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Card crazy

This summer I have been so “not creative”. Yes, I have done a few things but they were more utilitarian that artsy. More on those in later post. I’ve missed it and I think a bit of that creative energy just had to come out.

I made 7 cards in short order mostly from scraps.

Hopefully the creative energy will continue…or at least kick in big time after Labor Day when the kids are back in school. Until then I’m still trying to soak up as much “mom time” as I can with them.

  

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Scrap inspired

Bits and pieces laying around came together for me yesterday.  
Wish that happened more often.

 

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Sewing like crazy…
I’ve been sewing like there is no tomorrow.
I’ve managed to make a tiny dent in my fabric stash.
Little J picked out colors for her American Girl doll sleeping bag. Her doll came with a lavender outfit so she has decided that lavender is “Rosie’s” favorite color.
I have one more ready to go and 2 more that are just in need of finishing.
I’m partial to this red patchwork one myself.

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Art journal
After being inspired by The Art Journal Workshop, I started work on the inside pages.
I found the book that I disassembled for the covers at a thrift store quite a while ago. When I got it I hadn’t realized that all the pages were glossy which doesn’t work very well for altering.
I still loved the covers and knew I’d use them
in some way.
The inside pages are recycled cardboard from cereal type boxes. I obsessively save them to use as substrate for so many different projects. The pages are all a uniform height but the width is very random. I felt this might give the journal an interesting look.
So far, I’ve slathered leftover paint from other projects on a few pages and completed one from scraps on my table.

The journalling reads:
Forget the darkness behind you. 
Turn your face towards the sun and bloom.

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Altered Puzzle piece
Finished another one and popped it in the mailbox yesterday. 
One of the postmen said he gets a kick out of the mail art and postcards I send and receive. 
He asked me about the postcards one day when I was mailing a very boring package.
I had no idea they paid that much attention! 
Fun to know that mail art not only brightens the recipients day but the postal workers day as well.

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UFO’s–finished

Since we’ve been pretty much stuck in the house lately I’ve been exercising my creative side by attempting to finish some UFO’s…unfinished objects.

I have a stack of these type of projects. Some just have a background finished. Others are a train wreck and are in need of a do-over. 

This small canvas board was one of those. Whoa! You can’t even imagine how ugly the background on this baby was. I didn’t take a before picture…it was too awful.  Now I happen to like it.

This puzzle piece was another that had been abandoned sometime last fall when I ran out of steam after gluing papers to the backs of a dozen or so pieces.  I used my scrap bucket for most of this one.

I’m also working on a mixed-media painting. So far I’m just layering and layering…no photos yet.

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Book Box

I can not take any sort of credit for this box…none at all. Yes, I did technically make it but I used Kimmie’s instructions to create it. 
I decided I needed something to hold notepaper. The kids keep taking my notepads but for some reason they only seem to like blank papers.
Since the end of the school year is rapidly approaching, I’m starting to clear out all those saved papers. Spelling tests, one sided worksheets, junk mail flyers..you get the picture. A seemingly endless supply of paper. I might as well write notes on them before they hit the recycle bin.

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