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

Today we're going to explore art journaling pages that incorporate a strong image from a magazine. I have to admit that this is a type of art journaling I rarely do. But it's wildly popular. And my favorite master of this technique is Teesha Moore. These are two of her intensely colored, doodled, and collaged masterpieces: Aren't they amazing!? Be sure to check out her blog. I'm hoping that I'll have the opportunity to take a class with her one of these days at her events ArtFest and/or JournalFest! Wouldn't that be awesome? There are many, many ways to approach...

Hello everyone, Do you create in your journals ? Have you got a journal ? I have few... made from some old books. Usually they have hard cover as I hope to altered the covers some day. I love my books. I love to create in the night. Do you create in the night ? My best creative mojo's come at night. My next few photos will show you my desk with journals... Enjoy ;) Here is the photo showing my journal before and after painting. I was not sure if I should cover the pages with colour but most of you suggested to paint it, so I did ;) I must say I like both looks. Here is 'Cherish' video tutorial. I hope you will enjoy one of my decujornal pages video ;) If you wish to see my other videos here is the link to my YouTube channel, subscribe for more step by step art tutorials Maremi SmallArt. Hugs, Marta xx

Hello! I am back from Holidays and try to keep my blog up to date. Here is one of my latest art journal pages I did in the Dina Wakley Media Journal. You will find a link to my YouTube video when you scroll down. Enjoy the video: xx Susanne Rubber Dance Stamps:

Hi, it's Finn again here! I hope you enjoyed the posts from my fabulous Creative team Members - Marta and Monika as much as I did! I'm so lucky we have them on board! Today is my day - and I'm ready to share with you another Art Recipe - quick peek into project I've made in my "Odyssey" Family Journal - the one I keep filling with pages dedicated to my loved ones. I can't express how much I'm inspired working with old photos showing my family - parents, cousins, aunts and uncles, my grandparents - there is a kind of magic in them, bringing all the deep emotions back on the surface, warming my heart and guiding my hands in the creative process. This page is special - like most of the pages from this journal. I've picked a photo of my grandparents - Helena and Edward, walking through the most beautiful Royal Baths Park in Warsaw. I was lucky to visit this place often as they lived very close to it and it was a perfect place for relaxing walk. They were the best grandparents you could dream of - loving, caring, helpful. We lost our grandpa in 1993 - I can't even express how heartbroken my grandma was loosing her best friend and the love of her life. Now, after 21 years of separation, they are together again. I really like adding real old elements to the projects including vintage photos: for this one I've chosen a bunch of lace, couple of old paper scraps, few old buttons from my rubbish box and one beautiful rusty washer. For the finishing touches I've decided add a bit of stamping too - my Vintage Vanity "Stamps and Adverts" set was just perfect for that! Here is the list of the supplies I used to create this page and short step-by-step: 1. I've started my page putting 2 or 3 coats of Art Basics Heavy Gesso on the book pages: the paper in this book is very fragile so I wanted to protect it and prevent my inks and paints from soaking in it. When the page was primed and dry I was ready to add the next layer. 2. I used Prima Damask Stencil and Art Basics Modeling Paste applied with a palette knife to create beautiful, dimensional white texture. Pastes are great for this technique - and they add a bit or resist effect too! 3. When the Modeling Paste was drying I've been working on creating multi-layered composition of papers, lace and other scraps under the photo. As soon an the background was more-less dry I added some washi tape to it, started gluing strips or Resist Canvas, papers, lace and other elements. Then I glued my composition on the top and added... a bit more layers! 4. I used 3D Foam Squares (Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L) both to decorate the pages and to adhere some of the elements such as buttons or snaps. Note: these foam are great for mixed-media techniques - they don't melt when heated and keep metal, plastic and acrylic in place! 5. When all the elements were in place I spayed the pages with homemade tea stain and a bit if Primary Elements Pigments mixed with water. (I covered the photo with paper towel!). I dried everything with heating tool. 6. I added more color using Watercolor Pencils in shades of yellow, orange, red, purple and brown. I mixed them and watered them a bit using sprayer and water brush. I dried the project again and added some finishing lines with very soft pencil. 7. I added the last missing elements such as pins or buttons. I've also decided some black texture is missing, so I stamped a bit around my composition with Prima Vintage Vanity stamps (I used Jet Black Archival Ink) and I splashed black Indian Ink. After drying the spread was ready! Here is the list of products fro our Mixed Media Place Online Store Did you notice? Yes, we have NEW ARRIVALS!!! I hope you liked the project and my new "Art Recipe" - soon I'll be back with more ideas for you... and this Friday there is a new Creative Team project coming! Don't miss it! Have a great creative week!

