Elements Workshop: Earth...

Happy Friday everyone!  My Book of Days page for November 26th, is a continuation of the "Elements" workshop, that I am taking over at Wild Soul Arts.  This time I am contemplating my connection to the earth... I have to admit I am thrilled with how this one turned out.  The background is a tissue paper collage, covered with Golden Fluid acrylic in Van Dyke...

Journal Page "Every Day Love..."

Hi friends!  I've got another quick Book of Days journal page to share with you today.  This one is for November 24th...This may look like it took a lot of piecing together, but it didn't!  The base page was already a quilt of different patterned papers.  I decided why not use it the way it is. I added the following:~The word today, the blue arrow...

Thanksgiving Journal Page...

Here's another page in my Book of Days that didn't take much time...We were gone all day on Thanksgiving, so when we got home I was tired.  I still felt like journaling, but I didn't have a lot of energy.  Simple was the name of the game.  The background is just spray ink over wet gesso.  I cut the big flower out of some gift wrap, and painted the words...

Elements Intro Page...

My Book of Days page for November 21 is also the intro page for a workshop I'm taking at Wild Soul Arts.  It's about exploring the four elements of earth, fire, water and air.  This is my introductory page...When I started the page, I didn't plan to do an intro to the Elements workshop.  I was just going to do a regular Book of Days page.  But as I watched...

Project Life: October 15 - 21, Returning Home...

It's been another Project Life weekend, and here's what I finished...October 15 - 21, 2012; which was the day we returned home from Seattle, and the week that followed... Here's the detail of the left side... Still using little bits from Amy Tangerine's Ready Set Go line; plus some journalling cards and stickers from the P.L. Clementine kit.  Ephemera on this...

A Journal Page on a Busy Day...

Hi everyone!  I hope you are having an awesome weekend!I have another quick journal page share for you today.  I've been so busy lately, that I'm sure if I didnt have this goal of completing the whole journal by the end of the year; there are some days I would not be making time to journal. Instead I am working on completing journal pages in a shorter period of time...

Delight...

Hi everyone!  Just a quick post here, to share my Book of Days page for Thursday, November 15th.I call it "delight..."The background for this is a technique taught in Diana Trout's 21 Secrets workshop.  It was a lot of fun and so easy to do!  The duck image was cut from a magazine; and the pigeon is cut from a photo I took of the pigeons on the pier in Seattle. ...

Book of Days and Some Fun News...!

Hi everyone!  I'm still going strong with my Book of Days!  I have a new page to share with you today, along with a step-by-step of how I made it.But before I do - I want to tell you about something fun and exciting that is coming up!Stencil Girl Products, just designed a new line of stencils - designed by my friend - the super talented and creative -  Jessica...

Project Life: October 8 - 14, 2012...

I had so much fun putting together this week of Project Life!  It covers the main portion of our trip to Seattle!  Here's how it turned out... I made an insert by cutting the right 1/3 off of a Design D Page Protector.  I wanted the insert to be smaller than the main page. I think I will add a tab to the side to make it more obvious. You can see the second...

Project Life Update...

Hi there friends!  I am so excited to have a Project Life update for you!  This one is for the week of October 1 - 7, which includes the beginning of Honeymoon 6, our trip to Seattle!  I added an 8 1/2 x 11 insert this time, to include some extra photos of our train ride. Here's how the week turned out - first, without the insert...Here's a closeup of the left...

A Very Special Challenge at Scrapping The Music...

My Book of Days entry this Monday was inspired by our current song challenge at Scrapping The Music.  This challenge has a very special story behind it.   The song was submitted to us directly from the artist himself; who was inspired when he found Scrapping The Music by chance!  I let him tell the story himself at the STM blog - here's what he said......

Every Little Thing...

Hey there everyone!  I hope you're having a great week!  It's flying by for me - super busy, but having fun too!  I have a quick journal page share for you - it's my Tuesday entry for my Book of Days...This page was a collage of various papers and ephemera when I started.  The bottom layer is ink that was sprayed onto wet gel medium, and then spread around...

Live Life in Color...

This week I did a multi-day journal spread for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  It started with the idea of expressing how I was feeling on Wednesday (happy and bubbly!)... Here's an example of how easy it is to fix a lop-sided face.  I noticed after I drew her face that one side was extremely wider than the other!  I just drew in a new line where I wanted...

Before and After...

Hey there hi there ho there!  I've got a couple of journal pages to share with you today.  I've been meaning to share with you how the base pages look before I start and I finally remembered - yeayyy!Anyhoo, here's how the spread for November 5th look before I started.  On the left is the cover to an old Audubon magazine (thanks Lynn!); with some of my mom's...

Art is my Therapy...

My Book of Days entry for last Friday was a godsend.  I had a hard day and needed to get the bad feelings out of my system.  (nothing devastating - just work stuff) So I journaled them all out, and then collaged over the top!I wrote my journaling in inktense colored pencils, and then used a wet brush to smear them.  That's the blue you see in the background. ...

Ideas (Book of Days for 11/1/12)...

My journal page for November 1st started out looking like this...I added some spray mist through Julie Balzer's Pomegranate stencil... then closed the left side page over the stencil and rubbed.  It gave me a nice reverse stencil effect... I took some leftover strips of scrapbook paper, and placed them randomly on the page; then sprayed more mistMoved the strips of paper...

Book of Days for October 31st...

You may know by now that I love Ravens.  I love the mystical lore and symbolism that surrounds them; and consider the raven to be my animal totem.  It may or may not surprise you to find out that my favorite poem is "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe.I thought All Hallows Eve would be the perfect time to put the two together on a Book of Days page; so I listened to Vincent...