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pachimac

pachimac

I solemnly swear I am up to no good!
CHEERY O
From the blog today:

We have had quite a few new people join us, and it's been a few months for some. I have a challenge for you: Go back to your first AJ page, and compare it to your most recent AJ page. Ask yourself: Have you grown? Do you like the journey so far? Then take a look at the AJ Gallery at Oscraps - what techniques or members might you want to scraplift and learn how to do?

Here's my first and most recent page:

First one at Oscraps when I started the AJ Challenges. I had done some at another site, but this was the first AJ Challenge we started in Feb of 2023:


Palvinka Designs | Always Laugh
Palvinka Designs | When Winter Comes
Palvinka Designs | Beautiful Autumn
Palvinka Designs | Quiet Moments
Palvinka Designs | Book of Memories
Palvinka Designs | The Smell of the Forest

Xuxper Designs | Colorful Delicacies

This is my most recent page.

ArtJournalChallengeSeptWk1.jpg

Lynn Anzelc | A Scrap of Autumn
Lynn Anzelc | Life Line Grief
NLD | Time Captured
Rachel Jefferies | Little Things Misc Mixed Media Bits
Anna Aspnes | Artsy Cameras 3
Anna Aspnes | Snapshot 1
Carol Wright Designs | Healing Power
Mixed Media by Erin | Okeeffe
Mediterranka Designs | Take Me Home
Vicki Robinson | Scrap Now 09 Template

I have gotten a lot better at blending, and I'm not afraid to use scribly or dark artsy things. I also have made pages that didn't have personal pictures. I always felt like scrapping was for memories, and so I always tried to AJ with personal pictures. Now I'm enjoying using sketchy and drawn people.

My goals? To learn how to do more photo treatments.
 
AK_Tracy

AK_Tracy

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I haven't been here that long, just five months, so my journals aren't that different. Lets see.......

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and the most recent........

Sept-AJ-2-Focus.jpg

Sept-AJ-2-Focus.jpg

I had no idea what I wanted to do. I looked at last week and thought maybe I would keep it...

Well, my first was chunky. It was probably my only second ever AJ page, maybe third. I would say my style has changed, but if you look at all the AJ I can still scrap chunky. However I have learned to blend more and better. My goal is to make it more art and less "throw up" of words and chunky feel.

I went back and looked and I found I missed my first ever AJ. here is the. first one ever here........
May art journal 1.jpg

May art journal 1.jpg

I used...
Still chunky and not blended well.
 
pachimac

pachimac

I solemnly swear I am up to no good!
CHEERY O
Thank you for playing along!!! I can definitely see growth in your pages - and in your enthusiasm to do them as well!!!! I think next week I will do a blog post on blending and share my technique. I'm sure others do it differently, but this is the way I found to do it and enjoy the results!

AK_Tracy said:
I haven't been here that long, just five months, so my journals aren't that different. Lets see.......

View media item 392305
and the most recent........

Sept-AJ-2-Focus.jpg

Sept-AJ-2-Focus.jpg

I had no idea what I wanted to do. I looked at last week and thought maybe I would keep it...

Well, my first was chunky. It was probably my only second ever AJ page, maybe third. I would say my style has changed, but if you look at all the AJ I can still scrap chunky. However I have learned to blend more and better. My goal is to make it more art and less "throw up" of words and chunky feel.

I went back and looked and I found I missed my first ever AJ. here is the. first one ever here........
May art journal 1.jpg

May art journal 1.jpg

I used...
Still chunky and not blended well.
Click to expand...
 
faerywings

faerywings

The Loopy-O
CHEERY O
I have to do some digging
This is the earliest I have in the AJ forum and it is from 2023

I know I have been AJ-ing much longer than that so give me a bit to see what I can find. in my regular gallery
 
faerywings

faerywings

The Loopy-O
CHEERY O
I hope this works-- I have 89 pages in my gallery so I skipped towards the middle- page 50. Then I worked back a page at a time until I saw that my pages were mostly more traditional, some artsy but not really AJ.
I picked this one
A Day in the Life with Lyme

A Day in the Life with Lyme

Kit: All Scrunched Up! {Bundle}...
I used the lyrics of a song to describe what it felt like living with Lyme disease. Similar to a lot of the AJ Los I did back then, I used a lot of lyrics, brushes, and different fonts to express myself.

This is one I posed today for the Monthly AJ challenge -
focus

focus

September Art Journaling Week 2 {FOCUS} —...
It's definitely more upbeat, that is for sure! I still use a lot of blending but I haven't used song lyrics in a long time.
 
BrightEyes

BrightEyes

Kay
CHEERY O
I did a lot of art journaling at another forum... especially just after my hubby died in Jan 2018. The first semi-art journaling LO I could find here at OS was in July 2022 - although it was not in the Art Journaling gallery.



My latest AJ LO is this one
MysteryScraps_Imagine_Kay2.jpg

MysteryScraps_Imagine_Kay2.jpg

September Art Journaling challenge - Week 1...

Some months, the AJ theme and LOs are very personal... and others a collection catches my eye and make me want to play.
 
mimes1

mimes1

Well-Known Member
CHEERY O
Here is an early AJ I did at SG. It's dated Dec 2013. I've always really liked the AJ style, I've just never developed a confidence in it.
ABR_JO_SSClub_LO_AFL_300.jpg

Here is the first one I did here at Oscraps:
AJ_Renew_Wk1

AJ_Renew_Wk1

Photo lightened and clipped to mask, blending mode set to luminosity. Silhouette added and...

I think my overall style has become more artsy since I've been here at the O.
 
scrap-genie

scrap-genie

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Here's one from 2013, maybe a first attempt. Diane @Madi sometimes did a monthly challenge for AJ but this doesn't seem to have been for one.

New Possibilities

New Possibilities

An art journal attempt for "new possibilities".
Credits:
all 52 Inspirations {2012}...

My latest:

Be Aware

Be Aware

I've gone with the awareness side of focus as it has been helpful in the past.

Actually there seems to be some similarity. :giggle4:
 
Nickel

Nickel

Feeling Owsome at the O!
CHEERY O
This is my first lay out I classified as Art Journaling (and the first page in that gallery)

I Can't choose between Dogs an Cats

I Can't choose between Dogs an Cats

My try to art journal. De text is in Dutch and means I Can't choose between Dogs an Cats .

The...

The last one: More blending and freer but still use of self made elements
Courage.jpg

Courage.jpg

Made for the Art Journal Challenge week 4.

When I took my weekly art class i discovered that...
 
Madi

Madi

Diane
CHEERY O
an oldie (2009), before we had the art journal gallery,



and one of the latest that came up when I searched the art journal gallery

dutch-courage

dutch-courage

  • Madi
  • 4
For the July Art Journaling challenge at Oscraps,
check it out here...
 
pachimac

pachimac

I solemnly swear I am up to no good!
CHEERY O
faerywings said:
I have to do some digging
This is the earliest I have in the AJ forum and it is from 2023

I know I have been AJ-ing much longer than that so give me a bit to see what I can find. in my regular gallery
Click to expand...
That one is so pretty!! You had me at blue and butterflies!!!!
 
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