Art Journal Pages from Dyan's Class

Hello everyone!  As promised, I'm sharing the backgrounds I created when I took the Art Journaling class with Dyan Reaveley.  It was high speed, non-stop!  
I just couldn't pass up this opportunity.  To say that I'd gotten stale and in a creative funk would be an understatement!  This definitely got the juices flowing and I can't wait to continue!

One of my favorite pages.

You never waste ink.  Clean your stencils on another page.

Love the brick stencil.

Pardon the finger.....

I love the background.

Dyan was talking and we had to write what she was saying.  She told us that if we missed a word to just keep writing.  Needless to say I missed more than just a word.  And don't mention that I spelled her name wrong!

You can put tags in the four folded down corners.  Very cool!

Page where I cleaned off the stamps and stencils.

Using a curvy plastic tool created for Dyan (you can purchase), draw the curve on the pages (in this case four) then cut.  We used the same tool to draw the line in a bit and then doodled in between the lines.  I need this tool!!

In another part of the journal we added the pieces of paper that we cut out and secured them with tape.  She didn't call it washi tape but I think that would work too.  You just have to be sure to get the tape on both sides of the journal and make sure you can open the pages.

We also used this tool to draw the lines around the journal page above where Dyan dictated to us.  It can be used for so many things!

Love these colors.

Back of my journal.

Front of my journal.

You can see where the inks from the pages ran out and where the mat I was working on wasn't clean and picked up inks.  If I remember correctly the first thing we had to do was squirt the front and back of our journals (to break them in).  That's a big deal to me.  I love the clean and crispness of a clean page.  How's an art journaler supposed to get past that?  Well, just spray!

I hope you enjoyed this post and you managed to make it to the end.  It's picture heavy and I didn't even share everything!

Peace,
Kay