Friday, May 9, 2014

A Busy Little Blog Post

There's a lot going on in this blog post this morning!

 First, I was so excited when I opened Julie Fei-Fan Balzer's Friday post this morning! Julie has a regular Friday feature called Art Journal Every Day. Each Friday she offers a post about her daily art journaling practice and will include guest artist interviews, photos of her art journal pages, tutorials, etc. Last week she did a post about the five basic art journal supplies she would recommend to a beginner art journaler and then asked her readers to submit a picture of the five items they would add to her list. So I submitted my photos and found this morning that Julie had included my photos in her post this morning. Thank you Julie! Here is the link: Balzerdesigns.typepad/artjournaleveryday

Second, I have a new tutorial on the blog: Altered Book Binder Journal. I have had so many requests for instructions on how I make my art journal binders from old books, I finally took some pictures as I made my most recent journal. Check out the tutorial page on the tabs at the top of the blog.


Last, I have some recent art journal pages for The Documented Life Project and The Art of Practising Gratitude challenge.

Doc Life Week 18 page spread
Doc Life wk 18 side 1
Doc Life wk 18 side 2



The Art of Practising Gratitude day 2: Positive


I hope your weekend includes time to be creative!



5 comments:

  1. Mary, Julie's blog is actually where I saw your page and how I came to your wonderful blog! I love this altered book journal! I have never done one and have wanted to try. I printed out your Altered Book Binder Journal Tutorial so I hope I am well on my way! Thank you so much for posting the tutorial. I only hope I don't make a mess with it all! LOL!!! I'm not sure which route I will go with it, but I look forward to seeing where God takes me! Thanks again!

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    1. Have fun making a journal Felicia! And please share when you have completed it. I love seeing what everyone does!

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  2. It's not often I find a blogger who I want to sit down with and create together, but as soon as I saw your journal pages, I was hooked! You have a beautiful, beautiful style and I'm so happy to be your newest follower.
    xo

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  3. Thank you for the Altered Book tutorial! It was well written, easy to read and follow. So looking forward to part 2 on how your create your pages. Love the DLP pages, your style is so beautifully serene. It speaks volumes.

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  4. You use such fabulous quotes in your journal, love your lettering, love your journal!!

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