Saturday, February 8, 2014

Art Journaling

I've been working a lot in my art journal lately and wanted to share some finished entries.  I love the idea of an art journal and strongly believe every creative person should have one. This is the place where I play with new techniques and different color combinations, or try a new products, without the pressure of a canvas or scrapbook page. I have at least 2 art journals going at the same time because many times I have extra paint that I don't want to waste, or stencils that I clean off on one journal while working in another journal.  I've worked in Strathmore Mixed Media spiral bound journals but more recently love working in the Ranger Dylusions journal.   Ok, enough jibber jabber!  


Strathmore journal cover that I altered.




My altered Dylusions journal cover.  I highly recommend this journal since the pages lay flat giving me a larger area to work with since it is not spiral. Sometimes I tape the middle to keep the paint from seeping through to the other pages.  You can buy them here:

                        
 

I used my January Stencil Club peacock stencils to create these pages in my Strathmore journal.  Such beautiful stencils!! Here is a link for more info on Stencil Girl art stencils.  http://www.stencilgirlproducts.com/Default.asp



Below I used a The Crafter's Workshop arrow stencil.  

Ride

The bicycles are napkins that I glued to the painted background using  matte medium. Then used molding paste with the arrow stencil and glazed over the whole thing with Cobalt Teal Golden paint.


I started with a very colorful background and used a gate stamp and Dylusions vine stamps.  LOVE how this one turned out!


Used the December (I think) Stencil Girl stencils to record our freezing weather we had a few weeks ago.  It was below 10 degrees and our heat stopped working in the middle of the night!!! We had it working by the next day but I froze my tail off!!!   Record lows for South Carolina!

So, what do you think?  Let me know below.........




  

15 comments:

  1. Wow! You are on a roll, Kathy!
    Love the rich layers of colors and patterns! Beautiful!

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  2. These are all very inspiring! It was nice that they span the two different types of journals so we can see what you meant about the spiral versus the sewn. Thanks for sharing these beautiful pieces.

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  3. Lovely journaling, something I don't do but I like the freedom of experiment and exploration . I really like the gate with the vines, reminds me of the Secret Garden.

    Annabelle : )

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  4. Great pages in your journal. Love all the colors and textures! Thanks so much for playing along with us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  5. Love the pages! Thanks for sharing with us at http://gloriadesignschallenge.blogspot.com

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  6. I am always in awe of you art journal gals! This is awesome! Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous for our very first challenge!

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  7. Your art journal cover is so beautiful! Fun to see you playing with different techniques, and I liked reading your thought process, too. Thanks for playing along in the very first Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge!

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  8. Amazing work! You've definitely mastered this technique! Thanks for sharing your style at Craft Hoarders Anonymous.

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  9. love all of the stencil work!!! Thanks so much for sharing with us at Craft Hoarders!!

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  10. Wow, these are glorious! Thanks for playing along at Craft Hoarders Anonymous!

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  11. Love art journaling but I fail at it miserably...I have one page done...lol, Love yours so inspiring....Thanks for joining us at Craft Hoarders Anonymous for our very first challenge!

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  12. Very pretty journal! I'm so excited that you joined us for the launch of Craft Hoarders Anonymous Challenge Blog. I hope you come to play often! Ginny from Polly's Paper : )

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  13. Wow these are wonderful pages.
    Nicole/Beadwright

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