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I was asked to make a page for a friend's art journal and here is what I came up with. It was quite a challenge to make it flat though, most of my projects are quite bulky!! LOL! :) But I must say, I really loved making it and I will probably make my own journal soon! I used papers from the Fly Away collection from 13Arts, probably too hard to see as I covered it all up with the paints! LOL Also from 13Arts: mists, splash ink, modeling paste, gesso, glass filler, stencil create art. For this project I used the following mists: Pastel Lavender Pastel Salmon Chalk blue light Not spraying the colors, just applied it directly from the bottle with a paintbrush and some water to let the colors run. The butterflies were cut from the Days and Nights sheet. I also used pieces of the decorative jets on this journal for some extra texture. I started this page by glueing some strips of paper and adding some small pieces of washi tape. Making some texture with modeling paste. I so love the effect of the gesso and glass filler mix, so yummy texture! I used the splash ink a bit different: I put some drops on a plate and made the long white lines using an old bank card. The splashes were made with 13Arts Splash ink, white and black. Enjoy your day and..... FEEL FREE......CREATE ART Ingrid xxx

Hello and welcome to the Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember® blog hop! The Monday Challenge blog team has a fabulous blog hop for you this week. The team got to play with a great exclusive Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Art Journaling kit, designed by Shari Carroll. You can see Shari's video about the kit here. Shari is also joining us in the blog hop. Simon Says Stamp was founded in 2002 with an interest in exclusively selling rubber stamps. It didn’t take long until we realized we couldn’t stop there. During the past 11 years we celebrate rubber stamping in its full glory by giving access to people around the world to a one stop shop. Rubber stamps still remain the heart of our business and we are celebrating by hosting a STAMPtember® event intended to inspire, educate, and celebrate the greatness of rubber stamping. Part of the enticement of rubber stamping is that stamps can be used in creating or complementing ANYTHING! From stamping dates on bank documents and postage parcels in the early 18th century, rubber stamping has dramatically expanded to include card making, scrapbooking, mixed media, life documenting, art journaling, and many forms of altering and expressing art. Our challenge for this week is to use any Simon Says Stamp Exclusive product. I loved all the items in the art journaling kit and made two pages and two ATCs, I will share some of the steps below. The kits are great and you'll be able to make many pages and other projects with the supplies. I tried to use the products in the kit in a bunch of different ways, to give you some inspiration. I have also added some stamps and other products that are not in the kit. I really like the size of Dyan Reaveley's Small Creative Journal (5 x 8), which is included in the kit. I made two double-pages, and the techniques I am sharing can be used on many different projects. There is a vintage dictionary page in the kit, and I happened to have another of them at home, also from Simon Says Stamp. This page was about optics, and since I had just been at the optometrist the same day I made a page about seeing clearly. The vintage dictionary page I used on the second page defined 'orange' and that fit well together with a mainly orange page. I used a wonderful quote about art, which I also used on this tag for Tammy Tutterow. I wanted to use it for something for myself too and it fit well together with the IndigoBlu sentiment stamp that was included in my kit (the kits have different IndigoBlu stamps). I started covering two pages with gesso, using the scraper tool in the kit. I added some lines with the tool in a cross hatch pattern. Leave to dry. I watered down some of the Claudine Hellmuth Classic Teal paint from the kit and painted it over the page. I love the stencil Shari designed for the kit and used it in several ways on my pages. Here I applied texture paste through it with a palette knife. Leave to dry. This great IndigoBlu stamp was included in my kit and I stamped it once in its entirety using Stazon ink. It also makes great flourishes if stamped partially, which I did in the lower corner. I wanted to use a few lines from the song 'I can see clearly now' and since one of them included the word 'rain', I decided to add some raindrops, using Ronda Palazzari's Mini Raindrops stencil and black paint. The paint is included in the kit, but not the stencil. I used a definition of 'astigmatism' (which I have) from the book and a rub-on eye. Here you can see the raindrops on the other page and the texture created by the scraper tool in the gesso. I used the stamped area as a home for the title, made with the white stickers in the kit and Tim Holtz label stickers (not in the kit). I wanted to use more of the text paper and stamped Prima stitched circles on the dictionary page (the stamps are not in the kit). I cut them out and splattered them with watered down Altered Orange paint for texture. The edges were inked with Gathered Twigs, which I also used around the edges of the journal page. The trunks were die cut from Core'dinations cardstock with Simon Says Stamp Exclusive Tall Forest Tree and Small Forest Tree dies. 