Hello my lovelies,
Happy Friday!
Hope you’re all okay, and have something fun planned for the weekend. I’m knee deep in bags of stuff since we’re starting the kids’ bedroom reno this weekend (insert excited squeal here). But I just had to pop in to show you my latest art journal page. I’m so happy to be back journaling it is unreal! It’s my bliss, I tell ya.
I started this page back in December (TWO LONG MONTHS ago), and only finished it this morning.
I started by writing my younger self (yep, that’s me up there) a letter in pencil, then doodled on top, colouring in the doodles with markers as I went. When that was done, I added some pink tissue paper circles and glitter paint I found in Aoife’s craft stash (sssh!). Next, I put down another layer of tissue paper (this time torn strips in yellow, orange and red), stamped some pink stars in batches over it, and through a letter stencil down the left side (hardly shows up in the pics, but it’s there). Then splattered the page with ink on a whim. To finish it off, I added a picture of myself as a child, stamped the title, did some more doodling andsmeared a lot of oil pastel all over in red and black.
And there you have it. My first journal page in months. It’s good to be back!
Love the journal page! Have a great weekend:)
~Anne
Thanks Anne! You too 🙂
Oh Carin… your page is GORGEOUS… I love that photo of you… so sweet… and your background layers, textures and colors are beautiful… fabulous doodles… art journaling IS blissful… it’s good for our soul… can’t wait to see more 🙂
Have a happy weekend with your reno… sounds like fun…
Thank you too for all the beautiful comments you have been leaving me… so appreciate it…
Hugs
Jenny x
You really came back with a bang! This journal page is great! And the picture of you is so cute!!
Oh that is beautiful! I love that cover, love the possibilities! XOXO
very cute!!! and I scrolled down a bit and saw a Nikon box with a 1.8! Woo hoo!!! Have fun! Great lens!
Beautiful page my friend! I LOVE the bold oranges, pinks and reds and the stars and tissues used are very creative. And look how cute you are! You look like Aoife 😉 Congratulations on getting back to journaling (and here I just started 😉 and have so much fun with the babies reno! xoxo
Lol. Thanks Janet!
Thanks Daniele! I’m a bit of a coward using it. I must give it a proper try. Everyone says how nice it is.
Thanks Marie 🙂
Thanks Kristin! Ity was a lot of fun working with such bold colours and just adding one after the other! xoxo
Just set your camera on A priority and open it up to 1.8. Of course it may let in too much light, but if you’re inside, open it all the way up and focus on something small, and the rest of the background should go all blurry giving you your depth of field. Once you take it outside of course, if it is sunny, you cannot open it up so wide! Hope that helps!
Thanks for that Daniele. Will have a play around as soon as I can.