I registered for Mary Green's Vintage Gluebook page Swap last month, even though I was not positive I could do it ...this swap sounded so good, I just could not resist signing up.
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I was taking photos of my completed mail art postcard swap for my creative swaps blog when I realized here was another "stack" of paper.
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I’ve worked in lots of altered books, art journals, and collaborative journals full of paper and more, so I couldn’t resist his challenge to upload a photo (or 2 or 3 or 4) to my own blog today…
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For me, doing art, creating something, helps to calm and center me. It also allows me to work out my feelings in a different way…
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I am doing with Sharon Borsavage of Livewire Jewelry. We started our collaboration almost 2 years ago and have been working in each other's altered books without any deadlines.
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Well, I did it! I finally signed up online for the Sketchbook Project 2012. My materials came in the mail…
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I decided to remember that afternoon in my art journal and I thought image transfers of a couple of these photos would be fun. Instead of doing the transfers directly in my journal, I did them on separate pieces of paper to insert in my journal…
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we have a theme for our August ATCs of "I am . . . " The idea is that the participants will fill in the blank after "I am" and we will get to know each other better.
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Julie Balzer, who is organizing Art Journal Every Day, published a post last week which I so loved. Reading it helped me to not fret about stepping back and taking time away from art journaling every day…
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I was using watercolor crayons at the time and never could throw out scrap paper because I liked the colors so much. I saw it and thought I would simply add it to my art journal and keep it forever!
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{ art journal July 18 + 19 } playing with water color crayons
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Yes, this card was going on a journey, to the Baltic Sea!
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This exchange is organized on my creative swaps blog and joins a colorful July ATC swap and a “summer day” themed Postcard mail art swap.
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Only one more spread left in my 'stuffed to the gills' moleskine hard cover journal that I have been using for my art journal everyday project since May 1st.
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Yes, it has been a while since I have shared an art journal spread! This spread took its sweet time, probably because it ended up being about something sweet . . . my husband and I are celebrating our wedding anniversary this Saturday, our 6th one…
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Can't help it, I am hooked now. I worked on my latest spread of pages…
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This is a fantastic class, I enjoyed it so much. It really inspired me to produce a lot of art . . . let me share my favorite pages created in Mary's class with just paper..
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One of my journal pages I worked on the past couple of days. I got the idea to use tissue paper…
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I finished this spread in my journal yesterday after Joy left, but it was too late and I was too tired to post it. After a good night sleep, a scan and some resizing of photos, here's how I finished my watercolor crayon background spread…
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I decided to do a strip paper background in my art journal today. I originally learned this technique from Mary Green of Green Paper in one of her online classes.
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