31 Art Journals - Day 6 - Graze Box Recycled Journal

Welcome to Day 6 of the 31 Art Journals, it is a pleasure to be here again and to share with you today's journal.

This is a recycled journal made from the outer cover of this Graze Box, which for those who are not familiar you can see the review that I did HERE  They are very tasty.

They contain a great selection of snacks that you can mix and match depending on your tastes.  

So I decided to use the outer cover of the graze box to make the journal and it was filled with a selection of recycled paper that I would be working on.

I created two journals out of the packaging and you can see the post HERE  They were great fun to make and it meant less things going into landfill.

After completion I began to add color to the pages and random collage material just to get something down and not have a blank page staring back.  This is a great especially if you have limited time, you can at least feel that you have got something creative done.

The completed journal along with some handmade beads to decorate the spine and a button clasp.

Check out the video to take a look inside the journal.

31 Art Journals - Day 5

Welcome to Day 5 of the 31 Art Journals, it has been great taking a walk into some of my Art Journals so far, I hope that you have been finding it interesting coming for a stroll with me.

The journals I am sharing with you today is my Creating in Faith Art Journal, which was part of a 30 day prayer journal group that a fellow artist call from Motley Soul started.

Out of this I also started a Creating in Faith series, and you can check it out HERE

For each page in the journal we were given a bible verse and we then interpreted it in our own creative way.

It was a great time of reflection and spending time in our journals and sharing our revelations with the other creatives on the online group.  It is another great example of allowing your creativity to flow and choose something that means a lot to you.

This is a journal that I can regularly spend time in as I meditate on the images drawn the meaning behind the scriptures for me, and maybe using those thoughts and creating another journal.

Within the journal I also created pockets, with tags that I could write additional words on.

Here is the video for today

31 Art Journals - Day 4

Welcome to Day 4.  Slightly later than I had hoped but better late than never.

This journal is the one I call my John Lewis Journal, because it started its life out as a John Lewis Catalog :)

I started it because I needed something to travel with when I was staying at my mums who I was looking after and just needed a break, without taking loads of supplies

I would use the catalog images along with gesso and red and blue and I would mask out some of the home and decor images and challenge myself by adding new ones.  I would mostly add people and try and integrate them within the space and let them tell a story.

As a carer it was great to use this journal in a way that would give me some time to myself, and it is important as a carer that you identify something that you can do even do for 10-15 minutes

That again is the great thing about creating in an art journal, and to make it your own, what you need at the time rather than what you feel that others are doing.

I have completed some of the pages, others I keep it for when I want to create a particular scene on the pages

Check out the video to see some more of the pages and think about what you can do in your own journal adventure.

Day 1 - 3

If you haven't had a chance to check out the other journals

Art Journal Day 1

 Art Journal Day 2

Art Journal Day 3

Stay blessed and be a blessing, and come back tomorrow.

31 Art Journals - Day 3

Welcome to Day 3 of 31 Art Journals, It is great to have you here and to walk with me through another art journal.

This is a shop brought journal that  had the cover altered with layers of paint and finished off with a painting of a woman.  I enjoy doing faces so you will find a lot of them in the work that I do.

Soul - Art Journal

This particular Journal I used for a course called Soul Restoration with Melody Ross - it was a brilliant course and well worth you taking a look at.

Soul Restoration Course

I used it to answer the questions on the course which were always challenging and got you to think and while I wrote I also created art.  There were so many things on the course, art exercises, video tips, and more, my journey was to show myself how art and creativity was firmly knitted into my being and uncover my truth.

So here is another use for an art journal, and as I said you need to use it for the things that mean something to you.  If you are just starting out you may become slightly overwhelmed with a shed load of books, but I feel that each one that you create will eventually have a purpose.

Let yourself be free in your journal

Experiment and tell your story

Towards the end of the journal I used it to experiment with colour and collage material and used it to address things that were going on in my life at the time.  Use it for what you think suits, and don't stress about it.

Looking back through these journals and the work that I have done in them has been a blessing, and I am looking forward to next month when I share journal pages.

Check out the videos

 

Last but not least, I would love to have you join me for the online class in November that I will be teaching on called Hacking the Colour Wheel - Art Journaling for Creative Rebels. I have one spot to give away on the course and you will have access to a range of wonderful lessons to inspire and motivate you. You will also be learning a book binding technique to create your own art journal

Stay blessed and be a blessing, share, subscribe to my YouTube channel and come back tomorrow.