'Vision' was die cut with Tim Holtz Stacked Artful Words die. The second page was first coated with gesso, same as the first page, but I also pressed the stencil down into the gesso to create a subtle pattern (immediately clean the stencil). Leave to dry. The dictionary paper was torn and glued to the page with Multi-Medium matte, which is also in the kit. When dry, gesso was applied on top of the dictionary paper, not covering the text completely. Watered down Altered Orange was painted on top and before it dried, I wiped the page with a paper towel, which removed some of the paint from the gesso areas. You can see that the paint is darker on the parts of the paper not covered with gesso, especially around the edges. I wanted some teal on this page too, and made a very watery mix. It was applied with a Faber-Castell dropper along the upper edge of the journal, placing a scrap paper underneath to protect the other pages. More teal paint was applied through the stencil. Dab the paint brush off on a paper towel first. I used a stencil brush, but you can use a sponge or an ordinary paint brush too. I stamped the IndigoBlu sentiment stamp from my kit on the page, as well as flourishes with the second IndigoBlu stamp, using Stazon Jet Black Ink. The page was stamped with a dot stamp and Venetian Orange Archival Ink as well as with my favourite alphabet background stamp. The 'love' and hearts die cuts come from two Simon Says Stamp sets. I even used the glassine bags included in the kit and die cut four butterflies from it, layered them together, stapled them and glued to the page. For a focal image on this page, I used a Tim Holtz stamp. I made sure not to get a teal dot right where the face was stamped. The wings were coloured with Gelatos. The letter stickers in the kit were inked with Evergreen Bough. The strips were inked with Evergreen Bough, isn't it a great quote? I also used Tim Holtz tissue tape. There are two manila ATC cards in the kits too, and instead of using them in the journal, I decided to make two ATCs. Cover with gesso as before. I made the one to the left smoother. Leave to dry. Paint the more textured one with watered down teal paint. When the paint is dry, apply embossing paste through the stencil with a palette knife. Leave to dry and ink the edges with Gathered Twigs. Paint the smoother ATC with watered down Altered Orange, and wipe the paint partly off from the gesso. Apply Altered Orange through the stencil, but only using the dot centres. Stamp both ATC's with the flourish stamp. Stamp the orange one with a dot stamp and Venetian Orange Archival Ink. The kit includes two hinge clips, two paper flowers and two Scrabble tiles. The tiles in my kit happened to be the first letters in my sisters' names, so I made these ATCs for them. I cut the large flower into two pieces. The flowers were painted with watered down paint and when dry, stamped with an alphabet stamp. I also die cut and stamped a ticket. The hinge clips were coloured with Stream and Espresso Alcohol ink. The labels are also included in the kit. This one was stamped with a stamp from the Simon Says Stamp On Edge set. On this ATC, I folded up the half flower and again stamped with an alphabet background stamp. The flower stem was made with the scraper tool, first dipped into black paint. The label was inked with Tumbled Glass and Gathered Twigs and stamped with sentiments from the Be Sentiments set. Join us this week - using any Simon Says Stamp Exclusive product - and you can be the one to win a $50 Simon Says Stamp gift voucher, drawn randomly. The next stop on the blog hop is the fabulous May Flaum. Have fun hopping along and thank you for stopping by my blog! Happy crafting! Anna-Karin Supplies: Kit: Simon Says Stamp STAMPtember Art Journaling Kit Additional supplies: Surfaces: Neenah Smooth Solar White cardstock; Ranger Manila cardstock Dies: Simon Says Stamp: Mini Hearts Set, Small Forest Tree, Tall Forest Tree, Life, Family, Love; Sizzix: Stacked Artful Words, Ticket Strip, Butterflies Stamps: Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz: Tiny Textures, Going Somewhere, Winged Things 1, Classics #5; Simon Says Stamp: On Edge, Be Sentiments; Prima: Circles Ink: Distress Ink: Gathered Twigs, Evergreen Bough; Ranger Archival Ink: Venetian Orange, Jet Black; Tsukineko Stazon Jet Black Alcohol Ink: Adirondack: Stream, Espresso Paint: Faber-Castell: Mango Gelato Medium: Wendy Vecchi Stampers Anonymous: White Embossing Paste Stencils: The Crafters Workshop: Mini Raindrops Embellishments: Tim Holtz Idea-ology: Elements Remnant Rubs, Label Letters

