An Art Journal Story
a beautiful story
in my art journal
Hello lovely artist!
I hope you enjoyed my previous posts and videos on how to make an art journal and set-up your journaling space, and that they’ve inspired you to get creating!
An art journal is so much more than just “just a journal”. It’s a magical storybook! And the stories you create in it don’t have to be complicated or planned at all. They live in your heart and soul already, waiting for an opportunity to be expressed, just like the story of this journal page!
a simple starting point
Just one little thing is enough to get a journal page, and a story, started. It could be a word, an image, a memory, a feeling, the desire to honor a special day, a lovely moment… This page here started with the image of the peony: a card that the florist had included in a big bouquet that William, my husband had ordered as a surprise! The bouquet itself was a big bunch of peonies, which arrived in tight, round little buds, and opened up in the following days, until they became those gorgeous and gigantic blooms! Watching them evolve felt completely magical and so joyful.
a page of magic
Of course, after a few days, the flowers were gone, but I still had the card, so I created a page in my art journal to capture the memory of this moment, the gratitude, the sense of joy and wonder, the feeling of being so loved. When I look at this page now, I remember all these feelings, and the gorgeous flowers. And when I do, it makes me smile and feel happy, uplifted and comforted.
Sure, I could have simply kept the card, but the fact that I created something from it, and spent time and energy doing so, writing, painting, dreaming, building up colors and layers, well… there’s true magic in the process. When you spend time focusing on something, feeling it deep in your heart, then you attract more of it into your life. And when you’re a creative soul, brushes can become magic wands and a white pen creates fairy dust!
What stories do you long to tell? What if you created a journal page or a painting to honor a simple, joyful memory? When you do, you will not only find wellbeing in the finished page, but above all in the process itself: this is creative self-care time!
Need a little nudge of inspiration? You will find tons of resources, videos and plenty more pages from my journal below. Enjoy!
Have a beautiful, creative and magical day!
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