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Hello!
My name is Michelle-
I live in New Hampshire with my husband, 6 year old daughter, 2 cats and a dog. We own an old fashioned General Store and live right above it. It is a ton of work and long hours but it is exactly where we are suppose to be.

I started last year, creating to create….no judging…just enjoying, so this is just an extention of that exploration. I will be doing my journal in fabric ( I am a fiber whore…dying, spinning, knitting, quilting….) and changing color every month (our apartment is wee and I have lots of stuff so this will keep it under control a bit for me…or so I would like to imagine;)

Here is just one set of cupboards (full)

Can’t wait to go on this journey with everyone!

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Be gentle with me, this is my first art journal experience! :o)

I’m a 27 year old translator by day, scrapper by night living in the UK. I’ve only really been scrapping for just over a year and a half or so, before then I was an avid card-maker and accumulator of stash.

I’m not sure what I would describe my scrapping style as, I love colour, detail and fonts… I’m hoping to get reacquainted with my handwriting. I absolutely love writing with fountain pens, but since leaving university I don’t think I’ve handwritten more than a paragraph of text in cards and the like. Heaven knows what state it is in now!

Anyway, I’m looking forward to trying new things, experimenting and also letting loose and being able to create with abandon!

I have a blog, there’s more randomness on there, and if I can work it out, I hope to have successfully added it to the blog list… hehe

Anyway, here is a sample of my necessary items:

My journal (oh I went a bit mad and bought a rather nice leather bound one… it was calling out to me! It is a bit like a satchel in style and the pages are separated by a sheet of tissue paper, so I want to incorporate that in some pages.)

My favourite fountain pens – Scheaffer medium and fine nib – have misplaced my Watermans.

A few inks – there are many more!

Letters – Stamps and rub-ons: couldn’t be without them.

Paint – this week’s colour of choice is Honeydew.

Sticky stuff – I have stocked up on herma!

Pretty stuff – ribbons and detail

And finally – a brand new clean page!

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I forgot to introduce myself earlier. My name is Rochelle and I live in British Columbia Canada. I work as a social worker and am in avid outdoors person. I love journaling, reading, and writing. Art is not my strong point but I am ready to practice and try new things. I can’t wait to work on the first challenge.

Here is a pic of my art supplies. It is pretty basic right now. I am planning to use stuff from around the house like fabric samples, magazines, and whatever else I can fine to incorporate into my art. I also included the back of my art journal in my picture. I was too excited and could not wait to get going.

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Greetings!

This is my first stab at an Art Journal and I’m pretty excited about it. To be honest, right now, I feel like I have designer’s block and I’m hoping this will help me break out of it. My field of expertise has been scrapbooking. It’s the journaling that I love most, but there’s a artistic side of me, I’m sure of it. My son shrugs his shoulders at the whole thing, but my daughter loves to look at the scrapbooks together, and most importantly, read what I wrote. But most of my books are filled with pages about the children so they know how I feel about them. But it doesn’t leave them or any of my future grandchildren any idea of WHO I AM. So this one’s for me.

Enough of my droning! Here’s a picture of a few of my essentials. As you can see I haven’t “created” my cover yet (remember I have designer’s block), but before this is over, it won’t be so bare.

Looking forward to getting to know all of you better.

Deb

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I am so excited! This is my first art journal! I am and always have been an avid journaler- now I am a scrapper- altered Book Artist and photographer- how much fun to be able to combine all these things for this 20 weeks of inspiration.

This is what I created for now- I felt like as I went along- I could add to this to make it more and more mine- as the pages and the art begin to unfold! Looking forward to seeing everyone’s work and entries!

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This is Samantha and I’m an art journal virgin. I’m a clean, simple, everything-has-to-be-straight scrapbooker who is getting bored. Very bored. And I have cool stuff that I’m afraid to use because it’s just too messy. So here I am ready to get funky and get messy!

Here’s my picture of my journal and stuff. Plan on doing something to the journal – just don’t know what yet. Considering taking a sander to the cover, now that would be messy. Yes definately a sander. Then there’s the stuff I have that for the most part I’ve never used or used very little – paint, alcohol inks, messy stuff. Plus the stuff I do use like some stamps, Versafine ink, ribbon, not so messy stuff. Everything else will come from the catagory of extra stuff I have laying around – and I’ve got more of that than I could possibly fit in one picture.

Oh and just so you know I live in Ohio with my hubby and nearly 4 year old daughter. I also work part time as an accountant – but I’ve been told I don’t look or act like one – I take that as a compliment.

Looking forward to the next 20 weeks!!

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Hi, my name is Rosemary and this is my 2nd Writtendown art journal experience. My blog is listed in the blog page linked in the sidebar.

I live in Oklahoma with my husband, 2 kids, and 3 cats. Once obsessed with scrapbooking, I’m spending my time now just doing whatever strikes me. Art journaling is right up my alley.

Here is my “necessary tools” pic:

Pictured is my journal from last year, a bunch of sharpies, ink, stamps (mostly letters), and random tools. Random junk is likely to make its way into the pages as well.

Hello to past aquaintances and welcome to new journalers!

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I am so excited to start the Art Journaling Challenge. It looks like so much fun. I am really looking forward to letting go and expressing myself through art. I have never done this before so it will be a challenge. One that I am ready to give my all to. I am also looking forward to gaining inspiration from other people’s journals. I can’t wait to see them all.

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Very excited to be jumping back in. I loved last year’s so much. I am especially pleased to be starting so soon in the New Year, means my art journal will be part of 2006 right from the start.

Are other people who are carrying on starting a new journal, or working in their one from last time? I think I will be starting again, maybe on fabric – feeling inspired!

Kel x

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Here I am…my very first post and my very first class of shimelle’s that I am taking. I look forward to seeing everyone’s work. Please feel free to stop by my blog at http://jshahin.blogspot.com to get to know me a little better!

I altered a ledger book to act as my art journal. Circled the dictionary word and definition of “artful”.

I took a photo of the blank book as my starting point.

Painted canvas paper. Printed Rebekah’s Birthday font (downloaded from internet) on cardstock.

Painted canvas paper. Attached strips with Making Memories metallic staples. Font is “Southern Accent Belch” downloaded from internet.

Thanks for looking!

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