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Gelli Plate Printing for Art Journals

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Intaglio-Inspired Printing *Excerpt from Gelli Plate Printing by Joan Bess Intaglio (pronounced in-TAL-ee-oh) prints are created from an etched plate that’s been inked and wiped so that all that remains is the ink in the incised areas. An inked plate …

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Creative Kickstarts: Amanda Judd’s Photography Art Journals

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*A guest post by Amanda Judd. Many of us doubt we are creative let alone artistic. Often there is a strong inner critic that accompanies us through our days. So, it’s not surprising that they show up in our art …

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Amazing Pages Art Journals with Kass Hall and Kristy Conlin

Discover your individual style of art journaling! This workshop is not about overthinking or perfectionism—it’s about exploring fun, relaxed techniques for producing amazing art journals. Kass Hall and Kristy Conlin will take you through all the steps necessary to break …

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Art Journals Unbound with Quinn McDonald

Quinn McDonald introduced you to the idea of creating unbound art journals in her book, Inner Hero Creative Art Journal and now she’ll guide you as you create four different ways to carry those pages. First, Quinn will show you …

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Summer Reading Give-Away: Alternative Art Journals

This week’s Summer Reading Give-Away is a copy of “Alternative Art Journals.” Read on to find out how you can win~~

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Erasing in Your Art Journals?

Margaret Peot shares ideas for making the most of the pages in your art journals, even the pages that are ugly and you wish you could erase.

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Collection Journals: The Specimen Jar

Margaret Peot shares her new take on art journals outside the traditional journal– specimen collection jars inspired by the botany journals of Dutch botanist Frederick Ruysch.

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Why I Love Art Journals, Redux

Ricë has a new favorite art journaling book. Not because she keeps an art journal–she doesn’t–but because it’s full of ideas for–duh–altering clothing.

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Mixed Media Alchemy: Sketchbooks and Journals

In her second Mixed Media Alchemy blog post, Lisa Cyr shows some of the many creative things you can do when creating your own sketchbook or art journal including creating endpapers, bookmarks, slipcases and covers!

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Alternative Art Journals & A Winner

We’ve got a winner for our contest from last week AND a bunch of links to videos and tutorials that will get you started making your own blank journals.

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