Art Journaling with Limited Supplies: another Sticky Journal post

When we went to Michigan last week, I brought a small kit of art supplies.  In the kit was a medium size plastic envelope with a handful of painted papers, collage elements, stickers and tape.

I also brought a small box with glue, scissors, and a few pens and markers.  I tried to keep the art supplies to a minimum and really force myself to create something from just the small selection of materials I brought.  We used up almost all of the paper and collage elements I brought!

My mom surprised the kids with more stickers, stampers and a packet of markers, so we had a variety of materials to work with.

Some of the pages in my art journal were pre-prepped with spray inks and a little bit of paint.

Sticky elements used in this collage:

• homemade sticker with quote
• pink polka dot tape
• giraffe sticker

 

Here is another page I made:

And here are a few pics from our vacation!

Hiking in Indiana

Playing on the beach in Michigan

Picking peaches in an orchard

The kids watching the dune buggy ride

The rides were fast!

Family pic at the dunes (Andrew, Daria and I are the three on the right side)

We roasted Smores, but Daria just wanted to eat plain marshmallows

I hope you enjoyed my post reliving my vacation trip! 

Check out the other posts in this series about using your stickers and tapes in art journal pages:

1.  Sticky Inspiration
2.  My new stickers & some pages with them
3.  Using patterned tape in an art journal page
4.  Guest Post:  Marly Martinez
5.  Tape Lines artwork
6.  How to Create Your Own Stickers Using Picmonkey
7.  Sticker Art Inspiration 
8.  Cutting out shapes from tape
9.  Guest Post:  Chandra Newton

10.  Adding doodling to stickers 

11.  More Circular Stickers

12.  Guest Post:  Rachel Mims
13.  Sticker Inspiration
14.  Guest Post:  Ana Polari


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Sticky Journals Guest Post: Ana Polari

This Sticky Journals Guest Post comes from Ana Polari.
She titles her post "Bunny Vomit".  I LOVE what she has done, but then again I love cute and colorful things.  ha ha.  I'm glad this challenge forced you to step out of your comfort zone, Ana, and I love what you have done... especially using the sticker as a silhouette to trace.

Here's Ana:

My sticker postcards:

Even though I follow a lot of blogs and always like to leave a comment on someone else's post, I've never been interested in joining challenges or group projects. For challenges you usually have to make a number of art pieces or write posts on your blog on certain days. I guess this works for many people, it keeps them inspired and motivated. I, however, could never join these challenges because I'd feel too much pressure and so I'd create things I don't like just to beat the deadline. 

But this time I decided to make an exception.

One of my guilty pleasures are stickers. I love them! So I was very excited when Marcia Becket invited me to be a guest artist for the Sticky Journals challenge on her blog, Art & Inspiration. She sent packs of stickers to several artists and now shares what they created with them on her blog. Here's a peek of what I got:

Personally I could never use stickers on my books and journals for two reasons. One, I feel that a sticker on one of my pages would make it less mine. And two, stickers are very cute, and I don't want what I do to be cute. Lots of glitter, baby animals, colors and words like 'happiness' and 'hope'...it's just not my style. So instead of making a book I chose to make some postcards, because mail art allows me to experiment and step outside of what I consider to be my style.

This is the first postcard I made. I tried different sticker combinations before I got this idea. The golden frame is that part of the sicker sheet that you usually throw away. The curious thing is that I made this postcard first and then I thought of making its 'sister' using the original circles. 

When I finished these two postcards I went back to the sticker pack and searched for something that made me feel inspired among all those cutesy animals and colors. I chose a kitty with a ribbon on its tail.

 I copied the silhouette and created a kitty mosaic which I painted using watercolour pencils. This is the result:

Finally, after a long struggle with the stickers' cute and joyful influence, I just let go and made this bunny postcard. It hurts a little to look at it, and while I was making it I had to stop for a moment to write on my notebook: 'color headache flash insomnia'. So I guess I like this postcard and at the same time it makes me want to vomit. Cute and color overload! If it were a page on one of my books it'd be in the trash by now. But it's a postcard so I like it, and I'm glad I chose this format.

This challenge was harder than I thought it'd be. But it was fun and gave me some unexpected results, so I'm gonna keep all the stickers I didn't use and I'll take them out whenever I want to take a step out of my comfort zone again.

• Más postales y mail art // More handmade postcards and mail art
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Check out the other posts in this series about using your stickers and tapes in art journal pages:

1.  Sticky Inspiration
2.  My new stickers & some pages with them
3.  Using patterned tape in an art journal page
4.  Guest Post:  Marly Martinez
5.  Tape Lines artwork
6.  How to Create Your Own Stickers Using Picmonkey
7.  Sticker Art Inspiration 
8.  Cutting out shapes from tape
9.  Guest Post:  Chandra Newton

10.  Adding doodling to stickers 

11.  More Circular Stickers

12.  Guest Post:  Rachel Mims
13.  Sticker Inspiration

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Sticker Inspiration

Here are some ways you can use sticky things in your artwork! 

