Here is my entry for home. As I mentioned before since I used the idea of home in my weekend spark, I integrated that piece into this one. There is also a small watercolor map of my neighborhood, and other three dimensional objects. The background is watercolor.
Okay, I am posting this question hoping that I don’t sound like a complete boob. I noticed that several of you mentioned using Ma Vinci stamps on your pages. I thought they looked really cool so I purchased some for myself. They arrived in the mail yesterday and now I don’t know what the heck to do with them. Was I supposed to buy something else with them to mount them on or I’m a just supposed to cut them apart and start stamping? Right now they are all connected like one solid 8×10 rubber sheet. I’m not sure how to use them. Could someone help me out? Thanks!
Hi everyone!
So, this is the page for Week 2. Only two more pages and I’m officially caught up. I’m still waiting on some paints and alphabet stamps I’ve ordered, which is actually good because I really need to do my syllabus for my summer class (which starts next Thursday!).
The background is a mixture of orange, pink, yellow, and burnt sienna watercolors. I used ZIG writers pen in black, red, and pink for the journaling. I also have a little bit of silver journaling on the ring. The alphabet stickers are Making Memories and American Crafts Mumbo Jumbo and Sarah Script. The Map is one that I found on the net and just printed on cardstock. The stickers in the Georgia section are Destination Stickers by Sticko. The “family” is a metal word made by Making Memories. Finally, the MOM, “scared of love” and “latina life” are cut out from various magazines.
Thanks for looking!
I painted the background with acrylics and collaged the house area on a separate page before glueing it into the journal. Thanks for looking!
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This one was interesting for me. We are in the middle of selling/moving somewhere – literally somewhere – not totally known yet. Much to say…about here and there.
I created the main image/text block in Photoshop. There are four total photos: three at 60% opacity and one full strength (sunset). Type and handwriting are on top – all printed on a transparency. Underneath the transparency I tucked some radom elements: a poem about motherhood, numbers, a card with the letter “e.” Around the outside I painted, stapled, and inked.
Sorry about the bad stitching. My usually program is having problems so this is what I had to work with. This is last weeks prompt and I interpreted it in terms of boundaries. I used the upper and lowercase “O”s to create the circles (LaPluma, Inc.). The “v”s are also from stamps. The image of a person at bottom right is actually a photo of a man on this book. I painted over the image and then drew in some of the features that I could see. I then stamped red dots over him. The florals on the right are rubbing from a dimensional picture frame of a chrysanthemum with stem and leaves. tfl!
Here’s my page for the weekend spark. This is a very simple page, nothing too creative. I was just in a simple mood, I guess! LOL! I included a postcard from Lotta Jansdotter as an accent behind the photo. I used some rub-ons from Making Memories on the photo. I added some decorative brads also from Making Memories for accents as well. The acrylic “tag” is from Heidi Grace. I dabbed various alcohol inks on the backside of it and stamped the words on the front side of it. Just a simple page, but for me, it gets to the point!
My place to just “be” is the ocean. Doesn’t matter which ocean, thanks to traveling for work I have seen most of them, it’s just being there. I love the colors, the feelings I feel while there, the sounds and the smells.
I used acrylic paints and artist crayons along with transfering a photo.
I just joined the Art Journal challege last week, so I’m a bit behind on my postings. This is my Week 1 page.
I used watercolors to paint the blue background and the gerber. A Zig writer pen is the journaling and “New Beginnings” inside the flower (I don’t know if you can see it very clearly). The alphabet stickers are Making Memories and American Crafts’ Sarah Script. The rest is just a few things clipped from magazines here and there.
I don’t know if you can see it that well, but the journaling says:
“I started this art journal to open my mind to something long forgotten. I used to paint, draw, sketch, but all of that disappeared…Now, I’m regaining that facet of my creativity—looking beyond the world of scrapbooking and returning to a past universe where art had a place of importance and my creativity was expressed with more than just glue and pretty paper. CAV”
