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Joined the class a bit late, so this is my first post.

Was instantly inspired with the e-mail from Shimelle this weekend. My head is always turning with all sorts of thoughts and ideas. loved being able to visually capture the going ‘round and ‘round feeling life has sometimes.

Used a heavy semi-gloss gel medium here combined with acrylic to achieve the texture circles (just painted with my fingers). Alphabet stamps from fontwerks and PSX as well as my own handwriting and some shape stamps.

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Hello, everyone. This is my first post! My name is Dina, and I have been art journaling now for about 10 months. Sorry that my pictures are so bad of my pages—I only have a cruddy digital camera and the detail & texture really gets lost.

This entry came about from the “risk” prompt.

EDITED to add: Thank you everyone for your comments! I gessoed the pages, then painted with acrylics. Decided I didn’t like it, so I used gel medium to apply torn pieces of a dressmaker’s pattern. Then I glazed over the pattern with different glazes and paints. Finally I did the collaging and stamping. The surface is so shiny b/c I used Soft Gel Gloss medium…I actually hate that medium, so I’m trying to use it up so I can buy the Regular Gel Matte that I prefer.

The journaling says, “The riskiest thing I have ever done in my safe life of non-risks is to nurture the artist within and not listen to my inner critic—or any critic, for that matter. Soooo….I art journal. I blog. I make time for me and leave other duties undone so I can discover myself, nurture myself, reinvent myself, grow myself into an ARTIST.”

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Hi everyone. My name is Kathleen and I am very excited to be apart of this amazing group.

Well, I joined in the reindeer games a little late and now that we are onto week 3, I finally have week 1 “finished”. I am pretty excited about this whole process, but week 2 is making me nervous. I have a TON of things floating in my head, but not sure how to get them down. Maybe I should journal how incredibly scared I feel about posting my work. Now THAT’S a risk! The work I have seen here is phenomenal. I am just in awe!
Now, let’s see if I can get a picture posted!

Here is my journal cover. It is titled “My Artistic Self”. I am focusing this challenge on developing my artistic ability and skills. I have felt pretty stagnant in my work and needed a little “push”.

This is my intro. It started out as my week one challenge, but I decided to make it into an intro instead. Sort of explain to myself and anyone who may happen upon this journal, why I made it. I printed the photos of myself onto a transparency for no other reason than I have never done it before. Kind of cool how it turned out. One image is color and then progress to a slightly more washed out image. Again, for no other reason than I like how it looks.

This is my week one challenge. As my beginning, I am pushing for my style to Evolve. To no longer rest on what I am comfortable with. For this and the above pages I use Papier paints, paper, and Mod Podge. Any journaling I did prior to the Mod Podge layer was done with a Micron pen. But after I used a slick writer – it writes on anything!

So here goes…time to push the publish button! Hope this works! :)

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I haven’t written anything on this page as yet, simply because I can’t think of anything to write on it yet? But I wanted to post it because it was LOTS of fun and something I’ve never tried before.

I lightened the photo and also sections of the photo in PSP and printed them off (3 in total, each half, and the whole thing) and then used coloured pencils and chalks to outline and shade as Shimelle described.

Thanks for looking at it. I hope you like it.

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I’ve been trying to be very viscose with these journals….writing what comes to mind, and really “journalling” My journals over the years have many times been prayers, and just random train of thought stuff. I’m loving the art therapy here.

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That’s me….the princess of self doubt, falling into my safety net!

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I’m starting a little late. I got this class for mothers day, and was having a little trouble logging in!

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I hope this will work? I’m not very clever with computers! And I can only see ‘part’ of my page? Anyway I’ll try!

Hello to everybody! My name is Bev if you don’t know me already. I’m VERY excited to be here doing this workshop, but I joined up late, so I’m playing catch up!

Hopefully my first page will be here? If not I’ll have to try again!

I LOVE looking at everybody’s work, it looks Great! :)

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