Hi there my dearests! I'm back on track with most of my things now - and I hope it will stay this way as there is a lot of things waiting to be done! I appreciate all the support, positive vibes and crossed fingers I'm getting from you - it does really help! For me probably the hardest task is finding the balance between travelling, working on new products, new classes, and creating - just for myself (I should also mention family and social life, right?) Believe me - there are moments when I'm simply missing this freedom of creating "just whatever" without pressure of deadlines and expectations. I do miss the time when I had my friends around me, when we could sit, laugh and journal long in the night, not thinking what is waiting to be done in the morning... Moving away made it almost impossible now - as well as my super tight schedule... but I'm a very stubborn girl, you know? I decided I'll find my ways of creative "breathing" - and taking part in a good challenge is one of them. You can see the result below - journal spread I've made following the guideline from Polish Artistic Blog - "Kawa i Nożyczki" (Coffee and Scissors): self-portrait page including scrapbooking techniques and obligatory object - photo. It should be super easy, right? In fact, 99% of my projects are ind of self-portraits, many of them include scrapbooking techniques, and I love using photos. But I didn't want to make it easy for me! I decided to focus of the very basic, primal version of scrapbboking - and use mostly scraps, found objects and text which was cut out from the old book. I was hoping to make my page almost with no "brand name" embellishments, expensive elements and focusing on building everything from scratch... which is the thing I love the most. Also the photo I've chosen is a very special one - I took it in a photo booth with my dear friend Eliza last year when I was visiting Warsaw. Together with the text it makes this page very special... and one of the main purposes of scrapbooking is capturing special moments, right? I focused mostly on textures, which I built with Art Basics Modeling Paste, stencil and a lot of paper and fabric scraps. My embellishments were buttons, old coin, pressed Nespresso capsule and couple of small chipboard pieces. Also the color selection was rather moderate: splashes of tea stain, a bit of pigments and mica powder with water, watercolor pencils - it's a set you can easily take with you anywhere and create with your friends. (I wish I could do that again...) Are you curious how was it all done? Here is the answer! 1. First step is very easy (ok, all of the steps are!). I covered pages of my book with 2 coats of Art Basics White Heavy Gesso to prime the background and avoid the problem of ink soaking into my vintage paper. When gesso was dry I picked one of my stencils (Harlequin) and added nice texture on the top - Art Basics Modeling Paste was my choice for this step! 2. I dried the pages just a bit and started adding layers of paper scraps, fabric tapes, lace using my Art Basics Modeling Paste as my adhesive. When I was happy with the amount of fabric and paper elements I also added some metal findings and chipboard embellishments. 3. To add some extra depth and sparkle I applied my Art Basics Soft Gloss Gel in selected places of the composition and sprinkled Art Ingredients Glass Beads (Crystal) on the top of them. In this step I also added a small resin frame to my photo and repeated the same step with Soft Gel and Glass Beads to decorate my mini frame, which I kept in safe place until I'll be done with painting the project. I dried my journal pages completely using heating tool. 4. When the pages were dry it was high time for splashing some color! I started with my favorite homemade tea stain (black tea+ water) which gives the most beautiful vintage brown color and I continued with Primary Elements Pigments mixed with water in spray bottles: Iris Petal and Evening Primrose. I dried everything a bit... 5. ... and continued spraying with 2 colors of Art Ingredients Mica Powder - Gold and Purple to add more shine to my pages. I added also a bit of black spray in 3 points of the composition to add some natural shadow. When all the paints were dry I picked 3 watercolour pencils: purple, gold and deep gray and added finishing touches of color to my pages. Ready - I love the final look of it: it's dimensional, full of texture with a delicate vintage feeling in it. I hope you liked this idea too - it is very relaxing, freestyle way of creating! Below you will find a short list of products I've used - all of them are available in our Mixed Media Place Store: And now... off to my next plans and projects! I'm constantly working on the new classes proposals which I hope to have ready in the last days of February and beginning of March... I'm also getting ready now to teach and doing demos during Craft Hobby and Stitch Show in Birmingham, which starts this weekend! If you are coming - you can find me at Notions Marketing Booth (J20) between 11.00 am and 4.00 pm. I hope to see you there! And before I finish, there is one very important announcement: we have a Winner!!! Both me and my Creative Team were totally overwhelmed and surprised with so many beautiful (and sparkly!) projects sent for our "Sparkle and Shine" Challenge. It took as a long time to vote as all of your entries were checked and admired... finally we made a decision! Here is the winning project: Huge congrats to super talented Ilana Polakiewicz! Please email me at: [email protected] with your address to get your prize! Thanks again for visiting me... see you very soon and don't forget to check us on Friday - new beautiful tutorial is coming!

