Follow Your Heart Journal

Sandra Caldwell, BabyCakesDND, asked us to join her in an art journal journey using her images on ATC's on the pages. I recently got some new tag dies from Stamplorations and have been itching to turn them into a journal using the disk style of closure. So, I was ready to jump in!

First, is the cover using Gina K paper, Technique Tuesday's Bird Friends, a gel pen and some PrismaColor colored pencils.

For one of the inside pages, I cut the tag from a heavy cardstock and then used Distress Oxides to blend a background. I used a Tim Holtz Stamper Anonymous stencil with some Nuvo glimmer paste that I had mixed with some liquid Distress Ink. The image is For You Thanks #15, one of my favorites! I colored it with Copics and added a tiny ladybug brad for fun. The "bow" was created using Altenew's Bells and Bows. Chipboard words are from Tim Holtz. And, the purple thread is some of my handspun yarn waiting to be plied!

I will be adding more to this journal as I find journaling very freeing compared to cardmaking, so very enjoyable!

Thanks for visiting!

Dark Valentines Paper Bag Journal Day Five

It's the last day of day of LeighSBDesigns "Dark Valentines" blog hop. What a fun hop with loads of inspiring work along the way!

On day one, I posted how I constructed this paper bag journaling book. Here are the last of the pages and a journaling tag. Thanks to Leigh for this fun blog hop!

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All images come from LeighSBDesigns.



Thanks for stopping by. I really loved seeing all your work and appreciate all the kind comments that you left.

Dark Valentines Paper Bag Journal Day Four

Today is day four of day of LeighSBDesigns "Dark Valentines" blog hop. On day one, I posted how I constructed a paper bag journaling book. Here a two more pages and another tag that can be journaled on its back. All images come from LeighSBDesigns.

Thanks for stopping by, and I truly appreciate all comments that are left.

Dark Valentines Paper Bag Journal Day Three

Today is the third day of the day of LeighSBDesigns "Dark Valentines" blog hop. On day one, I posted how I constructed a paper bag journaling book. Today, I am sharing the next two pages. All images come from LeighSBDesigns.

Thanks for stopping by. I love reading your comments!

Dark Valentines Paper Bag Journal Day Two

Today is the second day of the day of LeighSBDesigns "Dark Valentines" blog hop. Yesterday, I posted how I constructed a paper bag journaling book. Today, I am sharing the first two pages and the first pocket tag that has room on the back for journaling. All images come from LeighSBDesigns.

Thanks for the visit!

Dark Valentines Paper Bag Journal Day One

Today is the first day of LeighSBDesigns "Dark Valentines" blog hop. This is my first time joining and I was so excited that I worked almost non-stop on making this paper bag journal. The bags were about 4"x8", so folded made a 4"x4" book with pockets for journaling tags. I sewed the center on my sewing machine. Here are "teaser" views from the top. All images come from LeighSBDesigns.

 Most days, I'll share two pages and a tag. Today, just the cover.

Hope to meet more friends along the hop. Do join in on the fun!

Thanks for stopping by!

Works from Karen Campbell's Awesome Art School

I don't post much for my journal blog, but for myself I wanted to keep a record of some of the fun I am having with Karen Campbell and her free Awesome Art School 100 day of faces over at Facebook, and YouTube. I'm just going to add several of them that I have done and leave it to you to go find her and join in the fun. Karen is just what I need to stop being so serious, LOL! No, really, LOL!!!!!

Mixed Media

Using a photo reference

Fairy Tales Class

Tombow Markers

Copic Markers