A New Journey - GIVE THANKS

Below is a photo of my latest spread.  The border was inspired by Debbie when she let me experiment with her sprays and Dylusion inks. More fun techniques yet to try, thanks Debbie.

A NEW JOURNEY - spread completed

Carolyn Dube of Permission to Play - Lets Play has stated that if you don't like a page you can paint over it and start again.  W E L L,  I wasn't happy with the left page so I made a few changes and completed the right-hand page.  When I started my New Journey it was due to the recurring of my lymphoma and I made the decision to try a new chemo to prolong my life and hopefully put my cancer back in remission.  I decided that during the treatment, I would take advantage of the days or hours when I felt good to do those things I love, spending time with family, friends, and working in my new journal or other crafty items and hopefully working in my flowers and yard.

I have made a tag for my journaling which I attach to the coil binding in the appropriate spot for each spread.  This is where I write how I feel, what prompted the page I created or thoughts in general.  I didn't want to leave space on my pages for a lot of words and felt a tag was the best way to record the details that prompted the spread.

I am also linking to Art Journal Journey and Creative Every Day.

A NEW JOURNEY

My goal for 2016 was to create an art journal and I was off to a fairly good start when I received news that the cancer I conquered last year had returned.  So I am off on a new journey to beat this by enjoying my family, friends, surroundings and making the most of each day as I receive treatment. This time I may get to keep my hair.

As you can see I am not an artist, never could draw and the idea of my journal is to put my thoughts, ideas and techniques down on paper.  I am also entering this in Art Journal Journey, Lets Play and
Create Every Day.

March DIVAS project Completed

As mentioned in the previous post, Linda our hostess brought her gelli plate, paints, tags, with a project to create tags and hang them from a hanger three across.  I had this darling hanger so I used it and placed my completed tags in two rows.  I am linking my project to LETS PLAY and CREATIVE EVERY DAY.

I embellished my tags with ribbons, birds and butterflies and some verse which is hard to read on the photo.  Thank you, Linda, for sharing this project and showing the results of applying color using a Gelli Plate.

LETS PLAY with a Gelli Plate

What fun to learn and play using a Gelli plate to create backgrounds on tags for a project that will come together thanks to Linda at our monthly Divas Art Group who hosted the project.  I Will show you a photo of the project when completed.

For now I wanted to show off my play time making these terrific backgrounds.  Some were embossed first, color applied to the plate and then the tag face down on the plate to pick up the color.  For the one with the butterflies, I used the remnants of some punched out butterfly elements and placed it on the Gelli plate to pick up some of the color, and then I placed the tag card down to pick up the color remaining.  This was my all time favorite as the remnant picked up some of the coloring leaving the areas untouched where the butterflies had been removed.  (Hope that is more clear than mud.)
In any event I had so much fun that I will link this to LETS PLAY at http://acolorfuljourney.com. It was so much fun that I had to order me a plate to play more.  I need some fantastic backgrounds for my journal.

 



Easter Cards

My journal has been on hold why I took time to make Easter cards to send to family.  It was a fun break but now I have the most messy craft area ever.  I have attached photos of some of the cards I made.

 

After I scanned three together, I found that using Photoshop I could have straitened each one individually on the scan.  Little did I know at the time; always learning something new.  Thus next time, my scan won't be so crooked.  Hope you all have a pleasant weekend.

 

 

 

LETS PLAY

March is headed off on the right foot with a day to play.  I have almost finished my journal cover and will link it to LETS PLAY for March.  Somewhere in my stash is the word ART and when I find it will add it to the bottom so the journal reads UNIQUE ART.  I used a piece of heavily textured paper, embossing folders for the unique design and the flower using a foil like cardstock.  My cover was first painted in white gesso, then painted all over in Indigo Lumiere paint, sponged on some Luniere Halo Blue-Gold followed by Basics Gold and Liquitex Silver acrylic paints.  The back cover is identical without the added embellishments.  Always open for suggestions.