BOD for Monday - 10/29/12...

Hi everyone!  I've got another Book of Days page to share with you today.  I didn't have a chance to take photos along the way this time, but I can still explain the layers for you.  There aren't as many as usual, cuz I didn't have tons of time to put into it....I started out with a heavy coat of Color Shine spray ink in the following colors:  Mustard,...

Friday's BOD - "Magic..."

Hey everyone!  I hope your weekend has been fabulous!  Before my new week starts, I want to share last Friday's Book of Days page with you!Here's how it turned out...I wanted to sum up how my first week of doing the Book of Days felt, and it really did feel like magic.  Here's the step-by-step...First step was a light coat of gesso...Heavy body acrylic paint...

The Reluctant Bumblebee...

Today was my monthly crop with my girlfriends and we had a lot of fun!  I had time to finish another Scrapfest project from my Lily Bee workshop...Here's the photo from the Scrapfest description.  The layout I finished today is the middle one...and here's how mine turned out.  It's about my sister Renee's kindergarten bumblebee experience... I added the...

Book of Days "Love..."

Thanks for the feedback on my Book of Days pages!  I'm glad you like the step-by-step photos.  I will try to do more of those for you!  Here's one for my latest Book of Days journal page...Here's the final page... And here are the steps it took to get there...The original base page is the sheet music for "What the World Needs Now is Love."  I added...

BOD Post - "It is well with my Soul..."

Hi friends!  Just a quick post today to share my Book of Days page.  Just like yesterday, I let go of any preconceived notions about the end result of my page, and just enjoyed the process.Here's how it turned out...Gesso, acrylic paint, paper scraps, magazine image, pencil, marker and india ink.Once again, a lyric popped into my head while doing my page, and became...

Book of Days...

I don't even know how I came across Effy Wild's "Book of Days" group.  It might have been when I was blog-hopping amongst the teachers' blogs for Lifebook 2013.  But somehow, I landed there, and fell in love with the idea of a "Book of Days!"  I have been tinkering with developing an art journaling ritual for quite awhile now.  I do a lot of art journaling,...

Custom Notebook for only $2...

Hey there and Happy  Monday!  I just wanted to share with you a fun little deal I learned about through Lain Ehmann's blog.  For a limited time, you can get a custom notebook for only $2.00 from Inkgarden.com!  I did it, and I am ecstatic about how it came out - both the quality, and the vibrant colors of the printing!Here's the one I did.  I just...

More Project Life - September is complete...!

September's Project Life pages are done! - Yeayyy!Here's the spread for September 24 - 30, 2012... It was a hectic week, and I think it shows - ha!  Closeup of the left side...  This was the week before our Seattle trip, so it is filled with all of my planning info, packing lists, etc.  It was super fun to have a place to put these things, cuz I love the...

Project Life Update...

Hey there everyone!  I finished my next Project Life spread last night. It's from September 17 - 23... Here's a closeup of the left side...Sorry for the glare on this photo.  I included a gum package on this page just for fun.  Some year in the future it might be interesting that we had dreamsicle flavored gum, right?  Plus - the package is orange!Here's...

I'm Back from Honeymoon Six - Guess where we went???

Here's a hint...SEATTLE!!!  and the really exciting part is...We took the train!!!Yep - we had a sleeper car and everything!  It was such an exciting adventure!  Both the train trip and our time in Seattle!  We took over 1200 photos - EEK! I've got so much to share I don't even know where to start!I'm excited to get back to my daily blogging again. ...

So Cute Together (Sketch Layout)...

Hey there everyone!  I hope your week is turning out awesome!!!  Quite awhile back, I was asked to do a layout for the "Sunday Sketch" blog series over at Studio Calico, which was so sweet!  There ended up being a glitch and it never got posted over there, but I still want to share the layout that I made with you!The sketch they sent me was based on this beautiful...