Category : Creativity
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Layer, layers and more layers for this journal page. I had an idea in mind when I started. What was in my head didn’t match in the least bit what was coming out on the page.
I walked away for a couple days…literally.
I really liked pieces of the pages so I took my circle stamp to those parts. I filled in around with blue and white with my fingers. I’ve really got to remember to get a picture of my hands one of these days all covered with paint. But I digress…
Anyone remember the 1984 movie Footloose? Well, I certainly do. It’s still a favorite of mine.
This set of Bible verses was used in a scene by Ren McCormack, played by Kevin Bacon, as he was trying to convince the very conservative city council to allow the high school kids to have a dance. This scene amazed me to hear that the Bible said dancing was ok because I grew up in a very conservative church that dancing was not allowed either. Its a beautiful and powerful set of verses.
I decided that the verse needed to be added after I looked at the pages. I thought that might be a view from heaven…the universe in front of you…all the stars and planets.
Here it is Tuesday again and I’m linking up with my friend Elizabeth for T stands for Tuesday. I’m pretty sure time is speeding up as we approach Labor Day and the start of school.
Little J and I made use of the time that her big brother was at camp last week. Being a teenage boy, he hates shopping. I’m not so fond of it myself but my girl…she can shop!! We went to Kohl’s 3 days last week. Yikes! The third was unscheduled…we stopped by my mom’s and she wanted to get something to wear for an upcoming wedding.
Little J and I also went to Goodwill twice, Costco, the Mall (not MOA), ACE hardware, Target and of course, the grocery store. Geesh. We didn’t buy a lot but all those add up to a lot of time and moola. But now with the exception of shoes for the boy…I am DONE!! No more shopping for school.
We had a quiet weekend with a neighborhood bonfire Saturday. Late Sunday evening was a bit more exciting. We were watching a movie when the power went out. Everyone seemed to come out from their homes to see if the world 
was ending or if it was just them without electricity. Power was out for a huge area even though it was a gorgeous night without a cloud in the sky. We have yet to find out why.
In addition, we’ve been still Cuttlebug crazy. I’m going to get it all packed up and give it back this week. I want my family room back!!
Since the hot humid weather has finally found its way back to MN…we went for a dip in a friends pool. Ah, refreshing.
Today we have another busy Tuesday on tap. It’s going to be a scorcher too! Yuck.
What are you doing today?
Maybe you should stop by Bleubeard and Elizabeth’s for a spell.
I’m back at the drips, splatters and squiggles. I couldn’t help myself.
The partially obscured quote is:
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa
Another page in my cursed journal. Photographing this page proved to be a challenge. This was the best shot I could get and it still doesn’t have the look that it does in real life. I’m bummed because I think this is one of my very favorite pages EVER.
After I stamped and embossed the pocket watch image, it looked just too perfect. I took some sandpaper to it to mess it up a bit. This made me much happier. :)
I also had to show off my yarn haul from the thrift store. Woo-hoo…lots of knitting and crochet material for the less than the price of 2 average skeins.
Our new neighbor mentioned a while back that she hosted a monthly craft club at her house.
I was very intrigued.
Last week she stopped by to tell me the date and time.
So last night I packed up a small plastic tote with supplies to make cards. I limited myself to paper from my scrap files.
I thought this would be a good challenge for me.
I learned that limited supplies doesn’t have to limit your creativity.
There was only one thing that I was really missing…my foam mounting tape. One of the gals I just met was gracious enough to give me a few pieces so I could complete a couple of the cards.
I’m already looking forward to next month!
We’ve had such gorgeous weather lately. It inspired me to create this journal page day.
Blue sky and puffy white clouds.
A field of flowers…
I think I was also inspired by a recent trip to the MN Landscape Arboretum. So many beautiful flowers. I took well over 100 photos in the 1.5 we were there.
I’ll share more of that day in a later post.
This was the last photo I took that day as we were walking back out to our vehicle. That’s it straight from the camera…no edits…no fussing with color balance etc….with the exception of my watermark, of course.
Here’s the same photo after playing around in Photoshop. It has a completely different mood.
I could play in the digital world all day but there are things in the real world that need my attention today.