SOME OF YOU MAY KNOW that I have kept journals/diaries for many years. I like to write things down. It clears my head, it’s like self administered therapy. My kind of therapy. I don’t have to go out and speak to people about my private life. I simply take some time for myself and I start writing. As the years passed and the diaries piled up, I began to feel more creative. I wanted to add pictures, clippings from magazines, little sketches, some coloured pencil drawings etc. I noticed how much more interesting the journals were to flip through when I did this and I was hooked. I began to notice how the time would fly by while I was lost in the process. I used colouring pencils, watercolour paints, stamps and ink, washi tape and anything else that I could find.
I didn’t know until recently that what I was doing was called Art Journaling. Hours spent on Pinterest has revealed some amazing Art Journaling. I have a Pinterest board “Create With Barb” full of fantastic artworks by dedicated art journallers.
Kristal Norton www.hello@kristalnorton.com offers a free ‘Art Journaling 101’ course. Simply sign up and you will receive a daily email explaining everything. It is well worth signing up for. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
This is a fabric journal I made during an online course with Mary Ann Moss, I will provide a link at the bottom of this blog post. I used some scraps of Japanese kimono fabrics to make the cover, the inside I lined with calico which I stamped. I quilted the whole thing together using embroidery stitches on my sewing machine. I loved the process of making this album, I filled it with junk from my paper stash, used envelopes, programs for shows I had seen, die cuts, stickers, washi tape, photo’s and even notes from my now grown children. I loved making this album and it is so unique. I made pockets with transparent envelopes and put photographs and stamps inside, recipes and magazine pictures. Anything goes really.
Go to http://dispatchfromla.typepad.com/ to see Mary Ann Moss’ work. She has some very interesting and inspiring ideas on travel journals and you can buy her online courses to make your own.
This is the front cover of my latest book box. This will be a class project that I will be running in August and again in September. If you would like to register your interest in making this pretty Vintage style book box, please contact me by leaving a message below.
Today’s card was inspired by a card seen on Pinterest. It was created using all Stampin’ UP! materials.
