Art Journal Page

Hello,

I was just playing around in with my art journal tonight. For this journal page I used dylusions ink spray, acrylic paint, perfect pearls and smooch. I like the way the perfect pearls and smooch glide accross the acrylic paint and the ink sprays.




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Cover to Junk Journal

Good Morning,

Today I wanted to share the cover I made for a Junk Journal I am giving to a friend at work. I was going to add a title but decided to let her add her own title.

I used a piece of cardboard for the cover. Decorated it with papers, fibers, crackle paint, glimmer mist, flower petals, lace, stones, seed beads, perfect pearls, paper cut outs, stickles and tons of mod podge.

The inside has different size scrapbook papers, tags, envelopes and journal pages.  Now all my friend has to do is add pictures, journaling, doodling, notes, or whatever else she wants.

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Second Friendship Journal Swap

So our 2nd journal swap is completed. He is a picture of the final page (we all get a completed page).  Here's how it was made.....


Lori (me) - (1st) Base layer creating texture. I used 3 colors of flock, pink perfect pearls mist, martha steward glitter in two colors, tim holtz alochol ink wild plum, mod podge.
Tambra - (2nd) seashorses using the cricut cartridgedoodle charms, mod podge, silica sand, black seed bead.
Abbey - (3rd) Sea shell, sea weed usinf fiber optic strands, turtle using the cricut zoo day cartridge, ny brand fingernail polish, hot rod glitter, midnight black.
Lorri - (4th) Clay embellishment, glimmer glam, flower sticker, mod podge, gesso, ric rac, title and the wrting.


This project was a lot of fun because the no one knew what anyone else was going to do to add to the journal. I hop to host another one of these very soon.

Hello My Crafty Friends,

I'm planning on hosting my second Friendship Journal Swap. If your interested continue to read the below rules.

1. There will be a max of 5 participants. They will be chosen on a first come first serve basis.
2. I will start the swap by making a base journal for each participant.
3. I will then mail all five pieces to the second person on the list. The second person will then add a layer to all five journals and mail all five pieces to the third person on the list and so on.
4. The last person to add their layer will then keep one for them self and mail the other 4 back to me. I will then keep mine and mail the the others to the second person and so on.

When decorating the front of the journals you can use any materials you like and add whatever you like to them. Just keep in mind you must do the same on each of the journals. On the back of the journal there will be a space for you to fill in your name, blog, email address and a spot to briefly describe what you did to the journal.

If you would be interested in participating leave me a message with your email. Please only reply if you can participate to completion to be fair to the others.



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Easter Card for Swap

Hi,

Here's an Easter card I made for a swap that I am in.

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Center Pieces for Bridal Shower

Good Morning,

Here's some photos of the center pieces I made with my sister-in-law for my daughters bridal shower.

These were set in martini glasses. The theme is martini and cupcakes. Now we need to figure out what we are going to do for the cupcake decorations.

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Friendship Journal Pages

Hi All,

I wanted to share the pages from our Friendship Journal Swap that I hosted.

Here are the lot of journal pages. This is the front side that was decorated in the style of the artist.

This is the journal side that tells about the artist.

These are the pages that Lori M made.

These are the pages I made.

These are the pages that Lorrie J made.

I made a special cover for my pages.

I wanted my book to be adjustable to add more pages from future journal swaps.swaps.


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I'm asking for a favor. Please and Thank You!

I'm getting emails from friends visiting my blog stating the comments they are trying to leave are not being posted. If you happen to be passing on by, can you try to leave a comment letting me know how you came through via google, enternet explorer, firefox etc. Then if you could email me letting me know you commented it would be greatly appreciated. My email is lcomeau2@aol.com  Thanks for helping me out.

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Using Scraps

Hi There,

On this journal page I used a bunch of scrap paper and old dried up baby wipe (the ones I clean my paint brushes with) glued down with mod podge. There's a lot of over lapping and texture on this page. After the glue dried I used watered down gesso and went over the entire page. After the gesso was dried I added some doodle using oil pastels, markers, stickles, clear stamps, and smooch. A few dragon fly's from a punch and some glimmer mist finished this page.

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More Journal Pages

Hi,
Here's a few more journal pages I did. I'm really having a lot of fun with these. I think I have the background down by mixing the colors and overlaping them. Now I just need some practice on adding layers of different materials. Each of the pages will have some kind of quote. I having problems figuring how to get the quote on the pages where it looks ok. So that's what I'm going to practice on next.

