Using Journal Cards in Art Journaling Tutorial

I am very excited over Scrap Girls new product line, Pocket Life! It lends itself perfectly to Art Journaling – Scrap Girls Style!

Most sizes can be printed, cut out and placed into your journal with little or no size manipulation. Even the 12×12 inch papers can be used directly in a larger journal (this would require a large format printer)!

In the February Pocket Life Special I found a 3×4 inch card that I know I will be printing out quite a few of to have on hand.

Last Tuesday, I had an unusually busy & stressful day that I wanted to record in my Art Journal. Here is how I did it, FAST & EASY with Scrap Girls February Pocket Life Special.

First, I opened PhotoShop and created a new file the size of my journal page.

Then, I opened the Pocket life card I wanted to use and brought it over to my document,; in this case, I only had to bring the bottom edge of the card down to the bottom of my journal page. (1)

Print and cut out…Place it in your journal and draw a light pencil line at the edge.

Next, I wrote down on a piece of paper & counted how many things I wanted to record.

Now it’s time for what I call mapping. You can draw, stamp or glue and paste however many shapes that you have things you want to record. Place them in a manner that you can connect them with a line or lines. Sort of like a map!

I used a 2H pencil which has a hard lead and is light. That way I can design away until I’m satisfied; then I went over the lines with my Pitt pen and then erased all the pencil lines. I used water color pencils with a waterbrush to add the color; but almost any media would work, acrylics, pastels, even crayons!