Well, I made it in the nick of time! I finished Lesson 3 with Carolyn Dube just as Lesson 4 was being unveiled!
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Yes! This was a fun project. I made this small, pocket journal last September following the instructions, then filled it with my art over 14 months . . . but who’s counting! It was a process that was really enjoyable.
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It is hard to believe, but May 29th was the last time I posted here. Wow, 3-1/2 months has gone by! I did have quite a busy summer and truth be told, I fell out of the habit of posting on my blog . . .
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I was attempting to do gel plate image transfers for an upcoming exchange with my friends Jo & Jewels, but in only one case did I get a little bit of a hint of an image transfer!
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Here is a bit more on how I did #16, 17 & 18 in my 365 project. Showing how I started and then some of the steps along the way . . .
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Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more;
Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more;
And all good things are yours. ~ Unknown . . .
I created this journal in a free class with Roben-Marie Smith. It was fun to take an old ledger, remove the original pages but keep the cover in place and sew 'signatures' of new blank pages inside . . .
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On the recommendation of some of my artist friends, I signed up for another online course, Wanderlust 2017. This past year I discovered I'm more active with creative things/ideas and I create more art/creative stuff when I engage in a class or two . . .
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Whoo Hoo! I am so happy I was asked to be a Guest Designer for the StencilGirl Talk Blog, February 17, 2016. When I started thinking about what to do, I felt inspired to work with fabric . . . .
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After a couple of weeks of not working in my journal, I got started with a page of leaf prints I made on deli paper last week. I really wanted to add some of these prints to my small moleskine journal, sized 3.5" x 5.5". It is really quite small . . . .
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I find myself returning to my small moleskine journal, again & again, page after page! The 3.5" x 5.5" size means it does not take a lot of time to complete a spread and it is fun to do.
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Yes, something fishy is going on! I went back to working in my larger 9" x 12" Dylusions Journal. The other morning I went on an "artist's date" with myself…
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My friend Julie Welsh (aka Jewels) saw a video of my art journal spread recently and told me she loved it. She remarked she had "lost steam" with art journaling, but hoped to do a page again soon. Having been through that myself, I quickly replied and said, "When you feel like doing something creative again, grab your journal . . .
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I took a few photos while making my ICAD (Index card a day) tonight and thought I would share them. The theme this week from daisy yellow was to use a different color palette every day. Well, I took that theme and used it to inspire me to use lots of different colors via my tin of hard pastels. I started off by making a mark with ALL of the colors, one by one . . . .
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I am returning to my visit with Frieda in Scotland last month. I've added more to my art journal about that glorious week….
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I really had fun creating this spread. It is about the town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders where Frieda had her exhibit of Journal Quilts. We went there together on the 20th of September for her Galley Talk at the Tweeddale Museum, home to her 52 Journals exhibit . . .
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