Journal Everyday-finished page

Here is a page spread I have finished as I have been following along with Julie's Journaling Everyday series on her blog. I used scraps from my scrap basket that I felt match the paint colors. The tea is a tea I often enjoy that I had while at work..always need calming tea @ work! :D The white piece in the upper right side page is a receipt from an etsy seller, I ordered some washi tape and it came in during this week of journaling. I was feeling springie so I added some random butterfly and bugs. It is a very simple layout, but I really like it a lot. As I have said before I find it hard to work in my art journal when I work since I work 12 hour shifts and three of them in a row normally. So it leaves me little time. I found doing it this way I felt I had at least accomplished something ad I have a small record of what happened each day. Not sure ho I will do the next layout but I have begun on it, it has a brown vintage feel. I was again inspired from bits on my desk and some things I had recently ordered. Thanks!

Altered Book Journal ~ prima live kit from Marion Smith ustream!

Altered CDs

Here are two altered CDs I made for a swap ArteDar is hosting over on alilscrapofheaven. This was a great opportunity to do something on my to do list. These are the first two CDs I have ever altered. I am very happy with them. Especially the second one which I truly am sad to see go cause I love it so much!But I know the receiver will love it and enjoy it, ad that is the true point! :D






Be Blessed! :D

AJ everyday progress

I just wanted to share a page in progress with you guys. This is for the AJ everyday challenge I am following over on Julie's blog. I actually really like it so far and I like the way the journaling for each day is going. Since I was playing catch up I followed Julie's idea and just did simple journaling of what I did on that day. Nothing exciting, trust me! :D I work later tonight so I will journal that b4 I go in and see if I add anything else to the page. At the moment I am not feeling anything but we will see! :D

Spoons

If you guys remember I did a post on spoon art here. Here are two I made last night. My first two. I am not overwhelmingly happy with them but I will try them again. I had hoped to make two necklaces but I have yet to bend the spoons over and had no luck trying it the first time myself so not sure what to do about that. My colors are not vibrant enough for me. I have few alcohol inks and the blue I had is a light one so it did not work out too well. Might get some more inks before I try again. :)


A bit blurry but trying to show the color better.

Journal Everyday

Over on Julie's site she is doing a great thing every Friday about journaling everyday! Basically taking jut small times and doing something, not stressing yourself out about not doing a whole page in one day. Which I really like!

SO I signed up for April. Last month I started to make backgrounds when I could and was kinda testing the waters on what I could do in a few minutes each day. I did a bit and then didn't do everyday which is OK too! So I am siked about April, I have started this month feeling very inspired and organized, and am really gong to try and be diligent about making all my time more productive.

First I found Julie through the Prima ustream site where she did a travel journal, which is super quick and simple. I love it, I have made one already and ave another in the plans! And so on. SO after watching her ustream, I went to her site and discovered all sorts of things about her! Loving all the info, she does several different classes, lots of info on her site, she features other artists as well. I definitely encourage you to check out her site! :D

SO for today I do have a journal spread finished. The book boards are from a faber castell kit that is for beginner journals. They are approximately 6 by 5 or something. I have not measured just giving you a size to go by roughly. I laid down some acrylic paints with water over some masking tape, then took off the tape and another layer in a different color. I added some black and white polka dot paper then I brayed some gesso over the pages in a few spots. I wanted to just add black and white details but then when my husband and I went to dinner the chopstick wrapper matched the coloring great, just with that touch of green so I added that in. A bubblegum wrapper and washi tape finished it off and then I drew some circles and journaled a bit inside them.

Anniversary

Today is my husband and I second marriage year. We made it unharmed...fairly :P We had a yummie nice dinner at a Japanese reataurant. Yummie sushi and hibachi, mmmmmmm!Hoping to get lots of crafty goodness going this weekend while I am off! :D