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Reflection Prompts + Sidekick
Reflection Download the prompts for the season Save this file to your computer, print it out, and keep it inside your journal to spark journal ideas.Prompt #1 “Nothing of me is original. I am...
Find time to art journal by keeping a digital idea notebook
Habit Caylee Grey Get Messy is led by Caylee Grey, your fairy artmother, who with a swish and flick of her magic paintbrush empowers humans to live a creative life. She knows a...
Habit Prompts + Sidekick
Habit Download your habit tracker Save this file to your computer, print it out, and keep it inside your journal. Tick off each day that you were creative. Prompt #1 Make some art on Monday. No...
Documenting Prompts + Sidekick
Documenting Download the prompts for the season Save this file to your computer, print it out, and keep it inside your journal to spark journal ideas. PROMPT #1 - HE(ART) BY CINDY Document...
How to include yourself in your art
Documenting Sasha Zinevych Sasha is a memory keeper and mixed media artist from Ukraine who currently lives in Poland. She is mesmerized by other people's journals and...
Season of Starting Intentions
Starting Beautiful artist! Welcome to the Season of Starting. No matter what kind of starting you are doing, I'm excited for you. The first week of a season is dedicated to...
Step 2 – Direct your aim
Failure To do better is better than to be perfect. - Toba Beta This lesson is all about the new. By directing our aim, by focusing on just one thing at a time, we dance naked in...
Step 4 – Eff comparison
Failure Comparing ourselves to others is one of the most debilitating ways we stop ourselves from creating. We create our own idea of perfectionism from others....
How to Collect and Translate Inspiration
Creativity First things first, you have to be willing to sit in the messy middle. That is where art + creation come alive. In that in-between stage of idea and art - where...
Turn Your Inspiration into Art
Creativity You are an artist. You have harnessed the world around you and have turned it into your own creation. Now, let's put it all together and make some art with it. I...
Creativity Prompts + Sidekick
Creativity Season of Creativity Art Journal Challenge:Create an art journal based on a book, movie, podcast, tv show, music, etc that makes your artist soul soar. Think about...
Make a quick accordion art journal
Creativity For this season, I thought long and hard about what type of journal would work best for my journal's theme: A Wrinkle In Time. I wanted something that was very...
Sneaking around fear
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DIY a Mini Selfie Scrapbook with Paint Chips
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Stitching Together Ideas
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Watercolor Mosaic Background
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Use it Up Journal
What do you do with your leftover paints? Or dirty stencils? Anouk uses them in my use it up journal, where she makes beautiful backgrounds of them which are ready for some quick and easy journaling sessions.
Art Joy Postcards – Share and Care With a Card
Ubuntu Hi Messians, this is Clare with a super versatile tutorial for the season of Ubuntu. What better way to share some joy with family and friends near and far than by...
Documenting Your Emotions in a Lunar Calendar
Using a lunar calendar, document your emotions throughout the season by following the phases and cycle of the moon.
Telling unconventional stories through abstract art
In this post, we will be thinking about unconventional stories and making abstract art to represent a different way of thinking about the unconventional stories that are important to us.
Inspiration for Conquering The Blank Page
Kindness Hello Get Messy Family! If you are anything like me, sometimes you just can’t think of what to do in your art journal. It’s one of the reasons I created my Mixed Media...
Three watercolour background techniques
Nature Hi friends. In this tutorial, I will show you three of my favourite watercolour background techniques that I do over and over in my journals. LINA Lina is a dreamy nineteen...
How to make plant-based inks
Nature Hello Messians, it's your favorite witch Vanessa here. This is a bittersweet post for me as it is my last one as a Get Messy Creative Team member. I have been involved in...
Nature Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofnature"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old way...
Gathering ephemera for meaningful collage
Connections Hi Messians!Today I am sharing with you a super simple idea that I use a lot in my art journaling - it is essentially grouping ephemera. The word ephemera was...
Connections Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofconnections"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our...
