Art Journal Collage

Had a little time this afternoon to play with some journal pages, the hardest part is to wait for the gesso or paint to dry, and then actually finish a page!
I painted the background first, not that you can see it now, never mind its all a learning curve. Then collaged anything which I liked from old magazines I had lying around, glued them in with no thought to where or why. Then I gessoed, painted over that, and then gessoed some more, to tone the colours down. Then I went over the edges with some crayons, just to make the collaged pieces pop out!
Lastly I added another piece of paper, on which I had written a list of "How to Journal", I just wrote what ever came to mind, then glued that on and gessoed over it, painted on the back once it was folded to make it look like it was part of the collaged pieces.
It was messy and fun and quite liberating, just painting without any thought to an outcome.Hope you like my pages and maybe give it a try.





This is a tag from gorgeous Bev, I received in the mail a few days ago. Love getting mail, love getting arty mail especially.It is now hanging on a hook by the phone in the kitchen, so I get to see it and be reminded of how lucky I am every day. The "Spread The Love" give away is a tag giveaway. Once you receive the tag, it is then your turn to giveaway tags to 3 participants, plus one back to the previous tag/love giver.
All you have to do is leave a comment on my blog before the end of March.
So go on, don't be shy be part of it and let's all spread some love to one another.
Who knows how far the tags will go around the world? How very exciting!
Everyone is welcome :)
Meanwhile, I will be making more journal pages too, and tags. In between family visiting from Sydney.
Have a great weekend!

Books and some journaling

In the past few months I have been collecting and reading art/creative books which I had bought throughout last year, but never got around to reading them until now. I have quickly read through them, because each and everyone of the books are wonderful eye candy, so many gorgeous pictures, colours and inspiration, how could one resist not looking through them. But yes I needed to read thoroughly through each book to truly understand what the artist was trying to convey in her book.
In the next post I will reveiew "Journal Spilling" by Diana Trout and show you some of the pages that I have attempted at doing. Lots of fun!!!
Then as I read through each book I would like to do a write up and a visual of my interpretation of the art/craft from the book.See how we go...;)






Above are some images of the Valentines' gifts I made for my family. Empty now but were filled with a little love note and chocolates ofcourse! I love how they turned out, I think these little gift bags could be made for any occassion. I found the tutorial in Shona's blog.Please go visit, this artist is truly gorgeous and generous with her art!
The last image is of a journal I made and re-made, still needs something but at the moment I will leave it,kinda stuck. Any ideas anyone?
So in the month of March, journaling is my focus, a page a day, and I am needing to catch up already! But will show and tell.
Does anyone else have a focus for the month?
Take care all you lovely creative people.....Angie ox