Art Journaling Basics for Beginners ebook and Videos

Art Journaling Basics for BeginnersLearn the basics to getting started on your own Artful Adventure into Art Journaling!

If you have always wanted to find out more about art journaling, here’s your chance.  This eBook is complete with video links, as well as images and ideas for your first few pages! It addresses some questions you may have about the very basics of getting started.

The ebook is a downloadable 26 page .PDF file and includes 4 video links along with the printed information, which is NOT a transcription from the videos!  It is an 8.5 x 11 inch size, so that you can print out the included images and quotes to use in your art journaling.

This eBook offers valuable tips on:

  • What to use for a journal
  • Instructions for making your own journal by recycling a book, if you’d like to go green!
  • Tips on Basic Supplies
  • Information on Adhesives
  • 5 Ways to Make Backgrounds
  • Tips on Getting Started
  • Starter Prompts
  • Printable Images and quotes to help you get started! 

Get yours now for just $7

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 What People are saying:

I highly recommend Kristie’s ebook, Artful Adventures – Art Journaling Basics, for anyone who has dabbled or who has thought about dabbling in art journaling. Kristie debunks the myth that you need to be an artist to have an art journal. With her open, shoot from the hip style, you learn what an art journal can be, what to look for when buying one and how to create gorgeous background patterns. Getting messy can be the hardest thing for Type A people like me but after watching Kristie slap gesso on the page with her hands, I want to try it! Thanks to Kristie’s tips and tricks I feel more confident in my own fledgling art journaling attempts!

Alison Day
AlisonDayDesigns.com

I love Kristie’s approach to learning about art journaling.  I am so glad I got a chance to read her book.  It is full of beginner info that I found invaluable.  This book should be in every beginner’s hands.  

Gina
GinaZee.com

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Wednesday Wonder – Photoshop Elements Shortcut Keys

Melissa Shanhun ABCS of PSEHave you ever used Photoshop Elements?  Many people have a love/hate relationship ship with digital software – especially when it comes to using them for design.  If you can maneuver your way around a program you can do all kinds of amazing things! Maybe you’d like to do digital scrapbooking, try your hand at designing a card, or even go digital with art journaling!  Whatever you’d like to do, knowing the shortcut keys can be such a time saver!

My friend, Melissa Shanhun, teaches Photoshop Elements (PSE) over at DigitalScrapbookingHQ.com.  Currently she is going through a series called the ABC’s of PSE.  She has daily tips she is putting up on her DigitalScrapbookingHQ Facebook Page.

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Click on image to link to training!

You can also sign up for her training here!

Melissa also has great tips for handling all your digital image files for scrapbooking, as far as organizing goes!  Be sure to go visit her on Facebook and on her site, and tell her I sent you over!

Enjoy your Artful Adventures!

KS

 

Wednesday Wonder – True Scrap Kids

truescrapkidsHow about spending a day treating your kids, and yourself, to paper crafting goodness! True Scrap Kids is a virtual, online event coming to you July 27th.  Everything will be recorded so you can play it again, or if you’ve already made plans for that day you can watch everything later!

True Scrap events bring fun and interesting teachers and activities right into your own space. There is no need to travel or leave home to participate.

I have loved every minute of the True Scrap events I’ve participated in. There are crafty kids in my life and it is going to be a blast sharing crafting time that is especially geared to kids this time!

 Just click the button below to get all the info you need!

Hurry now to get an early bird discount!

More Info Please!

KS

July’s Art Journals, Gesso, and Gelatos!

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Grab your passport because July’s Artful Adventures are going to be fun! We are going to heat it up around here and start off July with a bang!

First off, we are going to get the scoop on Art Journaling. If you have ever wondered what it is, where to start, and what to use, then this is the perfect adventure for you!

Next, since gesso is a basic product and often used in art journaling, we’ll be covering what you need to know about gesso.

Then it’s off to discover Gelatos! I hope you will love them as much as I do! We will be learning how to use them in a variety of ways, and you’ll be so happy to know that they are perfect for art journaling, scrapbooking, and card-making! I seriously can’t wait to show you!

Cheers to YOUR creativity!

KS

 

 

 

Photo Credit: bayasaa via Flickr Creative Commons License

Free Scrapbook and Art Journal Prompts and a New Look on the Website

KristieSloanHi friends!  Did you notice the new header today?  Cute twist on going on Artful Adventures, don’t you agree?  You can look forward to seeing little bits and pieces of travel related things as we go on Artful Adventures together!

Also, there is a brand new freebie for you!  It is a page of Project Prompts.  It includes:

  • 45 Inspiration Starters
  • 30 Product Reminders of things you may have forgotten about
  • 20 Technique Reminders

With all that, you are sure to come up with some great projects.  Project prompts can be such a great starting point, whether it’s an art journal page, a scrapbook page, mixed media….. whatever!  I have many projects that are the result of a prompt somebody gave me. It made me think in a different way than maybe would have on my own, on that day, at that time.

PLUS, you are going to love this!  When you sign up to get the Project Prompts, you will also start receiving new ones each month!  WooHoo!

For those of you already on my list, the new freebie info should already be in your inbox!  If you aren’t on the list, look to the right on this page and just send me over your and email.  It’s that easy!