June 2022 - Week 3 Monthly Muse Challenge

Hello again, and welcome to Week 3 of this month's challenge. Hope you are all traveling well in whatever part of the world you may be!

This week I thought we would look at another form art journaling in the style, namely using pieces of paper (or fabric) to create a layered design. I think most of do this already in our digital work, layering elements and such on top of each other.

In my own mind I tend to 'classify' this type of art journaling as working in a Glue Book. But that is simply MY interpretation, to me a Glue Book contains mainly layers of paper or fabric that are glued into a book/journal. Mixed media is kept to a minimum so it's all about using pieces of paper, stickers, stick on transfers etc. Of course a lot of people do use mixed media in these types of journals but for this week I wanted to concentrate just layering pieces of paper into a design that appeals to us.

I have several art journals that I have 'designated' to a particular style, based mainly on the type of paper the art journals hold. For instance, I three mixed media journals in various sizes that have thickish pages and are suited to handle wet mixed media like paints, watercolors and inks etc. Then a couple of smaller ones that I only use 'some' mixed media in as the papers are thin, so in those I tend use acrylic paints (dry brush, no water), crayons, pens etc. Finally I have two journals that I play in that have very thin pages so I call these ones my 'glue books' and only use 'dry' glues like a glue stick to stick pieces of papers in. I love working in these ones when I am watching the tv at night, I can tear or cut up pieces of paper, images, etc and just glue them, very relaxing actually!

So for the artists that inspire me in this type art journaling, first and foremost is our own Rachel Jefferies. As well as loving her digital designs, I simply love her style of collage work and paper layering. Below you will find an inspiration board with just some of my fave pages from her Instagram site:

Rachel's collage layouts on Instagram



The boards below are of page spreads that I have found on Instagram by various artists, their names are on orange tags on the pieces themselves.




Challenge for this week: Take a look at these boards and find something that inspires you to create a collaged/layered layout yourself. Of course you can use any mixed media with it, but the prime words for this challenge are collage and layers.

Here is my page: Of course I used a LOT of products from Rachel, but the main notebook is from Nicole (NBK Design).


Credits are in the gallery.

You may create any style of layout (ie. clean and simple, artsy, pocket style etc.) you wish, with or without a photo. Create any size page you wish. This is for everyone, so have fun and see where the inspiration takes you.

Please post your layout to the Art Journaling Gallery HERE prior to Midnight EST July 3, 2022 and then post it in this thread by copying the code (at the right of your gallery image) from the box under "Share BB Code".

We will draw a winner at the beginning of next month for a coupon!! Every layout you create is equal to one entry in the random draw. So if you create 1 layout you are entered once, if you create 4 layouts you are entered 4 times.

You can use any products in The Lilypad store or retired products from current Lilypad designers, (just make sure you follow our gallery guidelines).

Looking forward to seeing what you creative peeps do this week!!

 

@Rachel Jefferies I meant to tag you in my opening post but totally forgot to! So just doing it now.... you are mentioned in the challenge as being a fave collage artist of mine, just love your work! xx

 

wow Marilyn, they look awesome!! I am heading off to bed now but will certainly take a longer look tomorrow!!

 

hahahaaa! Eva, this is neither good or plain crazy.......... it's AWESOME!!! Absolutely love everything you have done here!!!

 

A lot of times it comes down to what you, yourself will call a certain thing.......... there are Glue Books, Junk Journals, Smash Books etc etc, basically it comes down to how you want to interpret them but I have seen people get very upset in some Facebook groups on the terminology......... I personally don't care, I call it what I like. To me collage covers a whole host of different styles including working in a book or on canvas or wood etc.

 

Goodness ladies, your pages so far are just STUNNING!! such beautiful work!!

 

Go you!! Fabulous first page in your AJ journal and yes about not using anything bulky, LOL! Maybe you can 'press some foliage' and when it's dry replace the twigs with it? Super page though!