Get Messy Art Journal Season of Love

The Get Messy Art Journal Membership Program has begun and is exploding with inspiration! I have so missed consistently art journaling and now that the program is up and running I am so happy to be back on board and to have my routine reestablished. In case you don't know, Get Messy is an art journaling challenge that has prompts, inspiration and weekly link ups to share your work and build community around this fun creative outlet.We would love for you to join us here.For February and March we are creating around a theme, Love. So fitting, right? Here are the first two pages I have made and ps I love them....I'm really into painting with acrylics right now and made these fun backgrounds (and tons more) and then added my journaling/photos onto them as I founds things that fit.For this first page I included an accidental instax photo of me and hand cut the phrase "I am happy here" because I am finally back to a place where I am happy with my body again. This idea came about when thinking about the idea of 'self love'.This page is so beautiful for one and so special. I've had this page in my heart for over a year and the love prompts were exactly what I needed to get it out and onto paper. When I worked in adoption it wrecked my heart. The act of counseling someone through giving up a baby and through receiving another persons baby as your own is challenging and beautiful and messy. Adoption is the ultimate gift of self-sacrifice and love, on both parts, and I am so lucky to have been able to witness both sides firsthand. These families and birth mothers are people I will never forget and I'm so glad that I was able to commemorate that in my art journal.As you can see we are not all about hearts and stars and romantic, gushy love. So please join us for this in-depth look at the ideas, cultures and personal experiences surrounding love this season with Get Messy Art Journal.