A time for everything

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.

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201308/05

A beautiful day

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.

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201307/10

Two blue challenge

I know that title looks like I don’t know the difference between two and too but in this case two is the proper usage.

The challenge was to use at least two different blues in your artwork. I used way more than two. :)

After I got all the background finished it looked like a sky to me. Since I have some fun bird on a wire washi tape I painted in some telephone poles so they’d have somewhere to perch. The plane was an afterthought but I think it was needed to give some depth to the page.

I imagine myself laying on the ground, listening to the birds in between planes coming in for a landing at the nearby airport.

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201306/27

Enjoy the journey

For so long I struggled, and likely will again, with art journaling. Lately, it’s all I want to do. I’ve even started another book, one from the public library’s free shelf. It’s a teen fiction book called Kira-Kira.

kira-kira (kee ra kee ra): glittering; shining

I loved that! Also since it’s a slightly smaller book, I thought it would be perfect for another art journal.

I turned to the middle of the book and started painting with my fingers. No thought…just went for it. I definitely thought I’d wrecked these pages several times over.

First when I accidentally flopped the wet pages together, causing them to stick and tear away the top layer.

But in fact, it created some really fun texture and effect that I could have never created on my own.

Yummy, grungy texture…makes me so happy!!

The second and third time I thought I’d ruined the page was when I stamped the words with dye based in and it quickly faded and soaked into the painted page. I went back with pigment ink and it was a really crappy image. I once again re-inked with pigment, carefully alining the stamp and finally got an image I could be happy about. As it turns out, the dye based ink looks a bit like a shadow that I meant to have…happy accident.

I wish I didn’t have so many things on my plate today…I’d love to play with paint and paper all day! What are you doing today?

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201306/12

Citron Green & Turquoise

I’ve decided to join a summer challenge put forth by Kristen of Twinkle, Twinkle. This is her 3rd Summer of Color challenge.

The first weeks color combo is citron green and turquoise.

Fun!!

I was brave and grabbed my cursed journal once again since I have been known to create something very pleasing to my eye in it at least once before. ;)