Sharing my little handmade art journal and a few starting journal pages

Good Sunday morning,

I'm back with my camera, and showing off my new art journal.  There are no rules in your art journal.  It's your art, your feelings, whatever pleases just YOU.

Another site to see about art journaling is here:
http://tangiebaxter.com/news/category/art-journal-caravan/

In this first picture, I played around with my heart cutter. 

I also added a cute  little flower from some paper purchased at Michael's.  I had it around for several years, and had not used it yet.  I added a little gem to it.  The flower is from the same paper I used to cover my journal. 

The little Christmas tree shape is a triangle from a dollie.  It stamped it with paints to look like a little Christmas tree, and I used some of these as decorations on my Christmas packages this year.

There are 2 sculpey items, a heart that I love and hadn't used, and one of the little owls from about five that I made.

The little blue bird at the top is some of my digital art, that I printed, cut out, and added to my art page.

It's fun to flip through the pages and see what I've created!

Here's another art journal page.  It has no title or words, but is just some digital art flowers that were printed on photo paper earlier this year.  I added gems to add a little bling.  The left side design, other than another flower, is black on white paper, and I just started cutting out shapes and putting them together.  The 2 dots are from 2 different sizes of sticky dots.

Here is a poor picture of my little box, laying down and facing up.

Another picture of my handmade little book standing up and flinging it's pages open. The paper on the insides of the covers are pink; the same color you see in the spine below.

And here is the last picture of my little art journal.  As I said, it is completely handmade.  It has a fair amount of pages inside.

I will have to scrap most of them flat, but I couldn't help putting dimension inside it too.  When it is finished, I'll attach a ribbon to connect to the front and back, so it will tie loosely shut.  I'll place it on my black table by the stairway.  I think it will beg to be opened and viewed.

Have a really terrific Sunday.

I'll try to get up another post of some pngs for you to enjoy.

Cj

An Extra Sunday Post: Journaling in 2013

Another good Sunday morning,

The above is a journal page, MY journal page, that I created this morning, for the coming new year.  I don't know about you, but I like to journal.

In fact, I started a journal blog several years ago, but couldn't keep up with it.  Instead, I thought I'd start my own private journal again this next year.

As we grow older ... and I am, it would be fun to leave behind something my kids might find interesting.

My journal page will change each day.  The pictures at the top will change daily.  They will have either creations I'm wanting tor remember that I created recently or scrap pictures.

I like quotes, so I also have a quote box, and that will change daily.

I like to remember the weather, and happenings today, so additional boxes were made for that.

The journal question of the day is in the darker yellow box, while my journal memories are written in the lighter yellow box.  I'm sure my kids will get a kick out of these.  Some insight to "dear old mom", and amused smiles.

Here is the journal template.  It is in png format.  You can decorate yours and add blocks as to what suits you.

Items to consider:  To Do list, Scrap Today (and use the whole page), My Favorite Song, Recipes to Try, Places I Want to Visit, Birthday's, Anniversaries, etc.  You get the idea, I'm sure.

It's your page to CREATE!

If you have a lot going on one day, create several for that day.

Print them out, and put them together in a book.  You'll be surprised how quickly they accumulate.

And it will be lots of fun going back through them yourself.  Maybe on a "blah-kind of day".

Use, and enjoy.  Also, I've done a calendar template to go along with this.  It will post tomorrow.  I'll start you off with January 2013, and there's another blank for you to do yourself for all the months in 2013.

I hope you like this idea!  Enjoy!

Cj

P.S.  I've pretty much decided to end my website, Easy As Pie Daily Graphics.  It's costlier than it used to be, and I don't update it enough.  Instead, I'm making the effort to post here on my blog daily.  Enough said!