Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling and how has it impacted your life? Art journaling has completed me. For me it is the missing piece of the jigsaw. I have been creative all my life but have never before found the...
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Ep 006: Starting is all that matters
Messy ConversationsMessy Conversations is a series of interviews with amazing art journalers who share their favorite tools, tips and why they art journal. You’ll get an exclusive peek into their art journal pages and their process....
How Lauren Pearl uses art journaling as a path to freedom
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? I love art journaling because it gives me a chance to focus my mind somewhere else. I am one of those annoying people that have a million thoughts bubbling away in my brain and if you know me and have...
Ep 005: Art Journaling as a way of documenting life
Messy ConversationsMessy Conversations is a series of interviews with amazing art journalers who share their favorite tools, tips and why they art journal. You’ll get an exclusive peek into their art journal pages and their process. We have a...
How Art Journaling Helps Jen Morris Keep Her Mind Distraction Free
Artist SpotlightMulti-crafting mama of twoWhy do you love art journaling? Art Journaling lets me take a few precious minutes to do a little creative playing just for me. I love that it can be a private or a public thing, no pressure!...
Ep 004: Find something deeper with art journaling
Messy ConversationsMessy Conversations is a series of interviews with amazing art journalers who share their favorite tools, tips and why they art journal. You’ll get an exclusive peek into their art journal pages and their process....
How Gisele Chastain Uses Art to Unwind Her Innermost Thoughts
Artist SpotlightLucky wife. Mama bear to 2. Boy mom. Daily life. Homeschooler. Coffee. Lover of all things creative.Why do you love art journaling? The thing I love most about art journaling is how the process of creating allows my...
Ep 003: Think about the world in a slightly different way
Messy ConversationsMessy Conversations is a series of interviews with amazing art journalers who share their favorite tools, tips and why they art journal. You’ll get an exclusive peek into their art journal pages and their process. We have a...
Jennifer Bilton Finds Her Voice Through Art Journaling
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? Art journaling has become a way to document my feelings and thoughts, to combine my passion for words with my passion for art, and to explore art techniques & mediums that excite me. For me, art...
Ep 002: Pretty is nice but true is better
Messy ConversationsMessy Conversations is a series of interviews with amazing art journalers who share their favorite tools, tips and why they art journal. You’ll get an exclusive peek into their art journal pages and their process. We have a...
Ep 001: Just do something
Messy ConversationsMessy Conversations is a series of interviews with amazing art journalers who share their favorite tools, tips and why they art journal. You’ll get an exclusive peek into their art journal pages and their process....
How Amy Schubert and Kam Altar Use Art as a Release from Their Type-A Tendencies
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? Amy: I tend to follow a pretty structured, controlled, basic pattern in the rest of my life. I’m very type-A oldest child. I love that art journaling is not that. It’s my excuse to go....
How Lauren and Caylee Built a Business Out of Creative Habit
Artist SpotlightHi friends!! Welcome to the first Member Spotlight of 2016! We thought we would kick off this year with sharing some of our own experiences with art journaling to introduce ourselves to you a bit more. We try to...
How Art Serves as a Form of Worship and Prayer for Cheryl Angelini
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? It's my way to be creative. I love trying different techniques and mediums. It's even helped me with my anxiety. Describe your art journaling process? I start with a picture that...
How Art Journaling Frees Karen Gaunt to Just Create
Artist SpotlightKaren is an Artist. She arts like a boss and believes that you should too. Karen loves Poppies, triangles, colour and hand lettering. She’s all about the process and loves to complete pages that take days to make and...
How Torrie Gass’ belief that all humans are creative leads her to practice art every day
Artist SpotlightTorrie’s deep belief is that every human on this planet is creative in their soul. We were made to design, create, paint, play, imagine and share our inner artist with the world. It’s just a matter of letting...
How simply creating art makes Sharon Nullmeyer an artist
Artist SpotlightSharon is a painter, pattern maker, flower picker, and collager! She loves things from time gone by, books, peonies, neons, poster colors, and hot sauce.Why do you love art journaling? I really do love art journaling....
How embracing the mess of art journaling makes Lauren Caterson feel grounded
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? I love it because it feels good to have something that’s just about the process - the results really don’t matter at all. It’s very grounding for me. Since joining Get Messy I’ve been using my art...
Jodie York feels free from rules and expectations in her art journey
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? I love art journaling for the creative freedom. Full stop. This is where I try out new techniques and products. This is where I relax creatively with no plans, no expectations, and no rules. Describe...
How Katie Jones avoids overthinking by making art
Artist SpotlightWhy do you love art journaling? It's just fun! I've always admired great scrapbook pages but felt a little restricted by the style, Art Journaling means freedom to create and just throw anything down on a page and...
How art frees Anke Kramer and brings more fun to her life
Artist SpotlightI love beautiful things and like to be creative. In addition to painting and stamping, I also discovered photography and scraping for myself. I want to give all these things a space here and share them with others.Why...
How art journaling gives Tanyalee Kahler the confidence to create without judgment
Artist SpotlightTanyalee is a mum to three grown up kids, a wife to her childhood sweetheart, a full time graphic designer and a part time crafter/art journaler. She loves growing veggies to feed her family, she loves raising her fur...
How removing expectations keeps Anika Lacerte inspired
Artist SpotlightAnika likes art journaling, scrapbooking, photography and DIY projects. She is an introvert; her Myers-Briggs personality type is INTJ. Anika lives in a small town in BC, Canada with her husband and their two...