
Girl Boss Art Journal Zine







I did the cover above. I used metallic acrylic paints by DecoArt to paint the sun sunbursts/medallions.
Left page by Vanessa (love that quote), right page by me,
For my first page, above, I started with a washi tape background, covering it in a light coat of gesso and then added a doodle and a good but of watercolors. I also added a small bit of aqua washi tape to Vanessa’s page on the left, because I’m sneaky like that.
Page spread above by me.
You know I can’t go long without adding either a galaxy or a moon to something, so on this page I painted the whole thing with black gesso and then painted on a moon. The quote is one I’ve seen on pinterest a few times and love.
Page on the left by Sharon (I think?) and right page by Me.
Sarah says her Spirit Animal is a donkey, so of course I had to draw one. I stared at a few donkeys on pinterest (my go to source of inspiration) and then started sketching. and I love watercolors, so obviously there is a watercolor background.
left page by Julia, right page by everyone.
I love collaborating on art journals like this! I highly encourage you guys to go visit their blogs and see the rest of the zine, because the rest of the pages are amazing!
Today I have another art journal zine to share, I love doing these! It’s fun to have a miniature art journal done in one theme. You can find the previous zines I’ve participated in here-Space, Sea, Bold, Vintage.
The “Zine Squad” consists of 3 main members, Myself, Vanessa and Julia, and then we usually ask one other art journaler to join us on gifting a zine to someone.
This time though, Vanessa and I were sneaky! We created this zine for Julia and asked Torrie and Lauren to play along!
This zine has a woodland theme, because Julia is secretly a fox. I created the cover, although it got added to as it made it’s way around the world, which I love.
My double page spread pictured above. As I said, I’m pretty sure Julia is a fox, so I drew her with a family of foxes and did a bit of random journaling with it.
Left page by Lauren, Right page by me.
I used a gelli print background and some lovely vintage clip art by Pretty Little Studio for this page.
I love collaborating on art journals like this! I highly encourage you guys to go visit their blogs and see the rest of the zine, because the rest of the pages are amazing!
Today I have another art journal zine to share, I love doing these! It’s fun to have a miniature art journal done in one theme. You can find the previous zines I’ve participated in here-Space, Sea, Bold.
This time our zine was vintage themed, we are creatively calling it “Zintage”.
We created this zine for the lovely Karen Gaunt, who is a fellow Get Messy Art Journaler. Patricia joined Me, Julia, and Vanessa for this zine and I love her collage like style.
I did warn the others that if we were doing a “vintage” themed zine, that I was going to have to do a Star Trek page. I mean, how can you have a vintage theme and not have some good ole 1960’s scifi?
Left page by Julia, Right page by me.
My geek slipped out a little more and Wolverine (from x-men) ended up on a page as well. I had an old X-Men comic I’d been saving for crafts and I Wolverine was just so perfect for this page.
Left page by me, Right page by Patricia?
My page above was inspired by vintage quilts. I watercolored some patterns onto the page.
Do you think this girl looks vintage-y, or a lover of vintage? That’s the look I was going for. I painted gesso over book pages and then painted her and my saying on.
Left page by me, Right page by Vanessa
I’ve been saving some vintage clip art from the 70’s, slowly using it in projects. I thought it was the perfect time to use this horse.
I love collaborating on art journals like this! I highly encourage you guys to go visit their blogs and see the rest of the zine!
Today I have another art journal zine to share! You can find the previous zines I’ve participated in here- Space, Sea.
This time we made a zine for Sharon. She’s super talented and is always making really fun collages.
Vanessa, Julia and I (The Zine Squad) collaborated with Lauren to make a zine for Sharon, to remind her to always be bold.
This time I created the cover, using just black cardstock. I really wanted to make it colorful, but I felt the black with the white lettering was very bold, so I went for it. I followed Vanessa’s tutorial on how to bind with a pamphlet stitch.
For the first page, I did sort of a “dictionary page”, by putting a description of the word Bold.
My favorite page our of all of those I did, was probably this lion. When we first decided on the bold theme, I immediately knew I had to do a lion in some way. I sketched him on, and then went a bit crazy with watercolors.
Now you know it’s nearly impossible for me to do a project that isn’t inspired by space in some way. I mean, what’s a bold zine with a reference to Star Trek? I kept the reference very small. Just a little “boldly go”, over a background of a gelli print, and a star chart.
Vanessa made the gorgeous page on the right.
This page, while I like it okay, is not my favorite. It just seems a little too messy. But none the less, it has a good message, right?
The page on the left is by Lauren.
I love collaborating on art journals like this! I highly encourage you guys to go visit their blogs and see the rest of the zine!
More secret zines may, or may not, be in the works! 🙂 Okay, so they are. You’ll be hearing about those soon.
Which is your favorite page?
For this next page, I wanted it to look like a bunch of framed pieces of art. Do you think it worked? I doodled it all with a micron pen, and then went back in with watercolors.
This last page is my favorite of them all! Why? Because, you know.. It has a galaxy! I tried really hard to keep my pages all sea themed, but I love space so much, a moon just slipped right in there.
I printed the moon out and glued it in, then went a bit crazy with paints! 😉
Vanessa creates and sells handmade journals and notebooks in her shop, so she made the base of this zine. She created her pages, passed it along to Julia to add her touch and then I got the last few pages to have fun with!
Isn’t the cover so lovely?
I’ve actually been traveling all Summer, so I didn’t even have many art supplies with me when making this, but I just couldn’t say no.
So what I used on all of these pages are some Micron pens (my fave!), some cheap watercolors, and a little black and white acrylic paint.
Here’s my pages, I’m so happy with how they turned out.
For the page above, I painted the galaxy scene with watercolors and then added the song lyrics (by Owl City) on top.
For the next double spread page (above) I wanted a way to feature all of the quotes about space that I just love and find so inspiring, and with all of the news about the New Horizons probe and new images of Pluto, I decided to paint some planets. That middle planet is my best pluto.
Now if you have 2 seconds, please hop over to both Vanessa and Julia’s blogs to see their pages in this zine. Once completed we sent the zine to Caylee as a surprise. Caylee is one of the founders of Get Messy Art Journal, and we felt she should have this.
I loved doing this! We’re actually planning something else for the future as well! 🙂
What theme would you like to make a zine about?
SHIPPING NOTICE- All orders placed between 10/27/2020 - 11/07/2020 will ship on 11/09/2020. I am currently away on a creative retreat & gathering inspiration! Again, orders placed will ship asap on 11/09/2020. Dismiss