Art journaling is really no different from a dear diary type of idea, except that putting art in front of journaling gives you free reign to do whatever you want in your book.
Yup, it means you can add in words or not at all. It means you can splash colors or keep it black and white. You can sew in your pages or collage with a variety of materials.
It’s all about recording and documenting your feelings and life experience through various forms of creative expression, inside a book full of pages.
I personally love to collage, paint, doodle and mix a bunch of different materials together in my art journal pages. But it can be whatever you want it to be. Some people mostly write in their journals and add just a few visual elements here or there. Others like to collage their everyday ephemera into their pages, making it a direct reflection of their days.
Now, I do realize sometimes having too many options can be intimidating.
So here are a series of videos of how I started an experimental art journal. You can follow each video to create your own pages along with me or just take from the idea and create something with whatever materials you have access to.
Enjoy!
If you want to learn more about art journaling for beginners, you might want to check out my very first zine all about art journaling here.
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For a bit of freshness and spring love, here are free printable spring birthday cards for you. I wanted to create a lovely bouquet of flowers as a birthday card, but I thought it would be nice to include blank notecards as well. That way you can letter in your own sentiment as well!
Not just for birthdays, but for all occasions, right? You can use this spring printable for gifts and paper crafting projects alike. You can find the greeting card and notecard designs below for free download.
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Download this freebie printable vintage globe card and matching patterned paper for all your vintage paper crafting projects.
If you love old maps, this printable vintage globe card is definitely the stationery printable for you. Wish someone bon voyage or make some old world papercrafts with this freebie printable card and matching patterned paper.
When I saw this vintage globe map design, I knew I had to create some printables with it. I created this bon voyage travel greeting card printable and I think it can be great for wishing someone a great trip or just to spark conversation about traveling together. Make plans to have an adventure with friends, right?
Additionally, I’ve also created a variation of the vintage globe card design onto a 12×12 patterned sheet of paper, so you can print for all your papercrafting projects. It will be so fun to create junk journals, art journals and travelers notebooks with this design. So you can print at home or readily have it printed at your local print shop for larger prints and different paper.
Doesn’t the vintage globe look just make you feel like flipping through old books in the library stacks? I have always loved the smell of old books. But if you don’t want to destroy actual vintage books, use this printable instead. You can print as many copies as you need.
But today I thought it would be cool to have the airmail design on a greeting card printable for a change. Sometimes we want that letterwriting look, but we just want a greeting card instead of actual stationery writing paper.
So here’s a printable everyday airmail greeting card with matching envelope. You can use this for many different occasions and include the design in your paper crafting projects as well. It’s classic!
I’ve shared many DIY journal tutorials on this blog and have recently shared on youtube as well. In this video, I thought it would be nice to share the idea of a wraparound closure that you often see and how you might use an elastic closure instead of a very long string.
Let me share with you the process of making this little cute journal with a gold elastic wraparound closure – enjoy!
See how you can make these easy handmade greeting cards and notecards for happy mail and pen pal friends! These are really easy to make and to duplicate if you need lots for an occasion. I’ve also used a free printable as my patterned paper, although you can use anything you have on hand.
Looking for a free printable space stationery set? Because you are in the right place to download a black and white, ink-friendly print-at-home stationery set – perfect for this month of April Letterwriting!
A few years back, I guested posted for a family blog and created a lot of printables, but never shared them directly here on my blog. So I thought it would be good to post these free printables here for everyone now!
Often we don’t find a lot of neutral or even masculine themed printables and stationery, so I thought the theme of space would be a nice change to my usual girly cute style. I created a poster called “infinite possiblities” because that is what space truly means to me, so much openness and opportunity, right?
You can download the graphic to use as an art print or decorate your snail mail package, so everything is in theme. Just click on the image below to get the full size.
However, since April is National Letterwriting Month, I thought it was only right to also include a printable stationery set! Since this is a black and white design, it’s really printer friendly, you can print as many copies as you need! You can download the A4 or LETTER paper sized, envelope template and stationery writing paper. Download via the links below the image.
I love printables and I love art journaling, so it’s only natural for me to share my super simple process of using printables within my art journaling practice.
I hope this will serve as an introduction to how printables can be so useful for all kinds of paper crafting and creative fun. I will definitely be sharing more in the future, but for now… art journaling with printables…
Over the years, I have shared so many printables on this blog. I wanted to go back to the foundation and share the basics to answer the question, what are printables? I hope that this will help those who are beginners and just getting into printing from home.
We will talk about what are printables, why you might use them and how to use them. I also share a whole bunch of places to find free and paid for printables, for a variety of uses. You can also check out all my blog lists to see the printables I share on a regular basis!
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