If you're new to Art Journal Every Day, all the posts can be found here. Please read this post first. There is a flickr group for sharing right here. Remember, it's just ten minutes of nourishing your creative self every day! No need to finish anything or even like it. If you've done some art journaling this week and you've blogged about it, or put it on flickr, please leave a link in the linky list at the end of this post. Thanks!
We've had a wonderful batch of guest posts, haven't we? I am so thankful to all the wonderful people who have volunteered their ideas and artwork. I am once again pleased to say that every single Art Journal Every Day guest poster is someone who is member of this community! When I go looking for guest posts, I troll through all the links in the linky list. This is such a talented group! Thank you to all of you for participating. I'm currently looking for some new guest posters for Art Journal Every Day. Specifically, I'm looking for people who are interested in answering the question, "Why do you art journal?" Send me an e-mail if you'd like to provide an answer. If you've got a great idea for a guest post on another topic, let me know!
Today I thought I'd share some pages, pieces of which I've shown when they were in progress. Now they're done and I thought you might enjoy checking them out!
I think that this might be one of my all-time absolute favorite pages ever. Ever. I love the profile. Not something I'm very good at, so I'm extremely proud of this one. I also love the extra little tab on the left (with the word May). It's from a file folder. I chopped it off and glued it onto the edge of my page.
This is one of my all-time favorite (gosh, I'm saying that a lot today) hand carved stamps. It's a super tiny skyline in a triangle and I think it's adorable!
This was a page that I started when I was teaching at Jenny Doh's space back in January. I painted the face (using a Balzer Designs stencil) in class. But I felt like the face was dominating the page too much, so I painted over half of it. I really like the way it looks now.
AND this is totally a version of the cropping that I was talking about in yesterday's post! (P.S. Don't you love how that May tab sticks out? I do!)
I spent about forty minutes on hold with the IRS and I put that time to good use, doing some bold lettering with a kind of cool shadow/depth effect. I'm telling you, speaker phone makes for easy art time.
The early stages of this page appeared in my Five Truths post on Monday. By the by, if you haven't read the comments on that page, you really need to. The lists that people left are awesome and inspiring and funny and just all around wonderful! Nolwenn even posted hers to her blog with photos for each one. I love it!
I'm definitely in a black-and-white-is-graphic-and-awesome phase. I think that black and clear striped washi is my most favorite washi ever. It seriously looks good on absolutely everything!
I always get a lot of questions about supplies, so I've tried to include most (it's truly impossible to include everything because I use a lot of different stuff) of the supplies from these three pages down below:
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I hope you enjoyed taking a peek at some of my daily pages. You'll notice that I don't actually art journal every day. And that's 100% okay. I do it most days and that's good enough for me!
Here's the linky list for this week:
Thanks for stopping by!
What a creativity and lovely and beautiful day work Julia. Love it very much.
Have a good day and weekend
lovely greet
Marja
(marjascreativity)
What a creativity and lovely and beautiful day work Julia. Love it very much.
Have a good day and weekend
lovely greet
Marja
(marjascreativity)
What a creativity and lovely and beautiful day work Julia. Love it very much.
Have a good day and weekend
lovely greet
Marja
(marjascreativity)
What a creativity and lovely and beautiful day work Julia. Love it very much.
Have a good day and weekend
lovely greet
Marja
(marjascreativity)
What a creativity and lovely and beautiful day work Julia. Love it very much.
Have a good day and weekend
lovely greet
Marja
(marjascreativity)
These are such fun pages. I love the “on hold with the irs” part. I think one day you will look back on that and laugh. What a great idea though, I often put my family members on speaker while I fold laundry. Making marks and doodles would be lots more fun!
Have a great weekend. Thanks again for inspiring me. I am heading down to my cave of craftiness right now!
These are such fun pages. I love the “on hold with the irs” part. I think one day you will look back on that and laugh. What a great idea though, I often put my family members on speaker while I fold laundry. Making marks and doodles would be lots more fun!
