Find out how to avoid the 7 most common mistakes in your art journal page so you'll always create amazing pages

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I brought out the stamps today! I got some new ones and wanted to try them out. Oh boy, do I have lots of ideas for the future.

Hello, Voici une nouvelle page d'Art Journal. Je me suis inspirée de la vidéo de Marta sur le blog de Lindy's Stamp Gang Très bonne journée. Sandrine VACHON

Toni Burt online gallery of artworks, watercolour, oil paintings, mixed media art, soft pastels, landscapes, animals, nudes, florals, girls.

Welcome to my Journal Share video today where I am making an abstract "Moon" themed page in my A5 Art Journal. This size is definitley one of my favourites to work in but that doesn't stop me from buying others of course!

Bonjour, Je vous présente une nouvelle page d'art journal. Je l'ai voulue très colorée pour coller au thème de l'arc-en-ciel que j'ai l'honneur de proposer ce mois-ci sur le Coffee Scrap. A bientôt,

Hello friends! I hope your weekend was a good one. In Sweden, we celebrated the coming of spring yesterday, in a celebration called Walpurg...

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Hi, friends! Today I'm here with a new Art Journal Spread using Lindy's products. It's very easy to do but vibrant in colors, shiny and effective. I love

Hello my dear friends ! Today I am sharing few of my recent journal pages One is for Kawa i Nozyczki challenge blog. March This month subject was: 'my space', here is my journal page with my little world. Here is two other pages, enjoy ! Love, Marta xx

Vos créations de mai m'ont inspiré le thème du végétal. Alors l'appel de juin portera sur les formes et les lignes végétales. Je vous propose le végétal sans obligation de réalisme. Il s'agit seulement de présenter les lignes ou des formes végétales dans votre projet. Utiliser des outils maisons, des pochoirs, des encres ou de l'aquarelle le spectre des possibilités est large. Trève de mots voyons à quoi ça peut ressembler. Eva Isaksen Gilles Jaques Hannah Woodman Françoise Bouchet-Doumeng Jennifer Mercede Laura Hunt Art Nouveau Art Nouveau William Morris William Morris William Morris Laura Horn Via Pinterest Via Pinterest (écorce d'eucalyptus) Eva Isaksen Via Pinterest Karina Dumont et Nancy Gagnon Karen Kamenetzky Via PaperArtsy Joan Mitchell ThaliaArt Gilles Jaques David Owen Hastings Via Pinterest Betty Frank Rina Patel Art Romany Soup Via Beyond the human eye Via Pinterest Photo part Kew Via Pinterest Sonia Hunt Clair Bremmer Jane LaFazio Via Pinterest Art Nouveau Via feelinblueblog Angelo Franco Outils fait main Eva Isasen Bonne vacances en art ! Élaboré par: Suzanne Bouchard www.lamaisondeplume.blogspot.ca

My latest online class Magazine Makeover is in full swing and I thought I would share a little preview of my art journal that is dedicated to only working over magazines. This process is such a fun way to play and practice using pattern, space, color and contrast! Just a couple more days left to get in on the sale price for this this class and all my online classes! Link in profile

Spicy up your planner with these bullet journal dutch door ideas! The blog post is organized by cover pages, monthly spreads, weekly spreads, and habit trackers.

I spent A LOT of time sketching but I probably spend just as much time working in an art journal. For me there is really a fine line bet...

These illustrations are from Lucy Crane’s 1886 English translation of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, illustrated by her brother, Walter Crane. More pictures below.

Hi there! I recently got the Dina Wakley Media Journal and I love it! It's so much fun to play on the various backgrounds. I used the Rubber Dance Round in Circles and Alphabet Uno stamp sets. Here is my first spread. Scroll down for the video: Enjoy the Video: Thanks for stopping by! xx Susanne Supplies: Rubber Dance Stamps: Others: Gesso Neocolor II Crayons Stencil from STAMPlorations Lascaux Fineliner

Hello friends! I hope your weekend was a good one. In Sweden, we celebrated the coming of spring yesterday, in a celebration called Walpurg...

