Cherish Every Moment

Happy First Day of Spring!

I finished another art quilt. Here she is!

I decided to keep her black and white.

Next up....time to do a bird, I think.

Worked on this art journal spread. It's ready to write in some day when the mood strikes.

It's always lovely to hear from you! xo

In the Works

Yesterday, I met up with the art journaling group in Indy. Here are the pages I worked on. 

I used Distress Ink Stains for the background and covered it with a layer of gesso. 

This background is acrylics and I just started doodling and writing. 

I got my postcards in the mail to Kat for Liberate Your Art!

Today's project: Keep working on another art quilt.

I ordered a lot of cards from MOO this time. I often put them in packages as a Thank You, and send them to friends. I took a few and put a set of my mixed media collage images in my shop. I am trying to get the inventory built up in there and want to do more with it. 

The Blue Girl

She is coming along...

Do you recognize the flowers, Donna? 

They just had to rest on her head like a crown.

Lazy Days of Sketching...

Little faces in boxes.

Doodling away the time.

I used watercolor pencils to paint.

I was thinking these may look neat for a fabric print. I'll need to crop them and make a layout.

Two Girls in One

I've been drawing and painting in my journal today. This is the watercolor paper journal with fold outs. It worked perfect to make two faces in one spread. 

I used my favorite pen and my super cheap watercolors. I love those.

She fills up three pages.

Still need to add some background writing and things. I'll post more when I have finished.

Journaling & Socializing

Today, I met up with some of the gals from the art journaling group. I think I spent most of the time gabbing....but I did a little bit in my journal.

 

 

This was done spraying paint through a stencil onto paper I had dyed with acai berry tea bags.

 

More journaling...almost done with this one.

I have been adding to this journal spread over the last week. 

I started out with letting used tea bags make some cool circles and went from there.

I loved what the tea bags did.

Alcohol Ink- Lovely Messes

On Saturday, some of my friends from the art journaling group came over to do some sewing, painting, book making, cutting, stamping, and of course, eating and chatting! 

Shaun showed a couple of us how to make a simple book with all kinds of flaps and possibilities. Do you ever see something made and wonder why you never thought to do something so easy as fold the paper differently? That's how I feel about this book. It's really just 3 long sheets of paper stacked and all having different sized flaps and folds. Simple and yet so much more interesting!

For the cover, I basically just went crazy with alcohol inks and blender solution! I let it drip and run and bleed through. I really liked the effect, but wasn't so happy the next day when I picked up my journal and had silver hands! Ha! The blues and pinks were fine, but the metallic silver transferred onto my hands easily. Nothing a coat of varnish couldn't fix...but good to know for the future!