r/JournalingIsArt

My favorites so far are the pink pages and the Mary Jane ones! I have so many crafty supplies sitting around I’m surprised I haven’t started this sooner. Side note- I’m looking for glue recs to eliminate the wrinkles because they’re really bugging me 😅

Made two Birthday cards! One for my little sister’s sweet 16! Then, one to mail out to an old friend who is very into gardening this year. Each card has hand written notes on the back ᵕ̈

Started last summer to bring some joy and creativity into my suburban, working mom life. I lean more into a hybrid scrapbooking/junk journaling where I capture and use more photos of my kids. I'm 3/4 through that notebook.

My friend gifted me a little junk set for Christmas from Target (love and find it silly how Target will make a money grab for anything with sloght popularity) and it came with a notebook. I've been using this little one to do more aimless and fun spreads. I had a work trip to Baltimore and thought I'd try doing a daily junk spread. I assembled a travel kit with the journal, a glue stick, glue tape, and mini scissors. I also had coloring supplies and mini coloring pages for during the conference itself - used a couple in the spreads.

It was a fun way to wrap up each day while I decompressed in my hotel room. I also made a trip to Scrap Baltimore to get some donated craft supplies. The final spread (which I forgot to take a pucture of) I actually did on the plane.

Started a new journal. First pages from the last couple of days.

I love food. 🥘 🍱 I went from keeping lists of places to eat which was very boring (and sometimes I cannot remember the dishes I described).. to keeping a visual food journal. But I didn’t want to spend too much time on it, but I also wanted it to commemorate all my good eats.

So I turned it into a 5-minute journal. 📓 5 minutes the the time I allotted myself to sketch the food when it arrives at my table, before I get to eat. I sometimes go back to add more details to the drawing, but the first 5 minutes is used to capture the overall visual.

There’s a saying in the artists circle that when stuck, draw fishes/birds. Because they can appear in any colour combination and have easy shapes, they assist with creative blocks. For me personally, I found it quite effective and tend to be able to flow more creatively after a fish drawing session.

In my pages here, I’ve used it to test some other colour theory principles and because I didn’t like them, this became a critique page for what I need to improve on in future.