100 Art Journal Prompts and Journaling Ideas to inspire your creativity in your art journals, journaling and creative journals. Use them however you like for art, painting, watercolour, journal prompts or photos for memory keeping. #artjournalprompts #100

Hello Shimmerz friends, today I would like to share a journal spread with you, using soft water colour effects. I have a few step by step photos to take you through my process, but first of all, these are the products I used: Coloringz in Heidi Ho Blue, Oh Say Can You Sea and Night Moves Spritz in Rock-A-Fella-Blue Shimmerz in Jilted Jade Dazzlerz in Spun Sugar Textures in Tidy Widy When I started, I really did not know where this was going, I just knew I wanted to play in my altered book journal. I picked a few colours in blue and soft green tones, as I wanted to create something dreamy and soft. I added a thin coat of gesso all over the double page, added a circle mask created with a circular die and then gave it a few spritzes with my chosen colours and dabbed off some excess with a scrunched up bit of kitchen roll for some texture effects. This is what it looked like after I removed the mask, - bingo, a moon landscape with some trees perhaps? I deepened the colour in places with the Jilted Jade Shimmerz paint and added some "snowy" texture to the bottom half with my Texturez using my fingers. Here you can see how the trees started to appear pretty much by themselves, all I needed to do was to dig out some tree stamps (Tim Holtz) and stamp them here and there in different colour inks to bring them out a bit more. The white trees in the foreground were stamped using the Spun Sugar Dazzlers. You can stamp really well with this paint, specially on stamps that are not too detailed. Here is the other side, before and after stamping: I was not too happy with the dark blob at the bottom, so covered that with some more white trees. I love the depth you can create by just stamping in different colours. The word Dream was done with the help of a stencil. I masked the whole area around it with sticky notes and then spritzt with the Night Moves spray. As you can see, it leaked a bit, so I dabbed it dry and then stencilled over it again with black archival ink. Well, that's it for today. I had great fun playing in my journal, just the best way to relax during this busy and stressful time of year and Shimmerz paints and sprays are just perfect for journaling! Thanks for your visit today like always, your comments are very much appreciated! Before you leave, don't forget, you can order Shimmerz products directly from the Shimmerz Paints Store. If you do, mention my name (Astrid Maclean) in the «Instruction to Merchant/seller» part of your order form (just below your name and address). After clicking «add», you'll get a FREE product in the color of your choice. And for people from outside the US, Shimmerz do a really good deal on postage! As this is my last post before the big day, I want to wish you all the most wonderful holiday season and all the very best for 2016 when it comes!!!

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These art journal prompts will inspire you to make art even if you're stuck without ideas. Use them for inspiration and make creative art journal pages.

Hey everyone. I hope you are all well. So I have really been experimenting with mixed media these days and am really loving art journalling. It had always appealed to me in the past, but it looked way too complicated and I found it intimidating to even start. But then, one day a couple of months ago I just went for it. I bought a cheap A5 art journal from The Scrapbook Store and a couple of colours and mists and decided to go for it. I think the most overwhelming part of the mixed media and art journalling world is the abundance of products that is out there. You just do not know what ALL those colour mediums do or how to use them correctly and you really do not want to experiment too much with products that cost quite a bit right? I have found it all too much, I will be honest. So what is the answer? First of all, I gave myself permission (yeah!) to accept the fact that all this art journalling business does NOT need to look like every one else's! No, it doesn't! Your art journal is just like the diary you wrote in high school.. they all look the same on the outside but the writing on the inside was yours, and it was personal and only you could write it that way. Right? Same with art journalling.. sure there is a whole heap of technique that you could put into it but you know, this is only my 3rd page EVER and I am sure there are a million other ways it could have been done but this is what i chose to do and THAT IS OK! I am learning and experimenting too so every new page is a new possibility. I guess what I am trying to say is that there is no right or wrong way to go about it. Ok you trial stuff, you might waste a bit of money here or there and you might not like some things you make but why not just give it a go and see where it leads? For me.. I am hooked! I like the no rules type of thing...being the closet rebel I am LOL! But anyway, if you can afford to buy some basics like gel mediums, gesso, some acrylic paints and other colour mediums then do so. But them in small bottles to start with just to see what you like.. You do not want to spend $50 on a 1L gel medium that doesn't work for you! Maybe buy a little at a time but while you are building up your stash why not use what you already have? In today's post I am showing you how to use things you probably have at home. I hope so anyway.. Here is my art journal page "Me" My journalling got a bit heavy.. so I left it private in the next page! I will show you some close ups before I show you some steps on how I put this together Now here are some ideas on building up your art journal page. You really need to forgive the light and colour in these images. I have 3 children, one of which is 4 months old and I can only do this at night LOL! How does that look? Not too hard? I hope you give it a go :) Thanks so much for dropping by today ! Materials List Paper GCD Studios Donna Salazar Designs Natural Beauty collection GCD Studios Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Stax2 Dictionary paper Alphas GCD Studios Donna Salazar Chipboard Alphas - Fun & Funky Ink Clearsnap Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx Chiffon Mist Clearsnap Donna Salazar Smooch Spritz Mixed Berries Other Fluid gesso, matte gel medium, black paint, black calligraphy pen, 2" circle punch, 1" square punch Find me here...

