Week 16

Adding pockets to your art journal

1) The easiest way to do this is to take an envelope or a bag of some sort, and glue that on the page.
You can use these as extra pages or "tip-ins" (Tipped-in page is a page that is printed separately from the rest of the book and then added to the book as a page; either bound in together with the other pages, glued in or glued on an existing page.)

It's fun to use envelopes with windows or plastic bags or translucent bags.

There are also printables online, like library pockets. Those are kind of cute. :-)

2) You can also glue a pocket in by adding glue or double-sided tape on the edges of a page, or tape it on place.

You could also sew the pocket in place, or staple it. Any way you can attach the pocket on the page is good. (Sewing and stapling adds texture, if you use washi-tape, you add colors and patterns.)

It doesn't need to be a rectangle, you can use any shape as a pocket.

3) Glue two pages together at the edges, leave the top open. That is sort of a hidden pocket.
You can also leave the side open.
Or you could glue the pages together at all sides but leave them unglued in the middle, and cut a slit in one of them to create a pocket. It might be a good idea to glue the top of the slit on the "background" page, to make it easier to use.

Week 15

Art journal every day: a weekly plan

Last week of this different ways of encountering art journal! This week's style is "doodling" :-)

I am very fascinated by this style, but I haven't dared to venture into this venue...

Pinterest inspiration: Zentangle Art Journals

Week 14

Art journal every day: a weekly plan

Week 14 we'll go all scrapbookish :-D

And again some inspiration from Pinterest: Scrapbookin/ArtJournaling

Week 13

Art journal every day: a weekly plan

This week we will be making collages :-)

And again some inspiration from Pinterest: Collage art journals

Week 12

Now it's time for the wordy week of Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's art journaling week.

Here's more inspiration: Kreative Koncept's Journal Journey February 2015

Week 11

Read this: art journal every day, a weekly plan
and do it.
Dedicate one of the following 5 weeks to each of these different ways of art journaling, and do the exercises. I believe every creative person is capable of all kinds of creativity, and experimenting with something different from what you do every day will cause ripples through your whole life.

So - this week we'll do painty.
Week 12 it's wordy
Week 13 collage-ish
Week 14 scrapbook-ish
and
Week 15 doodler

I love Suzi Dennis' videos. Very inspiring, I think :-)

Week 10

 I love Vicky :-) She has a lot of inspiring art journal videos on YouTube.

Some things I have been ruminating is how everything is connected and how much power over our own lives we have. The human mind is a powerful tool. Placebo effect exists. Happiness is not connected to things like money, material goods, children, education, not even health. Happiness is 100% in our mind...

Another thing, that's connected to art journaling, that I've been thinking about is paper.

People wanted to know what deli paper is.
Deli paper is the same paper as sandwich wrapping paper or food basket lining paper. It's thin, waxed paper.
Parchment paper, baking paper, bakery paper is not waxed. Its non-stick qualities are created by special production that slightly "gelatinizes" the paper. Waxed paper is not suitable for baking on, because the wax (or oil) used to make it melts in hot temperature.