I admire artists who have a vision of their art before they start and then bring it to life. I, do things a bit differently. I often have no idea where something will go or when. This page I started so very long ago. I had the blue, then added the scrap from a heart [...]
Mixed Media
I had an odd sized scrap of paper that I just couldn’t throw away – so I glued it to an old art journal page that just never went anywhere. I had the dress on the page from who knows when. Suddenly, this scrap brought it to life for me. My tutorial on making [...]
The Summer of Color focused on orange this week and now orange is one of my good friends. I hadn’t spent much time with this friend for a very long while so I guess I am making up for it now…Creative Every Day has the theme of red for August and I just knew I [...]
The art journal pages I worked on while on vacation are souvenirs. Why? Because I added some of the beach to my pages. I started with a glob of white paint and mixed in sand. A few squirts of water – but not much because the paint is the glue that holds the sand to [...]
Do you ever feel like creating but just don’t know where to start? I did today! When I flipped through my art journal this page grabbed my attention. This page was pure joy because I had no idea where it was going – I just kept adding to it. Before I knew it my [...]
When school ended I asked my youngest for all of her school papers. She was very nervous – what would a parent want to do with all that work? Art. She had lots of papers, so I am set for quite a while. I thought all the different inks, papers, and handwriting would make a [...]
Home Depot is filled with treasures! While strolling through the aisles I found Easy Joint Tape. It looks just like punchinella only it is made from paper. Oh, how many times I have been using my Mylar punchinella and loved how the paints and inks looked on it. Now I have disposable punchinella – less [...]
You can see some of my finished journals in the last 2 posts. Start with a hardback book. Just a quick cut with an exacto knife and all the pages are out. I save the pages and use them to create new pages for the journals and other art. It’s like a giant stack of [...]
Part of the fun of this type of journal is having pages with different sizes, weights, and shapes. I cut a tag from notebook paper for this page. I stenciled on it with Tattered Angels Chalkboard ink. I wanted color, but it still needed to be light enough someone could easily write on it. A [...]
“Mom, would you make a journal for my trip to Mexico?” Gee, let me think, YES! It was a rush job to get her journal and ones for our other friends on the trip, but I got it done! I’ll put together a tutorial on the mechanics later in the week. The journals all begin [...]
