Busy week

This has been a busy week and I didn't have time to upload every day, so here is what I have been up to this week.

Last week I shared my mini art journal. I picked two winners using a random number generator. 

Angela and Harriet were the winners. I will be contacting them to get them the rings so they can make their own mini art journals.

Feb 14 - Inspired by my pastor's sermon encouraging us to put God first before any of our other relationships.

 

Feb 15

 

Feb 16

 

Feb 17 - Even with cold temperatures this week, I woke up to hear birds singing.

Feb 18 - MOJO 385

Feb 19 -SC528

Feb 20 - Mix Media - MIX108

This week I started another art journal. It is a little bigger than the 2"x2 1/2" mini one. My son bought a grab bag of nerdy items and in the grab bag was this little book for drawing your own cartoons. When I saw it I was thinking it would be the right size for an art journal. I mentioned it to him and he right away said. "Mom, you can have it." Do I have a great kid or what?

These are what the pages look like before I added gesso.

 My first page: Rise and Shine with the chickens.

 Second and third pages : MIX108 brown paper bag collage.

 And just because I am having fun journaling doesn't mean I'm not still making cards. I made this card, also for MIX108. Can you tell I was having fun with the brown paper bag collage?

Mini - Daily art journal

There seems to me to be a trend in the paper crafting world to do calendar journaling art. I first noticed it when my friend Lydia started her calendar. I really liked the idea of doing art everyday and I liked the idea of the small canvas of 2"x21/2" that the calendar rectangles provided. I almost went out and bought a calendar to do the journaling. but then I decided not to. Partly because I didn't want to spend the $ on a calendar and partly because I  have to do things my own way. I knew I had lots of white cardstock scraps. So I cut several into 2"x2 1/2"  rectangles. I punched holes at the top. Then I went and bought some key rings. Total cost for my journal $2. 

I think my way of doing the journaling has several advantages. 

#1. I don't have to mask off adjoining rectangles. I can get messy without worrying about yesterday's or tomorrow's rectangles.

#2. If I mess up I can always just start again. (A little harder when you have the calendar)

#3. If you miss a day of journaling on a calendar, the  BLANK rectangle is readily noticed. Unless you looked at each one on my journal, it would be a lot harder to notice a missing day.

#4. I have limited craft space, so if I had a calendar it would take up a lot more space than my little journal which can fit in my pocket.

I would love for you scroll through this post and look at what I've done so far. When I bought the key rings, I have extras. Leave a comment on this post and I'll pick 2 people to send key rings too so you can make a little art journal too.

January 30 (more rain drop practice)

January 31 ( went bowling with my kids for my youngest son's birthday)

February 1 (little canvas- used only top part of lighthouse - wink of stella on light rays)

February 2( watercoloring outside the lines)

February 3(mixing watercoloring. wink of stella on wings and tail.)

February 4

February 5

Feburary 6(using a small image from a set that I rarely used because it was so small - perfect for small canvas. Hard to watercolor though. I had to use a really small brush)

February 7 (old lady bug stamp-not a lot of difference between image and back so I ended up getting some ink on the back and as a result on my page. I decided to go with it by masking my bug and stamping newsprint stamp, itty bitty background stamp and alphabet stamps.

February 8 ( more old stamps)

February 9 (I used one of my oldest SU stamps 1996. I found this stamp on a gravel road.)

 

February 10( I used another old stamp of mine. The little tulips, I masked several times to add depth)

February 11

February 12(WT518- Music - I love to play the guitar, piano and ukelele but I also love to listen to music. so I decided to draw treble cleff and music notes and make a little record album. Remember those...???)

  

February 13 (MIX107 sentiment mashup- I mashed up "L" from one alphabet set with "ove" from another set)