Journal Page - Conviction

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is having a good week.  I am back from vacation and it was nice to seeing my daughter and see her graduate from college.  I also had time to do some art journaling, which always makes my week when I find time to be creative.  I completed this two page layout in the art journal I made.  I started out with adding papers to the background, then watercolors, some items I found in my stash and finally a sketch of a face. The inspiration for this page is a quote I found in my stash from a magazine that says "I've had to push myself - but what keeps me strong is my conviction", which is in the pink heart.  I also found another quote that I thought fit on this page "When you believe in yourself, it's amazing what can happen!".  I feel that both of these quotes are recurring themes in my life.  I do have to push myself and I do find it amazing what you can accomplish when you believe in yourself and push yourself.  Here is the page I created:

 

Here are some close-ups of the page:

 

And I made a video showing how I created this page:

Hope you enjoy the video.  I hope everyone has a great week and until next time, happy creating.



Jounrnal Page - Hope

Hello creative friends.  I'm back home from visiting my daughter in Georgia and seeing her graduate from college.  I really had a great time and am so proud of her.  Here is an art journal page that I created a while back, but have not had a chance to post it.  I was inspired by the pictures and quotes I found in my stash and the cherry blossoms that were being shown on TV in bloom at the time.  After finishing the page it reminded me of my granddaughter, because her middle name is Hope and I knew she would like this page.  The pictures were from a magazine and the quotes seemed to fit the page.  I used Gelatos, acrylic paint and StazOn inks with stamps to create the background and finish the page.  Here is the completed page:

And here are some close up pics of the page:

I also created a video on how I made this page:

I hope you enjoy the video and would love to hear what you think about my art and the video's that I have been making, so please leave me a comment. I really enjoy creating and making these videos.  Hope you have a good week.  Until next time, happy creating.

Journal Page - In God's Hands

Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is have a good week.  This week has been one of the better weeks for me lately, mainly because I am taking some time off this Friday and all next week for vacation.  I have been having some challenges for quite some time now and going through a lot of stuff, so I created this journal page to remind myself to stop worrying so much about everything and leave it in god's hands.  Here is the journal page I created:

 

And here are a couple of close-ups of the details:

 



 

 

 

This was a page that I used Gesso to attach small tags to the two page layout and wanted to do something with it.  I was not sure what I was going to do with the page, I just started adding color and then thought it would look cool with drips.  I drew a hand and then traced it onto deli paper to add to the page.  I also stamped onto deli paper other images using Staz-on ink pads and markers to color in some of the images.  When you use deli paper, once you glue it down, the deli paper disappears into the background so it looks like you stamped right onto the page.  Also, here is a video showing how I created this page.

 

 

 

Hope you enjoy the video.  I really like the way this page turned out and thought that the tags added an interesting and textured background.  What interesting materials have you used on a background to add texture?  I would love to hear about it.  Until next time, happy creating.

 



Journal Page - Be Kind

Hello creative friends.  This past weekend my granddaughter came for a visit and we had fun playing in our art journals.  We added different pattern papers to our page using thinned down gesso.  Then we stamped some texture on the background with Staz-on ink.  We added some watercolors on top and then added our stamped images and ephemera.  My images were stamped on deli paper so that once glued down it would look like it was stamped on the page.  I also added some texture to my page using cut up bandages.  Here is the journal page I created and some close up pics of the details:

 

And here is the journal page my granddaughter created and close ups pics of the details:

 

 

The quote we both used and the face on my granddaughters journal page is from a Dana Wakley stamp set that I recently bought and the ephemera is from K&Company.  As always we had a lot of fun creating our journal pages.  Until next time, happy creating.

ICAD - Grow

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is have a great week.  This week I have another ICAD I created and a video to show how I created it.  I covered an index card with Gesso and then used a set of paint markers I recently got to paint the design on the ICAD.  I added a flower embellishment and the word Grow.  I also show in the video a couple of other ICADs I created using this same technique and my paint markers.  Here is the ICAD I created:

And here is the video:

I hope you like the video and try this technique on an ICAD yourself.  Until next time happy creating.

Journal Page - Believe

Hello creative friends.  Hope everyone is doing well.  I used the remaining two birds I colored last week to create another journal page.  I have spent the last three nights trying to get my video editing program to create a video file of this page so I could post it, but I kept getting an error message half way through it being created.  But tonight finally success after the third try.  Anyway, I used Gesso with a touch of blue on the background and then used several stamps with several Stazon ink pads and markers to doodle.  I used my Dina Wakley paints again with several stencils and then finished the page using acrylic paints.  In tribute to the cherry blossoms that are in bloom, I added pink flowers to my page.  I added the birds, a quote and then highlighted everything with a Stabilo pencil and a damp paintbrush.  here is the journal page I created.

 

I like how you can see some of the stamping and doodles in the background.  After all the stamping, doodling and painting I added a layer of Gesso to help tone it all down.  Here is a video showing how I created this page.

 



I really like the way this journal page turned out.  And I had a lot fun playing around with different supplies while making this journal page.  Hope you have a great week.  Until next time, happy creating.

Journal Page - Birds Song

Hello creative friends.  I sketched several birds and then decided to create the following journal page using 3 of the birds I sketched.  I used colored pencils to color the birds and Dina Wakley paints through several different stencils for the background.  I also did some stamping on the background with bubble wrap and rubber stamps I have.  I also created a video on how I created this journal page.  Here is the journal page I created:

 

And here is the video I created of this journal page:

 



I hope you enjoy the video.  Thanks for stopping by and happy creating.  Until next time.