Journal 52 - Week 1

Journal 52 - Week 1

My crafty new years resolution is to finish the Journal 52 challenge this year. Didn't quite make it last year. 

So the prompt for Week 1 is "Pathways": think about things that will inspire you along the path, and things you hope to see in the upcoming year. Maybe you are taking your first steps towards a project, or maybe you are looking ahead with goals and New Year’s Resolutions. What will help you along your journey?

So the Journal 52 challenges are my pathway for this year. I've covered the background with pan pastels and added Grunge Paste through a stencil. Coloured the paste with Distress Ink and stamped the quote on cardboard, coloured it and glued it to the background. Die-cut some letters and glued: "a new path" in the lower corner. 
Thanks a lot for looking. 

Craft-Room Challenge - Cats

I spent some time today to make a card for the new Craft-Room Challenge.
The Challenge theme is Cats and since I love cats (and dogs :) ) this was good fun.

For the background I've just used red Pan Pastels. Than I used some distress paper and ran it through a polka dot embossing folder. After that I've sandpapered it to make the red appear form underneath. 
The cat stamp is from Stampendous and the quote from Dylusions. I've used black VersaFine for both stamps. 

Thanks for looking :)

The Craft Barn: Q & L Challenge

And here comes another journal page for the new Craft Barn Challenge.
The Challenge this time is to use the words MISTAKE and/or MOUNTAIN in a quote or lyric.
  For this one I've used a lyric from one of my favourite bands: The Black Keys. The song is called : Next Girl. The lyrics go like this: "My next girl, will be nothing like my ex girl. I made mistakes back then, I'll never do it again." 
If you'd like to check out the song, you can find it here.
The background is made with 3 different Pan Pastels. I've used the positive and negative side of a woman stencil for the heads, some chalkboard speech bubbles for the lyric and Inkadinkado stamps for the corners.
Thanks for looking. 

The Craft Barn: Q & L Challenge

I've made another journal page for the new Craft Barn Challenge.
The Challenge this time is to use the words MUSIC and/or PASSION in a quote or lyric.
  Since I just love Music the choice was easy. I went for "Music keeps me sane", which is just the right quote for me.
The background is made with blue Pan Pastels where I scribbled a staffs border. I coloured some notes stickers with a black marker and added the stickers randomly to the staffs. Since I can't read notes and these notes probably don't make any sense at all I apologize to everybody who has the skill to read them. *lol*  
I then printed out a sun template and coloured the sun with yellow effect acrylic paint. I added the quote in the middle of the sun and wrote a selection of my (old and new) favourite songs (there are loads more) in the sunbeams. 
 Thanks to all the nice comments on my "unique" page, so very kind of you. I love visiting all your entries. It's so much fun how everybody interprets the prompts differently. 
Thanks for looking.

Journal 52 - Week 1

Journal 52 - Week 1

While visiting BIeubeard & Elizabeth's blog I came across this cool blog called Journal 52 hosted by Chelle Stein.
Every week for a year she will give prompts for an art journal page. They are already at week 20, but I will try to catch up.
Since I'm not on Facebook or Flickr, I will just publish it here. 
Just for me or whoever will visit.
Feel free to leave a comment if you like. :)
So, here are my first two pages. 

1. Cover page

For the background I used three different pan pastel colours and then doodled the border and the swirls. I've written the letters and the number in Word and printed them out.

 

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Week 1 : Up, Up and away

This is Chelle's prompt: "Think of some things that float or fly through the air – a hot air balloon, a butterfly, an airplane, a bird, clouds, or even a made-up creature from your imagination. Draw, paint, collage (or a combination of all these!) – what “Up, Up, and Away!” means to you. For some, it could be about finding your wings or learning to fly or letting go or setting dreams off to flight…whatever you can imagine!"

I'd love to have more time to see all the great places in the world and go up, up and away from everything.

So here's my take on it:

Again, I used Pan Pastels for the background and added different collage elements to the page.

Artful Times: Mail Art

This envelope and postcard are for the Artful Times Challenge 55.
The Challenge theme is Mail Art.
I had some fun with my new Pan Pastels for the backgrounds of both items and also used some Washi Tape.
The stamps are from PaperArtsy, Tim Holtz and Lili of the Valley.