Have you ever seen a handmade art journal that has decorative edge cuts as part of the page design? They are beautiful — and time consuming! I adore their appearance, but don’t usually have the time to devote to their creation.
In recently going through the handbook of one of my Cricut cartridges, I decided that instead of cutting one of the little booklets from card stock, I would use mixed media paper. That way, I could create the small size I wanted, yet use it for whatever suits my mood! I have a large pad of Canson watercolor, 90 lb. paper, which I had picked up on sale. It is heavy enough to take whatever I decide to dish out on my pages. It is 12×18″ so it was easy to cut a 12×12″ sheet to place on the cutting mat. So that’s what I decided to use.
I used the Artbooking Cricut cartridge from Close to My Heart. To maximize my paper, I cut the pages at 5 inches. Now I have a sweet little booklet to use however I want. I may even just do background treatments and still put some little photos in it.
Notice the bonus letters from the cut-outs of “summer” and “fun.”
Once I picked out which pages I wanted to use, it was a breeze! I love the fact that there are various sized page heights. I could have made two of the scrolled pages and flipped them opposite ways! Maybe next time.
Check out all the cuts you can do in the Artbooking handbook, and pick yours up here.
What would you do with a little summer art journal? Draw, paint, use it for photos….? Share your ideas in the comments!
How 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!
We often have color palettes we know we are going to use, and sometimes we need something new or different to try for a project, whether it’s a scrapbook layout, an art journal page, or anything we are doing with color. Have you ever wondered why certain unlikely colors look great together, or how a color combination became so popular for a holiday or season? Let’s look at the old Christmas standby of red and green, and look at another method of selecting a color palette – complementary color schemes.
We continue our Artful Adventures today as we look at another way to use a printable download. How do you like the picture for our adventure this week?
