Heat Embossing and Collage over Paper Towel Background

After the success of my last quick art journal page, I decided to have another play with my scraps and create another double page spread in my Moleskine journal.  It is the first journal that I bought and the last one that I actually started using, due to my nervousness and the fact it was expensive in comparison to all the rest.  These days I don't think about that, I just grab the nearest suitable journal and use it.  All stamps and stencils used are from Claritystamp.

Playing with White Space: A Speedy Art Journal Page

I decided to play in my Moleskine art journal.  No prompt, no particular aim in mind other than thinking about white space as part of the page.  I have a tendency to cover the whole of a page when I art journal, but I know this is not needed every time.  I also wanted to use up some bits and make the page quickly.  This came together in 30 minutes.

Wanderlust Week 4: Poem and Hand

These pages were created in response to Kasia's Lesson in Wanderlust 2018 (Lesson 4).  I wasn't too sure when I started these pages how things would turn out.  I watched Kasia's videos twice before I started.  However, when I stopped thinking and planning too much and just added information as it occurred to me, everything came together beautifully and I really enjoyed the process.  I worked in my Moleskine journal which I finally started using for Wanderlust this year.

Step by steps have been removed in line with Wanderlust guidelines.  Here are close ups of the finished pages.

Wanderlust 2018: Peacock Mandala

I completed this page for Lesson 3 of Wanderlust 2018 with guest teacher Jennifer Lee.  She actually created two pieces, but I decided to put my own spin on her mandala project.  Although Jennifer worked on a wood panel, I decided to risk working in my journal.  Despite the layers, the pages remained remarkably flat.

WOYWW 451: Hurry Up and Craft!

I can't believe the week has gone by so quickly.  I wrote this post on Tuesday afternoon as I will just about have time to publish and share the link today before carrying on with my reports.  I have 107 comments to finish writing before heading into school for a twilight training session (it never rains but it pours).  So, many apologies, but I doubt that I will get to visit many of your desks until the weekend.  Please do visit our hostess Julia at the Stamping Ground to see what is on offer on other desks around the world!  I have had to come up with some quick projects in the last week so as not to miss my daily blog post.

My side of the desk shows the start of the only longer project that I have completed this week (for lesson 3 of Wanderlust 2018) which I will share tomorrow if anyone wants to pop back and see the finished piece.  I was just starting to create the background in my Moleskine journal which is the one I am finally using for Wanderlust 2018.  The tag was a very quick project completed after school on Monday night for sharing yesterday (see HERE).  I was rather tired, so didn't want to spend too long on the project.

On the other side of the desk you can see the finished pieces that Eva started working on last week.  She was continuing with some Groovi projects (parchment) yesterday that she also started last week and left with me for safekeeping.  Have a great week everyone, hopefully things will be calmer by the weekend and I'll have a little more time to visit.

Journal Page: My Craft Journey

My creative word for 2018 is dare and this is the first year that I have dared to follow an art/journaling course.  I signed up for Wanderlust 2018 on the last day of 2017.  This page was created in response to lesson 1 of Wanderlust 2018 and is the first time that I have produced an entire art journal page which is completely hand drawn, hand written and hand coloured.  In addition, I decided to finally start working in the expensive Moleskine journal which I bought nearly two years ago and was still unused (although I hadn't had any problem using much cheaper journals).  So far, I feel that I am living up to my creative resolution for this year.

My Art Journaling Journey... so far.

As I seem to have shared so many of my art journal pages recently, I thought it was time to discuss what can be used as an art journal.  The simple answer is... anything can be used for art journaling; from diaries and cheap notebooks, to expensive products created with art journaling and mixed media in mind. In this post, I am not going to look into ways of creating your own art journal, as there are so many methods.  For example, you can make individual pages from card or paper with grunge board as a cover and hold everything together with book rings.  You can even use heavy weight acetate or acrylic to make pages.  The creation of junk journals from old books, where the insides can be removed and replaced with home made signatures is a whole new post, and there are many more experts with experience in this area than me.