Art Journal

Adding a new feature to my art:

Art Journaling

I entered a groupon facebook where they

challenge you to make a journal page each week

of this year. I have not much experience,

but lots of tools to try this: paint,stamps,

gelli plate, brayer,brushes,so let's start

with the cover.

As many of you know by now, I love making 

all kinds of projects with coffee,so I needed

to make the cover with coffee images.

I started with covering the blue cover with 

gesso tomake it easier to use other colors on it.

The book is 9 inch x 9,5 inch and i got it at Ikea.

While my book was drying and I did the front,

back and the inside,I googled images and tutorials

on internet,looked at pinterest and you tube.

Big library and many great inspirations.

I decided to take some coffee colored scrapbook papers

to cover my book with. I tore them to pieces

and glued them to the cover like this:

Again leaving this to dry 

and forming my idea what to add on top.

Now I used some distress paint to color on top

pf the strips of paper. When all the paint was dry

I got out my stencils and with the darkest brown

distress paint Icolored some images.

The chipboard letters are painted white, covered with 

a dotted stencil and some doodling.

Also stamped a few large and small coffee cups.

The nearly finished front.

I also decorated the front inside:

On the facebook group I noticed some people making an 

index page and I quite liked the idea. So I stamped some 

coffee rings and punched them out with a circle punch.

I have 26 on the first page and the others

will be on the inside last page.

stamped images are by

Club Scrap

and Michael Strong

Stencils by

Tim Holtz,

Club Scrap 

The Crafter's Workshop

Have a creative day!