Where my Heart Going? Art Journal #1

Hello everyone I have a little bit something different for you all. I decided to try my hand at art jouranling. I always thought it look fun from watching some youtube clips. There was an idea that I wanted to do for sometime. So, I decided to take the chance and just go with it. I'd some blank pages in my sketch book. I'd from my college days a few years ago. I decided to maybe start filling it up with some art journal and mix media art. I figure this could maybe give me outlet and express my thoughts and feelings towards coming up with new art work. This piece I did is called Where my Heart Going?

It's mainly about if I ever will have that special someone in my life. Maybe get married someday and raise a family of my own. Because I realize as I get older in my early 30s now. I don't really want to be alone all my life. Because it can get lonely at times. I like the idea of growing old with someone. Hope you like my first art journal and check back for maybe some more posted on this blog in the future.

Scrapbook.com (National Scrapbook Day) Prize Pack

Back with another post... Here a video I shared to everyone on my youtube channel. I won a prize pack from Scrapbook.com. It was my second time in row winning a prize pack. I wonder if I participate next year. I wonder if it'll be third time the charm winning another prize pack, lol. I don't think it'll happen. But who knows. I'm just happy I get to play with another much of cool stuff.
 Enjoy watching the video... I will post the list of items I got in the prize pack. Below the video so if you want to search for it online you can.

                                           
Prize Pack Items
                                                      
 Prima - Ingvild Bolme - Chalk Fluid Edger - Set of 8












Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Ink Pads - Mini Kit














     


 Teresa Collins Designs - Basically Essential Collection - Flip Book - Small
 3L Scrapbook Adhesives - EZ Runner Tape - Permanent Strips - Refillable

 Lily Bee Design - Handmade Collection - Journal Cards

 Tombow - The Craft Collection - Adhesive Foam Tabs - Permanent - Squares

 Heidi Swapp - Mixed Company Collection - Journaling Spots

  Echo Park - Getaway Collection - Decorative Brads

 The Crafter's Workshop - Rhonda's Fragments - Doodling Template - Ampersand Fragments

 Bella Blvd - Love and Marriage Collection - 12 x 12 Cardstock Stickers - Alphabet and Bits

 Bazzill - 8.5 x 11 Metallic Cardstock - Gold

 American Crafts - Pink Paislee - Pen Pals Collection - 3 x 4 Double Sided Pocket 
 Cards


American Crafts - Heidi Swapp - Dreamy Collection - Memory Files Kit

 American Crafts - Heidi Swapp - Color Magic Collection - Watercolor Tags - Hearts

 American Crafts - Slick Writers - All Black - 3 Pack

 BasicGrey - Capture Collection - Printed Tape

  Bella Blvd - Family Forever - Paper Pieces - Die Cut Cardstock Pieces

  Doodlebug Design - Sequins - Rainbow Pack

  Fancy Pants Designs - Artist Edition Collection - Chalk Tags - Small

  Jillibean Soup - Mini Placemats - 3 x 4 Die Cut Cards - Star Light, Star Bright

  Signo - White Uni-ball Impact Pen

  Simple Stories - DIY Collection - Cardstock Stickers - Typeset

   Ranger Ink - Stickles Glitter Glue - Stardust

   Ranger Ink - Tim Holtz - Distress Marker Spritzer Tool

  Prima - Sunrise Sunset Collection - Fabric Flower Embellishments - Zipper Flower

Hello There.

Hello everyone hope you're all having a great Sunday evening. It been a great sunny weather here in Michigan. I thought I'd share some layouts I did for National Scrapbook Day! Which was held on May 3rd. I decided to enter at least four challenges on Scrapbook.com. It was my second year participating in the challenges. I got four now where as I only got three done last year. They were fun challenges. Guess what a week later on May 8th. I was announces one of the ten lucky winners of one of the challenges I won. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw my "name" (username) on the list of winners. I was like whoa I won a second time in a row. I was a happy kid. I got my prize pack a week later. I'll post  the video of me opening my prize pack in another blog post later. Hope you all enjoy looking at these layouts I did for the challenges. I also showed them in a video too. But decided to do two parts to that video because I didn't want it to be super long. Hope you all enjoy the rest of your Memorial Day weekend! For all those here in the states. Not sure if others around the world celebrate memorial day. I'm sure they do but it's probably call veterans day else where. No, matter I wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day around the world. Please remember those soldiers that fought for your country.

