It’s Get Messy Friday! Yay! I was pretty busy this week with work and my friend coming to visit from Chicago mid-week, but I surprisingly managed to produce two spreads. I wasn’t even sure I’d get one done. So yay again! This week’s spreads were created using bits and pieces from my Get Messy swap pack that I received last week from my fellow Get Messian, Zinia of Abstract Inspiration. I’m…
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get messy: season of happy week two
Read moreI honestly didn’t keep to my intention this week to journal a bit each day. Between doctor stuff and going back to work, it kind of got lost. But I was able to work and complete two spreads from this week’s prompts. I didn’t really feel any of the prompts like I did last week. I read them over a few times, but nothing really stood out to me except one…
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get messy: season of happy week one
Read moreGet Messy is back and I am so happy to be back home to participate in Get Messy 3.0! The first season just started on February 1st, and it’s the Season of Happy! While I’m nowhere near to being happy myself, this first weeks’ prompts have been such great therapy for me. Short backstory: in the third month of my 3-month backpacking trip to Southeast Asia, I got bit by…
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creative intentions for 2016
Read moreAs 2015 is ending and a new year is approaching, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately of what creative projects I’m going to do in 2016. With the absence of Project Life for 2016, I have a lot more freedom to do more documenting in whatever format I want. I most particularly enjoy minibooks, so I was thinking of making 2016 the year of minibooks. What I came up with…
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get messy: season of words week three
Read moreThe start of my Southeast Asia 2015 trip is fast approaching and as I play the waiting game, I find myself being busier than expected. I have a lot of things that I should and/or have to complete before I leave and well, that doesn’t leave much time for anything else. Before I go on a huge trip, I sort of like to become a vegetable, like a couch potato,…
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get messy: season of words week two
Read moreHere are my second week art journal spreads for Get Messy Season of Words. I feel like my pages this week are pretty sparse, but that’s only because I was sick for most of the week and really didn’t have the energy to do anything. I’m surprised I still managed to get at least four spreads done, one for each of the prompts given to us. I didn’t really think…
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get messy: season of words week one
Read moreIt’s Get Messy Thursday! This is the day of the week where all the Get Messians share bits of their journals from the current season. These are just the pages that I’ve done so far in my Season of Words art journal. Most of the spreads were inspired by the journaling and art prompts from this week. I will say that journaling in this altered book is difficult. The pages…
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the art of journaling: create your own adventure
Read moreI’m back with another art journal spread for my The Art of Journaling series here on the blog. With this one I took a more minimalist approach and tried to mimic that style where you use the white space but add hints of color here and there. I centered the entire spread around this die cut from the Inspire Project Life Value Kit, which reads Create your own adventure. When…
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get messy: season of words altered book art journal
Read moreSo, I recently joined Get Messy, an art journaling challenge that’s also a community of amazing art journalers. I stumbled across it a couple of times in the past, but didn’t really look into it until this past week when I kept seeing it everywhere while searching for art journal inspiration. It’s a great community of ladies who come together and work through “seasons” of art journaling prompts surrounded by one theme.…
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the art of journaling: spread your wings image transfer
Read moreI have decided to create a little series around my art journaling in order to motivate me to creating something on a daily–or at least weekly–basis in my art journal. I’ve been using the hashtag #artofjournaling on Instagram to share my work, so I figured I’d call my mini series “The Art Of Journaling” and I hope you all enjoy and follow along. Initially, I was just going to post…
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my southeast asia travel journal setup
Read moreCan you believe I’m going away to Southeast Asia in just 38 days? It’s happening so fast now that I’ve got everything booked, I’m just glad I started preparing for it beforehand. One the things that I always find to be important to me when going on a trip is to have a good travel journal. On my last trip abroad, I documented my travels on the go and I…
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the art of journaling: my new art journal + process
Read moreI recently got back into art journaling. With my recent planner obsession and trying to keep up with my Project Life 2015 album, I hadn’t art journaled in a very long time. I’ve done a few minibooks this year that are almost like art journals, but I missed the image transfers, playing with gesso and paint and just journaling. I was inspired recently by Gretchen Hope, owner of Cake Paperie,…