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Art Journal Calendar, Scrapbook Style
Happy New Year!
Oh my goodness, it’s the new year and I hope you all had enjoyable days during the holidays! Recently, I was invited to join in on a challenge I hadn’t heard of before – making an art journal calendar for the year. Wait, don’t run off before I tell you about it! You may want to try something like this.
Basically, you create your own calendar in an artsy way, and then just jot down something each day! That’s about all the journaling some of us may do! It’s even more than some of us do now! Some people create theirs with 1.5 inch squares, but this one was made with 2″ squares since the pages were large and could accomodate that size. Plus, I’m not sure I can get anything written in something smaller than that!
Since many of you scrapbook, I wanted to give you an idea of how to do this, scrapbook style!
Here’s a basic run down on how my January 2013 was created:
- I did this as a double page spread, using 12×12 inch paper.
- I first used several die cut snowflakes and and inked over the background using 3 colors of ink.
- The bottom was masked off with torn paper, moving it around to ink over the edges and to make my snow drifts.
- Snowflakes were then stamped.
- Squares were cut from a decorative paper and adhered.
- Tiny strips of paper were cut and the days of week hand written and adhered.
- Journal blocks were outlined in black to give a little more definition.
- Die cut letters were made for “January” and “2013”
- White pen was used to make some icicles on the edges of some the journal squares.
- White die cut snowflakes were added in a few places.
- Glitter glue was added to snowflakes, snow drifts and a lot of other places for added sparkle!
I just finished mine today, but I know a couple of things I’ll write for yesterday. Don’t be put off from doing this, just because you didn’t get it ready by January 1st! There are plenty of days to come, and it could be a fun thing to have and look back at. Just think, 12 layouts to sum up a year! What fun to look back on.
If you end up making something, please come over and share it with us over at the Artful Adventures FaceBook Group!
Art Journaling and Scrapbooking Classes
Do you ever wish you could get away to attend a workshop that you think you’d enjoy? Or what about a whole artsy, craftsy, scrappy weekend? Ohhh that would be fun! However, that isn’t always something we can make happen. Therefore, Lain Ehmann came up with the brilliant idea to have just such an event – virtually! She calls it TrueScrap, and so far she has held four of them!
Now you can get any of TrueScrap 4 classes individually, and on sale!
Each on is just $9.95 until 12/25!
How about this class with Julie Fei-Fan Balzar! This is a fun class and you’ll get to watch her in action and learn techniques you can try for yourself. Click here to view more details on Julie’s class.
Or maybe you want more scrapbook ideas. Heidi Swapp shows Your Memory File scrapbooking techniques, and you can get some great ideas on ways to incorporate a lot into a small space. You can learn to take your scrapbooking a new direction! Click here to view more details on Heidi’s class.
You may wonder what the “art journaling” craze is all about, or you may like to pick up a few tips and techniques. Click here to view more details on Erin’s class.
Okay, that’s only three of the classes from TrueScrap 4. There are 11 more to look at!
You can see all the offerings by clicking here and scrolling through the classes!
Have fun!
Professional Looking Project Photos Class
Hello scrappy, artsy, craftsy friends! Have you ever wondered how you could get some great photos of your work so you could share online, or have the photos for other purposes? Here is a wonderful recording of a webinar with Nichol Magouirk showing how you can get professional looking results just like this picture! Nice gift for yourself!
Save $10 and get it for just $7.
You can’t go wrong with this price! Click here to view more details.
Five Golden Letterings Class, with Joanne Sharpe
Joanne Sharpe is such a gifted artist and teacher and I would be remiss if I did not share her wonderful free class she is doing now! It is called Five Golden Letterings and is yours to enjoy at no cost!
She is already on day 3 of the class, so if you watch the videos, you’ll have an idea of what you may have on hand that you can already use. You could also use the techniques you’ll see and use whatever colors you want! Shhh… I won’t tell you didn’t use gold!
So far she has shown some great ways to spiff up some wrapping paper, gift bags, and cards! It’s amazing how a handful of supplies can be used to de-stress and make something artful and useful all at the same time! You are sure to pick up a some ideas to artfully add some special touches to your holidays!
Stop by and check out her Five Golden Letterings class! Then come back and share with us what you’ve made!