I finally took a picture of the journal I bound. I learned how by watching Rice Freeman Zachary’s video here.
I used a comp book for the cover. I removed the paper by cutting the threads. Then I folded watercolor paper into 5 signatures with 4 pages in each one. The next part is where Rice’s [...]
I spoke yesterday about the style of journal pages I create. I received some responses asking how deep writing and art can be combined on a page. The answer depends on what you want your page to look like. If you want it to be a work of art suitable for framing, maybe it isn’t [...]
I wrote on the last page of my current journal last night. The cover on it is one of my favorite’s. Writing in my journal is such an effective way for me to sort out reality from the crazy thoughts in my head. As thoughts circle around my mind, thinking only sucks me into the [...]
I added a page to my site with a gallery of a lot of my art journaling pages. I had hoped to write captions on each one explaining what I used to create the page. Well, after writing captions on over 100 images, the service I was using didn’t work on the page. So I [...]
I mentioned earlier in the month that I am participating in the National Nonstop Journaling Month. The goal was to do something, either write or create art of some kind, in my journal every day. I have gone crazy and been doing so much journaling. It has been a great month! This challenge got me [...]
These are some backgrounds I did on watercolor paper then scanned at high resolution. RIGHT click each image to download them. You can print them out and use in your journal or you can cut them up and use pieces. Feel free to use in your art.
I am just obsessed with drawing these days. I’m still not good at it, but for the first time ever, I have a belief that if I keep doing it, I will get better. Today I found a great lesson on faces at Drawspace.com. They have dozens of free lessons on everything from cartoons to [...]
In my fun journaling group today we were discussing what types of journals we prefer and how many different journals we each keep. Some of my journals are still packed away, but what I have with me you can see in this photo.
The colored ones on the left are from a time when I was [...]
I found a Junior Monopoly game at the thrift store. The board is half the size of a regular monopoly board, so I decided to cut it in half and use it as a cover for a journal. The pic above is the front cover.
Here’s the back…
I bound it with my [...]
I just read this post on Terri’s blog about the strands of potential in each of us, and how life can push that potential back into dark places.
One thing I know for certain, from my own experience, is that if we hiding part of ourselves – any part – or holding back anything, we are [...]