Have a great weekend. Thanks again for inspiring me. I am heading down to my cave of craftiness right now!
These are such fun pages. I love the “on hold with the irs” part. I think one day you will look back on that and laugh. What a great idea though, I often put my family members on speaker while I fold laundry. Making marks and doodles would be lots more fun!
Have a great weekend. Thanks again for inspiring me. I am heading down to my cave of craftiness right now!
These are such fun pages. I love the “on hold with the irs” part. I think one day you will look back on that and laugh. What a great idea though, I often put my family members on speaker while I fold laundry. Making marks and doodles would be lots more fun!
Have a great weekend. Thanks again for inspiring me. I am heading down to my cave of craftiness right now!
These are such fun pages. I love the “on hold with the irs” part. I think one day you will look back on that and laugh. What a great idea though, I often put my family members on speaker while I fold laundry. Making marks and doodles would be lots more fun!
Have a great weekend. Thanks again for inspiring me. I am heading down to my cave of craftiness right now!
Hi Julie – thank you so much for the great post. I LOVE how you covered over half the face. It really makes a great impact and is such a great idea. I crop in photoshop all the time but didn’t think about doing it in “real life.” As always, thank you for your open, sharing heart.
Hi Julie – thank you so much for the great post. I LOVE how you covered over half the face. It really makes a great impact and is such a great idea. I crop in photoshop all the time but didn’t think about doing it in “real life.” As always, thank you for your open, sharing heart.
Hi Julie – thank you so much for the great post. I LOVE how you covered over half the face. It really makes a great impact and is such a great idea. I crop in photoshop all the time but didn’t think about doing it in “real life.” As always, thank you for your open, sharing heart.
Hi Julie – thank you so much for the great post. I LOVE how you covered over half the face. It really makes a great impact and is such a great idea. I crop in photoshop all the time but didn’t think about doing it in “real life.” As always, thank you for your open, sharing heart.
Hi Julie – thank you so much for the great post. I LOVE how you covered over half the face. It really makes a great impact and is such a great idea. I crop in photoshop all the time but didn’t think about doing it in “real life.” As always, thank you for your open, sharing heart.
I so noticed and liked the May tab (even before you pointed it out). Just part of my love for office supplies. The cropped stencil face is cool too. I’m just loving that idea of cropping faces/drawings, I do it with photos all the time.
I so noticed and liked the May tab (even before you pointed it out). Just part of my love for office supplies. The cropped stencil face is cool too. I’m just loving that idea of cropping faces/drawings, I do it with photos all the time.
I so noticed and liked the May tab (even before you pointed it out). Just part of my love for office supplies. The cropped stencil face is cool too. I’m just loving that idea of cropping faces/drawings, I do it with photos all the time.
I so noticed and liked the May tab (even before you pointed it out). Just part of my love for office supplies. The cropped stencil face is cool too. I’m just loving that idea of cropping faces/drawings, I do it with photos all the time.
I so noticed and liked the May tab (even before you pointed it out). Just part of my love for office supplies. The cropped stencil face is cool too. I’m just loving that idea of cropping faces/drawings, I do it with photos all the time.
I so enjoy watching your progress in drawing/painting faces. I notice so much change from even a few months ago. Thanks so much for sharing your growth as an artist!
I so enjoy watching your progress in drawing/painting faces. I notice so much change from even a few months ago. Thanks so much for sharing your growth as an artist!
I so enjoy watching your progress in drawing/painting faces. I notice so much change from even a few months ago. Thanks so much for sharing your growth as an artist!
I so enjoy watching your progress in drawing/painting faces. I notice so much change from even a few months ago. Thanks so much for sharing your growth as an artist!
I so enjoy watching your progress in drawing/painting faces. I notice so much change from even a few months ago. Thanks so much for sharing your growth as an artist!
