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Page one: First I took white spray mist to highlight the page a litte bit. These flowers were first embossed and then I painted them with watercolors. Before I glued them to my page I cut it down into 5 pieces and used my sewing machine to sew a line on the left. On the top right I glued down some leftover sewing thread.

Page two: I painted the inside of my hand with white acrylic paint and made an imprint onto cardstock. With a pen I wrote around the words this is me.

 

Get Messy is an art journal challenge where a gang of crafty vixens are sharing art journal pages we have created to practise our skills and push past our creative limits with hopes to inspire. We share our pages without restraint every week, and once a month we create around a prompt. Go check out these crazy talented ladies who are creating pages who each have a unique perspective and style. We will be sharing our work around social media so follow the hashtag #getmessyartjournal.

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When I joined get messy a few months ago, I made a 8x8 minibook. The idea was to create a page and add it to the album. The quotes minibook I used in the last few weeks is way smaller and the pages are already adhered. So I decided to go back to the original minibook. For the cover and back I covered chipboard with patterned paper.

Page one: I used Neocolors II, water, gouache and gel medium. This is the first page of my new album. I think it represents the whole idea very well.

Page two: I'm currently sewing a new quilt. With some leftover fabric I created a miniquilt and wrote around it.

 

Get Messy is an art journal challenge where a gang of crafty vixens are sharing art journal pages we have created to practise our skills and push past our creative limits with hopes to inspire. We share our pages without restraint every week, and once a month we create around a prompt. Go check out these crazy talented ladies who are creating pages who each have a unique perspective and style. We will be sharing our work around social media so follow the hashtag #getmessyartjournal.

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Left page: I got inspired by Vanessa for this page. I used some gouache paint in black and an old brush to create those crosses.

Right page: Here I used a leftover page from my Linoleum Print.

I like the contrast between these two.

 

Get Messy is an art journal challenge where a gang of crafty vixens are sharing art journal pages we have created to practise our skills and push past our creative limits with hopes to inspire. We share our pages without restraint every week, and once a month we create around a prompt. Go check out these crazy talented ladies who are creating pages who each have a unique perspective and style. We will be sharing our work around social media so follow the hashtag #getmessyartjournal.

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Left side: I worked again with the autumn art journal kit by Katie Licht. This time I didn't use a quote from some one else. I wrote some thoughts I had about moving faster.

Right side: A simple page with stripes and an older Studio Calico Project Life Card on top. This quote is a pretty awesome one and I truly believe in it.

 

Get Messy is an art journal challenge where a gang of crafty vixens are sharing art journal pages we have created to practise our skills and push past our creative limits with hopes to inspire. We share our pages without restraint every week, and once a month we create around a prompt. Go check out these crazy talented ladies who are creating pages who each have a unique perspective and style. We will be sharing our work around social media so follow the hashtag #getmessyartjournal.

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This month's prompt is brought to you by Sabine of Moments to live for.

Journaling Challenge: Live your adventurous dreams on paper. What would you love to do, or at least try, if you had the courage to live more adventurously?

Art Challenge: Try a method or material you've never worked with before. Be adventurous!

For this prompt I only used the Journaling Challenge. I couldn't think of a material I've never worked with before and being adventurous isn't one of my main characteristics.

 

Left side: I used another quote of The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I created some sort of colored background with these Neocolors II and wrote the quote on my computer first and printed it afterwards.

Right side: For the background I used some old book pages from this kit by Katie Licht and on top I added a card from an older Studio Calico Project Life kit.

 

Get Messy is an art journal challenge where a gang of crafty vixens are sharing art journal pages we have created to practise our skills and push past our creative limits with hopes to inspire. We share our pages without restraint every week, and once a month we create around a prompt. Go check out these crazy talented ladies who are creating pages who each have a unique perspective and style. We will be sharing our work around social media so follow the hashtag #getmessyartjournal.