Foraging for Art Journal Supplies
Fairy Tales Hi, Messy friends! Elizabeth here to take you into the woods (or into the depths of your handbag) as we forage for art journal supplies. Growing up, I had a...
Fairy Tales Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonoffairytales"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our...
Using colour with more confidence
Colour Hi Messians,Jules here to help build up your colour confidence!If you are familiar with my work, you will know I am a huge colour obsessive. I always want to use more! I...
Colour Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofcolour"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old way...
Obscuring journaling with mixed media layers
Contrast Hello Wonderful Messians! I’m so excited to share this technique with you! One of the best advantages about keeping an art journal as opposed to a written journal is...
Contrast Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofcontrast"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old...
5 Tips for creative collaborative projects
Art 101 Hello Messians, I wanted to write a post today about organizing collaborative projects. This is something highly encouraged within the Get Messy community and I love...
Painting dreamy watercolour backgrounds
Art 101 Hello, beautiful creative Messians! Sasha here today. This is my first time posting here as a member of Creative Team. So, I am a little nervous, but also very excited...
How to paint faces with gouache
Art 101 Hello friends! Vanessa here for this first post of the new Season and of the new Get Messy 2017 Creative Team. It is such an honour to be back. I am very proud to be a...
Art 101 Inspir-action
Fill up your creative well and find ideas for your next art journal page. Private member galleryCreative TeamInstagram #gmseasonofart101"Vintage" Gallery This is a static gallery from our old way of sharing...
A guide to working with themed art journals
Hey Get Messians, Katie here! How many art journals do you have that you work in? Right now, on my desk I have 5 that all have a different theme: My general art journal, an art journal...
Adding metallic shine to your pages
Hello wonderful Messians! It's Zinia here and for this season I'm going to show you a few ideas on how to add beautiful metallic details on your pages. Each little idea requires...
Messy Spaces
The love of art supplies and art spaces seems to come with the territory of art journaling. I started my art journaling journey with one art journal,a couple of pens and my children's...
Playing with the interaction between water and ink
Hi Messians, I have a quick inky tutorial to share with you today. A few weeks ago I posted the image below on instagram and got a few comments asking how I had created the page on the...
Using vellum to create soft layers
Hello wonderful Messians! It's Zinia here again to share with you a tutorial/idea inspired by the theme of this season. When I first saw that we are having a season of Dreams, the first...
Adding Texture Into Your Pages
(image by Tanyalee) Hi friends! Lauren here today to help you add some quick pizzaz to those kind of boring pages you may have. If you feel like your art journal pages are falling a...
Color Theory
This week we have the amazing Sarah Fuchs here with us to teach us all about color theory, what it is and how to use it to improve your art journal pages. I remember clearly when my mum...
How to set your Intentions for the Season
Hi Get Messians, Emily here with some ideas for you to get the most out of your Get Messy membership each season. I know the feeling of eagerly awaiting the prompts to be up on the blog...
Art journal your personality type
Introspection is the examination or observation of one's own mental and emotional processes. When I found out the topic of this season was about introspection, my first thought...
Making A Tag Book
Hello, favourites! It's Essie again, back to share how I've been approaching this season of lists. Now, I am a crazy busy person. Like a lot of women, I wear many hats, and routinely...
Creating a Floral Collage
Hello, beautiful Messians. It’s Essie from the blog team here. I hope this season of Happy is doing your soul good and setting the tone for a joyful and creative year. This week, I’m...
Creating an art journal page based on colour
Hey! It's Emily with my first creative team post for the year. So I am jumping into my role on the creative team with an idea that grew and grew in the middle of the night to become...
Making a strip collage
Hello delightful and delicious Messians! I’m Essie, and I have a tutorial for you today. I’m going to share my strip-collage process. Just so we’re clear I don’t mean that in the...
How to create a map self portrait
This tutorial correlates with this week's prompts. Here are some pointers to help you with the visual aspects of those prompts. To make sure a lot of your map is visible in your...
