#acrylograph

[rayraystudies]

I figured my little buddy here deserved a bit of a zoom in focus on him before we move on to the final spreads of the month!

✍ Archer & Olive Bullet Journal, Uniball Signo RT1 UMN-155, Acrylographs

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[stormears]

Notebook Therapy Products to Die For*

(*not endorsed in any way I just love this brand to death. I own all but the last two.)

Consider Notebook Therapy for your journaling desires. You can find a dozen journaling/scrapbooking Youtubers giving 10% discount codes for NT, as it does lean expensive. Journals $28-$32, washi sets $40ish

The "Torii" red bullet journal - was my 2023 bullet journal :)

The matching "Torii" washi tape set

The "playful orca" journal (with black paper!!)

The "calligraphy pens"

The "Sights of Japan" washi tape set

The "Dark Academia" washi tape set

The "Sakura" washi tape collection

The "Sakura Breeze" Travel notebook gift set

The "Twilight Hour" journaling set - 1 journal, 6 washi tapes and 1 stamp

Oh and how could I forget this stroke of product design genius:

[battywitch]

I'm in flares, which is making thinking much more difficult, and am frozen with indecision about my first half of 2024 journal setup and I just want someone to tell me what to do with it lmao 😭

[bakedtarot]

did i buy a new notebook? yes. do i have plenty of notebooks? also yes. did i have one with smooth black pages? no. i neeeeded one though. anyway, i've had this sticker for months and have wanted to use it so many times but i'll pick it up and it just didn't feel right and i couldn't bring myself to force it. funny, that. bonus, i finally broke out and used the cherished archer & olive acrylograph pens my sister gave me.

[pretendcottagelady]

August Prototypes

This mess of a page are trials and plans for a picnic collage themed layout. In which I have discovered a few things.

In a surprising turn of events the PET tape this time around is more translucent than my washi tape.

Apparently I don't own more than one shade of deep or jewel tone red.

This layout is going to be very green by the end of it.

I was hoping to use Acrylographs this time around because I have a few sets but never used them.

Also the two swatches in the middle labelled A&O and Lennon Tool Bar are inks for my pen. I think I'll use the brighter A&O ink next month.

[highwaydiamonds]

Bit of art journaling I completed playing with today (though bits and bobs of it have been drawn and worked on over time) includes some drawing, direct to paper work with inks, accents with metallic acrylographs, and clearly lots of collage messing about.

[wellappointeddesk]

Pen Review: Archer & Olive Acrylograph Cool Fall Colors

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Ana ordered 2 sets of Archer and Olive Acrylograph Pens. She reviewed the Warm Fall Color palette here. Today I get to review the Cool Fall Palette. I should start by saying that my speciality is needle arts, so I know next to nothing about paint pens. This is a set of 10 water based acrylic markers – 8 colors (Cool Fall), plus a white pen and a…

[maria-the-ghoul]

I’m different anon: I asked about your journals before. They are much prettier in your photos than on the site! And those boxes! Do you have a fave now you have them both in front of you?Have you had a chance to look at the mystery pens?

Hi A&O Anon.

They are heavier than I thought...I knew they would be hefty based on the the paper weight, but they have a nice sturdy weight to them. I mean UPS said the package weighed like 4lbs lmao.

I think the spiderweb one is my favorite. The broom one is cute, but I just feel it's lacking something and from a distance, the broom kind of looks like an upside down rose.

The pens are different Acrylograph Paint Pens and Calliograph Brush Pens. The Calliograph pens are dual tipped which is cool. I haven't tried them out yet, but I plan on taking everything to work today and testing things out.

[tencrowns]

Splurged a bit. First time trying any Archer & Olive products—I am very much enjoying the acrylograph markers, I think if I had had these when trying to make the black paper journal work, I would not have abandoned it! I started to film a little video of me doing some title lettering but the intern decided my tripod/lighting set up was no good. #bulletjournal #bujo #archerandolive https://www.instagram.com/p/CjiILCZrLex/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hawtchocolate]

I've had Pentatonix's new song Anchor stuck in my head for DAYS! It's so vibey ⚓ I wrote out the lyrics of the chorus on this lettering page and I like the simple look of it

[mangakasanakajenw]

"Snow prince"

With the current weather i felt like drawing a little floofy snow kitty :D

It's been many years ago since we had so much snow (at some places it was knee high!)Also falling more and more in love with the mat finish of acryl paint markers!

Drawn with acrylograph pens +a white fine posca marker because the white pen of the acrylograph was to transparent weirdly enough, while the other colors where super opaque! And a purple sakura micron pen (for the lineart) on a small watercolor sketchbook.

[rayraystudies]

Everyone remember to check what date you schedule a post for….otherwise you might end up having a post about July go up in September .__. I hope you like my picnic basket! I used a lot of my archerandolive picnic washi tape in this setup :)

✍ Archer & Olive Bullet Journal, Uniball Signo 207 Gel Micro Pen, Pentel Fude Touch Brush Sign Pen, Tombow Dual Brush pens, Washi Tape, Acrylographs

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[stormears]

It's almost Christmas Eve and I just updated AND FINISHED one of my least popular fics, an AtsuHina sci-fi horror featuring dome cities on the moon, hoverboards and man-eating aliens.

I'm also a budding journaler and made this...art?? piece?? for the fic a few months back in one of my journals.

Creepy, scary, dramatic, long, weird af alien fic AVAILABLE NOW. 4 Chapters, 36k. COMPLETE!

[crossedstreams]

Golden Afternoon Bullet Journal

I got into bullet journaling during the spring lockdowns, and I’ve really been enjoying it.  This journal was my sister’s 2020 birthday gift (finished months late due to great upheaval in my personal life, but it’s the thought that counts?) She loves the song “In The Golden Afternoon” from Alice in Wonderland, and I used that as a jump off point for the theme, which became flowers/nature.  

(Completely forgot to take a picture of the frontispiece after I finished the book??? Derp.  Please ignore the sticky notes.)  

The book is structured so that the first section spans the entire year, a kind of bird’s-eye overview, before being split into individual months.  The overview section has pages such as “About Me” “Favorite Quotes” “2021 Goals” etc. all out lined in washi tape and embellished with stickers.  Other sections are hand painted/inked:

Each month section has a dutch door frontispiece.  When closed, it shows the name of the month and a corresponding poem; when opened, a calendar and two cocktail recipes are revealed.

Each month follows the same layout with different floral variations and mood trackers.  In order: goals, habits, gratitude, affirmations (those two with washi tape outlines only), health, mood, weather, and two blank pages labeled “[month] notes.”  The health and weather trackers are just grids; health gets ticked off on relevant days, and weather has squares to be tracked for temperature and a lot of space for regular notes (”nice sunset tonight” etc.)  The mood trackers are especially fun to create and to fill out.  They correspond to the theme far more loosely than the other pages.

I really loved doing the detail work.  I’ve been doodling in margins my entire life and it’s nice to see that blossom into something a little bit more structured and useful.

The last page in the book is one that looks back over the year before looking forward to the next volume.

Guess I’ll start on the next one?

[compose-myself]

Setting up my new journal for 2022, needed a theme that would capture both the So Done With This Shit and the Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow sides of my personality.

Plus wordplay. And the burning of the goat. And my pretty new markers.

[taylors-simblr]

It was my birthday yesterday and I was surprised with this neopolitan archer and olive book! I’m going to have to get some gel pens for those black pages but I’m looking forward to using it (in January...)