Art Journaling

Something Olde, Something New…

~ Patty Radish ~ 2 Comments

Last night I got an itch to finally turn some of the small notebooks I have been holding onto for years…and years… into mini art journals. I got out my glue stick and went to town glueing the pages together for strength.

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Once that was done, I thought it was time to try a project I’ve been stewing over for the past few months…

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…making a kind of Fauxdori cover to hold them in!!

 And because I’ll be embellishing the cover, I machine quilted it. Love!

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This took about an hour to make, and the notebooks fit in it beautifully!

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I will be more than happy to share how I made these in another post, I’ll need one for my Moleskines.

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There’s  nothing like mooching around your own stash of supplies to making something special for yourself. Well, back to my Christmas gift makings.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Have a great day,

~Patty

December’s Planner decor in My Carpe Diem

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Every month, when I receive my Planner Society Kit, either I don’t use all of the goodies, or I spread them out amongst all my planners until you loose Christy’s whole Planner Society “look”. So, I decided to relegate my new Carpe Diem Biz planner for exclusively PSK decor.

I’ll start my little tour from the beginning. It may seem a little unorthodox, but I decided to keep the current month at the front of my planner, working each month to the back as they finish up. That is why you see December in front of November.

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Starting with the dashboard, a layering of November and December’s papers.  I love the colors Christy uses each month, they seem to blend into the next seamlessly!!

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Playing cards holding samples of all of the PSK washi tapes. I am really amazed at how much I actually use this stuff now! Luckily, I have lots more!

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An assortment of post its and note paper, too cute! I’m trying desperately not to hoard it!

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My version of a mission board. This is my first really decorated up one. As you can see, I haven’t spent any time on the planning portion of it, but that will happen soon.

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My MO2P’s, again not filled out yet, but it’s still early days.

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My weekly planning spread, I use the heck out of this! I have decided that I need to make space in this planner for my craftings. There are too many thing to write in my Home planner, so I needed to shift it over here. Besides, those are things I usually blog about, so it makes sense to keep it together. In case your wondering, I’m still getting the hang of this planning organization thing!

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Here is where I store my stickers and such for easy access. This is a one piece multi sleeve configuration from Office Depot. I re-punched the holes to fit into my planner. Having “most” of my PSK goodies in one place has really been awesome, I spend more time trying to figure out where I pigeonholed something than I would like to admit, so this is golden!

Maybe I should stop collecting things…Naw!

So there you have it. Things may change a bit, but I’m pretty happy with this set-up for now.

Once again,

Thanks for the visit,

Have a great Friday,

~Patty

A Holiday Mini Journal

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I’ve been pretty absent from this olde blog for a while now…I’ve been too busy making! Making Christmas gifts, making things for my shoppe, and making plans!

But, I thought I would take a wee break and share something  that I’m pretty happy about…

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My 2015 Holiday mini journal! You see, every year I toss around the idea about whether or not to make a Holiday journal. Sometimes I make one, and sometimes I don’t. This year, it was a yes.

I knew I wanted to go small, so I set about looking through my art room for a likely candidate. I had completely forgotten about this little book, it was literally falling part at the seams!

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It’s probably from the 30’s, the pages are so super delicate! I am going to adhere these pieces to card stock to preserve them before I use them.

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In my book, the Holidays start with Thanksgiving, so what a great way to begin this journal. Luckily, I took a few photos over the weekend to start out. It had snowed, so it was a beautiful drive!

As if I didn’t have enough to do, I decided to work on two list challenges this month. I figured there may be days I don’t do anything Holiday related to journal about, and thought It would be nice to mix things up a bit.

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It had snowed at my daughter’s house and her yard looked gorgeous! This was my grandson’s first thanksgiving, I managed to get one photo of him not moving.

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On the last day of our visit, my daughter and I made Christmas cards. Something that has become a Thanksgiving tradition for us.

That is what I love most about this time of the year, enjoying all the family traditions, old and new! It’s just getting harder to fit them all in to one month!

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I have lots of fun stuff to play with, so I bought this cute box from Michael’s to store it all in. I didn’t decorate it this way, but I sure am inspired by it! It looks like a cross between a Victorian and Mid-Century Christmas to me, I may have to run with it!

I will probably be posting primarily Christmas related posts this month. I have so many plans that that is all I will be doing! So, consider yourself forewarned!

Until next time,

Have a great day,

Talk to you soon,

~Patty

They Say “If It Works, Don’t Fix It”, but if it doesn’t…

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Yes folks, it’s another re-constructed journal!

I have been having a rough couple of days on more than one level, and needed a safe place to vent. But, because I’m not a huge fan of letting off steam publicly, i.e.; online, I choose to work it out with pen and paper.

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This journal was a little useless, being from a project that I had completely lost interest in. So, last night I tore out all the old project remnants, and replaced them with new journaling pieces. Some of the pages didn’t survive the reconstruction process, but most did.

I began to rummage around my art room, gathering all the lost souls I could find. You can spot some of them at the top of the page. Bling junk!

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Then, I grabbed my pen and and started writing! I wrote and decorated, decorated and wrote. Soon, I was adding inspirational quotes and sayings. And I must say, feeling much better about things!

First, for getting a few things off my chest. Then, for giving myself permission to do so!

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It didn’t take long for this journal to become a comfortable place to land. To be honest, I had hoped that I wouldn’t need a “venting” journal anymore, but sometimes things just pile up.

My introverted side pegs out pretty easily when I spend too much energy outside myself.IMG_0723

  I think that some of the “projects” I get myself involved in makes me a little too stressed, then I hurry through my pages just to get them done. Not my style!

So, I’m going to put a lot of outside projects, and interactions, on hold for a while, just to regroup.

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Have a great day!

~Patty