After seeing all the gorgeous art journal pages I decided to give it a go too. Don't have anything to show you yet but next year I will try to make some pages. Made the front cover of this A4 journal with lots and lots of Shimmerz!! A used my favorite technique to start with: Glueing paper kitchen towel on the journal with gesso. Embellished with lots of flowers, dew drops, beads, buttons, metal pieces and a metal frame. Spraying and painting with all the colors and added some water to let them run. And the last step: a coat with gesso for the finishing touch. For this journal I used the following colors: Coloringz: No yoking Spritz: Bed of Roses Spritz: Plum Pudding Vibez: Princess Vibez: Jeni B Blue Blingz: Flashee Fushia Shimmerz: Sunny Shimmerz: Magenta Shimmerz: Key Lime Shimmerz: Coffee Here are some close-ups: Some chipboard letters. Some dew drops as an extra element. Using up some flowers from my stash. Added some small pearls for extra texture. This gorgeous metal frame was found at a local flea market. Chipboard letters from Imaginarium Design. An extra touch with gesso using a sponge. Randomly splattered some paint. I love the way the light touch of gesso shows the cracks of the paper towel. Enjoy your day! Ingrid xxx

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I am always looking for fun new things to use either in the classroom or in my personal life. Recently, I stumbled across something that could work for both! The blog www.graceisoverrated.com has a TON of brilliant printables, but my favorites are her journaling pages. There are 50 of them and are, as she puts it, "Created out of a sense of delightful, insightful personal exploration. They combine fill-in-the-blank journal prompts with unconventional to-do lists, game-show-inspired lightning rounds, action-inspiring quotes, and oodles of hand-drawn doodles." I absolutely ADORE the format of these pages, the quotes, and the questions that are posed on each one. Each page really causes you to stop and reflect. I don't think that I spend enough time doing things like this because I am so focused on other things in my life. I was thinking that I would love to start working through the journal pages on my own time each night and doing a journal page a week with my students. (All she asks is that you email her to ask for permission first. I did and she was really friendly!) Some of the journal pages have content that would not be 100% suitable for the age my students are, but if I am working through them on my own I will know which ones I need to veto for classroom use. If we do a journal page a week in the classroom at the end of the year my students would have 36 journal pages that show their thoughts/growth over the course of the year. Perhaps we could bind each student's journal and they can do a culminating journal entry in which they talk about their personal journalling experience over the year! This is my favorite find of the new year and I would definitely suggest you check it out! Grace is Overrated Link

Well, I have almost filled up an other art journal with floral pages! I am having so much fun working around a theme (flowers) for my art journal. I work on one or two art journal spreads each day and I limit myself to about 20 minutes to create. It has been a fun way to get creative, practice and explore ways that I can make around around my theme. Today I've got a little peek into this journal as well as a video where I share my process on one of my favorite pages. If you are looking for more videos, head on over to my YouTube channel where I uploads all kinds of videos of my process and have lots of new stuff coming in the months ahead!

Sometimes the entries from Oswald Chambers' book My Utmost for His Highest blow me away with a message that goes straight to my heart, and I must respond. Here is one of those, an excerpt from the June 13th entry that I included in the journal page above: "Getting There '…come foll

With only three days to go in June, I’m FINALLY getting this month’s art journaling page up! Forgive the tardiness… this is definitely going to be a long-term project, as I’…

I have a list of people whose work in collage art, particularly vintage collage art, really inspire me. In this post I want to share with you some of the amazing collage art of Connie Rose, and to share a bit about who she is, if you’ve never heard of her. This is part of a series of posts I am d

Handig overzicht van de wapenuitrusting uit Efeze 6 vers 11, speciaal voor de ouderkind workshop van Mariëlle van Rietschoten: De wapenuitrusting doe ik aan. Zo kan ik de vijand verslaan.

Hi everyone, sharing a layered textured page from my large dylusions journal today. Following on from a glorious autumn, the weather has turned blustery and we are probably not far off from some frosty weather. There are always patches of green around even in winter and I love a crisp morning where the frost has touched everything. I was reminded of this as the layers built up on my pages and a frosty green scene appeared, a white frosted bird and foliage just seemed a perfect touch alongside the sentiment. I used a leafy clarity stencil with colour blooms and then added further stamping and stenciling with coordinating fresco paints. Stencils with clear gel medium and a sprinkling of rock candy distress glitter gave dimension and added to the frosty feel. Book text and washi tape were also used in the background. Some stamping in black archival. The foliage is a memory box die which I scraped some puff paint on and added a sprinkle of white embossing powder before heating. Same treatment to the PaperArtsy bird diecut. A little shading and finally the sentiment stamped under the 'branch'. It's a little hard to see the subtle sparkle, but it's there. It's been lovely to have some fun creating and be able to enter this in the following fabulous challenges. Craft Stamper - Take It Make It challenge - take a stamp and Anything Goes for November. Mixed Media World - Anything Goes Try It On Tuesday - Create a Scene Mixed media Monthly Challenge- all about Texture As always, thanks so much for stopping by and hope it is peaceful wherever you are....

