The theme for this monthly Grab Bag is “REJUVENATE” and includes a tranquil assortment of images in blues, violets and sages; and various circles and mandala-type images that could aid in restoration of powers and rejuvenate your spirit. Rebecca McMeen’s art doll, Mendi, has lots of different outfits, shoes and collars/headpieces to change her appearance.
The pieces of this collection can be used in both digital and mixed media formats. TB&CO Grab Bag #23 {July 2016} is only available for a limited time and is priced on asliding scale, so act fast for the best deal! For more information visitTB&CO Grab Bags.
Following are some examples of the creative things you can do with the bits and pieces included in the TB&CO Grab Bag #23 {July 2016}.
Rejuvenation
Centered
Mandala - Choose Hope
I hope you enjoy these examples and are inspired to get the monthly Grab Bag to design your own unique art.
BTW - over in the Art Journal Emporium, you can participate in monthly challenges. There are two winners every month. Just upload your digital or mixed-media entry by the end of the month.
Hi, Everyone! Welcome to the Weekend! And what's a better way to enjoy the weekend than with the newest grab bag release from TB&CO.
July's Grab Bag has been released. Sneak peek pictured below.
TB&CO Grab Bags are available on a sliding scale so act fast for the best deal!
If you are FAST you can get the grab bag for only $6 the first 24 hours.
***SPECIAL FOR JULY 4TH- GET THIS MONTH'S GRAB BAG FOR $6 THROUGH MONDAY***
The grab bag then goes up by $1 each day $7 the next day (we will reveal full previews on this day) $8 the next day $9 the next day $10 the next day
Then it will be broken up into our individual stores for FULL PRICE
Never miss another grab bag at the $6 price! You can purchase a subscription, where you automatically get the grab bag every month at the $6 price! (If you purchase a new subscription which includes grab bags any time in July 2016 you will get the July 2016 grab bag even if it is no longer available to the public!).
Over the years we've been fortunate to have Julie Ann Shahin share some wonderful art journaling series with the TB&CO readers. We will be re-posting some of them here on this blog. Please note these may be altered from the original posts to update links, provide information on newer programs, etc.
Enjoy!
I once knew someone who told me she spent 15 minutes per page when scrapbooking. She was an amazing paper scrapbooker, and this concept blew my mind as it took me 15 minutes just to decide what color scheme to use! I began to scrap a little faster when I went digital, and then I started taking more time again as I added layer upon layer to my pages, even in digital. Even longer if something needed extraction or modification.
Still, this 15 minute concept has never escaped me. Everyone has 15 minutes they can set aside for art. Even if you don’t finish, that’s ok. You can come back to it another day. Just set aside 15 minutes a day for art. Today we are sharing pages we made in just 15 minutes! My first attempt I failed miserably. I didn’t set a timer, and even though I watched the clock, I gave myself more and more time. I wasn’t satisfied with the page, so I kept going and going and going. I think I took about 40 minutes.
This morning I tried a second attempt to make a 15 Minute Page. This time I did use a timer. I only went about a minute over, as I was finishing making a piece of word art before I could add it. At first, as I looked at my finished page – I thought, “this is too plain for me.” Then I realized it fit my quote exactly. Kismet! (And I explain what made the difference in time below.) What about you? How about taking a few moments to center yourself, take a few deep breaths, count your blessings, and then take 15 minutes for art? Here’s an online timer you can set:
Shelli: I was hoping to get picutres of the Bald Eagles when I went to the local wildlife refuge a couple weeks ago, and though I heard them while I was there, I was never able to see them. I was lucky enough to walk up on a couple of Great Blue Heron’s though, and they were practically modeling for me. The first one was shy & hid behind a bush at first, then displayed his fishing skills for me. The second one struck a variety of poses while wading, then flew up onto a branch in front of pine tree which greated a fantastic background for him. If only nature were always so cooperative with us. A Quickity Split page & a couple of frames later & their photos are ready for display.
Julie Ann
2011 Art Journal Caravan Itinerary 46 – Protect. I used Tangie’s Quickety Split N’ Print background which cut down the time significantly. What takes me the longest everytime is the lettering and choosing of a font(s). Then I took two word strips from the Prose Collection, to make the word “protect” – I took a “c” from one, and added it to the word “protest”. That took me just about a minute over the 15 minute timer. Close enough! Credits: Tangie Baxter's Quickety Split N’ Print from June Grab Bag (Vol 7), Prose Collection and Art Journaling Font Frog Footman.
Hello artsy friends! We are halfway through the year and I have no idea how it happened so quickly. Kids are out of school and the days are heating up in my small part of the world. Susan here with some brand spanking newArt Journal Emporium Gallery goodness to round out the month of June.
