02/28/16 - A Step-By-Step Art Journal Page Background

I'm not one to make a step-by-step post.

I don't think I do anything spectacular or difficult enough to require step-by-step instructions...

But...

Sometimes I'll look at other peoples projects and think "that looks great, but how did they do that?"

and it turns out to be super easy-peasy.

So I decided that I LOVE this page so much that I would include a step-by-step of how I created the background.

Journaling: "When I forget what Happy is... You remind me".
As a sufferer of depression sometimes I forget, but my husband always reminds me.

He is "my happy"
Inspired by @GetMessyArtJournal's
#SeasonOfHappy "

For those of you who thought it was easy-peasy even before I showed you the steps: "You were correct"!

For those of you who were wondering how to make this... "You're welcome"!

A couple of things I wanted to point out first:

1. I didn't spray directly in my art journal JIC I made a mistake.

    I didn't want to ruin the art journal or, at the very least, have to rip out any of the pages so I  

    just cut a piece of computer paper to fit my journal, which is basically the same kind of paper my

    journal is made of... nothing fancy, just a Target Dollar Spot Journal...

2. One of my craft supplies is NOT a craft supply at all.

    The heart is the top cover of the inside of a small heart shaped box of Valentines chocolate I

     received this past February 14th.  I went to eat one of the candies and the heart fell out and floated

     to the ground and my first thought was that I could "totally use that for an art project"! LOL!

   



Okay here goes:

Step 1 - Gather all your supplies

(Left to Right):

Sunburst stencil

Heart "stencil"

Misting Spray - this one is Red Pepper from Maya Road 

Paper cut-to-size

Black towel (so that any mist that doesn't wind up on the paper doesn't wind up on anything else!)

Step 2 - Layer

Black Towel

Paper cut-to-size

Heart  "stencil" (hard to see but it's there!)

Sunburst stencil

 Step 3 - Spray

As little or as much as you want...

This is my favorite part!

 Step 4 and 5 - Let dry and Separate...

 to reveal your pretty design!

Look at the cool design on the heart too...

I may use that for something else later!

Step 6 - Adhere to your art journal

And, if your like me, add some doodling!

Like I said "EASY-PEASY"!!!

and fun too!

And now that you have this cute little BG dress it up any way you like!

BTW - this page was inspired by the "Get Messy - Season of Happy".
I will be sharing more tomorrow during my normal "Get Messy" Monday reveal.

11/26/12 - Another Use for Your Paper Stash

Good Monday Morning!

 

How was your weekend?

Mine was great.

I had 4 days off and I spent much of that time relaxing, scrapping, and organizing pics.

I also bought a new couch: a large comfty sectional. Yay!
We've been neeeding new couches for years and Lazy Boy was having a great sale!

25% off plus 36 months no interest.

Since I always pay more than I need to when I make payments on purchases, I will have it paid off before the 36 months is over and have accumulated no interest while doing it!

Double yay!

 

Anyway.

That's not what this post is about.

This post is actually about my discovering a use for some of the papers I have had in my stash for years and will most likely not use for any projects.

 

As I said I was organzing my pictures.

I have all my photos organized digitally with a hard copy of each stashed in photo boxes.

I also have copies that I scrap.  So in reality I should have 3 copies of each of the pics I scrap:

>digital

>hard copy

>scrapped copy

I say "in reality" because I didn't start this system until recently, like 2 years ago.  So anything before that may or may not have 3 copies. That is something I hope eventually I can go back and take care of as time goes on and I discover what is missing, but I'm not going to stress too much about it.

 

I have been slacking on my hard copy organizing and decided to fix that last night. I had a batch of photos from Winkflash I had ordered and received but not yet stored.

 

I store my photos by month/year with little tabs in between to label each section.

Here is a picture of an already full box:

 

As I was organzing I ran out of the tabs. This is to be expected as I have a lot of pics!  But I was into the project and was afraid if I waited until I could buy more that I may not get back into it for a while.

So my solution?  Make my own!

 

I dug out a couple of pieces of 12 x12 papers I know I will never use (you can see they are not in the greatest of shape):

 

 

I then grabbed the tabs I already had and used them as a template, using a pencil to trace them onto the 12x12 papers:

 

 

 

 As you can see I was able to fit 4 on each paper:

 

I then used my scissors to cut each one out - large ones for the straight lines and my small Cutter Bees for the curves and angles:

 

Finally I have this:

 

 

Thanks to this, I saved money and used up some more of my stash!

I had some scraps leftover that I may or may not use but even if I don't I still used a majority of the paper and that is better than tossing the whole thing!