Category: Art Journal

  • Daily Prompts for Your Journal

    Daily Prompts for Your Journal

    Try these daily prompts for your journal and see your journal pages come alive with your own beautiful self-expression! I love to journal, but sometimes I get into a rut. My happy journal pages start looking the same, my art journal pages look bleh, and my bullet journal just looks sad. Okay, my bullet journal…

  • Process Video for Art Journaling Backgrounds

    Process Video for Art Journaling Backgrounds

    Using art journaling backgrounds is a great way to add variety to your journal pages. Here’s a process video of how I use them. I love experimenting in my art journal. And as of late, that experimenting has meant playing with printable art journal pages. I scan them from my own art journals and then…

  • How to Use Printable Backgrounds for an Art Journal

    How to Use Printable Backgrounds for an Art Journal

    Get a creative jumpstart with printable art journaling backgrounds. They’re perfect for beginners! I LOVE working with art journaling backgrounds. Using patterned papers, especially ones that have painterly elements adds a unique touch to my art journals. They are also great for helping me get past the initial blank page in my art journal. I’ve…

  • 55+ Free Art Journal Prompts

    55+ Free Art Journal Prompts

    I love using free art journal prompts because they encourage me to create things in my journals that I normally wouldn’t make. Rather than painting or collaging the same old, same old, I get to play and imagine and try something completely new. Personally, I use art journaling prompts in several different ways, so I…

  • Be Brave In Your Life, Creativity, and Art Journal!

    Be Brave In Your Life, Creativity, and Art Journal!

    How can you be brave in your life AND your art journal? I’m glad you asked! We are currently in the middle of an art journaling challenge where we are diving deep into a prompt for two weeks at a time. It’s been a fun journey to use these prompts to draw, collage, paint, and…

  • The Art Journaling Gift Guide

    The Art Journaling Gift Guide

    Whether you’re looking for ideas for a birthday, Christmas, or just a fun gift for yourself, you’ll find something you’ll love in this art journaling gift guide. Art journal and happy journal supplies are the best! Keeping an art journal is a great way to express your creativity and de-stress. It’s also a great activity…

  • Those Eyes! Drawing Eyes in Your Art Journal

    Those Eyes! Drawing Eyes in Your Art Journal

    We are on our third prompt for the Simple Art Journaling Challenge (learn more about it here), and our prompt for the next two weeks is going to be Drawing Eyes. Oh my goodness, I don’t know what it is about eyes, but they are so much fun to draw. And easier than you might…

  • Four Fun Ways to Fill up Your Blank Art Journal

    Four Fun Ways to Fill up Your Blank Art Journal

    Do you have a brand-new (or not-so-new) blank art journal that needs some love? Looking for some art journal ideas for beginners? I know how intimidating it can be to start a new journal from scratch. Even though I’ve been art journaling and regular journaling for YEARS, I still stop short with a new journal.…

  • Nature-Inspired Art Journal Fairy Princess

    Nature-Inspired Art Journal Fairy Princess

    Today I’m going to show you how to make your own nature-inspired art journal fairy princess! This is such a fun way to incorporate nature walks into the pages of your journal. When I walk through our various forest paths in the summer, what with the wildflowers in full bloom and the dappled light on…

  • Transfer Nature Walk Inspiration Into Your Art Journal

    Transfer Nature Walk Inspiration Into Your Art Journal

    There is nothing like a nature walk to fill my creative spirit with inspiration. I’m sure it’s the same for you. Whether you live near a forest like I do or in a suburban neighborhood, you can find delightful surprises that can act as prompts and inspiration for your art journal. For the next couple…