Our first bit of gallery goodness is by Robyn who found inspiration with the June Challenge and Goodies. Her farm scene is just so cute. Love the little boy getting ready to water his plants.
Liz is up next with her lovely bit of artwork inspired by Art Journal Caravan Itinerary No. 25. Lots of lovely layers and fantastical word art fill her page.
Our third page this week is by Cindy using Art Journal Caravan Itinerary No. 23 as a jumping off point. I adore all the flowers, blending and message in her wonderful page.
Tangie Baxter & CO’s Art Journal Caravan is going strong and we’d love for you to join us on the adventure!
Don’t forget Monthly Grab Bags are only available for a limited time once a month and priced on asliding scale. Act fast for the best deal. For more information visit TB&CO Grab Bags.
A big thank you to Robyn, Liz, Cindy and Lynn for sharing their wonderful work with us. Please leave them some love. Thanks so much for taking time out of your busy day to stop by and peruse this week’s Gallery Gems!
When I saw this month’s grab bag now available as separate kits at TB&CO, I just loved the flowers and plants, Anais’ pensive face, and the lovely muted colors. I wanted to create something that reflected this mood.
First of all, I digitally created an art doll using Anais from Rebecca’s portion of the Grab Bag and various other elements from the June Grab Bag.
I painted a page with yellow acrylic paint. Next painted a stencil (did this on a Gelli™ Printing Plate so that I did not waste paint and could use the impressions from the plate to create a couple of pages ready for another project), Removed stencil from the plate and flipped onto the background page and carefully pressed onto page (to prevent smudging).
I used a circle stencil and Dylusions Ink Spray on blank spaces.
Cut out art doll and glued onto page and then added doodling.
Monthly Grab Bags are only available for a limited time once a month and priced on a sliding scale. Act fast for the best deal. For more information visit TB&CO Grab Bags.
There’s still time for you to participate in the monthly challenge over at the Art Journal Emporium. All you have to do is use one of the ideas below, create and upload your digital or mixed media entryby June 30, 2016. If you participate in the monthly challenge you could be one of two winners chosen at random – each prize is a $5.00 coupon to Tangie Baxter & Co. Woo Hoo!
June’s challenge is to use at least one of the following ideas:
1.Use the Following Quote:
"I want to cultivate the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown."
Kathe Kollwitz
2.Cultivate: Use the symbolism of growing a tree (or plant) to inspire your page.
3.Create a page using at least 6 different patterns.
Easy peazy!
To give you an idea of what you could do, here is my interpretation of #2.
I used June Collage Sheets for the page that are included as part of the benefits of an AJE membership.
Get those creative juices flowing, you could win a super prize! Come and join the fun!
The Art Journal Emporium membership includes Tangie Baxter's Collage Workshop for the current month BEFORE it's released in the TB & CO store. In addition to the digital downloads there is a video tutorial and some wonderful sample projects. Collage Workshop materials need to be downloaded before the end of each month.
Over the years we've been fortunate to have Julie Ann Shahin share some wonderful art journaling series with the TB&CO readers. We will be re-posting some of them here on this blog. Please note these may be altered from the original posts to update links, provide information on newer programs, etc. The following is the conclusion of a fabulous post on typography. If you missed the earlier posts in the series you can read them here: Part One, Part Two. Enjoy!
I believe many of us in this industry collect fonts as a passion. Tangie has picked up on this passion when she started her Foundry with her own fonts for sale. Not only that, she has given exclusive video tutorials on how to make the most of these fonts in art journaling to the Art Journal Caravan™ Workshop 2011 (now available as a self-study workshop) to watch at your own pace. Today let’s look at some of the talented Art Journal Caravan members and Studio Tangie Creative Team members, and how they’ve made the most of typography and font use. We’ll see the use of rhythm, energy, repetition and scale. We’ll see the use of contrasting fonts, casual fonts and fonts used for readability. We’ll see text paths, text circles and fonts that guide your eye through the design. We’ll see fonts that offer mood, hierarchy and emphasis. We’ll see fonts with a crackled effect, decorative fonts and handwritten fonts. Also we’ll see typography and fonts that break all the rules! Here we go….
This page by sparklyduck75 is a great example of several types of typography, in my opinion: {decorative font, scale, and rhythm.}
I love this page by wanderer for her use of {warped text}, {text circles} and {sunburst text placement}.
Credits: image designed by me on Marvel.com, recolored in PhotoshopGlitter: Trixie ScrapsBackground: Tommys Garage by Studio Gypsy; Fonts: Pea Tonya, Pea Danley,Pea NJH Script, Pea Chit’s Bits, Pea Bhea Script, & Pea Teran from Fonts for Peas.
