Oregon Coast art journal page

Just finished my second art journal page in my first ever at journal. I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. The book itself is an encyclopedia that I altered. I have the whole set and hope to some day have an entire set of art journals.

I started by gessoing my page then put down a piece of wallpaper. I brushed some Vaseline on the wallpaper then painted on a layer of white paint. I let this dry real good and wiped away the paint that covered the Vaseline. I used my finger to smear some paint around and a paper towel roll to stamp some circles and India ink to trace those circles. When everything was dry I glued down my magazine clippings and used my finger to smear some gesso around the clippings. I used a paint pen to decorate my page and edge it and a Pitt pen for my journaling. It was a lot of fun.

Cheerful by LuvEwe Designs

LuvEwe Designs is my Designer Partner over at GingerScraps this month.  She's a well established designer with loads of great stuff in her store.  I decided to work with her newest kit Cheerful.  It was a lot of fun.  It's a mini, but don't let that fool you, it has plenty of fun stuff to use.

Here's what I made:

And here's what I used:

ATC Swap at Paper Traders

I recently joined a swap group and mailed out my first swap last week.  It was a 6/6 ATC swap and the theme was pets.  It was SO much fun. I've greatly missed making ATCs.

Here's the one I made (they were basically all the same):

I'll post again when I get the 6 back from my swap partners.

Little Man by Little Rad Trio

Have you been over to GingerScraps lately?  Holy smokes!!  You must stop by.  There are a whole bunch of extremely talented new designers.  It was very difficult to decide who's new release to work with this week, but the deciding factor came when I saw that little word strip that says "momma's boy" because that's exactly what Morpheus is.

So... here's what I made:

And here's what I used:

Just For Nice by Kathy Winters Designs

It's been a rough couple months for me and my computer.  It finally died and went to E-Cycle heaven and now hubby and I share a computer.  So, my computer time is slightly more limited than before.  I do have a fun new scrap book page to show you.  I decided to start a new album in addition to my yearly albums that I make of my pups.  The new one will be a page dedicated to each of their nicknames (and there are a lot).  So I've finished my first page.... here's what I came up with:

And here's what I used:

Father Figure by LuvEwe Designs

I really enjoyed this new collection by LuvEwe Designs called Father Figure.  These colors are so easy for me to work with because of my usual subjects LOL.

Here's what I made:

And here's what I used:

Listen to Your Heart by Simple Girl

I actually grabbed this kit to create something completely different.  It never fails to amaze me when that happens.  But sometimes the creativity just takes over and does it's own thing.  Listen to Your Heart is actually a pretty small kit, but it packs some great punch.  I think it would even be fun to print some of this stuff and cut it out to pout in my art journal.  Anyway...

Here's what I made:

And here's what I used: