Here’s this week’s gratitudes and celebrations:
Before:
and here’s what the page looks like with all the gratitudes and celebrations:
There we go. Just another excuse to create art and remember the present that is my life.
Gratitude Journal is a weekly project for 2013. You can see a detailed post on my goal other details here.
Hi Karen, I’m so enjoying this gratitude/art journal series. In a future post would you be able to post a video of your process of creating the base page? I’d so like to do art journal pages, but am extremely intimidated by them.
Thanks so much for all the inspiration you provide.
Diane
Diane, I would love to except I don’t seem to have recording capabilities at the moment. And I often tend to do art at night when my kids are sleeping so it’s not most conducive to recording. I have this post about my path, see if it helps: http://www.karenika.com/archives/20862 until i can figure it all out 🙂
oh and this particular one had a few step by steps on the my mind’s eye website: http://mymindseye.typepad.com/blog/2013/01/mixed-media-with-karengratitude.html 🙂
Thank you Karen, I will check both of those posts out. You’ve mentioned haven taken classes online. Are there any that include art journaling that you can recommend? Thanks!
Nevermind that last question. I’m going through the posts you linked to and you have links to others. I’m only part way through the first link of yours above and it’s like you were reading my mind. I have so many of the same thoughts and frustrations. Thanks so much Karen!
Karen, THIS IS SOOOOOO gorgeous and wonderful!! These colors are always great together. LOOOOVE LOVE THIS!!!
Love your journal idea!!! Just came across it! I’m looking at the Jan. 28,2013 one. Are you still using Moleskine? Are you still gluing in the pages? If so, what kind of adhesive? One more question. It looks like you have stitching on the right page. How do you do that? Stitch first and then glue in? LOVE YOUR JOURNAL!!!
i am using a moleskine but a big one. a4 size. i am glueing scrapbook paper to some of the pages when i want to. i just use wet glue or atg tape. i adhere everything and then drag the book through my sewing machine 🙂 thanks so much for the kind words!! 🙂