There is Always Light

[Challenge win: Rising Star at A Place To Start][Challenge win: Top Sprout at A Place To Start][Challenge win: Top 3 at Creative Artiste Mixed Media][Challenge win: Top Rocker at 613 Avenue Create][Challenge win: Winner at 613 Avenue Create] Here's a recent art journal page of mine - I noticed that I have quite some scrap…

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100 Days of ATCs (2023) – 1

So I'm doing The 100 Day Project this year. The last time I tried this was in 2019 when I was just getting into art journaling, and doing a 100 days of it helped a lot. This time, I'm making ATCs (Artist Trading Cards.) I've always liked ATCs but I haven't spent much time on…

Discover Your Gifts

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge] Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - I made this spread on tea-dyed copy paper pages that I'd included in my art journal. The page started out with remnants from a previous session--I'd run my brayer, with remains of metallic acrylics from the earlier…

Hugs, Kisses, XOXO

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge][Challenge win: Rising star at A Place To Start challenge][Challenge win: Top sprout at A Place To Start challenge] Here's a trio of mini tags that I made recently - I used old product packaging for the body of the tags. Before I cut the packaging, I…

Where Flowers Bloom

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge] Here's a recent art journal page of mine - I made this on tea-dyed copy paper page that I've included in my journal. I started my session with some fun gel printing. I smooshed acrylics onto the plate and transferred them to the page; I used…

All the Little Things

Here's a recent quick art journal spread of mine - For the background of this spread, I started out by applying acrylic paints on it using a brayer. I then smooshed more acrylics by applying them over a gel plate and pressing the paper over it. I then stamped insect images and scripty writing around…

United We Stand

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge] Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - This spread is the result of my goal of using a gel plate as much as I could in this session. So I started off using a thin layer of acrylic paint that I transferred off the…

Birdie Friends

[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge] Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - I made the background on pages with leftovers from a previous art journaling session. I added quick brushes of acrylics first, which I followed with pouncing more acrylics over a single stencil that I moved around. Over…

We All Have a Story

[Challenge win: Winner at A Bit More Time To Craft challenge] Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - I started the background by applying modeling paste through a stencil, over which I added gesso. I then brushed some acrylics, followed by spritzing some water for the paint to move around and settle. I…

Believe in You

Here's a recent art journal spread of mine - I started this spread by applying gesso over the pages, followed by modeling paste through a stencil. I applied acrylics and spritzed water over them to make the paint lightly pool around the textured areas. I then followed it up with some stamping using dye inks.…