I have a list of people whose work in collage art, particularly vintage collage art, really inspire me. In this post I want to share with you some of the amazing collage art of Connie Rose, and to share a bit about who she is, if you’ve never heard of her. This is part of a series of posts I am d

August was a month for healing and building up my stamina. Oral surgery on July 31st really sapped my energy and I have done very little crafting. I’m almost back to my regular work-out rou…

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I did something good for my soul (and my studio space) this week. I weeded out my stash just a bit and gave away two big cardboard boxes full of stuff. And you know, it felt so good to get it out of my space and send it off to two happy homes. I do keep a lot of stuff for "someday" but at a certain point I find the clutter overwhelming rather than inspiring. It was so wonderful to finally see the surface of my desk that I forced my husband to come in and admire it. (I think...

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For quite some time I have been playing with the idea of posting a small tutorial, art tidbit or video EVERY Wednesday for a whole year. Well here we are, in the THIRD Wednesday of the New Year and it's time to begin! WHIMSICAL WEDNESDAY #1 of 52...."MINI MOMENTS" PAPER JOURNALS I recently posted this photo on my Instagram (follow me @joannesharpe) and it was so well received, I thought a little tutorial would be in order for my first Whimsical Wednesday post. "WITH A LITTLE WHIMSEY" IDEA: Make a little bit of art every day, in a little bitty size. This is one of my favorite things to do with my water reactive (Tombow) markers or watercolor paints, water brush, paintbrushes and watercolor paper. MAKE YOUR SUPER SIMPLE JOURNALS: Take a strip of watercolor any size you wish. A good place to start is a piece that is approximately 3" x 12". You can always use wider widths of paper too. Fold the paper in half, then in half again and open it up. Fold back each little panel in an accordion fashion. For this book each individual panel is 3"x 3", a perfect size to make little art nuggets. How super and simple, right?? Paint a loose watercolor or marker border as a background and frame in each panel. let dry completely before adding lettering. Add your favorite quotes and inspirational thoughts. Use black pens or colorful markers to make lettering in each box. It doesn't have to be anything fancy or earth shattering, just make a little art every day! Would you like more whimsical instruction in my loaded online classes? VISIT MY WEBSITE and check out all the ONLINE CLASSES previews. joannesharpe.com

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Lara Gastinger is a botanical artist and illustrator in Virginia who keeps the most inspiring sketchbook. I found her work on instagram (@laragastinger), where each week she usually posts from her “perpetual journal”, a weekly journal and sketchbook (now two books) that she’s been keeping for over

I always enjoy assembling these journal pages. I tried something new this time and put Golden Absorbent Grounds on areas of the pages so I could paint some watercolor flowers without the thin pages melting away with the water. I love doing these pages because I get to use my stamps. I love stamps. I love the ones that I carve as well as the ones I buy. Some people don't like to use anything but their own carved stamps because they are unique to them, which is great, but I say I like to use all my stamps bought or carved and use them in a unique way. Below are my guys cooking a Mother's Day dinner for Chauncey's sister, Rachel, his parents and me. They cooked Hot Chicken Salad which was one of my mother's recipes which is extremely involved but EXTREMELY delicious! They did a great job. And I am extremely blessed to have these two great guys in my life.

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Hi friends, Dina here! I have been wanting to do silhouette masks for a couple of years…thanks to The Crafter’s Workshop, they are here! I love cutting silhouettes from magazines, but h…

Create a vibrant & textured art journal page following this post of step-by-step art journal techniques using gorgeous products from DecoArt.

For years the concept of the Kingdom of Heaven or the Kingdom of God seemed so illusive. Ten years ago, I remember asking a few of my co-workers what the Kingdom of Heaven really looks like. We had a few good discussions, but it was still vague by the end of the conversations. I read through the gos

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Scene and Story Construction Spreadsheet and Nanowrimo Writing resources and recommendations. Writer and Artist Patricia Tiffany Morris shares her favorite resources since starting her writing career in 2018. Click on some of the links to share affiliate goodness and find your next writing book.