I just learned how to carve my own rubber stamps and this is my first one, a rose.

End of October

The hydrangeas are gone past but I rescued a couple before they turned brown. I drew this on a collage of old newspaper articles which I then spray gessoed over.

Love the spray gesso as I covers up so many evils.

Storm your Brain

The Zentangle on the left was made on grey paper I stained as I couldn't find any in my stash at the time. I was inspired by this video at YouTube.

The page on the right I ues a tecknique I adapted from another. I painted whole page grey and dried then painted whole page with Martha Stewart Pearl Pink paint. I then used a comb from Martha's tools to make the background. The designs on the page were die cuts I made. some of which were with paper I dyed myself.

Be thou Humble

Here are two more pages where I was using Martha Stewart Paints from Michaels to achieve the shine probably not visible on the scan.
The right page has another Zentangle. The flourish stamp (from La Blanche) I used, was a birthday present from a dear friend.

New Journal style

I am taking a Watercolor Journal class from Jane LaFazio at Joggles.com and am loving it. Here is my fist pages. One the first one we were asked to draw items from our homes. The top image I was to use only the marker(watercolor) to drag out shading (no color) I used my LaPlume marker or could of used a Tombo if I had it.  The other two bottles I experimented with my Koi water color set. 

On the second page we were to go outside to find natural stuff to draw. Since it was raining hard the first day I drew from a photograph of a butterfly emerging from a cocoon.

Zentangle Mandela

Here on the right, I included a Zentangle Mandela I did on black paper with a white gel pen. This was my first attempt at both a white on black zentangle and a Mandela.

The left page includes a diecut from CheeryLynn designs I cut out on my Vagabond machine. The baper behind the butterfly was hand dyed by me.

Green and Gold

This is a pair of pages I really like. The text was printed on parchment paper and torn out and distressed before adding. The photos don't do them justice.

More pages

Here are my next few pages.I don't remember how I did the right one but I suspect I used craft paint mostly. I admire some other styles of Journaling and their art and here I added a snipet of my first attempt.

As for the left page I painted a base coat of Soft Gel by Golden. Then a layer of blue metallic craft paint. I then covered the image with saran wrap scrunched up and let dry overnight then peel off the wrap. I hated covering it up as I loved the effect so much. The image i finally used on the page is a Mandela Zentangle i drew.

Welcome all you art journalists to my new blog. I have reciently fallen in love with art Journaling and here are my efforts so far. This pair of pages were not my first but pretty close. I used Tim Holtz distress pads and liquid pears to jazz up a little. The text on the left was from an email sent by a friend. The two pictures on the right are Zentangles I made last year.