Sneak Peek and Art Project Update

Hey everybody! I've got some exciting stuff to share with all of you guys today! At least I think that it's exciting. But, once more, I am completely and totally biased. 

But, to start us off today, I am going to be sharing a little bit of a sneak peek of something that I have been working on. Remember the other day, when I mentioned that I was going to be doing a couple of ecourses? Well, I've been further developing these ideas, and coming up with some ideas for them, and I've been doing that through working in my art journal. My big one. I did a lot of that today, and I greatly enjoyed it. As you can see in the picture above, I found a way to get a lot of texture into any given piece, and, even though it takes some work to get it to that point, I personally believe that it is totally worth it. More on that at a later date.

So let's get started on the project updates now, shall we? I believe that we shall. I think we're going to get the ball rolling with my 30-30-30 page for today. I love this page, and the way that it turned out, even though I went through a lot of layers to get the background as textured and interesting (I think) that it is. It is difficult to see in the photograph however. Just a lot of the fine details of the piece were lost through the internet. That is one of the sad things that we do have to deal with.

However, something that I have very much enjoyed with this project, that I don't think I have mentioned before, is the fact that these are really starting to make me think. Something that I have been doing with them, is taking a newspaper page, picking out a random word that I really think could either relate to me, or lead to some really good journaling, and then just use that as my title. It's simple, quick, and easy to do. Not to mention the fact that it's just plain interesting.

Now we move onto the ICAD. This, for me, is ICAD #21. I personally am somewhat surprised that I actually made it this far. Three weeks today. On the nose. It's been a good journey thus far, and I look forward to keeping it up for the full 61 days. Who knows what I'm going to do with them all after that, but we will certainly see. I was thinking mini art journals, using these cards as the covers. 61. Little art journals. We'll see how that one turns out. But I thought it was an interesting thought. I wouldn't run out of mini journals for a while. Plus, it might give me a nice theme for the book. Who knows. It might happen. Might being the key word there, but...

ANYWAYS. The card itself today was based upon the daily prompt that Tammy has decided to start doing. Which is a bit lucky for me, because I had no idea what I was going to do with the remainder of the weekly prompts. It would have been a challenge, that's for sure. However, the prompt today was 'a funny joke'. Now I KNOW that this card isn't going to make sense to anyone but me. But that's because, instead of telling a joke, I decided to go with an inside joke. Yep. Cause that's the way I roll.

And last, but certainly not least, I have my In The Sun page for today. I wasn't able to complete two pages in this journal today in order to "catch up", as I was planning to do (not enough time), so I decided to simply do today's prompt instead. We'll see if I'll do the other one. I have an idea for it, so I might have to. We will see.

But today's prompt was actually a music video prompt. And there, in the middle of the music video, for a split second, was a photo of a sunset. And then the next thing I knew, they were doing cartwheels in the sand. I don't know. But I knew exactly what I was going to do. I used this photo that I took a few days ago, when we were watching the sunset with the friends that were visiting. It's my favorite photo I took of the sunset. And I think the page itself turned out great.

Plus, I just love the way the background turned out. I wasn't exactly sure when I started if it was going to pan out, but it did. I'm happy with it. And to me, that's all that really matters. I'll see you guys tomorrow. Bye!! :)

Painted Papers II

HEY EVERYBODY!!!

I'm back!

Finally, I know.

It's been a while. 

And I've missed it, I really have. 

I've just been really busy with school and volleyball stuff.

And busy planning for NaNoWriMo.

But more on that later. 

It's just good to be back after being gone. 

It feels like longer than just a few days though.

Today was actually my first time doing anything with paint in about a week, so that was good for me too. 

I was basically just playing around with papers and stuff.

Making up some new techniques.

And working on some stuff for my Layering tutorial. :)

So yeah. The page above is probably one of my favorites.

Basically to make it was pretty simple. 

I took a plain sheet of printer paper and a white crayon.

And then, using the crayon I drew hearts over the whole thing.

I made some watercolors and went over then whole thing with a light pink.

The crayon resisted the paint.

Then I used a darker pink wherever the hearts were. 

I love it.

