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!

I'm Baaaaaaaack!!!

Hi friends! I hope you are all having a great week! I just got back from California yesterday and I am already missing all the friends and family there!  I apologize for my absence, I lost my job and have been on the hunt for a new one, been to California for over a week, and lots of other things. I have been art journaling and doing other crafty things as well.  I have a lot planned for the rest of the month as well as March, I want to change up the blog, start an e-course and start a mailing list and start doing weekly U-Streams as well.  I started the sketchbook challenge and have been doodling and drawing more than usual. I love it, it calms me down and I keep my pad of paper and all of my pens and pencils in my purse at all times, so that when the creative bug bites I can sketch!

So a few weekends ago Samantha came over and we spent the entire day experimenting with new and different things in my backyard. We made marble paper, we both worked on our journals and she worked on a huge piece of paper inspired by Traci Bautista and her new book. We definitely feed off of each other and I love having a friend “who gets it”.

I am super excited for tomorrow night I am going to do a UStream so please tune in! My UStream user name is adventuresinaj so be on the look out tomorrow!

Here are miscellaneous photos from around the studio as well as my week in photos!

                               

These bows are so fun! I am selling some so if you are interested please email me! becca2531@yahoo.com

My week in photos

Well I hope you all have a great Friday night and I will be back tomorrow with a UStream and a new blog post!

Collage Everday day 12

Yikes!Where did the time go? It most definitely slipped away from me, but I have been keeping up on my collage everyday challenge as well as taking photos everyday! So let's get right to it here are my collage pages day 3 to 12!

Yes there are a few older ones in there but I still like them so I figures they are worth posting! I am enjoying the challenge, I am using supplies I normally wouldn't and supplies I haven't used in years so it makes me happy!

I have one new journal page to show you, hopefully I will have one more done tomorrow as well, I miss art journaling, over the holidays, I really took a break from it and getting started again it hasn't been easy but at the same time it is like falling in love all over again!

I like this page , the colors and just being able to express how I am feeling makes me happy and isn't that what making art is all about?

Here are a few snapshots from the past few days....

 Our guest last weekend <3 his name is Stitch

 Mine and Samie Kira's mess on Saturday!

 My adorable niece Bella and I

More light play!

Alright friends I will be back on Saturday with more art to share with you! Also go check out Samie Kira's post about our New Years sleep over here ! Have a great day!

Hello and Happy New Year's!

Hello friends! I hope everyone had an amazing Holiday season, I know I did! So I apologize for abandoning you all in November or was that October? Well I am back with lots of fun things in store for us from $5 and $10 dollar mini classes to challenges and give aways! We are starting off January with a collage every day challenge and will be doing give aways as well as an awesome prize pack at the end of the month for those of you who participate with me! Another adventure I am starting is opening up my first Etsy store (which I am so so excited for!) I will be selling things from digi stamps to journal collage kits to jewelry and hair accessories! I am so excited for the New Year; it brings so many possibilities and opportunities! 

Well let's get started with our collage everyday challenge! Here is my first page!

I love the girl and the owls oh and the transparency! I will be back tomorrow with another page! I have a few journal pages to share with you as well, I finished one today and I am super happy with how it turned out!

The top page is the one I finished today I love all of the color! The last one is made using Samantha Kira's new stamps! I have decided that this year I want to take more photos and just capture more of the amazing moments that go on around me. So for 2012 I am going to try to take at least one picture a day for a year! Sounds fun right? I am doing good so far, here are the pictures from today January first.

The nighttime pictures are from last night at midnight, sparklers are lots of fun (but be careful!) The top is me and Samie Kira this morning after our New Year's slumber party, we tried some new techniques from Traci Bautista's new Strathmore 2012 online workshop, we watched the videos and were instantly inspired! Neither of us is finished with our pages so I will post back when it is all done! Well have a great Sunday night and I will see you tomorrow!