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Sorry, just getting the hang of the instructions…photo should ahve gone with the post. Fingers crossed ….

Fiona

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Hi all!
I am Fiona, live in Scotland, working mother of 2 lively young ones. I took the first challenge but failed to do much of it as I got sidetracked by the discovery of watercolour pencils and the remembrance that I could actually draw. Sent me on a whole other arty path that has been fun! I’ve been a written journal keeper for nearly 20 years but I have always harboured the desire to get more images and colour into it. Let’s see where we go to this time!

Fiona

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...hopefully the pic working this time!

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I like the quietness of an evening shower, the tender sunbeams that land on my back when I am sitting in the backyard, my feet are cold! I wish I could dream you alive, just put my hands on the tender spot below your heart. I love color…I want to find a way to paint myself silver. Lunacy lives in my soul.

This is my very first attempt at an altered journal. I have been very structured in my artwork and this was truly hard to step away from that. I’ll tell you a secret…I love it! I can’t wait for the rest of my scurried musings.

I didn’t want to use any tool except a pair of scissors and my fingers for this. Lots of stamps from Sunday International. Chalks and metallics from Craf-T. A nice non bleeding black pen was the best addition. The pictures were printed on transparancy and aligned with the girl in the moon.

I can’t wait for next week!

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IT’S JUST ME!

Used lots of goodies for this… cool butterfly wings from Dover Press sampler, made my OWN crown! LOL My friend Andrea hauitala took the picture of me- I just messed with it in Photoshop. I Used Primary Elements pigment powder by Luminart for the redish on the journal page- and a mettalic color paint by Stewart Gill… I stamped ART/LIFE stamp in Red distress ink under it all. Then I just wrote different things that I am around the sides. ANd used the stamp over top. I printed the butterfly wings on transparency.

On the tag side- I used all different colors of Colorbox Cat Eye inks direct to paper. Then I stamped the ART/LIFE stamp- then the imagine one. Then I printed all the different versions of my name on a transparency and added. Used the sparkley’s to cover up the glue dots holding the transparency down.

THIS WAS TOO MUCH FUN! HOPE YOU ARE ALL ENJOYING IT TOO!
La-

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This is the first entry in my journal – I have too many art supplies to take a photo of – gobs of paints, crayons, pens, markers, papers, ephemera, glue glue and more glue, brushes, stamps – My husband was a fine art major so I inherited all of his stuff on top of buying my own toys. Lucky me!

This is my first art journal class, though I have always kept a journal, and have been keeping a motherhood art journal as well. i have been into book arts for ages – but this is me really diving into it.

And loving the process! I can’t wait to get to know you other creative souls.

cHerYl ~

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Hi,

A quick hello (because I’ve been trying this for the last half hour and have lost the message twice). I’m new to the course, from Ireland. I had written loads about myself but it’s lost now, forever (or I may have posted twice for all I know). I’m hoping to attach a photo – which probably won’t happen either – it’s my journal’s first day at work with me! The cover is a work in progress, started at the weekend, with the help of my almost two-year old daughter. I hope to get some more done on it tonight or at the weekend. Am looking forward to this challenge – but don’t know how much I’ll be posting based on first experience (no, I’m sure I’ll get the hang of it).

I think I need to have breakfast to wake me up and give me brains (I think they will also come in handy for the day’s work ahead of me). I am an environmental scientist, my own boss, and also boss to 8 others. Have never done a formal art class but enjoy being creative – my worst faults are that I have great expectations (start things and not finish) and I am irritable when hungry! I don’t really love computers either, but have to be friends with one every day!

Best of luck starting out….

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Hi All!

This is my first Art Journal challenge, and I am totally amped! I’ve been a scrapbooker for eight years and a journal-keeper for life. I’m a writer—journalist and novelist—and I think because my “day” job is in black-and-white, I’m craving to create in color. Finding a way to bring all my loves together is a dream come true.

I’m intimidated by what I’ve seen already from you all! My “necessary objects” here look very bare:

It cracks me up to look at this picture because I am the least simple person in the world… full of contradictions and oxymorons. Complicated is my middle name! But when it comes to creating an art journal, I’m taking Shimelle at her word, that all I really need is my book (one I’ve been working in for a while now) and a pen. I have a craft room full of various other supplies that I’m looking forward to tapping into, but I’m starting small.

Here are the facts: Mom to three (8, 5, 16 months) in Northern California. Soon-to-be-37. I drink too much caffeine, I stay up too late at night, I spend too much money on craft supplies and yarn. But I’m pretty much the happiest person I know, so go figure.

Looking forward to getting to know all of you!

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Well, this is my first journal page for this challenge. I have a tendancy to think in phrases of songs. So the first thing that came to mind when I received the prompt was Alanis (I think I spelled it wrong on the page) Morisette’s (I’m sure I spelled that wrong) “I’m a sinner, I’m a saint” song. It kind of took off on its own from there.

The picture is me when I was little. That little kid is still a live and well and makes appearances regularly!

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HI, A quick intro:

My name is Kristy, I am an Oregonian in exile, in the wonderful tropical country of Singapore (which is about the exact opposite of Oregon). I am a scrapper- who wishes she had time to scrap, but yet still aspires to it. I did the last challenge here at Written down and loved it. I also did the Christmas journal, but found that my boss had other plans for me and sent me away on business trips for 10 days in December…. but I digress.

i am so happy to be back this round, see some awesome art work, get inspired and feel in touch with my artistic side.

The picture is of all the supplies I had thrown into my chatterbox trunk for a weekend away with my hubby over New Years. Seemed like a perfect example of my needed supplies. I only through in the journal. The rest all was in the box.

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