Tag: art journal
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Process Video for Art Journaling Backgrounds
Using art journaling backgrounds is a great way to add variety to your journal pages. Here’s a process video of how I use them. I love experimenting in my art journal. And as of late, that experimenting has meant playing with printable art journal pages. I scan them from my own art journals and then…
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How to Use Printable Backgrounds for an Art Journal
Get a creative jumpstart with printable art journaling backgrounds. They’re perfect for beginners! I LOVE working with art journaling backgrounds. Using patterned papers, especially ones that have painterly elements adds a unique touch to my art journals. They are also great for helping me get past the initial blank page in my art journal. I’ve…
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What is a Happiness Journal?
What is a happiness journal anyway? Learn what this whole happy journaling thing is about as well as my take on it! Apparently, keeping a happiness journal is a thing now. When I began my happy journal twenty years ago (when I was a toddler, ahem), I didn’t even call it a happy journal. Sure,…
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55+ Free Art Journal Prompts
I love using free art journal prompts because they encourage me to create things in my journals that I normally wouldn’t make. Rather than painting or collaging the same old, same old, I get to play and imagine and try something completely new. Personally, I use art journaling prompts in several different ways, so I…
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Happy Journal for Kids — A Gratitude Journal for Children
A gratitude journal plus an art journal makes a happy journal! And this happy journal for kids is a great (and easy) way to teach your child about finding the good in life! Earlier this year, I started happy journaling with my daughter for our homeschool. We usually start the day with this—she doodles in…
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Be Brave In Your Life, Creativity, and Art Journal!
How can you be brave in your life AND your art journal? I’m glad you asked! We are currently in the middle of an art journaling challenge where we are diving deep into a prompt for two weeks at a time. It’s been a fun journey to use these prompts to draw, collage, paint, and…
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The Art Journaling Gift Guide
Whether you’re looking for ideas for a birthday, Christmas, or just a fun gift for yourself, you’ll find something you’ll love in this art journaling gift guide. Art journal and happy journal supplies are the best! Keeping an art journal is a great way to express your creativity and de-stress. It’s also a great activity…
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Nature-Inspired Art Journal Fairy Princess
Today I’m going to show you how to make your own nature-inspired art journal fairy princess! This is such a fun way to incorporate nature walks into the pages of your journal. When I walk through our various forest paths in the summer, what with the wildflowers in full bloom and the dappled light on…
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How to Make Your Own Sketchbook
Learn how to make your own sketchbook, journal, or art journal with this simple DIY tutorial. I’ve been a journal keeper since I was in first grade, but it wasn’t until my 20s that I discovered the joys of making my own journals. During that discovery period, I made piles of blank books. I stitched…
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Memories in Your Hand Map
What is the path you walked to get where you are today in your creative life? We are all on a journey and our paths start, well, they start at the very beginning! Our influences can stem from family members, early childhood experiences, books we’ve read, and a thousand different places. Today we’re making a…