"The Little House is Home Sweet Home"   Title Challenge

"Creative Mind of Art" A Rainbow of Possibility Challenge 

"Pictures Through the Years" Get Creative With Cuts Out Challenge

"Family Together" Sketch It Challenge  (Winner)

    

        

                                          

FingerPaint to Spring... :)

I'm back again with another layout to share with you all. This one was for a challenge on Youtube. I subscribe to this lady channel a few months ago. She a kind and nice lady always leaving me such nice comments on my videos. Her challenge was we had to use a photo we thought was fun to us. Also we had to use flowers in our layout too. It could have been die cut, paper, any kind of flower like embellishment. We had to explain why the photo was fun to us. Well I decided to do this challenge. I enjoyed how it turned out in the end. I hope you all enjoy not only the picture of my layout. But also my video showing my entry into the challenge. Now I didn't win the challenge. But I enjoyed making this layout. I'll be doing a few more challenges on Saturday for National Scrapbook Day! I like some of the challenges on Scrapbook.com also on A Cherry On Top will be enjoining in some of their challenges. I hope to get a few more layouts done on that day. It'll be my second year involved with national scrapbook day. It a good day to get some layouts done and be inspired with interesting and new challenges.
                                                     

FingerPaint to Spring

Happy Apirl everyone! :)

Hey everybody, It April already wow the year going by fast. Hope you all are having a good year so far? I thought to post some more layouts. That I've done in the past couple of weeks. They are all three different layouts. Hope you enjoy seeing more of my work. I try my best to keep up with this blog. But sometimes it seems to slip my mind to post. My layouts when I'm done with them. I'll try better to keep up with this blog. Let me know what you all think of these three different layouts.

"A Baby 2nd Christmas"

"Mackie"

"The Kitchen Brothers"

                     Here a video about the layout about my second Christmas at home with my family.

Some Heritage layouts...

Hey everyone I know it been a while. But I'm back with a few more heritage layouts for you. Some of these layouts I got inspired to do by seeing other people's layouts online. But I used my own touch on it. These layouts are of my mother side of the family. Hope you all enjoy the pictures below. Also I added the supplies below each of the layouts. That I used.

The snow has been melting away fast. It seems like Spring coming soon. I'll be able to open my bedroom window soon. It'll be nice to get some fresh air through my bedroom/art studio. Hope you all are having a great week so far? Stay tune for a few more updates before the week ends.

Justie

                       "Charles Kitchen"

This layout is of my maternal great-great-great-grandfather

I found this picture on Ancestry.com and I saved it to my gallery 

page in my family tree on the site. I finally decided to use the picture 

for my mother side of the family heritage album. I'd to fix the photo 

a little bit in Photoshop CS5. I then printed the photo to the size 5x7. 

From my Kodak ESP 3250 All in one Printer. I printed on Kodak Paper

for a better print quality. It's always good to print your photos with the 

same paper brand for your printer. But I also used different photo paper

and they all came out OK. 

Products Used: 

Bo Bunny ET Cetera 12x12 paper (from collection pack)

Die Cut With A View: The Heirloom Stack (strips of extra paper to make the frame around picture and paper. strips paper going across the middle of layout.)

The Paper Studio: Worn and Clattered Pack (Green with plants prints)

Clocks and Tag embellishments (got in a RAK)

Tim Holtz: Crowded Attic Salvage Stickers (Ruler)

American Crafts Remarks Letter Sticker Book ( Black and White)

Jillbean Soup Fig Brown Alphabet Stickers

Scrapbook Adhesive: Black Photo Corners

ATG and Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive 

Tim Holtz Distress Ink: Vintage Photo

White Cardstock

                                                            















                               "The Smith Kids"
This layout and picture is of my maternal grandmother (on far right of the
picture) is of her as a little girl with her younger brother and older sister.

