Art Journal Creative Hobbies 11

When you do a step by step for a tutorial, you take a lot of photos!

Here are a few more photographs of the Art Journal that I made for the magazine.

Here are most of the supplies that I used.

For all the pages of the Journal I used a 200 gsm

mixed media pad. This paper can take the punch!

You ink, stencil stamp and emboss.

The ink process is wet and you do both sides of the paper,
so you need a good quality paper.

Anything can also be added to your Journal.

Envelopes, craft paper dividers and scrap pieces of papers,

Have a look at Issue 11 for more info on this project.

Art Supplies for Art Journaling Class

Art Journaling is a way to express yourself....without

any criticism.

There are no deadlines, there are no rules.

You can use what you want 

and create what you want.

These are my absolute basics. 

A4 Heavy duty mixed media pad

Micron pens

Glue

Aqaurelle pencils

Water colour paints.

If you feel like creating, writing, doodling, drawing, scribbling,

painting, stenciling, texturing, gluing, spraying, stitching,

cutting and playing..... you are invited! 

We will start off with one class a month. 

One for the girls who can make it on a Thursday

and one for the girls that can make it on a Saturday. 

Here are the dates:

Thursdays: 

18 June

16 July

20 August 

17 September

15 October

19 November
all classes 09:00 - 12:00

Saturdays:

 20 June

18 July

 22 August

19 September

17 October

21 November
all classes 10:00 - 13:00

I will teach you the basics:

Where to get inspiration

how to create a background

how to use the different products

and a new technique each month

The aim of the class is to learn how to be comfortable to create

and find your own style.

( if you don't have a style yet, don't worry!

if you miss a class, don't worry !)

 Available for class use:

stencils
stamps

die cuts and machines

embossing folders

punches

and all the other non consumables

You need two things to start with:

A4 mixed media paper pad (photo)

Micron pen. 0.4

Reply by e-mailing me.

I hope you all look forward to start expressing
yourself on paper!

Small Art Journal

For this small art journal, these are the products I used.

Not on the photograph is a small water mister and the Glimmer Mists.

The paper I chose to work on was 200gsm Water Colour Paper.

Add some scrapbook paper and card stock and you are all set.

These two pages was coloured by using the distress inks.

Here I used the Distress paint to colour the paper. Then a mask

and some glimmer mist to create the pattern.

 

Colour the paper with Distress stains.

For the next layer use stencils and Distress inks.

Apply the Distress inks with an applicator tool. 

Colour the paper with Distress stains and use 

some stickles on the heart.

Colour the stamped image with the Distress markers and the water pen.

I used the inked up stencil, sprayed it with a little water 

and placed it face down on the paper to get this effect.

Doodle around the edges and create your own patterns

by working with the paint splatters that you have on the paper.

Here again I "go with the flow" with my Doodling.

On the last page, I created a few simple Doodling patterns. 

Stick the piece of paper down and use it as a reference.

Art Journal Cover

Fly!

This is the cover of the art journal.

I found the letters for the cover in my stash. 

I made them years ago for another project 

and never used them. The colours and the theme matched, 

so.... I  used the word!

For the cover I used:

chip board

gesso

paint

tissue paper

gel medium

stamps

distress markers

grunge board elements

rub ons

 I finished the journal by binding it with my Zutter.

The colours of the cover are happy colours.

That was what my intention was with this journal.

A bit of colour therapy.

It is like a pair of new shoes, you need to look at them.

This is half the pleasure!

So I displayed the journal in my studio so I can look at it.

Have a good weekend.