Simple Paper Splicing
Hiya friends! Lauren here. In real life I have the amazing privilege of being friends with a Get Messy community member, Karen H. We actually work together and I'm pretty sure Karen is...
Prepping an Altered Book
In the video, I show you how to take pages out of your book by finding the signatures and by ignoring the signatures. I demonstrate how to prepare a page for paint with gesso. I also...
Resources for making an altered book
We're giving the prep an entire week in the season. Use this time to prepare the cover and pages, then share your book on Instagram with #getmessybook. For some people, this week will...
Abstract painting Tutorial
Here's a tutorial showing my process from start to finish for an abstract acrylic paint page. I like keeping whitespace, but it looks gorgeous if you cover the whole thing too....
Using image transfers
Hi, everyone! Jeannie here. Today, I’m showing you how to apply image transfers in your art journal pages. I learned about this technique last year but I only tried it when I got...
Being Brave in Art Journaling
Hey Get Messians, Julia here. I had an idea for a prompt during the get messy blog hop. It was as I was reading all the lovely and amazing comments left for me on my blog and I noticed...
How to Store and Use Ephemera
All right, art journalers, let’s take a look at ephemera. I LOVE paper. All types. Tissue paper, wrapping paper, scrapbooking paper, vintage scrap paper, wallpaper, packaging, vintage...
How to tackle the prompts
Hi friends! We have heard you asking over and over again about HOW TO START? Which prompt to choose? What do I do first? Do I mix and match? We thought we would try to give you some tips....
Layers of Reflection
Reflection Reflection happens often for me, I define it as giving serious thought to something. That something usually involves a good measure of self-reflection too. For...
Transformational Tea
Reflection In this tutorial, watercolor pens and a squirt bottle magically transform paper towels, as the process of appreciation changes your reflections about yourself....
Inner Glow: A Shadow Box Collage Tutorial
Reflection Learn how to create a beautiful art journal with a quick and easy binding. The Japanese Ledger binding looks impressive but it’s very simple and can be made with an...
Japanese Ledger Binding
Reflection Learn how to create a beautiful art journal with a quick and easy binding. The Japanese Ledger binding looks impressive but it’s very simple and can be made with an...
Season of Habit Reflection
HabitOh, Messians, did this Season ever enable us to push our art further or what? There was so much to learn and so much to bring into our daily life that writing this is an...
Utilizing Hangouts and the Community in Building a Creative Habit
Habit During this hangout, Jess led us through sharing ideas on creating habits with art journaling through the use and support of the incredible Get Messy community....
Document your Inner Landscape
Documenting In this lesson Caroline shows you how she uses her everyday journaling practice as a resource for art projects and inspiration. She believes that our inner...
Season of Documenting Intentions
Documenting For the season intentions, I'd love you to trust me. We're going to do things a bit differently. Dig Deeper Let's start this season in the deep end. Let's jump...
How to start: Taking ideas and lessons from other artists to put them in your journal
Starting Kelly Henson Kelly is a veritable mash up of mother, teacher, skater and newbie art journaler. In previous creative incarnations she has been a digital scrapbooker...
Lesson 6: Push Your Muse
Inspiration How To Push Your Muse FurtherFor our final lesson we are looking at the idea of chasing our muse as far as it can go. By now you have created many...
Lesson 3: How to Dig into Your Muse
Inspiration Now that you have your muse, it’s time to dig into it! First, we’re all about creating here. So stop and make a page using your muse! You’re at a...
Lesson 4: Create a Muse Dictionary
Inspiration How To Create a Muse Dictionary A 'Muse Dictionary' is simply a catalog of your muse and it's definitions, symbols, meanings, etc. It's a quick and...
Lesson 1: Who Are You?
Inspiration Who are you? First, to figure out what we want to create about in the future, let’s take a stroll through the past and visit some of the...
Lesson 2: How To Find Your Muse
Inspiration Now that you have a better idea of all the smaller influences that have helped shaped who you are and what you are interested in, its time we find...
