Home Page: written down

This page ended up to be very different than what I had in mind. I tried the bleach technique on the pictures, and they turned out pretty cool, not what i expected, but I just decided to go with it. HOme, to me, is all about family. I chose two quotes that I felt captured my feelings. I think you can make out the large one on the house, but i put another in the roof and it is hard to see. says, ” Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.”-Christan Morganstern. I used yellow ocre acrylic mixed with glazing medium on the background, then used a blue glaze over that, a few patterned papers, along with an old plan for making a wood bench ( i got from my grandfather), and Making Memories rub-ons, foam & rubber stamps. Thanks for looking.

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trying again…

I think I’ve figured out how to post and add an image to join in on this challenge. This is my take on the ‘home’ challenge. I created it completely digitally using photoshop. The background paper is vintage text at designerdigitals and the woman is not me but a vintage image from designerdigitals. I really love how this turned out, thanks for inspiring me Shimelle!!

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for me my home isnt just a place. its my husbend, our marriage, and the home we are trying to build together. the struggle i fight, is this place i call my studio. the place i love to spend my time. somewhere there is a balance, and that is what i am trying to express here. as artists we probably all struggle with the concept of how we spend our time. i dont know if it all makes sense, but for some reason in my head it does. hard to explain.

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My book is going to be put together with those hinged rings, so this gives me the opportunity to use whatever shape and size of paper. This one is a 12×12 sheet cut in half and then the top was trimmed in the shape of a house. IRL the black area on the scan is not there. It is 5 types of PP, acrylics, colored sharpies, inked edges and PP inked darker brown, and numbers cut out of other PP. Again, I just journalled randomly about Home.

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This is my entry for this week. Thanks for looking!

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This weeks challange was easy for me. I love everything about my home, inside and out. To me home means “comfort,” and I wanted my entry to relate that.

I scanned a piece of my sofa, printed it out onto printer paper and pieced it around my page. I took pieces of magazine to collage and added the little houses at the bottom of my page.

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Here’s my entry for “home.”
I like the design of it, but the content feels weird…kind of empty. Maybe it’s because I really don’t like the physical location I’m in right now. I don’t like Boston. But I know the structure will mean something to me, since it’s the first home we had Elliott in. Photos printed on really matte paper, doorway enlarged on separate photo and accented in crayon, white ink rubbed on with fingers, acrylic paint done with a popsicle stick.

Had more fun with technique than substance on this one….
Nieka

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It has really amazed me to see so many people want to “just be” at the beach. But, the ocean has that way…the beach is my favorite place too, probably because I grew up in Miami.

I painted this using watercolors, and the journaling is my trusty ZIG writer pen. Thanks for looking!

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Sorry to lump these all together, but I haven’t had a moment to post then and thought I should just get them up. Here are just a few notes:

Creativity has a Lumiere Metallic Olive wash on the background (just a few drops in a little water makes a cool watercolor effect with the gold separating slightly). The bird image is from the web, crinkled, walnut inked and then coated with crystal clear glaze and stapled on with my grandfather’s old stapler.

Risk is just a bunch of paper scraps, stickers, a chipboard letter, rub-ons and a cool spinner from my LSS.

SAM has HS rub-ons, ribbon stapled on, a scrap of silk, on paper that was crinkled/walnut inked/painted (and mostly covered because I didn’t like the way it turned out but I’m not redoing anything, I learned the secret is to just keep going, add more until you like it!)

Home has a 7gs tissue background with a few letter stickers, a giant post-it for my journaling, a fabric scrap and a few paint chips.

Hope everyone’s having a great week! TFL!

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This is the image I meant to upload…

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