I used acrylic paints for the base, some stamps, stencils, stickles and smooch. You cant see from the picture but I also used some seed beads glued on with glossy accents.

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Thank You Card for Challenge #48 at CTO

Hi,
Here's a card I made for challenge #48 at Celebrate The Occasion's Blog. The challenge this week was to make a Thank You card and you had to use punches. If you would like to enter the challenge and link up your project here's the link
http://celebratetheoccasion.blogspot.com/

I used 3 border punches, 2 Martha Steward and 1 EK Success. The circle punches I can't remember what brand they are. The Thank You is from The Stamps of Life, the ribbon and jewels are from my stash.

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Altered Art Journal

Hi,

Here's another page it did in my altered art journal. I love all the colors.
Materials I used....
Portfolio Oil Pastels
Hero Arts - Alphabet Letters
Big & Juicy Ink Pads - Foliage, Hydrangea and Waterfall
Mod Podge ( I have been calling this modge podge for the last two years LOL )
Yellow Typing Paper

The Mod Podge is not quite dry so I'm getting some glare in the picture.  I'm really having a lot of fun making these pages. No rules just do what I feel like at the moment.

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Friendship Journal

Hello all my crafty buddies,

I was thinking about doing a friendship journal and was wondering if any of you would be interested in joining me. It would work basically like a tag or card swap but will be a altered journal page about yourself. Here’s how it would work…

Using a 5x7 piece of card stock score a 1 ½” margin down the left hand side of the card stock. This margin will be how you hold your book together. You can 3 hole punch, spiral bind, glue or whatever way you choose to do it. That 1 1/2" should leave you plenty of room.

Decorate the front side only with whatever you like to work with, stamping, painting, drawing, fabric, paper, mixed media, write a poem, tell a story etc. What ever you choose to do it must represent you and your style. It can be flat, 3 dimensional, textured or what ever.  If your a quilter or if you crochet make a small 5 x 5 square and attach it to the card stock. If you ccross stitch, needlepoint or felt pierce you can attach your to the cardstock as well. If your a jewelery maker you can add a piece that you made as well. It just has to be mounted on the 5x7 cardstock and represent your style of creativity as listed in the rules above. 

On the back side you will do a journal page about yourself. Put your name, your blog, your likes, dislikes, interests, favorite vacation spots ect. Nothing to personal as you will be sharing your journal pages with others. ( We will limit the participants to 6 for this time around - that's you and five others )

You will make one journal page for each person who has signed up and one for yourself  and in return they will be making one for you.

Once you get all your journal pages you can then make yourself a front and back cover and put it together however you would like or you can just attache the pages with out a front and back cover.  I would like to keep adding more pages from additional swaps that I host or some that I might join, so  when I put mine together I will use something I can add more pages to like the binder rings or ribbon.

I think this is a great way to get to see in person everyones unique style, learn a little about each other, and have a really really cool book at the end. 

If you are interested in participating please respond below.  

I will close the date for signing up on Jan 31st.  I will then let everyone know how many participants we have so you know how many journal pages to make. (Max pages you will have to make is 6)

All journal pages should then be mailed to me no later than March 1st. Please send a large self addressed stamped envelope so I can send your journal pages back to you.. 

Let me know if you have any questions.

Hope you can participate!

Valentine Card Swap

Tonight I thought I would share a Valentines Card I made for a Card Swap.

Materials I used...
5 1/2 x 4 1/4 card stock
Pattern Heart Paper from my stash
Striped Paper from my stash
Solid Green Paper from my stash
Digital Rose Stamp
Copic Markers
Ribbon from my Stash
Ladybug Dimensional
Maroon Ink

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Bridal Shower Invitations

Hi All,

Today I wanted to share the Bridal Invitations that Doreen, Robin and I worked on this afternoon. The theme of the shower is cupcakes and martini's. The wedding colors are orange (burnt orange), purple (deep plum) and green (deep lime green). The colors on the Bridal invitations are lighter than than the actual wedding colors. We attached the invitation, registry cards and the lets party note with a brad and fibers. We are very pleased on how they came out. Next strep is to address all the envelopes but that can wait till next week.

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