This one used pretty much the same technique.

But I used another color.

And I drew a different shape.

In the last one I did some basic hearts.

And in this one I did some Traci Bautista inspired doodle flowers. 

If you've ever seen Traci's work, you'll know what I'm talking about.

If you haven't seen her stuff, you really should look her up.

She's an art journaling genius.

Really.

Here are some index cards that I was playing around on.

I love the size. 

They're just so small.

And cute.

So yeah. I'm not going to describe the techniques I used on these cards,

Because if I did, then I'd be up all night.

Because, if the truth be told, I really don't know.

I was just messing around, and I used several different techniques per card.

I was just trying to develop some ideas.

If you know what I mean.

This is a dyed paper towel that I did real quick to use up some leftover washes I had.

I didn't want to be wasteful.

Yet I didn't really want to do anymore washes either. 

I basically just took a paper towel and folded it up.

Then I folded that in half.

I dipped one end in blue dye.

And the opposite end in a black one.

I really like the way this one turned out.

The white stripes are the white of the paper towel showing through.

This is going to be fun to use.

And last, but definitely not least, we have a paper that I made using a homemade stamp.

You can see it above.

The little flower doodle into foam.

How cute.

I made this paper, and even though I love the way it turned out, I have no idea how I got that effect.

I wish I could remember. I'll have to do some experimenting to find out.

All in all I think I did seventeen papers. 

Cool, huh?

Anyways.

Like I said in the beginning, I haven't been around much because of NaNoWriMo.

I did it last year. 

It's basically a challenge to write a 50k novel in the month of November.

And I've been planning. 

Planning like crazy.

Doing the plot, and the scenes, and trying to layer the story.

Yeah. I think this is going to go well.

Layering Art Journal Post

Hey guys!!

I'm so glad that I'm back after that break I took for a few days.

I was working on planning out a few things for NaNoWriMo.

That's a challenge in the month of November.

It stands for National Novel Writing Month.

I did it last year. 

It's the goal to write a 50k word novel in November. 

I succeeded. 

And I plan to again this year, writing a prequel to last years.

Then I'm going to rewrite that one.

Yeah.

Anyways, I do have some stuff to share with you today.

Actually, only one thing.

It's an art journal spread.

I did it using some of the techniques I'm going to be featuring in my Layering ecourse.

:)

This is a sort of example of some of the pages you might come up with in the duration of the course.

I used about a bazillion layers on this page, and it's not done yet.

I actually used a lot of blue on this page, but it turned into lime. I'm not telling you how. :P

Here's a bit of a close up of the corner.

I love how the layers show through better here than anywhere else. 

Sooo... that's all I've got for you today, and I'll see you later.

Bye. :)

Color Challenge Reveal + E-course Update

And hello people of earth.

Yes. 

I just said that.

I'm back with you guys for yet another day here on the blog. :) 

I miss being here when I'm not around a lot.

Plus I start to feel like I'm letting you guys down.

Which I definitely don't want to do.

So today I have something really important to share with you.

I'm doing a color combo challenge with the one and only Lorri!

She was the next to volunteer.

Next will probably be Kerri. :)

Now, I know Lorri from twitter and ustream.

And she's an amazing artist and is actually hosting an ATC swap on her blog.

So make sure you check that out.

So now that we've got that intro done and over with, let's get to the good stuff shall we?

Today I made a spread instead of my Dede page, when I did a single page.

I love the way this page turned out, even though I only did a total of four layers.

It's not really done yet.

But anyways. I guess I'll list the colors.

We used a bright red, an olive green, a primary blue, and a light orange/peach.

And yes, I did use all of those colors.

The color that looks like orange here is actually red.

It was just weird lighting.

It was a fun page to work on and I loved the challenge Lorri!

And one thing before I go;

I just wanted to show you guys how much I've been working on my ecourse.

I have about 4 pages like this.

And that's just the intro to the course!!

I'm sure you guys will think that it's great value for a total of only five or ten bucks!

I've got a lot planned for this, and I hope you guys will plan on participating!

But that's all I've got for you guys today, and I'll see you later!!

Bye!