Home Page: written down

and the creativity has struck. I am really wishing I had more time to do a few more entries tonight but alas my work is calling so that must get done.

I love this more than my cover just me, my watercolor pencils, my stamps and some ink oh and I better not forget the 20 dollars in sharpies I bought yesterday.

I also took the picture today while experimenting with my new remote for my camera, very cool of the hubby to get me exactly what i wanted for Mother’s day this year.

Comment

Here are my first pages. It’s been over 6 months since I’ve done any altered books or collage work, so I feel a little rusty. Hopefully my future pages will be better! LOL! I did enjoy working on these pages though. It felt really good to play and have fun with it. For me this “new beginning” and me starting this art journal is about me wanting to take chances in life and with my creativity. I’m one of those people that always has to plan everything. I’m also hesitant sometimes when it comes to trying new things. Doing an art journal is something new for me. I want to be more free and more willing to try new things and take more chances.

Suzanne

Comment

I have such trouble scanning my work! Finally got my cover finished. I wanted to do something different from my usual scrapbooking, so I refrained from using my patterned paper. This was just me and my paints and it felt great! Since my cover is so awfully scanned, there are just random words: create, grow, discover, play, experiment, learn, finding me, explore, enjoy, self discovery, inspiration, relax. I can’t wait to start my first entry!

Comment

Hi I’m Jamaica, I’m a perfectionist. The problem is, it’s starting to get in the way of my creativity. My goal here is to quiet that inner voice saying it’s unbalanced, it doesn’t flow or the colors aren’t working together. To get beyond the straight lines and need to make it all perfect. So here I am… trying to learn how to LET GO. Wish me luck and if you notice in the coming weeks that I’m still trying too hard, please feel free to remind me that it’s okay to be sloppy, to have typos and to paint over pictures. : )

I wanted to have pages of thick, creamy paper that weren’t bound so tightly I couldn’t add tons of junk to my pages so I went to the local art store and bought a few large sheets of artist’s paper (watercolor I think) which I’ve torn down to 7.75” x 7.5”. It is heavy and soft, I love the way my Zig markers write on it. When I’m done I’ll either have it bound or maybe find an 8×8 to put them in. I’m planning to date and number the pages in pencil on the back so I can sort them later.

Hope you’re all having a lovely week!

jamaica

Comment

I did my cover and am actually inspired to do my pages which I will work on after my child is in bed. I am actually feeling my mojo starting to return. I am not sure I am totally in love with the cover but I am a bit pleased with it.

I am trying to turn off that perfectionist button.

Comment

Hey Ladies!

Here is my entry for this week’s prompts. I LOVE DOING THIS ART JOURNALING THING!!! If anyone is out there looking for some inspiration, I found a great creative journaling hardcover book at Half Price Books today for 7.98. It has so many great ideas and I can’t wait to try out some of their techniques in the book. It is also chock full of quotes! Love quotes!

Well, here’s the entry!

Left Page

Right Page

I choose to journal about changes…they are coming soon to my life, and I can’t wait. The words about the changes came to me pretty easily! Great prompt for this week!

TFL,
Korey

Comment

Well, I haven’t quite got around to doing my intro page yet as I just received my journal through the post this morning, but I felt inspired by the midweek spark idea, even though the books to hand were a telephone directory (!), a children’s illustrated history of the world and a book of clarinet music! The journaling just tells of my enduring love of books and is a list of some of my faves!

Sara

Comment

Hello

This is my first journal page. It’s a digital collage, but at the size of my real-life journal – roughly 8inches tall by 5.5inches wide. In thinking through why I am doing this, I created a software mindmap – you can see it as a background to the collage. And in that self-analysis I realised that I am both a woman who needs to get messy with marker pens, and I’m a technical chic also – so my journal is a combination of both. I’m going to have digital pages printed out, combined with real life mediums in the same book.

The journal is also getting back to my Pacific roots – hence the colour scheme, ocean imaes, and Pacific Island woman image. I’ve also combined the technical side of me in using the actual mindmap in the collage, and some more futuristic elements such as metalic-enhanced wings and the negative frames.

This was a great exercise. Really enjoying it.

Comment

OK…this is REALLY FUN! I hope that my post here works. I have LOVED checking out what everyone is doing. Here is what I came up with…

My journaling reads: Why this? Why now? I honestly have no earthly idea. Life is busy…life is good…life is happy….life is changing….life is full, some days too full…but still I begin something NEW…something FRESH….why? I really don’t know…but I AM OPEN to finding out.

So I am starting with a sudden STOP and taking note of WHAT IS…. These are my eyes…today…I was just testing the camera…I was going to go and fix my makeup…try not to look so smeared and tired…then I got distracted. I came back…toyed with altering the photo…some sort of cool filter…clone out the dark circles….but that wouldn’t be a TRUE REFLECTION.

So off I go….into a new creation…playing with ANOTHER DIMENSION of everything I love about writing and scrapbooking. PLAYING….and being OPEN…maybe the question I should ask myself is WHY NOT this? Why not now?

Thanks for looking!
Lisa Damrosch

Comment

It’s no secret there are many of us who are struggling with being creative. We belittle ourselves, criticize our own efforts, get lost in the analysis, and forget to have fun and just do what feels right.

I did this page as a slap in the face to my inner critic. I am tired of trying to live up to my own standards. I decided as soon as I signed up for this class that I want to have fun creating in my journal. I want to write just for fun.

I am currently reading The Forgetting Room by Nick Bantock. (If you haven’t read it, it’s a good, easy read). As I was putting this page together, I thought of the main character. He started out with a drawing of a bridge and kept adding to it “like archaeology in reverse – onionlike skins plumping selves out, one by one.” If I didn’t like something, I would add more (and more).

Anyway, this is what I ended up with. It’s not perfect!

The second photo is a hidden element on the page.

Comment