Happy Friday Julie!! Thanks again for sharing your AWESOME pages with us. I have loved all the guests posts you do for us, so fun to meet new people. Having all these links on Friday’s is also inspiring.
Happy Friday Julie!! Thanks again for sharing your AWESOME pages with us. I have loved all the guests posts you do for us, so fun to meet new people. Having all these links on Friday’s is also inspiring.
Happy Friday Julie!! Thanks again for sharing your AWESOME pages with us. I have loved all the guests posts you do for us, so fun to meet new people. Having all these links on Friday’s is also inspiring.
Happy Friday Julie!! Thanks again for sharing your AWESOME pages with us. I have loved all the guests posts you do for us, so fun to meet new people. Having all these links on Friday’s is also inspiring.
Happy Friday Julie!! Thanks again for sharing your AWESOME pages with us. I have loved all the guests posts you do for us, so fun to meet new people. Having all these links on Friday’s is also inspiring.
I finally bought some speedy carve after an earlier post of yours and I LOVE it. It is wonderful how easily I can draw something out and then transfer it to the speedy carve. The speedy carve is so easy to carve and it prints so wonderfully. I’m a little obsessed with it now. 😀
I finally bought some speedy carve after an earlier post of yours and I LOVE it. It is wonderful how easily I can draw something out and then transfer it to the speedy carve. The speedy carve is so easy to carve and it prints so wonderfully. I’m a little obsessed with it now. 😀
I finally bought some speedy carve after an earlier post of yours and I LOVE it. It is wonderful how easily I can draw something out and then transfer it to the speedy carve. The speedy carve is so easy to carve and it prints so wonderfully. I’m a little obsessed with it now. 😀
I finally bought some speedy carve after an earlier post of yours and I LOVE it. It is wonderful how easily I can draw something out and then transfer it to the speedy carve. The speedy carve is so easy to carve and it prints so wonderfully. I’m a little obsessed with it now. 😀
I finally bought some speedy carve after an earlier post of yours and I LOVE it. It is wonderful how easily I can draw something out and then transfer it to the speedy carve. The speedy carve is so easy to carve and it prints so wonderfully. I’m a little obsessed with it now. 😀
Hi Julie, I just wanted to leave you a little comment to say, well…..you’ve done it!!! I have been following your blog for nearly two years now and whilst I absolutely love all the things you get up to, I could never actually get the courage to start an art journal. I am happy to say that your stencils and art work have finally inspired me to give it a go and I am loving it!! I feel so much more freedom than I ever did scrapbooking and I am so grateful to you for opening up such a wonderful and creative world to some of us that would otherwise be blissfully unaware that such joy existed. I have just ordered my first lot of stencils and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival so thanks again. 🙂
Hi Julie, I just wanted to leave you a little comment to say, well…..you’ve done it!!! I have been following your blog for nearly two years now and whilst I absolutely love all the things you get up to, I could never actually get the courage to start an art journal. I am happy to say that your stencils and art work have finally inspired me to give it a go and I am loving it!! I feel so much more freedom than I ever did scrapbooking and I am so grateful to you for opening up such a wonderful and creative world to some of us that would otherwise be blissfully unaware that such joy existed. I have just ordered my first lot of stencils and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival so thanks again. 🙂
Hi Julie, I just wanted to leave you a little comment to say, well…..you’ve done it!!! I have been following your blog for nearly two years now and whilst I absolutely love all the things you get up to, I could never actually get the courage to start an art journal. I am happy to say that your stencils and art work have finally inspired me to give it a go and I am loving it!! I feel so much more freedom than I ever did scrapbooking and I am so grateful to you for opening up such a wonderful and creative world to some of us that would otherwise be blissfully unaware that such joy existed. I have just ordered my first lot of stencils and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival so thanks again. 🙂
Hi Julie, I just wanted to leave you a little comment to say, well…..you’ve done it!!! I have been following your blog for nearly two years now and whilst I absolutely love all the things you get up to, I could never actually get the courage to start an art journal. I am happy to say that your stencils and art work have finally inspired me to give it a go and I am loving it!! I feel so much more freedom than I ever did scrapbooking and I am so grateful to you for opening up such a wonderful and creative world to some of us that would otherwise be blissfully unaware that such joy existed. I have just ordered my first lot of stencils and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival so thanks again. 🙂
Hi Julie, I just wanted to leave you a little comment to say, well…..you’ve done it!!! I have been following your blog for nearly two years now and whilst I absolutely love all the things you get up to, I could never actually get the courage to start an art journal. I am happy to say that your stencils and art work have finally inspired me to give it a go and I am loving it!! I feel so much more freedom than I ever did scrapbooking and I am so grateful to you for opening up such a wonderful and creative world to some of us that would otherwise be blissfully unaware that such joy existed. I have just ordered my first lot of stencils and I am anxiously awaiting their arrival so thanks again. 🙂
So much interest in each of your spreads! I love your use of color in portraiture. Had to laugh at the IRS thing–I do most of my doodling while on the phone!
