So, I have had this book "642 Things to write about" by 826 Valencia for over a year. I thought I might take a try at responding to one of the prompts inside. Since I am using the creative side of my brain I am definitely going to start somewhere in the middle.
And the prompt is....
Your dog has decided to learn a language. Convince him why French would be a good idea.
So, my dog's name would probably be Pierre. The reason he would want to learn French is so that we can travel to the South of France and not be made fun of. He would also probably want to be up on the "language of love" in case he meets a hot, single, french "poodle" and needs to know how to Mack her up. : )
Alright
That was a little bit fun. I will write in the journal somehow that I actually did that one in case I want to take this to a type of series for a day of the week. It might help me journal a little more frequently.
Alright
Until next time
SS
Wednesday, May 6, 2015
Monday, May 4, 2015
A little more art journaling
It seems as though I am taking a small pause from quilting. Not very long I assure you but I wanted to get some art journaling in. I also bought a few new supplies, (I had not done this in a while). Here is one of the layouts I did over the weekend. I don't know if it is really complete but I will post it anyway.
The base is distress stains on a journal. I then doodled everything with a Pitt Big Brush white pen and micron pens. The image is from Some Odd Girl.
I met someone this weekend that suggested I take pictures at different stages of my work and explain the process. I may try that one day. My process is normally to make the backgrounds first.
Oh well
Until later
SS
I met someone this weekend that suggested I take pictures at different stages of my work and explain the process. I may try that one day. My process is normally to make the backgrounds first.
Oh well
Until later
SS
Saturday, May 2, 2015
100th post
Yes
This is officially my 100th post. It took me a while to get here. Absentee blogging, changing hobbies, and then just that thing called life. I have committed to myself that I will blog more. I really do like to share ideas and thoughts with like minded people. Most of my entries are centered around my crafting. Occasionally I include my family, most frequently my son.
I will have to be off work for a few weeks. In which case I need to get my house together before that happens. I will clean out my craft room if it kills me. So that once I can move I won't have to do that stuff. I figure if I really put my mind to it and do a little every day I can have it done in 3 weeks, perhaps 2 1/2. I just came from NSD at DCM. That would represent National Scrapbook Day at Dallas Crafters Marathon. As usual, I met tons of great people. It was awesome to hang out with fellow crafters. I even managed to art journal. I got roughly 6 layouts pretty much complete and several backgrounds. Once I get the craft room together I will focus on doing backgrounds and texture at home and then when I go to DCM I can bring a minimal amount of "junk" (I mean supplies). : )
There were a couple of people interested in Art Journaling. I know it can be addicting. I love going back in my books and seeing what my thoughts were in years past. The visual method for me seems to work better. Hopefully over the next few weeks some of us can meet up and enjoy crafting again.
Here is one of the layouts that I did over the last 2 days. As you can tell I am still into the big focal images. Both girls were colored with Copic Markers. I did use my Eclips by Sizzix to do Print to Cut. I love the feature. Sometimes it can be a little fickle with getting cut lines but for the most part it gets it done.
The layout was made with distress stains for the background, I doodled in the signo white gel pen, micron marker and some of the metallic gelly roll pens. The image on the left is definitely from Kenny K. I honestly don't remember where I got the image on the right.
Until Later
SS
This is officially my 100th post. It took me a while to get here. Absentee blogging, changing hobbies, and then just that thing called life. I have committed to myself that I will blog more. I really do like to share ideas and thoughts with like minded people. Most of my entries are centered around my crafting. Occasionally I include my family, most frequently my son.
I will have to be off work for a few weeks. In which case I need to get my house together before that happens. I will clean out my craft room if it kills me. So that once I can move I won't have to do that stuff. I figure if I really put my mind to it and do a little every day I can have it done in 3 weeks, perhaps 2 1/2. I just came from NSD at DCM. That would represent National Scrapbook Day at Dallas Crafters Marathon. As usual, I met tons of great people. It was awesome to hang out with fellow crafters. I even managed to art journal. I got roughly 6 layouts pretty much complete and several backgrounds. Once I get the craft room together I will focus on doing backgrounds and texture at home and then when I go to DCM I can bring a minimal amount of "junk" (I mean supplies). : )
There were a couple of people interested in Art Journaling. I know it can be addicting. I love going back in my books and seeing what my thoughts were in years past. The visual method for me seems to work better. Hopefully over the next few weeks some of us can meet up and enjoy crafting again.
Here is one of the layouts that I did over the last 2 days. As you can tell I am still into the big focal images. Both girls were colored with Copic Markers. I did use my Eclips by Sizzix to do Print to Cut. I love the feature. Sometimes it can be a little fickle with getting cut lines but for the most part it gets it done.
The layout was made with distress stains for the background, I doodled in the signo white gel pen, micron marker and some of the metallic gelly roll pens. The image on the left is definitely from Kenny K. I honestly don't remember where I got the image on the right.
Until Later
SS
Friday, May 1, 2015
One more art journal post
Hi Everyone
Here is another blog post for you. I was crafting over last weekend and had a little time to play. This one is in my "Comet" journal. It holds all types of media well and has a great price point.
I did this one with Distress stains. Which are absolutely one of my favorites to work with. I wanted to just play so I did some dots with the blotter top and it was like magic. The page just appeared. I am sorry, I don't remember which exact ones I used. They were part of my cousins stash.
I used a Micron 08 pen to draw the circles and a Micron 02 pen to write the words. The words are inspirational thoughts for me to embrace. All of the doodling was done with a Micron as well. I used some of the small block stamps for accents. Wink of stella brush markers are the metallic coloring. It was a very quick and easy page to display some creativity.
Until next time
SS
Here is another blog post for you. I was crafting over last weekend and had a little time to play. This one is in my "Comet" journal. It holds all types of media well and has a great price point.
I did this one with Distress stains. Which are absolutely one of my favorites to work with. I wanted to just play so I did some dots with the blotter top and it was like magic. The page just appeared. I am sorry, I don't remember which exact ones I used. They were part of my cousins stash.
I used a Micron 08 pen to draw the circles and a Micron 02 pen to write the words. The words are inspirational thoughts for me to embrace. All of the doodling was done with a Micron as well. I used some of the small block stamps for accents. Wink of stella brush markers are the metallic coloring. It was a very quick and easy page to display some creativity.
Until next time
SS
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