Today's mini-collage...and September's grid is all finished! Yeayyy!!!The leaves are starting to change here, which is one of my favorite things ever! I hope it's a colorful autu...
Thursday, September 29, 2011
I'm loving doing these mini-collages! Here's the one for today...Seeing happy dogs just makes my day! Have you seen the Sharky the Pitbull videos? OMG so cute! Click here for one of my favorites. If you like it, there are more in the youtube sidebar. What a sweetie.And here's today's art journal page...The background is a page from an old country-western magazine. The...
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Just a quick update for ya. I'm still going strong with the No More Excuses journal, and loving it! Here's today's mini-collage...Card Peek #2 for September (Sticking with the Sketchbook Challenge's "Unfurl" theme for this month)...I've also started assembling my 2012 No More Excuses Journal! It's getting really fat, and I still have that whole pile on the right to add in...For...
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Last night I completed phase two of my Deck of Prompts Swap. Here's how they turned out (click on the image to see it larger)...This was my favorite one to make this time...Here's the scribble I started out with...Made me remember how much I liked that game as a kid. I used to play with friends, and we would each make a scribble for the other one. Did you ever do that?Anyhoo,...
Saturday, September 24, 2011
My September NME Grid is coming along nicely! I'm using Prismacolor Pencils and with gamsol...If you haven't heard of gamsol, it's an odorless mineral spirit that works great for blending colored pencils. In the photo above, the grey square on the bottom has gamsol blending on the top half - see the difference? Here are a couple of closeups:The grey background on the left...
Thursday, September 22, 2011
I attended Scrapfest at the Mall of America with my girlfriends this past weekend, and it was a blast! I am making a Smashbook all about the event! I can't wait to share it with you, but it's not quite done yet. In the meantime, here are just a few photos to share...Here we are getting our photo taken in the world's largest scrapbook page! Left to right is Anne, Christina,...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
The theme for September at the Sketchbook Challenge is "Unfurl." I decided to use that theme in this month's tiny watercolor sketches aka "Card Peeks," in my No More Excuses Journal. Here's my first card peek...Unfurl: verbTo open, unfold, open out, blossom, develop, progress.Challenge #19 at The Journal Fodder Junkies is called "Come Out And Play." It asks us when the...
Thursday, September 8, 2011
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
I'm a little behind in posting my lists! Here's list #6: Favorite Color Combinations...Image was found here, and is originally from this book. Also used specialty paper and poster paint sharpies. I also have some more pages from my No More Excuses journal to share...I hope you are having a fabulous week my friends! Thanks for visiti...
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The newest prompt over at Journal Fodder Junkies is called "Show Up Like Magic." It's all about the people in your life that show up for you just when you need them. There's the ones that you are close to, and then once in awhile, someone you would never expect is there for you - know what I mean? It's all magical in my opinion. :0) Anyways, here's the page I made for...
Monday, September 5, 2011
My four tiny watercolor sketches in my "No More Excuses" daily journal for August are all done! Yeayyy! I'm happy I stuck with it, because I've learned so much with this practice. Here are the last two...#3 was super fun...#4 was a pain in the rear (lol), but good education for me...In the comments after the 2nd sketch, Laurie had asked what I am going to do with these...
Sunday, September 4, 2011
Friday, September 2, 2011
Hi everyone! It's the beginning of a long holiday weekend here in the U.S. (labor day), and I don't have anywhere I have to be. The cats and I will be hanging in the scraproom for three days straight - yeayyy!!!September 1st started a new daily journal for me. I loved using the Papaya Art journal so much, I started another one. I'm totally in love with the artwork on this...
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