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Art therapy session four, DIY art journal

June 14, 2012 by Angela

I’ve been making more progress on my little art journal, made from an eco-notebook I got at Barnes and Noble months ago. The paper itself is graph paper, but I’ve basically made every page a new collage with room to write notes, quotes, and thoughts in. The journal on the left is my regular writing journal.
Here I used vintage book pages, magazines, tape, stickers, lined paper, part of an envelope from mail I received, and scrapbook paper.
I just write anywhere I find space.
On this page I added different tapes and papers, like kraft cardstock.
I love to do this when I’m stressed out (and when I’m feeling creative, or bored, or don’t know what to do with all my paper) because it’s relatively mindless and I can just sit and not think about anything but how I’m going to arrange everything on the canvas. I haven’t finished these last pages.
Sometimes I just want to make the collage, and others I feel like brainstorming ideas for stories or creative writing, or quotes I keep referring to.
If you have a lot of extra material laying around with no purpose — I only bought the notebook — I’d suggest putting it all together in something like this.

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  1. Elisha(: says

    June 14, 2012 at 6:55 pm

    that is one stunning journall. lovely(:

    x.

  2. Candice says

    June 14, 2012 at 7:24 pm

    Beautiful! You’re so creative!

    • Angela says

      June 15, 2012 at 11:00 pm

      two of my favorite things!

  3. Tereza says

    June 14, 2012 at 10:31 pm

    everything looks so pretty and creative!

  4. Paige @ Little Nostalgia says

    June 15, 2012 at 12:03 pm

    What a cool idea. I carry around an all-purpose notebook that houses my to do list and random notes to myself, but yours is much prettier. 🙂

  5. memoriesforlifescrapbooks says

    June 15, 2012 at 1:13 pm

    Art journaling is so fun! I love that it mixes basic journaling with scrapbooking 🙂

  6. Susana Ferrand says

    June 15, 2012 at 2:09 pm

    Beautiful! I’ve been thinking of doing one too.

  7. CassyzCutiez/Sophistica says

    June 15, 2012 at 4:52 pm

    So beautiful and fun..very creative idea:)

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