Five minute Friday Tutorial!! Fun with chalk pastels!!

Hi guys hope your week is going great! Here is this weeks video about using chalk pastels and gesso to get some bright vivid color in your journal! I hope you enjoy, and let me know if you guys try it out!! Have a great weekend!

Discoveries made in the Process....

Hi friends, hope everyone is doing well! Just a quick update, sharing some new pages and such, I will be back on Friday with a new fun 5 minute tutorial!

Lately I have had a lot on my mind, friendship, forgivness, being open to new possibilities and self love. You can tell in my journal pages that I have been writing a lot more than usual.

do you have periods of time where you feel more reflective? Feel like you need to get everything out, the good and bad?

Well I thing we all have go through things that make us think, make us evolve and learn who we are, maybe I am learning from my mistakes....

What is on your mind this week? Make sure to take time out of your day to reflect, journal and of course get some paint on your fingers! See ya Friday!

Five minute Friday Tutorial!!

Hi there! Hope everyone is having a great week! I figured I would do a quick update and I a starting a new video series that will be on the blog every Friday! This week I am going to do a cool gesso back ground with you! The video is a little dark, so lets hope next weeks goes better!

I hope you guys enjoyed the tutorial! Here are some pictures from my journal!

Alright I will be back tomorrow with a fun little project for you all! I hope you have a great Saturday!!!

Smashing Sunday! (and free printables)

Hi friends how are you on this fine Super Bowl Sunday? Since I am not the biggest football fan, I have been spending my day making fun Valentines day goodies! I really want to get back into blogging but life has been crazy ie; a trip to Colorado and lots of other fun things! But here we are reading for some Smashing fun!

Here are the first few pages in my Smash book for 2013

Ok now for the fun, I have a TON of cool freebies I found on the net that you can print out and use in your SMASHbook! Most were found through Pinterest and are also used for Project Life. Here are a few I printed out

Now on to the links!
Some fun Envelopes and Labels
128 Free (not to mention cute) Printables!
Journaling Tags Galore!
Fun Printable Tickets
Even more cute labels!
Great for Valentine's Day!
Some more cute labels!!!
Adorable Camera Printables!
Every Occaison Pritables
Super Cute!

Well there you go! Have fun with these, whether in your journal, scrapbooking, smashbooking or project life album! Have a great Sunday!

Project Fall day one - Give Thanks mini book tutorial!

Hi friends, I have been gone for awhile but only because we very suddenly had to move houses! It is a huge long story and I am just so happy to be settled and ready to create in our new home! I am starting a new project for November, called Project fall, it is two weeks of fun projects from today til the day after Christmas! I hope you all enjoy! So today is Day one and the project is a give thanks mini journal/scrapbook! I am using it to write the things I am thankful for all this month! So here we go!

My finished book measures 5inches long by 6 inches tall obviously you can choose what works best for you!

First I cut all of my papers down to 10x6 inch pieces and then folded them in half

I then burnished them with the end of my scissors

I added tags and random strips of paper

  

After this I would up with two sections of paper each with four pieces of paper

I took the first section and opened to the middle, I measured the six inches and marked in the center at the 1 inch and 5 inch

Do the same thing with both signatures add the cover and poke through there as well

Grab your needle and book binding thread and start on the outside cover and poke your needle into the book

poke needle into the other side and come back around to the front

Tye your string as tight as possible and your done! Just a note I did each signature right outside of the center line on the cover, which is why it is tied on one side and not in the middle of the book!

I hope you all enjoyed the tutorial, I will be back tomorrow with another fun project for you all, questions and comments always welcome! Have a great day!

Bits and Pieces from the Studio

Here a few shots of what I am working on today!

The first picture is from the Dream Big class with Traci Bautista (which is so much fun)
The second photo is a journal page in progress.
The last photo is my work basket for making skull headbands! Here are what they look like finished!\

Super fun right?

Well that is all from me today I hope you are all having a great weekend and please share what you are working on!

Wow it's June already?

Hello friends, how are you? I hope your summer is going well, I know mine is! My birthday was just on the fourth and well I still CANNOT believe I am 32! I had an amazing birthday, I got a new sewing machine and lots of fun fabric! ON TOP OF THAT... my wife signed me up for Dream Big and the Creativity Unleashed video kit club with Traci Bautista! So far I am really loving it and feel so full of inspiration from them! 

What is inspiring you right now? Is it a class, a color, the weather, a friend or maybe a new discovery?

I am also REALLY getting back into scrapbooking and papercrafting in general! I even created a new blog just for scrapbooking and papercrafts. When it is up and running I will be more than happy to share the link with you!

Lastly here are some new journal pages!

Can you tell I am STILL so in LOVE with color! I don't actually know if that will ever change, playing with color and texture are the best parts of art journaling, for me!

What do you love about art journaling?

Alright friends that is all from me today but I will be back soon! Have a GREAT day!

Art Journaling is a SMASHing good time!

Hi friends! I hope everyone is doing well! I have been super busy with work as well as THREE new dogs!  We adopted two goldendoodle puppies and took in a 13 year old dog! Needless to say life has been a bit crazy but on to the fun stuff!


I am so in love with my SMASHbook!
I am having such a great time working in my smashbook, granted I only have a few pages done but I love them! I love that I am taking my old passion of scrapbooking and my passion of art journaling and putting them together! So if you have a chance try it out, there are so many great ideas for using smashbooks! Here are some blogs with some fun ideas for using a smashbook

Instagram photos in a SMASHbook!
I adore her SMASHbook pages!
The official SMASHbook blog!
A Pintrest boaed for SMASHbooks!

Here are my SMASHbook pages thus far

I have two more SMASHbook pages in the works right now so stay tuned!!!


My Art Journal has been well a bit neglected...... BUT I am slowly getting myself back into it as well as experimenting, playing and just having fun with it! My new love is watercolors, I love the cool effects you can achieve with them! I will be doing a little watercolor tutorial for you really soon! I am still such a sucker for bright colors and painted doodles, I could sit for hours and doodle with paint it seems! Here are some recent pages!

 Challenge yourself this week and try some new things in your journal

• Use some scrapbook paper in your art journal
• Doodle with your paintbrush
• Use your favorite art supply in a new way

Please check out Samantha Kira's post about our fun art picnic over here
Well friends that is all from me tonight but I will be back soon so stay tuned!

Inspiration Week umm again?

Sorry friends for the break! But I am back and even whith a video for you! So today we are talking about using prompts to inspire us!so here goes it! Here is the video!

 Once again my final result!

So here are some links for you! Have fun! See ya tomorrow!
a year in the life
Journal Craft Inspration
Journaling Saves
Rhomany's Realm
Creativity Portal
Picture Prompts
My Creativity Blog
Art Journaling Challenges
GPP Street Team
52 Week Challenge
Studio Tangie
Tuesday Ten
Creative Therapy

OOOH! Also please check out my facebook page all this week for extra videos, links and fun!
Adventures in Art Journaling on FB

Inspiration Week!

Hello friends! This week I have something special to share with you! I decided to do a week full of artsy inspiration, we all can you some right? So today I have a video for you and I accidentally already posted the result page (oops) but I will re post it anyway!

So here is the result from using an inspiration flair tray!

On a sad note my golden retriever Copper passed away last Thursday, he wasn't eating and he was so skinny, and any time he did eat he couldn't keep it down. On top of all of that he was having a hard time getting around and was just sleeping all day because he had a huge tumor that was bleeding into his stomach. So on Thursday night our vet came to the house and put him to sleep, I miss him so much already but I know he is in heaven playing with his brother right now....  Well I will be back tomorrow, have a great day!