So much interest in each of your spreads! I love your use of color in portraiture. Had to laugh at the IRS thing–I do most of my doodling while on the phone!
So much interest in each of your spreads! I love your use of color in portraiture. Had to laugh at the IRS thing–I do most of my doodling while on the phone!
So much interest in each of your spreads! I love your use of color in portraiture. Had to laugh at the IRS thing–I do most of my doodling while on the phone!
So much interest in each of your spreads! I love your use of color in portraiture. Had to laugh at the IRS thing–I do most of my doodling while on the phone!
Love your pages and “on hold with the IRS”. Too funny. I work for a CPA firm and there are many times I’m holding on for the IRS and I doodle on yellow stickies!
Thanks for all your inspiration!
Love your pages and “on hold with the IRS”. Too funny. I work for a CPA firm and there are many times I’m holding on for the IRS and I doodle on yellow stickies!
Thanks for all your inspiration!
Love your pages and “on hold with the IRS”. Too funny. I work for a CPA firm and there are many times I’m holding on for the IRS and I doodle on yellow stickies!
Thanks for all your inspiration!
Love your pages and “on hold with the IRS”. Too funny. I work for a CPA firm and there are many times I’m holding on for the IRS and I doodle on yellow stickies!
Thanks for all your inspiration!
Love your pages and “on hold with the IRS”. Too funny. I work for a CPA firm and there are many times I’m holding on for the IRS and I doodle on yellow stickies!
Thanks for all your inspiration!
I love hearing that!
I love hearing that!
I love hearing that!
I love hearing that!
I love hearing that!
Always love your post Julie! I want you to know that I art journal because I found you a year and a half ago while looking at different blogs. I had no idea that there was a practice of working in a daily art journal. Not A Clue!
I was however very sick during this time and I thought – What do I have to lose! So here I sit today still following you and loving your blog. Even though I don’t tell you this – Your blog may have just saved my very soul. Thank you for that Julz! Thank You!
Tonight, to date, I have completed my first altered book and three Pacon Sketchbooks Diaries!
I now have three altered books I am working on along with a PLANAHEAD Journal and two other Pacon Sketchbook Diaries.
I have built back up my blog! Learned to move around flickr, facebook, fotoflexer, vimeo, chat, youtube and stream. I am learning to take better pictures, working towards learning how to make a good video and finally getting brave enough to start taking classes.I was always a bit worried that I would fall behind and get discouraged or ask way to many questions.
So I Have Come A Long Way Baby!
I Do Know This . . . I started all of this because of you!
Happy 4th Of July My Friend!
You Are The Best!
Blessings!
Always love your post Julie! I want you to know that I art journal because I found you a year and a half ago while looking at different blogs. I had no idea that there was a practice of working in a daily art journal. Not A Clue!
