Art journaling class

Here is one of my art journal pages based on one of the creative exercises in the online art journaling class I am taking. It's about how inspired I get by autumn colors!

A productive and creative day

Here are some of the things I have made today. The first entry is from a "Tales of another broken home" deco. The theme has nothing to do with me...I am just stating this, as those who watch my blog and are not familiar with decos, might understand this as selfbiographic as it includes my name. Well, I assure you it's not. The name is there to sign my entry in a nice way. I am none of those things described. Well, enough about that! I love how it turned out...its just simple collage really,no advanced stuff, but with those beautiful papers from www.shabbycottagestudio.com you really can make some cool stuff!

The planet deco is also simple made with scrapbookpapers and rubons.Nothing fancy here, but it still turned out nice, so I am showing it here. I love the theme though...I have always been fascinated of space...whats out there!

I really had fun with the vintage train decos... It's a swap in LovelyDecos. Here I used old train schedules, a Orient Express collage pack I bought over at www.europeanpapers.com many years ago....Finally found a use for it. I don't recomand you to shop there though, even though they have lots of nice stuff....It took months before the store owner cared to send my order, and many emails...sigh. Also used Color Wash and walnut ink here...my new favorite products!

And last, an ok entry in a vintage women deco.

Soon you will be seeing some art journal entries for me. I am going to start one, finally!

Two things have pushed me now... The challenge blog www.kreativdagbok.blogspot.com , and my enrollment in an online ar journal class at www.mycreativeclassroom.com . I recomand you to check both out! At that site, I am also enrolled in an altered book class , but I probably wont upload anything from there, as we are creating a technique reference book only... But thats a great idea that will come in very handy! I have just started, so I am eager to continue.

I will try and work on art journaling tomorrow...stay tuned!!

Blah!

It's been a blah day today, I had planned to do so much , in a relaxed way of course, but the day vanished into nothing. I woke up really late, and I hate that as the day vanishes and I just feel blah tired. Then I ended up reading a book some hours, a really lame book btw, but I couldn't stop.
I meant to finish a personal swap to my friend Tiia today + two groupswaps to her...But I only got decorated one deco tonight... this vintage deco. I used three hours on it.... because I had these stupid breaks all the time. But I think it turned out nice in the end. The book paper were really old and a piece fell off when I tried to glue it on...an accident , which turned out cool:) So I am definitively doing that again. Also something went wrong when I was rubbing on the word... the A got messed up.... But I still liked the page in the end. I don't think I will do more about it....its not a million dollar artwork anyway. I need to have a relaxed view on this...What happends, happends.
I really don't understand what happened to this day:( It's not that I wasn't inspired, cause I am. I think it's all due to me sleeping late! The root to all evil, LOL:)

Anyway yesterday was really nice, the day with my boyfriend. We were out shopping, and we had a great meal.

Now I am so much looking forward to 25-27 april. I am going to Oslo then, to the great stamp and scrapbook show. I will stay with my mum and my brother (and his family) that weekend. I will go to the show on Saturday with a deco-friend of mine. It will be really great to see all those supplies in one room, and to my friend. After the shopping spree, we will try and deco some together:) Really looking forward to that!

On the Sunday I will spend the day with my brother and his family.. I hope to do some crafting with my niece and nephew.

Some decos late at night:)

I worked late today, and didnt get started with any decoing until 23. I hadn't planned to make any, actually, but I just had to! I had this creative urge and had to try and create something.. But now, now I am tired and am probably not going to make anymore tonight...even if I want to!

These are flower and fish entries. Flower scan is not good, paper looks white, but is actually a pink patterned paper.

Tomorrow I am going to have a romantic evening with my boyfriend. We are going to play a boardgame....not sure what actually, as we will go out and buy one! Just to do something together. We will also buy some nice food to cook together. I am REALLY looking forward to this, spending a day with the one I love. It's too seldom it happends, as we often work different times, and when we are at home together , we are tired and he relax with WOW and I with decos. SO I am sure tomorrow will be nice:)

These are something I just made today, entries in a Tales of another broken home deco, and a depression deco. In addition is a Journey thru a garden 4 x 4.
Just ask if you wonder how I made them.

My cemetery angels decos

Here are my cemetery scans, via swap in LovelyDecos.

They were awesome fun to make, partly because I am very inspired by the theme, but also because I had bought so much new stuff from collagestuff.com which I used here;old bookpages, rubberstamps, and collage images.

What I have done here for the backgrounds are;clearembossed onto the book pages, and sprayed with Color Wash. The stamped images will then act as a resist, as you can see. I also added some walnut ink on one, and acrylic paint on the other, as well as some cool rubons:)

Here is a vintage art deco square I have made for a swap in QualityDecos.

I have used a vintage book page as background, which I sprayed with walnut ink, and rubbed distress ink, and stamped swirls.

Then I distressed the photo, and added some rubons and brads to finish it off.

I really took my time on this piece, and I like how it turned out.

The swirls stamps and bolt brads are from Panduro, the store I work in.I guess you all understand I shop there A LOT:)