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Packing Tape Image Transfers

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How to make image transfers with packing tape via lilblueboo.com

I love image transfers.  It’s something I’m always using in my journals but there are so many other fun uses for them.  All you need to make a transfer is a photocopy of an image or words and packing tape.  You can also use printouts from a laser printer or magazine pages. Inkjets will not work because they are not heat based toner.  So take some photos to the copy machine or tear some pages out of your favorite magazine to get started.

 

How to transfer images (materials) via lilblueboo.com

First, take a strip of packing tape and place it over the images you want to transfer: [Read more…]

Permission to Be Messy (Time Lapse)

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An art journal time lapse video … I’m taking a week off from The Lil Journal Project.  I made this time lapse of some art journal pages to show the process. I don’t put a lot of thought into the pages….I just do it….making a mess as I go.  I love the song too: Lights by Ellie Goulding.

Art Journal Page Time Lapse Video

Permission to be messy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ptVE7gzug4

(if you have trouble viewing the video…..try clicking here)

Supplies…..in the order I used them by page:

An old book (see my tutorial here)
White Gesso (for white primer)
Wax Paper
An old map
Matte Medium (for gluing collage paper)
Golden Fluid Acrylics
Scrapbooking paper
Willow Charcoal Sticks
Hero Arts Letter Stamps
Fixative Spray (for the charcoal)

White Gesso (for white primer)
Stencil
Fabric Spray Paint
Bubble Wrap
Stamping Ink (the best black for writing with a brush!)

White Gesso (for white primer)
Water Soluble Crayons
And old photo
Setascrib Fabric Markers (they seem juicier)

Turn a Book into an Art Journal via lilblueboo.com

The Lil Journal Project | Day 18

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If a GPS was tracking your every move for a week, what would your map look like? I sketched a little map of the roads I typically travel from day to day in my journal and traced the routes: (I looked up my address on Google Map to help sketch an aerial view).

The Lil Journal Project Day 17 (Driving) via lilblueboo.com

I thought it was so cool that this guy (Aaron Parecki) wore a GPS device for a few years and tracked his movements.  Look at the cool GPS log of his travels for the first two months of 2012 in Portland:

GPS Logs Portland Jan-Feb 2012

 

If you drive as much as my husband in a day you might want to just do a daily map. Or maybe you are laid up in your house and can’t leave…..track your movements in your small space.   Remember the day I mapped out my bathroom trips during chemotherapy ? Ok, maybe I embellished the little twirling movements….but that map told a great story…..about the lesson of picking a seat closer to the bathroom!!  5 bags of fluid in 5 hours….insanity.

The Lil Journal Project Day 18 (chemotherapy map) via lilblueboo.com

The journal project for today is: [Read more…]

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