Our goal
Failure Art is the perfect imperfection. - Alvaro Castagnet If you joined this season hoping for ways to get over failure, or to learn how to prevent failure and...
Step 1 – Celebrate how far you’ve come
Failure It's not about perfection. It's about the joy of striving. - Thomas Keller We're jumping head first into the Season of Failure with two extremes - a...
Step 3 – Do the work
Failure We must understand that the drive for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time. Because nothing is ever beyond criticism. ... At some point, you really...
Step 5 – Let go and sparkle
Failure Action Steps go through the five steps again, and again Feeling like you're not good enough
Introduction to Creativity
Creativity Welcome to the Season of Creativity! I, Lauren, am thrilled to be here with you this month talking about, what I believe to be the most important skill an artist...
Keeping an Inspiration Journal
Creativity Pinterest is great for collecting ideas. But the problem is that so much of the time we just let them sit there...forever. Pinning beautiful images is a passive...
Inspo to Art Hangout Replay
Creativity Thanks so much to everyone who joined us live! We had a lot of fun creating a page based on images we love using this season's inspiration translating technique....
An Introduction to Using Media to Create Art
Creativity This month your challenge is to use media that ignites your creativity to create a themed art journal. Why media? Watch the introduction video where Lauren will...
Using Media In Your Art Journal In Action
Creativity Take a peek inside my art journals and see how I’ve created pages based on movies, books, podcasts and tv shows. If you’ve ever created any pages based on media in...
Media Art Journal Walkthrough
Creativity What a fun season this is. I am personally obsessed with reading, listening to podcasts, music and watching movies. It is one of my favorite personal hobbies and I...
How to Prep An Art Journal Kit
Creativity The key to success: planning! Truly. Even in our art, we can guarantee our own success is creating art we love and actually following through and creating the art...
Release Your Inner Child: Finger Painting
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Reduce, reuse, recycle!
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Postcard Multibook
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Together we can do so much
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Where to find your inspiration for art and stories
Story We caught up with guest artist Amy Tan and asked where she finds inspiration for her art and for her stories. This is what she shared with us: I draw a lot of inspiration...
Making paint brushes from found objects
Fairy Tales ‘Proper’ paint brushes are amazing of course, but sometimes it’s nice to go a little off-piste and put some of nature’s tools to use – especially at this time of...
How to draw a song
Hi Messians! It's Essie here, very happy to be back with you in this inspiring season of music. You know how some music gets you feeling big things? Some fills you with joy, some pumps...
Finding Words
Hello lovely Messians, Judith here with your weekly dose of Friday Inspiration! For my first ever post here (woohoo!) I want to talk a little bit about finding the words to...
Finding Inspiration in the Everyday
Hi, friends. Elizabeth here. I used to compartmentalize my “creative time,” keeping it separate from family and work life. On one hand, it keeps the mess away from the chores. But on the...
Ugly Pages
I'm here to address a very debilitating and touchy issue: UGLY PAGES. As I run/monitor/participate in our social media channels here for Get Messy (and just interacting with any...
Incorporating lists in your Art Journal
Hello, It’s Julia here again to talk you through how I, as a non-lister, am tackling this season! As a dyslexic person, words are not my friends, so I would never choose to find comfort...
Making backgrounds with Gelatos
Lists Hello wonderful Get Messians! I recently got my first gelatos and I've been obsessed! I thought it will be a nice idea to share with you some of my favorite techniques to...
Art Collective
Lists Hello! My name is Anika Lacerte of The Handcrafted Story. I'm excited to share my first post as Creative Team member. I created a template called the Art Collective, which is...
Colour Psychology in Art Journaling
Hey Messians, Julia here. We are currently in the season of happy and one of my main links to happiness is colour. I even devoted a 100-day project to it in 2015 (#100daysofhappycolour)....
Add photo memories to your journaling
Hi guys! Gretchen here. Get ready to start grabbing for your favorite photos because I've got some great tips for you to incorporate them into your art journal. A picture speaks a...