Alice Hendon, Artangleology

  Facebook group Creative Crafty Friends hosts a signature swap each month. Hmm. I had never made a signature like this. I wanted to do something special for the person I was swapping with and one thing I found out about her is this - she loves steampunk! Just like me! I have a lot of steampunk stash. Most of it is from Stamperia . I pulled out various bits and put this thing together. And I want to walk you through the signature itself. Above is what I did for the cover. Various pieces glued and inked together.  I started with a piece of card stock cut to 7" x 10". I folded it in half making a folded piece measuring 5" wide and 7" tall. This is my first inside page. I made a pocket from a scrap and glued some elements on. And I stuffed some extra steampunk bits and pieces into the pocket.  Here are the interior pages. If you look close you will notice I added a flap over the seahorse. And I added more steampunk elements here and there.  Here is the third page with

  This page in my art journal was a lot of fun to build! It incorporates watercolor, scrap paper, an old book page, gesso, fabric flowers, stamps, sticker sentiment, permanent pens and Posca paint pens. Grab one of everything and hang on tight! Because here we go!  A couple years ago while we still lived in Maine, I was into making what we called Pretty Painted Papers. Robin Mead got me started with them. The thought was to get some pretty paint on a page that might be used later as collage or even as the main focus of your page. I always loved this piece but never had any way to repurpose it . . . until now. I cut the paper to fit my journal page, which was roughly in half. So I have another half of this pretty painted page I can use another time. Win/win! When I made this paper I used watercolors, a permanent black pen and white Posca Paint Pens . The main feature I wanted to use on this page was the flower you see in the middle. I made this for a prompt in the group Express Your Art

  I frequently get asked questions about how I put my daily art journal pages together, so I thought I would walk you through the one I made yesterday. It doesn't take a lot of supplies and can be as elaborate or as simple as you want it to be.  I love my journals! This one is made using Bristol Illustration paper from Hahnemühle . I took one pad of the paper and cut each sheet in half widthwise. Then I used a Bind-It-All machine to punch the holes and bind the pages with a spiral. This particular book has 30 sheets of paper which gives me 60 work surfaces.  To get started I used a leftover strip of pretty painted paper made by my friend Niki Green . It was a little long so I chopped off the leftover and adhered both pieces on my page.  Next I started putting together items I might want to use on the page. Lately I have been making AI art using a program called Copilot and I have a few pieces I really like. This girl is one of them. I printed her out and knew she would be the foc

  ICAD - or Index Card a Day - is over now. Every year it runs during the months of June and July and we participate in Tangle All Around .  Art on an index card. Any kind of art but in TAA I specifically ask them to use a tangle. And each day I give them a tangle to use.  Since I did chemo I just don't have the urge to make art. Of any kind. I have to make myself sit down and create. I found that working on this index card size of 4" x 6" worked for me. And I did great during June. I honestly have no idea what happened in July. But I do want to get back to making these cards AND I can use them on my daily journal pages. You know - those pages I do about once a month. The story of my life. Let me show you my rest of June ICADS.  The tangle for June 11, 2024, was Yuma. It was deconstructed (or designed) by Tina-Akua Hunziker, CZT.  Here is my 11th card. I used a gel print background - I love those colors so much! If you look closely you will see that I did not include Yuma