Hang things! via Pinterest

Here, I used washi tape to hang my daughter's artwork!  The mind of a 3 year old...

Hang masking tape from your ceiling.   

Ok, that's not really practical, but it sure looks cool in an art installation!

image via I Love Sticky Tape

Easy Washi Tape greeting card from NoBiggie.net

Gorgeous taped letters from Corey Moortgat:  I seriously LOVE all her stuff!

Washi tape silhouette art via My Sister's Suitcase

Just go crazy and fill a page with stickers.  Tacky, gaudy, but oh so fun!

Image via Weheartit

Create a taped wall!  Image via Molla Mills

Mix and match leftover stickers to speak your mind from Lisa Moorefield

Use up stickers on shoebox lids for your wall!

via Pinterest

Check out the other posts in this series about using your stickers and tapes in art journal pages:

1.  Sticky Inspiration
2.  My new stickers & some pages with them
3.  Using patterned tape in an art journal page
4.  Guest Post:  Marly Martinez
5.  Tape Lines artwork
6.  How to Create Your Own Stickers Using Picmonkey
7.  Sticker Art Inspiration 
8.  Cutting out shapes from tape
9.  Guest Post:  Chandra Newton

10.  Adding doodling to stickers 

11.  More Circular Stickers

12.  Guest Post:  Rachel Mims


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Sticky Journals Guest Post: Rachel Mims

Guest Post:  Rachel Mims

I sent out 6 packets of stickers to 6 different artists and throughout the summer I will share with you what they have created.

I have been following Rachel Mims' blog for awhile now and it is so interesting to see what she does in her art therapy classes!

Here is what she wrote at the beginning of June:

"Today is June 1st - the 1st day of ICAD.  Did you make your card?  I made mine:

And then I put it in my art journal.  I started doing that last year - using the cards as part of my art journal pages - and really liked it so I am going to do it again this year.  Here is the page:

Of course, the card and that tab at the bottom (which came off of some junk mail) both open up.  I did some extra writing under the ICAD but not the tab.  Here is a picture of them opened up:

Do you see the stickers that I used?  This art journal page is FULL of them.  There are luggage tags from a trip (or 2?) that I took on American Airlines, a name tag from a dinner I attended, washi tape and stickers from Marcia Beckett.  Marcia is hosting a sticky journal challenge/guest artist challenge! As part of this series on her blog, http://marciabeckett.blogspot.com, she sent me a package of stickers:

That's a lot of stickers, right?  I am really excited about using them!!!  So, that is why I got started right away!!  I got the stickers yesterday, I used them today.  Today I just used the stickers that matched my page... I tend to do that - stay in a color scheme.  Also, for some reason those number stickers really spoke to me.  I already know when I am going to use my other yellow 66 sticker!!"

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Check out the other posts in this series about using your stickers and tapes in art journal pages:

1.  Sticky Inspiration
2.  My new stickers & some pages with them
3.  Using patterned tape in an art journal page
4.  Guest Post:  Marly Martinez
5.  Tape Lines artwork
6.  How to Create Your Own Stickers Using Picmonkey
7.  Sticker Art Inspiration 
8.  Cutting out shapes from tape
9.  Guest Post:  Chandra Newton

10.  Adding doodling to stickers 

11.  More Circular Stickers

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Sticky Journals: More circular stickers, Giveaway Winner and 21 Secrets

Sticky Journals:  Here is a detail shot of a way to layer stickers!  I started with a gold foil stickers on the bottom, then layered a circular journal sticker, a green polka dot sticker, a turquoise circle cut from sticky paper and a little pink flower on top. 

And now for the giveaway winner of a huge pile of sticky goodness!! 

WINNER:

Congratulations to  kluckingbear who said...

Totally cool! Count me in and THANKS!!!

Please email me your address and I will send out your stickers.

Thanks everyone who commented and played!

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Also, I wanted to share with you that 21 Secrets art journaling workshop is having a Christmas in July sale with a reduced price for registration.  I've been having a lot of fun watching all the art journaling tutorials.  Check out their website here:   http://bit.ly/10idr19

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Check out the other posts in this series about using your stickers and tapes in art journal pages:

1.  Sticky Inspiration
2.  My new stickers & some pages with them
3.  Using patterned tape in an art journal page
4.  Guest Post:  Marly Martinez
5.  Tape Lines artwork
6.  How to Create Your Own Stickers Using Picmonkey
7.  Sticker Art Inspiration 
8.  Cutting out shapes from tape
9.  Guest Post:  Chandra Newton

10.  Adding doodling to stickers

Best wishes, Marcia
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Sensational Sticker Giveaway!