The woman in the background looking on at them. Is there mother she is pregnant                                with her youngest daughter and last child. This photo is a copy and I had to fix it

in Photoshop since it was torn a little bit. I printed it out as a 5x7. Using the same                                 printer Kodak ESP 3250 All in one Printer. Also using Kodak paper. 

                   
 Products Used:
The Farm House Paper Company Market Place (Newspaper background) and                                        and matted for the photo.
K and Company: Maison Brenda Walton 12x12 Paper Pad (Brown flowers and
Yellow background)                                                                                                                                 Recollection Heritage Dimensional Sticker (Cherish and Tiny Heart)

The American Crafts Remarks Letter Sticker Book ("Smith" -Black)

Tim Holtz Holtz idea-ology label letter stickers ("The and "Kids")

The Paper Studio Bubble A Bilitie  (Brothers and Sisters sticker)

We R Memory Keepers Antique Chic Beverly Paper ("Remember, Treasured and

Heritage" word embellishments)
White heart and Flourish embellishment (from Rak)

Die Cut With A View: The Heirloom Stack cut apart sheet (Brown Tag)
Tim Holtz Distress Ink Vintage Photo 

Black Gelstick Pen (Trace around Flourish embellishment)

Scrapbook Adhesive: Black Photo Corners
ATG and Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive

                                

Heritage of the Past...

Hi everyone hope all well with you all. I come back with more new layouts to share. Most of these are heritage layouts. It is a cold Saturday morning here in Michigan. But even if there snow on the ground it still a beautiful one.

The first layout is of my father's family reunion in Aug 1969. The two photos are the original and make this layout from a sketch by Becky Fleck.
Products Used:
We R Memories Keeper Antique Chic Paper 
Strip of paper Colorbox, DCWV Heirloom Stack
Bo Bunny ET Cetera paper
Martha Stewart Photo Corner and Hydrangea Punches 
American Craft Studio Calico white stickers 
Black Photo Corners (to secure the photos)
Blue Chevron washi tape 
Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive 
Scotch Craft Glue 

This is a layout of my maternal great great-grandmother. My mother has said this is the only "grandmother" she ever got to know. Since my mother's grandmother died at the age of 41. This is my mother's great-grandmother (her grandmother's mother) She was said to be a sweet, loving person to her family. I guess you can tell from just looking at her photo. She must have been a happy lady. She probably had her moments like we all do. But just from looking at this photo as well as other photos of her. Her kids, grandchildren and great-grandchildren were her life. She did have 13 children at least 9 of them lived to adulthood and went on to have families of their own.
Product Used:
Paper Studio: Worn and Clattered  and DCWV Heirloom Stack paper
Maggie Holmes embellishment
Flowers, Bird and Butterfly stickers: Special Moments Handmade Stickers Autocollantes 
Black Photo Corner 
Scotch Quick-Dry Adhesive 
Scotch Craft Glue Stick
Prima Rasptool distressing tool
Carta Bella - So Noted 4x6 journal card
Tim Holtz Vintage Photo Distressing Inkpad 

 This is the front of project life history style layout. This is of the same maternal great great grandmother you saw in the layout above. I decided to add more pictures of her through out her life. I try to keep in in order.
Product Used:
We R Memory Keepers 4x6 page protector 
American Craft Studio Calico Snippets Collection 6x6 Paperpad
Glitz Pack Afternoon Muse 8x8 Paperpad
Colorbox InkPad (Pool and Cupid)
Special Moments Hand Made Stickers Autcollantes (flowers)
 American Crafts Glass Slipper (Glitter Puffy Letter Stickers) 
Fiskars Corner Punch
 Scotch Quick- Dry Adhesive

 

This is the backside of the same project life history layout. Most of the products used in this layout are the same as what I listed in the above layout. The only other products I used is clear photo corners for the two original photos in the two bottom photo pockets. The foral pattern paper I used to matted the two original photos. I got in a rak from a friend. So don't remember the name of the paper. But thought it fit with the photos nicely. Hope you all enjoy my new layout. I still have to do a layout share video with these layouts. To put on my youtube channel. I hope to do that before the weekend is over. If I get it film and up. I'll make sure to posted on here for you all to see. Well hope you all have a great weekend and enjoy your day.

Justie