One of the latest trends in the papercrafting world is the idea of art journaling. The concept behind art journaling is just what you would imagine it to be, based on it’s name. It is the idea of keeping a journal full of hopes, dreams and memories that also includes art in some form. Some people paint, some draw or doodle, and some use their scrapbooking supplies to embellish their pages. I have yet to jump on the art journaling trend, but the concept intrigues me.
I am a scrapbooker, but admittedly journaling is my weakness. I envy scrapbookers who can make beautiful pages that also include meaningful journaling. The right journaling can transform a scrapbook into a cherished keepsake rather than just a photo album.
Whether you are embracing the art journaling craze or attempting to create timeless treasures with the words on your scrapbook pages, the stories you tell are important. Sometimes however, a blank page can be a bit intimidating. This is where journaling prompts come in, as they focus the swirling ideas in your head into one specific topic and you can find a place to start. Today I’ve complied a link list of great websites for writing prompts to get you started on your journaling journey.
- The queen of documenting her daily life, Ali Edwards shares a handwritten list of 13 Everyday Life Journaling Prompts.
- You’ll find a list of at least 365 Journaling Prompts on this Pinterest board by Kikki.K.
- Infomation on the concept of a 5 year journal plus many, many journaling prompts on the Get It Scrapped! site.
- Click on the Inspire me tab on the Daydreaming on Paper site and you will get a random prompt. Not inspired by the offered prompt? Simply click again to be given another choice.
I hope you’ll check out these fun sites and be inspired to tell your story in a more meaningful way. There is no right or wrong way to do it, just getting started is the important part. Feel free to share any other sites you know of in the comments below and then get busy recording your memories.
~Michelle
Michelle,
This is such a great topic, and it goes right along with the mixed media trend as well. I have been wanting to get started on this so badly that I bought supplies with my Christmas gift cards! I mean to bind my own journal as well. I think it will be fun! I wanted to share two of the resources I’m using to prepare myself for the mixed media / art journaling world.
1) I picked up a subscription to Art Jounaling by Somerset Studio from Stampington & Co.: http://www.artjournalingmagazine.com/ Stampington & Co. publishes several really beautiful mixed-media, stamp, and scrapbook themed magazines. They remind me of art gallery catalogs almost more than magazines.
2) I bought a copy of he Complete Decorated Journal: A Compendium of Journaling Techniques by Gwen Diehn. It’s been fabulous, and I’m only partway done reading it. She covers plenty of media types, uses, and techniques. The portions on traditional glues (flour paste!) and inks (oak gall!) are particularly interesting. She’s a dedicated art teacher… it’s like you’re in her own studio classroom when reading this book. It’s both gentle and informative, and I love it so.
Dang… after writing all that, now I REALLY want to get started!
~Amanda~
I love this idea too. I was at a crop where they introduced the Smash albums. Though I like the idea…they just wouldn’t do justice to what I would want to do to them….LOL. I would break the binding after about 5 pages. Like Amanda (H.), I am thinking about binding my own book.
My idea is on being thankful. I had started this around Thanksgiving, but them my mother took a turn for the worse, has since gotten better, but I was distracted and had forgotten about it until now.
So, What I want to do is use mostly cereal box weight stock to decorate and incorporate every single thing that I have in my craftroom that has gotten pushed aside and/or ignored so that I will serve to inspire me as I scrapbook….but the book will also reflect at least 1,000 things that I am thankful for by the end of the year…preferably by Thanksgiving.
I am not talking about the big things either. I am talking about walking outside and getting a whiff of a new scent from a nearby tree….I love that….or perhaps the fact that my hubby sat next to me while I watched a TV show that I know that he would rather not watch just because he wanted to spend time with me…you know?
So, what I am planning on doing is writing these things down on tags, scraps of papers, whatever…and then collaging them together.
Thank you for this article because it reminded me of one of my New Year’s resolutions…I had remembered it again then….and then got distracted by another health setback from my mother. She comes first after all…:-)