ART JOURNAL FUN

Happy Sunday Peeps,
I have been having fun browsing all sorts of Journal and mixed media sites to see what people do and I am finding some wonderful things.
I also found a Journal Challenge at ART JOURNAL JOURNEY, so I made something to enter.

The really great thing is - this art journal business is making me search through things I have got that I had completely forgotten about or bought and not used !! :-)  I am also finding stuff that is new and I will never use - impulse buys I guess. Maybe I will have to sell/swap those.   hahaha LoL

Anyways - I managed to get a relatively decent shot of the pearl sprays but it still doesn't show up well does it. ? Does anyone have any tips for taking pics of pearly shiny schtuff ???

Items used:

Tonic Studios Butterfly Die Set - 'Ringlet Rest'

Quote:  Ginger's House (she gives great inspirational Freebies)

Lavender Designs 'EyE' and notepaper

ART BYTES background 'brush'  called 'Script' by Christine Smith

Stickles - Crystal Ice

Tsukineko Fireworks - London Fog

Challenges I am entering:

Art Journal Journey March Challenge - Things With Wings

SORT OF JOURNAL THINGY :-)

Me again,
I was colouring up a new digi I got FREE from SMEARED & SMUDGED FORUM for entering one of their monthly Challenges.... it's called 'Imagination', from Smeared Ink, and I wasn't exactly sure what I was going to do with it. I'd always fancied starting some sort of Journal type thing that I see people making. I found the instruction book for my little camera that has just died on me, and it seemed a shame to just throw it away. I have decided to use it for doing other stuff that's not cards etc. and just for things that pop into my mine etc, so I suppose that's a sort of Journal !! :-) I glued 2 of it's flimsy pages together and added some plain white paper to make it stiff, then mounted my coloured image and some embossed card, with a sentiment I got from Ginger's House which I thought was very suitable for me LoL.......... Et Voila !!
Here it is as was.......................

I haven't decorated the front yet or the inside first page, but here's what I did with my freebie image (coloured with Copics).....   Click Pic to enlarge...........

Kinda' cool eh ?  If you pop over to the Forum and play in one of the Monthly Challenges, you can get this little sucka' too :-D

See you later xxxxxxxxxxx

Challenges I am entering:

Inspire Me Fridays Challenge 73 - Anything Goes

The Stamp Man Challenges - Alter It

Stuck on U Sketch Challenge - August 17 (My sketch is flipped sideways)

Our Creative Corner - Recycle it with a Pop of Green