My latest digital products represent a style that is new for me – art journaling. Paint and paper art journal pages usually have a handmade, artsy look. Keeping that in mind, I worked with real and Photoshop paint and let my creativity take me where I had never dared to go!
No rules apply when designing art journal pages. Typically, they are about feelings or subjects that are close to the artist’s heart. I like to use my photos for these layouts, although I also enjoy using Photoshop brushes or other images as focal points. Journaling is usually featured prominently, but a title or few words can also communicate the message. Sometimes I find it difficult to journal in sentences and it becomes a stumbling block. That is when a quote works for me, or I write a simple poem. I am fond of haiku, especially a variant containing 15 syllables, two lines and two breaks.
Feel free to contact me for more information about art journal or other layout styles created in Photoshop/Photoshop Elements. Find more information on digital scrapbook products at Happy To Create. Free Tutorials are also available.
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- “The Dream” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- Dreams Mini Kit
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Acrylics
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Textures
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Paint Mess
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Watercolors
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates: 8.5 x 11 Painted Borders
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Edges
- Embellishments Maxi: Botanicals Autumn 3
- “She Loves the Sky” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- Dreams Mini Kit
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Acrylics
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Artsy Word Art 1
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Clouds
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Textures
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates Maxi: 8.5 x 11 Painted Borders
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Edges
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Dreams
- ScrapHappy Styles Maxi: Freehand Coloring AW02
- Singing Bird Mini Kit
- “Little Bird” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Dreams
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Acrylics
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Textures
- Doodle Darling Maxi Kit
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates: 8.5 x 11 Painted Borders
- Playtime” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Watercolors
- Dreams Mini Kit
- First Comes Love Mini Kit
- Colors of Spring Midi Kit
- ScrapHappy Embellishment Template Midi Printer’s Ornaments: Batik
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Acrylics
- Happy Font
- ScrapHappy Styles Midi: Jelly VR01
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates: 8.5 x 11 Painted Borders
- “Heal the Past” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Edges
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Vintage Women of the 50s and 60s
- Dreams Mini Kit
- Bookworm Maxi Kit
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Ink Stain
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Paint Mess
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Dreams
- “Dream Everyday” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Textures
- Dreams Mini Kit
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates: 8.5 x 11 Painted Borders
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Watercolors
- ScrapHappy Styles Maxi: Glitter – Pastels JH02
- “Awesome Photo Shoot” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- Dreams Mini Kit
- Cameras and More Mini Kit
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Dreams
- Maxi Embellishments: I’ve Been Retro Framed!
- ScrapHappy Styles Midi: Zippy VR01
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Edges
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates Maxi: 8.5 x 11 Painted Borders
- “Mallory” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses: ScrapHappy Paper Templates Maxi: 8.5 x 11 Painted Borders
- Midi Paper: Watercolor Florals 1
- Life Story Midi Kit
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates Midi: Grunge Patterns
- “When I Grow Up” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates Maxi: 8.5 x 11 Painted Borders
- ScrapHappy Brushes Midi: Old Photo Edges
- ScrapHappy Brushes Maxi: Textures
- Eclectic Autumn Maxi Kit
- ScrapHappy Styles Midi: Zippy VR01
- Dreams Mini Kit
- “She is…” digital scrapbooking layout by Karen Chandler uses:
- ScrapHappy Paper Templates Midi: Grunge Patterns
- ScrapHappy Page Templates Mini: One Photo Wonders 3
- Eclectic Autumn Maxi Kit
- Dreams Mini Kit
- Autumn Gratitude Midi Kit
- American Quilt Maxi Kit
- “Home”, “Family”, “Nature’s Place”, “Lost Confidence”, “Treasure Trees”, “Understand the Past” digital scrapbooking layouts by Karen Chandler uses:
- Digital supplies by Jessica Sprague and Nancy Rowe Janitz. The supplies are provided as part of an inspiring class on digital art journaling.
