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I created this page last night. I was happily surprised to find that working with just one image, one color, and one quote was actually liberating. Simple is good sometimes. It makes you focus more on what’s really important. I guess I “cheated” a little because there are bits of blue and poppy colored paint on this page…but I swear that was accidental, done while prepping other pages! Hee hee…

This quote is the last sentence of my favorite book, Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd. After doing this page, I feel urged to many more pages on quotes that are meaningful to me.

**Very simple page to create…pale yellow acrylic paint over some old journaling from a few months ago. Added the image and then softened it with a white Portfolio watersoluble oil pastel. Stamped the quote. That’s all!

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Sorry, here’s the page now!

The background of the page is gesso, then a textured medium, then acrylic rubbed in with kitchen paper. Then images stuck down with some journalling and stamping.

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I really couldn’t get inspired at first with this one, but then it just kind of evolved from the bowl of raspberries and went on from there! The page didn’t scan too well – there’s a bit of glare from the flash because I took it at night.

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Difficult one but only because there were so many different tracks I could have followed. Went with a little synopsis of transport throughout my life.

Watercolour paper which I pulled a grey inkpad over in straight vertical lines. The roughness of the paer left bits untouched by the ink. Stamped wheels my new stencil stamps. I just had to find a reason to use them. LOL. Luckily I received a brochure from my vehicle manufacturer so I was able to take the red car/road pic and the road sentences from it. The silver/ black wheels were from the front cover of our local college’s brochure. The pic of the van is from a brochure and is identical to mine. I tried the over imaging but I think I watered down the white paint too much. Drew the big wheel round different plates and a tin of peas.

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I decided to do a song… Something very personal and special. It was hard to not put any embellishments or pictures, but We could only use ONE thing. Lyrics were mine.

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With this one, I naturally thought of the phrase I hear all night at work…”Can you break a 20??” I never thought I’d make a page about waiting tables, but it’s the real me, so it goes in the book. Plus it was fun to use all those checks as art.

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I knew when I associated shopping with scrapbooking I had to do a page on my favs when it comes to this art. Nothing serious. Just a simple, fun page.

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These are my first pages for the Challenge, as I joined late. “Break” was the current prompt when I started. I’m no stranger to art journals, but have been wanted to shake things up a little…be a little more messy, a little more free, a little less concerned with “how it looks”. I am happy to say that I accomplished that with these pages!

These are about my relationship with my son, who is having a hard time adjusting to our recent move (SC to CT). Of course, hard times leave me questioning my abilities as a mother. I needed this outlet to let that out, because it is such a hard thing to talk about…even to oneself!

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I was playing with the idea of cutting up a landscape and reconstructing it. I found one that spoke to me. Ripped it into squares and reconstructed it on the right with lots of overlapping. On the left I tore it into strips and rebuilt it with more space. Then I walked away for a couple of days, with it out on the counter until it spoke to me again. Brushed over with gel medium/acrylic mix, and a bit of gold.

Only later did the ‘break’ prompt come, and I thought these pages were perfect, because they represent peace and retreat to me, and they are broken images. I just loved the serendipity and the dual meanings.

A few days later added the rub-on words and mulberry paper spaces for journalling. The feather came even later, and the journalling even later:



leave it all behind

Breakdown,
Yeah we breakdown,
Well don’t you break down
Listen to me… because
It’s just a ride, it’s just a ride – Jem ‘Just a Ride’

This landscape transports me to Nova Scotia – home of my soul… peace

retreat

perfection

The pace at which we live these days demands that we take a break before we breakdown.

getaway

I love these pages in Oprah magazine because they remind me to take a break, a breath.

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Time is a big issue for me at the moment, a constant struggle. I am focusing on taking baby steps towards big goals instead of freezing in the headlights of what is to come. Shim’s prompt about keeping it simple, getting it down on paper lead to this:

I have been playing around with some blog space, and it includes my art journal from start to finish if you want to take a look.

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