I was however very sick during this time and I thought – What do I have to lose! So here I sit today still following you and loving your blog. Even though I don’t tell you this – Your blog may have just saved my very soul. Thank you for that Julz! Thank You!
Tonight, to date, I have completed my first altered book and three Pacon Sketchbooks Diaries!
I now have three altered books I am working on along with a PLANAHEAD Journal and two other Pacon Sketchbook Diaries.
I have built back up my blog! Learned to move around flickr, facebook, fotoflexer, vimeo, chat, youtube and stream. I am learning to take better pictures, working towards learning how to make a good video and finally getting brave enough to start taking classes.I was always a bit worried that I would fall behind and get discouraged or ask way to many questions.
So I Have Come A Long Way Baby!
I Do Know This . . . I started all of this because of you!
Happy 4th Of July My Friend!
You Are The Best!
Blessings!
Always love your post Julie! I want you to know that I art journal because I found you a year and a half ago while looking at different blogs. I had no idea that there was a practice of working in a daily art journal. Not A Clue!
I was however very sick during this time and I thought – What do I have to lose! So here I sit today still following you and loving your blog. Even though I don’t tell you this – Your blog may have just saved my very soul. Thank you for that Julz! Thank You!
Tonight, to date, I have completed my first altered book and three Pacon Sketchbooks Diaries!
I now have three altered books I am working on along with a PLANAHEAD Journal and two other Pacon Sketchbook Diaries.
I have built back up my blog! Learned to move around flickr, facebook, fotoflexer, vimeo, chat, youtube and stream. I am learning to take better pictures, working towards learning how to make a good video and finally getting brave enough to start taking classes.I was always a bit worried that I would fall behind and get discouraged or ask way to many questions.
So I Have Come A Long Way Baby!
I Do Know This . . . I started all of this because of you!
Happy 4th Of July My Friend!
You Are The Best!
Blessings!
Always love your post Julie! I want you to know that I art journal because I found you a year and a half ago while looking at different blogs. I had no idea that there was a practice of working in a daily art journal. Not A Clue!
I was however very sick during this time and I thought – What do I have to lose! So here I sit today still following you and loving your blog. Even though I don’t tell you this – Your blog may have just saved my very soul. Thank you for that Julz! Thank You!
Tonight, to date, I have completed my first altered book and three Pacon Sketchbooks Diaries!
I now have three altered books I am working on along with a PLANAHEAD Journal and two other Pacon Sketchbook Diaries.
I have built back up my blog! Learned to move around flickr, facebook, fotoflexer, vimeo, chat, youtube and stream. I am learning to take better pictures, working towards learning how to make a good video and finally getting brave enough to start taking classes.I was always a bit worried that I would fall behind and get discouraged or ask way to many questions.
So I Have Come A Long Way Baby!
I Do Know This . . . I started all of this because of you!
Happy 4th Of July My Friend!
You Are The Best!
Blessings!
Always love your post Julie! I want you to know that I art journal because I found you a year and a half ago while looking at different blogs. I had no idea that there was a practice of working in a daily art journal. Not A Clue!
I was however very sick during this time and I thought – What do I have to lose! So here I sit today still following you and loving your blog. Even though I don’t tell you this – Your blog may have just saved my very soul. Thank you for that Julz! Thank You!
Tonight, to date, I have completed my first altered book and three Pacon Sketchbooks Diaries!
I now have three altered books I am working on along with a PLANAHEAD Journal and two other Pacon Sketchbook Diaries.
I have built back up my blog! Learned to move around flickr, facebook, fotoflexer, vimeo, chat, youtube and stream. I am learning to take better pictures, working towards learning how to make a good video and finally getting brave enough to start taking classes.I was always a bit worried that I would fall behind and get discouraged or ask way to many questions.
So I Have Come A Long Way Baby!
I Do Know This . . . I started all of this because of you!
Happy 4th Of July My Friend!
You Are The Best!
Blessings!