filling. I decided that I wanted a smashbook scrapbook journal with pockets and some pages with decorations, but I could not find what I wanted online, so I decided to made my own with pattern paper, mixed media paper and pockets. This journal was the inspiration for some of the journals that I've make for my Etsy shop and love that they can be used for a variety of things; For example you can use it as a smashbook like this one, as a diary, an art journal, a writing journal, a bullet journal, or whatever else you can think of. This journal I made for myself I also decorated the cover used spray inks, stencils and stamping to decorate it. Here are pictures of some of the pages from this journal.
I love having pockets to store my tickets and ephemera in.
I also made mini photo albums out of some pictures using washi tape and put them in pockets.
And here is a video showing a flip through my journal showing what I've done so far.
I really like this journal and have been having a lot of fun filling it up. If you are interested in a handmade journal similar to this one, you can visit my Etsy shop at: https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoysArt360to see all of the journals I've made.
Thank you for stopping by and watching my video. I hope you liked the video and I hope you have a great week. Until next time, Happy Creating. to see all of the journals I've made.
Hello creative friends. I hope everyone is having a good week. My week is going well. This week I have several art journal pages I created from a Craftsy class I took this weekend that was taught by Lindsay Weirich the Frugal Crafter and I have another art journal page that I created in my homemade journal. Here are the art journal pages that I created from the Craftsy class I took.
I really like the way these pages turned out and I learned a lot about watercolors from the class.
Here is the Art Journal page I created in my homemade journal. I decided to create a simple journal page using pictures of several different objects, a tea pot, a tea cup, a cupcake and flowers. After sketching the items on my page and painting them with acrylic paints, I glued a picture of a poppy journal to the page.
And here is the video showing how I created this page:
I like the way this page turned out and had fun creating it. Thank you for stopping by and hope you have a great week. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. My week has been interesting. We survived Hurricane Irma, had lots of limbs to clean up and lost power for about 18 hours, but all and all we fared better than many others and am thankful for that. If you were in the path of the Hurricane, I hope you and your family fared well also. This week I have two drawings that I created using vacation pictures from Savannah, GA while waiting out the storm and colored them with colored pencils. I also made a magazine journal inspired by Dede Willingham and created 2 art journal pages in the journal using acrylic paints and ephemera from my stash. Here are the drawings I created of Savannah, GA.
And here is the magazine journal I made and the 2 two-page spreads I created in this journal.
And here is a video showing how I created this journal and the two pages.
I enjoyed creating the drawings and want to do more. And I had fun creating the magazine journal and the two pages and look forward to working in it more in the future. Have you created a journal using magazines before? Thank you for stopping by and watching the video. Hope you have a great week. Until next time, Happy Creating.
Hello creative friends. Hope everyone is having a good week. I am having a good week myself. This week I have another art journal page using pictures I found in my stash of a cheetah, a cactus flower, which I am calling a cactus rose but not sure what kind of flower it is, and a suite case. I sketched the pictures on my journal page. I then used watercolor paints to add color to the page and then Posca paint pens to add details. Here is a picture of the art journal page I created.
And here is the video showing how I created this journal page.
I like the way this page turned out and had fun creating it. Hope you like the video and let me know if you have any questions or have an idea for an art journal page that you would like to see me create. Thank you for stopping by, until next time, Happy Creating.
