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11 Tips, Tricks and Techniques to Try in Your Art Journal

August 18, 2023 by Heather Holbrook

11 Techniques to Try in Your Art Journal

If you find you’re in a creative rut doing the same things over and over again remember there are so many different products and techniques you can try out to add something new to your art journal.

Step out of your comfort zone and try adding watercolors to your backgrounds, add images with stamping and rub-ons, try mixed media products like art crayons and pastes and add extra interest with layers of washi tape or handmade pockets. The team over at The Cherry on Top has gathered together 11 ideas you might not have tried on your designs. You can also apply these ideas on greeting cards, scrapbook layouts and traveler’s notebooks pages too. 

11 Techniques to Try in Your Art Journal

Be sure not to miss out on a delightful journey through a plethora of creative techniques – a total of 11 unique approaches that promise to spark your imagination and ignite your artistic flair. To witness these techniques come to life, head over to

Check out all 11 different techniques and find photos of each idea over on The Cherry On Top blog. 

-Heather

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20 FREE Rustic and Rural Landscape Printables

Rustic design has been popular in paper crafting for while now and if you love that beautiful country homespun feel you’ll want to grab this collection of 20 different FREE landscape images. You’ll find rural images of farms, farm land, barns, animals, windmills, water wheel houses and so much more that you can print and use on your rustic scrapbook designs. All come in a PNG file format with transparent backgrounds and 300 DPI resolution. 

Click here to visit Design Bundles to get this printable collection yourself.

-Heather

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