Un nouveau journal, je vais dans celui-ci expérimenter encore plusieurs autres techniques tout en laissant libre cour a ma créativité. Pour cette page, j'ai commencé par coller des retailles étroites de papier à carte 110 lb avec du Medium Mat de Liquitex. Avec mes encres Distress j'ai déposé de la couleur sur les bandes de papier avec des doigts éponges ( Dabber), quelques coup d'encre en vaporisateur et suivis des pochoirs avec lesquel j'ai ajouté de la texture et de la couleur. Ensuite les étampes m'ont servis pour ajouter du script et quelques sceaux de poste. Ma citation a été ajoutée et encrée et ensuite les fleurs, en étampes et de papier et la fil noir ont été ajoutés. Finalement des traits de crayon Uni-Ball blanc et Faber Castell noir ont ajoutés la dimension a mes motifs. Produits utilisés: TM80 TM88 85.0011 24.015.E 95.017 07.601 Carole

Vandaag wil ik jullie weer een creatie laten zien die ik een tijdje terug al gemaakt heb maar nog niet op mijn blog heb laten zien. Dit keer is het weer een pagina geworden voor in mijn Art Journal. Ik heb de kleine van Art by Marlene, dit is echt een fijn formaat om op te werken. Als eerste ben ik begonnen om de achtergrond op kleur te brengen met de Distress Oxide Sprays. Ik heb hiervoor de kleuren Fossilized Amber, Cracked Pistachio en Mermaid Lagoon gebruikt. Nadat de achtergrond op kleur was heb ik er wat Rice Paper van Stamperia overheen geplakt, dit werkt zo leuk. Dit heb ik met de Hardsealer van Joy! Crafts opgeplakt. Daarna heb ik met diverse mask stencils nog patronen aangebracht op de achtergrond. Ik heb dit o.a. gedaan door met een mask stencil en de Fossilized Amber Distress Oxide inkt te werken, maar ook heb ik nog gewerkt met witte structuurpasta van Dutch Doobadoo. En zie je die gave mask stencils van Finnabair die ik ook gebruikt heb? Bij deze mask stencils heb ik de Icing Paste van Finnabair gebruikt. Dit is ook een dikkere "pasta" die je met een spatel aan kunt brengen. Dit laat je aan de lucht drogen of voorzichtig met je heattool. Ik heb de kleuren Lucky Emerald en Mystic Turquoise door elkaar gebruikt, je kunt ze prima mengen met elkaar. Ze geven echt zo'n toffe glans aan je project. Als finishing touch heb ik nog met een mask stencil en wat zwarte gesso wat accenten aangebracht. Onder deze blogpost zal ik de verschillende producten even laten zien, een plaatje van de producten werkt makkelijker dan dat ik alles ga omschrijven ;-) Voor de tekst heb ik het stickerboekje van Art by Marlene gebruikt. Hier heb ik een toepasselijke tekst uit gezocht en deze op kleur gebracht met wat potloden. Ik hoop dat ik jullie met deze creatie weer wat inspiratie kan geven. Ik wil jullie allemaal weer ontzettend bedanken voor jullie bezoekje en de lieve reacties die jullie steeds achterlaten. Alle gebruikte materialen zijn te bestellen bij www.hobbyvision.nl. Indien je op het plaatje klikt kom je gelijk op de juiste pagina in de webwinkel.