Choose Life, Choose Joy (inspired from a tutorial)

I am in the process of creating a kit called "Joy Comes in the Morning." It has a grungy style with shades of orange, green, blue, pink, and purple. I was inspired to create an art journal layout after seeing two very simple tutorials with provocative results. Pixelscrapper.com is an incredible site. I encourage you to check out more than the tutorials.

First I learned how to make an asymmetrical layered paper. Then I learned how to add doodled borders to the paper. When I was at the shape making stage, I used an eraser brush to erase parts of the inside shapes so that the papers would blend together more. Then I added the bird brushes and made the text mat from another brush. I found the quote and tada, it's done! Simple yet provocative.

Let Go

I am not much of a journaler. I find that when I sit down to write, there are more thoughts running around my head than I can get written down. I get frustrated because by the time I get one thought written down, my mind is already three or four thoughts beyond that one. It seems like it just takes a long time. But there are so many times I read the thoughts of others and think, "Yes, that's what I think. That's how I feel." That has happened several times while reading the book, A Heart Exposed: Talking to God with Nothing to Hide by Steven James. This layout was inspired by thoughts in that book. I like digital art journaling because I can be pondering a thought while putting things on the page. When I view the layout in the future, I can remember a bit about how I was feeling while creating it.

I did a lot of layering, therefore, there are a few designers to credit: Studio 68, AliSarah, Anna Aspnes Designs, Christine Smith, and Brenda Mascari.

This was entered at Pixelscrapper's "no photo" challenge.

Contentment

I was inspired to do an art journaling layout after reading a novel. I found various images of lemons on morguefile.com and have blended them together for this layout. I used some elements from Janet Scott's contribution to the Birds and the Bees blog train on Pixelscrapper. Fonts are Just Another Font and JustOldFashion.