The art journal has begun!

I started my art journal! It's lots of fun to do and very messy too! But I'll start out with a LO that's taken me a few weeks to do, mainly because I didn't know what to do next on it. I guess I just wasn't feeling inspired on this one. I really like the purple on it. Once I got the pictures glued down and the little journal circle on, I just didn't know what to do next. Have you ever started a LO and haven't been able to finish it? Today I sat down and started with the title, I never know what to call my LOs. Usually I just use a song title or lyrics from a song. I was just being silly with the dog after a christmas party and I was all dressed up, so I called it "sitting pretty". It's kind of hard to see the title through the bubble wrap dots, not my best LO, but oh well!

This is a page from my art journal. The pic is kind of hard to read, but it says " don't worry you can't see it past all the dog hair". The story behind this is: last week at work, I spilt some food on my top and I said "Oh! I'm such a slob!" and my coworker said "don't worry you can't see it past all the dog hair". I was quite offended! I actually lint brushed myself that day and I didn't think that I had that much dog hair on me. So I told some other coworkers the story and they were also in shock that she would say that to me. But now it's the running joke at work, and I now think it's kind of funny. But I'm still a little hurt by it. I added water to a little bit of red paint for the background and then I painted red crackle paint on top. After I stamped the quote on it I drew little white lines around it to signify the dog hair... because putting really dog hair on my journal would be kind of weird!
I got inspiration for this page from a book I got from the library Artist Trading Card Workshop . The technique is to take a picture out of a magazine, paint over it lightly with gesso and then outline and paint features however you like. I think it looks pretty cool. I used a line from a song (because I'm so unoriginal) for journaling. Why would I ever be anybody else but me - a line from Operator by Shiloh. It must have been on the radio or something at work that day.
So far I'm liking the art journaling thing. It can be pretty quick if you want to be creative in a short period of time or if you don't know what to scrap about (which is my problem).

We're going to the Flames vs. Flyers game tomorrow night! I'm pretty excited, it's been a few weeks since we've been to a game. And I'm glad that they finally ended their 8 game losing streak last night! And I'm glad that they traded Dion Phaneuf today! It should be an interesting game tomorrow!