Artsy weekend

I'm in the artsy scrapping mood this weekend. I felt inspired by one of my fave artists - Wilna Furstenberg and her lovely autumn creations - especially the colours she used. Check her blog as she's got a beautiful fall album as a free download.

This is my actual "paper" art journal page: 

and this one is digital - made with a scanned background I painted with watercolours:

 

credits:

leaves, background, word transparency - me

Gennifer Bursett - Undeniably Me

Celeste Knight - Sparkle and Shine (elements); Sparkle and Shine (splatters and strokes )

Deena Rutter - Wanderer; Every Little Bit: Blue Skies; Treasured

Anna Aspnes - Urban Threadz No 6; Artsy Transfers Break Away

Faith Journaling

Recently I've come back to my "real" (read paper, not digital) faith/prayer art journal. I've been enjoying the process, playing with paints and gesso and using up some old rub-ons. I rediscovered how great way of spending time with God it might be. Listening to Christian songs and writing down the lyrics or some Bible verses is an amazing way to focus on the Word and allow yourself to be touched and transformed by it.

Here are a few of my pages I want to share.

 lyrics - Touch the Sky by Hillsong United

 lyrics - When the Rain Comes by Third Day

And if you'd like to get to know more about the process and find more inspiration on faith journaling and typography, here are a few links to people that inspire me:
Wilna Furstenberg's art/prayer journaling videos
Illustrated Faith community (art journaling in your Bible)
Soulscripts blog (inspiring blog posts about faith and beautiful typography of Bible verses)

and the bands I love at the moment:
I Am They
Rend Collective
Gungor

 

Back to basics

After a looong break, I took out my papers and punches and buttons and paints - and thanks to this great workshop by Wilna I decided to play with them again. I love my PSE but it's wonderful to play again with real elements too - get really messy and dirty and even do some stitching ;-) I didn't go too far from my computer as I used some digital elements which I printed out on my pages. Here are the result (more to come as I edit the photos in Lightroom - my new fave toy ;-)

 credits:

leaves are from Happy Days digi kit by Mari Koegelenberg

title - a cut file from Art And Design class by Wilna Furstenberg

 credits:

leaves and flowers are from Happy Days digi kit by Mari Koegelenberg

feathers from Pillow Talk by creashens 

Be - Life Story March 14 stamps by Karla Dudley

Fabulous - a cut file from Art And Design class by Wilna Furstenberg

 

the Art Studio

If you want to take some great art and scrapbooking classes - check this out - Art Studio has a great promotion and they offer all of their classes for only 5$ each.

I've taken 2 so far - about journaling and gesso - you can see a few of my works in this post.