A2Z Art Journal Page Letter L

This is a page from my A2Z of Me Art Journal (a small watercolor moleskine journal)

The letter for this page is L

The word I chose is Life.  I have 4 parts to this spread  Here is the page with the right flap closed, which is what you see when you open the book.

I added the extra page using Washi Tape

Letter-L

Art Journal Page flap closed

 

Here is the page with the right flap open which is where the majority of journaling will go.

Letter L Flap Open

Art journal page flap open

 

Close up of some of my journaling, which will eventually be filled with words of how I want to Live my Life

Letter-L-Close-up

Close up of journaling

 

Close up of the closed flap.

Letter-L-Close-Up-2

Close up of Closed Flap

 

I used Goauche to color the pages, I love the matte finish on the pages.  I stenciled with Distress Paint from Tim Holtz using a stencil from Hero Arts.  Image is an old Lynn Perella paper I had stamped with a Butterfly and the Pennant border is the left overs from a Basic Grey layout.

I used some Dyan Reaveley stamps for the leaves which I then colored in with my Derwent Inktense pencils (love them) and the stenciled writing is painted in with Black Gesso.  I love painting in my letters with the Gesso as I love the matte finish it leaves.

If you are stuck for ideas with your Art Journal consider doing an A2Z Journal, I picked words that are personal to me.  You could also pick random words from a dictionary and journal about those.  or journal with a friend and pick a word for each other.  That could be a lot of fun!

Hope you enjoyed the peek into my Journal

till next time, Michelle

Another Tim Holtz inspired tag

This is another tag that I made last year.

The background was done with Tim Holtz Distress Ink and the colors are just so vivid

Tim Holtz Sizzix Die

Lampost Tag to make it glow

I used Tim Holtz Distress Powders in Black Soot on the lamp post and with the rough texture it “feels” just like wrought iron.  For the light part of the lamp I used Luminarte H2O’s which makes it glow.

 

 

 

Art Journal Pages

As I said before, I love to Art Journal and I have a number of books I am working in at the same time, doesn’t everybody?

Art Journal Stack

Art Journals being worked in

Here is one of the pages I did last year.  Still not complete as I feel the need to write more, but sometimes I never feel a page is finished till it feels finished and then even then I may go back later and add something more. Does that make sense?

Believe in Your Dreams

Art Journal Believe in your Dreams

This page was colored with Tim Holtz Distress Stains and when dry, covered with Ice Radiant Rain spray.  This is my favorite spray, the glimmer is just so great. I used a couple of Stampotique images, the leaves are Dyan Reaveleys and the Circles are Julie Fei-Fan Balzer’s stamps from Impression Obsession.

Art Journal - Stampotique

Kill Negativity Close Up

A close up of a dog shooting a negativity plant!  The bleed through from other pages kind of looks a little bloody!

Stamotique Art Journal Page

Believe Close up 2

This is a close up of the circle stamps from Julie Fei-Fan Balzer.

I used them as flowers and then I journaled up the stems

Stampotique Stamps Close Up

Stampotique Stamps Close Up

A close up of the very cool Stampotique Girl.

Love this stamp.  I stamped her directly on the page, but I stamped her face onto white paper which I cut out and colored.

Hope you enjoyed looking at one of my Journal pages.

Till next time, Michelle