Hi all!  I hope you've been enjoying my blog posts about stickers.  Summer is about half way over and I thought now would be a great time for a sensational sticker GIVEAWAY as a thank you for reading my blog!  I'm so happy that you have found my blog and read, comment and invite me to your blogs. 

I have several packages of stickers, stickers I made myself, loose stickers and patterned decorative tape to giveaway to ONE LUCKY WINNER!  All you have to do is leave a comment by next Sunday, July 21 and you will be entered in the drawing.  Tweet, share or link this in a blog post for an extra chance to win (leave a comment letting me know you shared.)   Here are all of the goodies!

Glossy stickers designed and printed by ME!

Cute Animal Stickers

Sparkly Letters and Rainbow Dots

Decorative Patterned Tape

An assortment of loose stickers

Loose stickers

Leave a comment if you want to be entered in the drawing!


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Sticky Journals: Add doodling to stickers & Link Up

Tip for Art Journaling with Stickers:

Add doodles on top of the stickers to add your own personality to them.  In this page I made a couple months ago, I took a plain brown sticker, added the pink heart sticker on top, then added black outlines and white gel pen lines.

Have you made anything with stickers lately?  I'd love to see it!

Check out the other posts in this series about using your stickers and tapes in art journal pages:

1.  Sticky Inspiration
2.  My new stickers & some pages with them
3.  Using patterned tape in an art journal page
4.  Guest Post:  Marly Martinez
5.  Tape Lines artwork
6.  How to Create Your Own Stickers Using Picmonkey
7.  Sticker Art Inspiration 
8.  Cutting out shapes from tape
9.  Guest Post:  Chandra Newton



Best wishes, Marcia

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Sticky Journals: Guest Artist Chandra Newton

Guest Post:  Chandra Newton

I sent out 6 packets of stickers to 6 different artists and throughout the summer I will share with you what they have created.

Chandra writes,

"When I received the package of stickers I immediately tore into them. The first stickers to catch my eye were very industrial. Some numbers. Some geometric shapes. I envisioned an industrial/graffiti style page. I set to work straightaway. 

 

I got the background painted, set down a couple of stickers and I hated it. I couldn't see past my perceived mistakes. 

 

So I put my journal aside and picked up the package of stickers yet again. The first set of stickers to catch my eye were four pink squares stacked atop one another. The first thing I though of was a paint strip. I liked it. So, I laid them on my page in the same manner. Of course they are slightly more askew than they were on the paper backing. But, that's okay. Next, I pulled out a sheet of reinforcement tabs. A theme and color scheme were beginning to take shape at this point. I had to use the pink ones. I decided to lay them from the bottom up, staggering off the page. This reminded me of bubbles rising up from the bottom. 

 

 

Thinking of rising bubbles, I grabbed my floral/gear like stamp and some pink ink. I stamped haphazardly across the page. Using my non-dominant hand I drew lines along the edge and bottom, as a sort of border. 

 

 

This page is simpler and more pink than anything I normally do, but I like it. Despite its simplicity, it feels complete. It suggests movement and growth. It reminds me that I don't have to be perfect to move forward. It reminds me that (like this opportunity) it's okay to try new things; to step outside of my comfort zone once in awhile.

 

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Chandra Newton

poesraven@operamail.com

 Thanks so much, Chandra for sharing your lovely journal page with us!

 Check out the other posts in this series about using your stickers and tapes in art journal pages:

1.  Sticky Inspiration
2.  My new stickers & some pages with them
3.  Using patterned tape in an art journal page
4.  Guest Post:  Marly Martinez
5.  Tape Lines artwork
6.  How to Create Your Own Stickers Using Picmonkey
7.  Sticker Art Inspiration 
8.  Cutting out shapes from tape

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Color this Quotes & Sticky Journals: Cutting out shapes from tape

The quote for June from Artists in Blogland is: 
"May there be peace and prosperity within your walls."  Psalms 122.7

Here I will show you the steps I used to make my art journal page.

1.  First, take a separate sheet of paper and put patterned and colored tape in straight lines across.  Overlap them for interest.

2.  Cut out shapes and strips from the page of tape.  Glue to your art journal page.

3.  Add lettering (I used a Pilot Varsity Disposable Fountain Pen.   Add smudging and marks with other markers, Gel Sticks - 12 ct and RoseArt Neon Gel Crayons.)

 

Check out the other posts in this series about using your stickers and tapes in art journal pages:

1.  Sticky Inspiration
2.  My new stickers & some pages with them
3.  Using patterned tape in an art journal page
4.  Guest Post:  Marly Martinez
5.  Tape Lines artwork
6.  How to Create Your Own Stickers Using Picmonkey
7.  Sticker Art Inspiration

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog!  Love, Marcia
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