This last page by SpunMonkey uses a journaling font for {readability}.
Credits: Tangie Baxter's Seaside Art Dolls, Bee True, Various Collage Fodder Sheets, Painted Grunge Papers, Curious Adventures; Clementine Design's Eleanor’s Avenue; Crowabout StudioB's Funky Birds and Borders, More Wild Things, Borders and Bits, Odds and Ends, Dirty Alpha; Sherrie JD's Body Farm; Teesha’s Land of Odd Teesha Moore's Collage Sheets.
This is a very interesting infographic by Noodlor, and blogged about in detail by Cliff Kuang here. I thought if you are interested in learning more about typography, this would be a great place to start!
I hope you enjoyed this re-post of Julie Ann Shahin's series on Typography. See you next Flashback Friday!
Hello, my name is Katrina and I am part of the Art Journal Emporium crew. Each month I create a cut and paste project using the wonderful kits and collage sheets Tangie Baxter creates for us all.
I live here in the south west of England and am lucky to have a lovely garden created and tended by my husband. He is a wonderful gardener who loves nothing better than growing his plants from seeds and cuttings. So when I saw this month's grab bag kits from TB& CO I thought it would make a nice little garden journal to keep all those notes and ideas gardeners have from season to season.
So here it is. I made my own book and bound it using my Zutter Bind-It-All machine. The Zutter Bind-It-All machine is a small book binding machine that cuts the holes in your pages and covers and closes the metal binding rings to make a professional looking bound book. I love my machine and use it a lot to make all sorts of books but if you don't have a machine like mine there are all sorts of different ways you could bind your book. Book rings are a simple way to bind your little journal or using ribbon to tie the pages together would look good too. If you don't want to make your book why not just use a bought book and cover the pages instead.
To begin with I printed out some of the papers and images I liked from the kit onto coated paper. If you are disappointed with the way your printouts look then change your paper before you change your printer. It’s the quality of the paper you use in your printer rather than the printer that will affect the way they look, so using a coated paper that the ink doesn't sink into will make your printed images look bright and crisp and also uses less ink too.
I cut out my papers to use for the pages of the book, covers and dividers. I also found a couple of hook and loop tape dots I had recycled from some packaging.
I used the background papers to decorate both sides of my dividers, then used complementary colour ink to ink around the paper edges and dividers.
There are so many lovely images in this kit, so I cut some of them out to collage onto the dividers
I then turned to the covers. I covered them inside and out with the background papers and then added a couple of the kits images.
All there was left to do then was divide the pages up between the dividers and bind my book.
I have left the divider tabs blank so hubby can use the journal as he wishes. I also added a few collage pieces on the inside and on the reverse of the dividers
I like to have some form of closure to my books, so this time I have used some seam binding to match the look of the papers and used the recycled hook and loop dot, one stuck on the book cover and one on the seam binding to close it. I had a leaf button that I thought went quite well on the front of the seam binding. I also added some recycled raffia to give it a rustic look and to finish it off.
Well there we are, this month project using the AJE and Grab Bag goodies for a journal book. These kits are so versatile and can be used for more than art journaling pages. You can make all sorts of thing with these lovely images and papers. It's one of the things I love the most about digital kits, you can make them work for all sorts of projects.
I hope you have enjoyed my project this month and will join me this time next month for another cut and paste project.
Don’t forget Monthly Grab Bags are only available for a limited time once a month and priced on a sliding scale. Act fast for the best deal. For more information visit TB&CO Grab Bags.
A few weeks ago as I was recording the weekly Vlog for theArt Journal Emporium, I said something that struck me as quite profoundlater. I simply said "I'm not sick, I'm just having trouble with my voice today.". I realized that there is some deep symbolism in that about art journaling. We use journaling and art when we are having trouble with our voice. Perhaps today instead of focusing on "Discover the Artist within you!" we should say "Discover the Voice within you!". Try creating an art journal page today with some journaling, digging deep to see if there is something you are having trouble saying and just let it out.
This page doesn't have a lot of journaling on it, but it helped me realize that I'm trying to learn how to live from my heart instead of from my to do lists. Powerful journaling in just a few words.
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Credits: BG and elements Happy to Be Me by 
Credits: Swirl Brush by KPeriet, Chicken (unknown); Font: 
Credits: image designed by me on Marvel.com, recolored in PhotoshopGlitter: Trixie ScrapsBackground: Tommys Garage by Studio Gypsy; Fonts: Pea Tonya, Pea Danley,Pea NJH Script, Pea Chit’s Bits, Pea Bhea Script, & Pea Teran from Fonts for Peas. 
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