Saturday
May152010
20 Things Dare
Sat, May 15, 2010 at 05:12PM 
I did a little brainstorming.
20 things I have never used in my art journal:
- masking tape
- a tax return
- delicate violet ribbon
- a menu
- a plaid fabric swatch
- fingerprints
- a thesaurus
- lyrics from Dark Side of the Moon
- glitter
- a page from an econ textbook
- a Wal-Mart receipt
- indigo velvet
- a diagram of a bicycle
- a spiro-graph
- a CD cover
- kids' stickers
- avery address labels
- a cereal box
- twigs
- blue painter's tape
Now I've got 20 new ideas.
In the comments, list up to 20 things you've never used to create an art journal page, numbering each idea. The catch is that you can't repeat anyone's ideas!
Go to the 20 Things Dare Squared to brainstorm Things You've Used in Your Art Journal!
Reader Comments (16)
1. graph paper
2. food
3. pressed flowers
4. handmade paper
5. origami
6. complex circuit/mathematical equations
7. microbiology drawings
8. Shaving cream
9. newspaper
10. pawprints from my three dogs
11. bleached ink
12. alcoholic inks
13. dirt/mud
14. magazine photographs
15. black and white photographs of little children (just seems weird!)
16. angels
17. lace/doilies
18. verses from favorite hymns
19. mandala drawings
20. old stamps, postcards, etc.
first time posting, but I've been enjoying reading your blog very much. I love all the color and texture. :-)
Agnes, Thank you for posting the second set of 20 things, and for commenting. Comments are so appreciated. I have been wanting to try alcoholic inks (assuming they come with a Margarita), and ooh, lace doilies would be wonderful for stamping through... ~ Tammy
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It's funny how many of the things you had on your list that I have used in my journal. There isn't much that I haven't used in it, but I'll try to come up with twenty.
1. grade card
2. a contract
3. safety pins
4. fabric from a well loved article of clothing (I have used a tag)
5. a pop up
6. a snippet of hair
7. beach sand
8. chalk
9. natural dyes from plants
10. home made ink
11. wine
12. a shadow silhouette
13. TV listing
14. potato or other vegetable stamp
15. something I didn't want anyone to read
16. photo negatives
17. a traffic ticket
18. spider web (you can catch them in wet paint)
19. rock rubbings or drawings made with rocks
20. a photo copy of a body part
Dawn, Thx for posting the next 20 things. My dad found boxes of old 35mm slides in his attic; I've used a few thus far. Love the idea of using tv listings, that fun grid format. I didn't know you could catch spider webs in paint!
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wow, you guys are good!! It'll take me waaay too long to come up with another list of 20, but here's what I have so far (hopefully there aren't any repeats)
1) an X-ray or CT scan (I have a CT scan I want to use, just haven't done it yet)
2) a feather
3) an original drawing by me
4) metal tape
5) sewing on paper
6) something I found on the ground
7) something metal (like a washer or bottle cap)
8) not really a "thing" but: a black and white page *
9) a color I DON'T like *
10) a dip pen & ink
11) white out
12) spray paint
13) string
14) corrugated cardboard
that's all I can think of for now... there's some great ideas here!
(I've never written anything I don't want anyone else to read either; I guess I'm still a llittle too insecure about my journal to do that.)
Jennifer, Thank you for adding to our growing list, indeed it is getting harder already! I put a star next to the two that are not "things" or used to make the page, but I like both of the ideas nonetheless. I still don't think I've ever done a black _ white page. My husband is using foil tape in a house project this week, and I have considering trying some on a page.
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I have never used:
1.PAPER COASTERS FROM A BAR
2. string
3.images cut from an old book
4. symbols or signs
5.lollypop sticks
6.polymere clay embelishments
7. sweety wrappers
8.recipies
9.paperdolls
10.sewn in fabric
11.glitterglue
12.treestamp
13.treerubbings
14.texture paste
15.ribbon
16.lyrics from a song, used in such a way that it relates to my life at the current moment
17.famous women
18.brayer
19.the colours turquoise and orange on one page*
20.CHEESECLOTH
Makealife, I combined your lists. I've got a bunch of paper coasters from bars, and hadn't thought of using them in an art journal. And symbols from old books sound intriguing and could lead in a lot of directions. I'm loving turquoise lately, all shades. (fyi, we aren't counting specific colors as we creatives could fill 100 pages with color combos). Great list.
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i'm going to bookmark this post and come back often - what awesome ideas!
1. cotton balls
2. nylons
3. Old CDs
4. Old cassette tape
5. plant labels
6. seed packets
7. graph of something (how I spend my day, week?)
8. charcoal (I know it's not unusual but I've never used it)
9. wood stain
10. plastic wrap
11. aluminum foil
12. coffee
13. cork stamps made from wine corks by me
14. popsicle sticks
15. food can labels
16. phone book page
17. thumbprint drawings
18. playing cards
19. tire marks
20.
I can't think of anything else. I love this list. There so many cool things to try.
Hi got some more which I don't think are in your list but can't make it reach anywhere near 20! Only 4...hope I'll think of more while I'm on orders to rest an injured leg...
Rice
Beans
Cocktail sticks
little round bits of paper from holepunching
Kirstin, Oh I LOVE the idea of seed packets, they have such lovely art, often hand drawn. Graphs would be fabulous, conveying info without words. I love stamping with corks (with random lines etched with a knife), you will have so much fun with that. TIRE MARKS! Wow, set your journal under your bike or car? Talk about wreck this journal...
Jaki, coctail sticks sound like a cool bit of ephemera, and rice could be used to create an interesting texture, perhaps in wet acrylics. Great idea to rummage thru hole punches for new ideas.
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Great post and great ideas! Here are some of mine I want to get around to soon.
1)onion bag
2 band aids
3 plaster
4 kool-aid spray ink
5 jute fibers in gesso
6 wallpaper scraps
7 homemade glimmer mist (floor polish and pearl-ex)
8 foreign currency (copies of stuff Grandpa gave me)
9 colored phone wire
10 construction debris from my new house
11 grocery bags "melted" with heat gun
12 Granny's old church bulletins and paper fan
13 cigarette packs to remind me how much money I'd have for art supplies if I quit smoking
14 air-conditioner filter material (neat holes)
15 circuit board and panel from defunct solar light
16 leftover ink in empty printer cartidge (sounds pretty messy)
17 old typewriter ribbon
18 correction tape to journal on
19 silk flower petals
20 hot glue "drawings"
Amy, You've blown me away with a new list of 20 things! I was just at Home Depot trying to buy telephone wire but their cutting machine was broken, so we're on the same wavelength. A circuit board would be ultra cool - for use as a stamp or using the diagram of the actual board. Love the idea of journaling on secretarial-looking correction tape!
Amazing. I wonder other ideas the creative minds will develop!
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1.Grave Rubbings (cool designs and fonts)
2.making my own stamp designs with hot glue and ackrlic plates (see thru to make words)
3. flower pounding
4. leaf pounding
5.pressed flowers/leaves
6.paper mache bugs
7.rubbings of wood workings on furniture
8.phone book pages (kind of see thru)
9. bubble wrap
10 Macroni - spaggatti (will it hold it's shape once it drys?)
SUZ, Thx for the great additions! I like the idea of using telephone book pages as translucent layers.
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