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Just some cardstock, ink, stamps (Wendi Speciale and Leave Memories), and sharpies.

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Just a tad behind. I did this one up really quick by cutting up a cross stitch pattern by Teresa Wentzler and covering it with this really neat linen-y specialty paper. I stamped little cross stitches with an X letter peg stamp.

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This is my coffee table spark layout. Somehow paperkins came into my mind today. No idea. So, I had to use one up (before they start reproducing in that drawer there). I like it – LOL It is really interesting how doing a little something like this kind of gets the juices flowing and makes you feel like creating more, more scrapbook layouts, more ATC’s, and so on. Love doing this.
Michelle

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Week 1, New Beginnings

Journalling reads:

This is about creating…something about me, for me, by me, to me, that is me.

This is about dreams…who I am, who I want to be, translating what is in my head + heart onto paper…my dream to be creative every day and in turn be happy.

This is about learning…techniques, about art, texture…about myself as an artist, a person and my surroundings.

This is about me…the artist, the girl, the wife, the individual, the daughter, the friend, the sister, the aunty…lost.

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Thanks Romany – lets try this:

My cover

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Remember this? Well I completed my week 1 last night. However, I cant for the life of me figure out how to upload a photo of either my cover or my first entry…so you’ll have to check my blog instead.

If someone can enlighten me in real simple-like language, please do so!!

http://kassjane.typepad.com

Kass

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so I have known about this art journal challenge since it started, and I wanted to join…but I procrastinated…..I couldn’t afford it, I didn’t have time, I cant draw, why would I keep a journal anyway, who the hell am I to consider myself an artist…..

so yeah I am sure you know the excuses….

but I am so lost right now. I am moving back to my home city at the end of the year, and I am applying to study art/photography at university. I’m almost 28 – and yes I am nuts enough to start study all over again and this time do something that makes me HAPPY instead of what I should do or what will translate into fame and fortune later. Pftt…what a lie that was!

So other than a photography folio and some scrapbook pages, I have nothing artistic to show when I hopefully land interviews for entry. And the likelihood is that the academic artistic types who interview me are going to be miffed that I thought scrapbooking is an art form….after all, we’re all bored housewives, aren’t we?? (yes you can splutter in your coffee at that….you know someone actually said that to me once! – a man of course).

So I am here, I’m late but I am here and my only aim is to finish this challenge before December when the interviews will be. I plan on showing them my art journal – yes I mentioned before I was crazy, didn’t I? – and hope that further inspiration stems from it so I can go there and knock their socks off – or knock their heads off if they say NO!!

By the way…..

I’m Kass, 27 year old married with no kids, 2 Pugs and a dream….

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My whole life seems to be centered around my weight…waiting for the the perfect weight. Worrying, wondering and wishing that my weight would collide with my want so that life would be better. If I spent all of the the time lost and the money wasted on trying to obtain the perfect number on the scale, I truly believe I could have done something magnificent. Perhaps doing this entry has made me realize that it is never too late to stop weighting.

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An invitation to do a Stitching entry ….how timely. : )
I missed a couple of artjournal weeks…. sliding back into the easy lane here now: The Sunday night posting groove.
Having spent the day stitching more of this piece, which will be part of a show by disabled artists, at the Serpentine Gallery (here in London), in September.
More info over at truly playroom
And more pics there, as it womanifests.

This journal entry is a photo medley of July 2nd beginnings work, printed and then stitched and glued onto page.
Good to work big and sloppy for a moment amidst the precision engineering of the piece itself.

Thank You. xxx x xxx

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MM foam stamps and acrylic paints, Paper Pizzaz(?) vellum dragonflies, zig markers. Journaling reads: I love traveling! There’s nothing like packing a suitcase, grabbing some music, money and going on an unknown adventure to a new or different places. Sometimes bad things happen like losing your wallet, getting lost, fighting or bad weather and you end up laughing about it later. Remember the time I went to… (then I listed a bunch of places I’ve been)

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