September 4, 2010

Journal Junkies ¹

by Wendy • 2010: Memory Making, Art Journaling, Headline, Studio Saturdays

I have always been an art journaling fan but I have never been consistent with keeping one.  I have several here and there but I have mostly been working out of the same book for several years.  I tend to have tried to rope and round up my thoughts and memories into scrapbooking but I haven’t been consistent with that either.  I think I have a mild form of ADD because I can never seem to sit in one place long enough to complete a scrapbook album or a whole art journal.  Recently, during one of my weekly trips to Barnes & Noble, I happened upon the book  The Journal Junkies Workshop: Visual Ammunition for the Art Addict and fell completely in love.  It’s complete and total eye candy for those of us who love a good visual.  They have a bunch of techniques that I wanted to try but the packing tape transfer method jumped right out at me.  It seemed easy enough but since it’s something I haven’t tried before, I thought it might bring my journaling  to a new level.

The technique ended up being as easy as it sounded and I loved the results.  I started taking pictures too late into the process, so I didn’t get a picture of the magazine photo I used before I started.  Here are some photos though from about the middle of the process, all the way until the picture ended up on a journal page:

I want to get Catherine hooked on some sort of memory keeping, whether it be journaling or scrapbooking (or some other medium) so that later on down the line she has a way of processing some of her life story.  I got her a little book to start coloring and gluing in.  She sat right beside me and colored and glued to her hearts content.  How cool will it be when she is 30 to look back at an art journal book she drew in when she was 3?