I’m back at the drips, splatters and squiggles. I couldn’t help myself.
The partially obscured quote is:
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa
Category : Creativity
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Another page in my cursed journal. Photographing this page proved to be a challenge. This was the best shot I could get and it still doesn’t have the look that it does in real life. I’m bummed because I think this is one of my very favorite pages EVER.
After I stamped and embossed the pocket watch image, it looked just too perfect. I took some sandpaper to it to mess it up a bit. This made me much happier. :)
I also had to show off my yarn haul from the thrift store. Woo-hoo…lots of knitting and crochet material for the less than the price of 2 average skeins.
Our new neighbor mentioned a while back that she hosted a monthly craft club at her house.
I was very intrigued.
Last week she stopped by to tell me the date and time.
So last night I packed up a small plastic tote with supplies to make cards. I limited myself to paper from my scrap files.
I thought this would be a good challenge for me.
I learned that limited supplies doesn’t have to limit your creativity.
There was only one thing that I was really missing…my foam mounting tape. One of the gals I just met was gracious enough to give me a few pieces so I could complete a couple of the cards.
I’m already looking forward to next month!
We’ve had such gorgeous weather lately. It inspired me to create this journal page day.
Blue sky and puffy white clouds.
A field of flowers…
I think I was also inspired by a recent trip to the MN Landscape Arboretum. So many beautiful flowers. I took well over 100 photos in the 1.5 we were there.
I’ll share more of that day in a later post.
This was the last photo I took that day as we were walking back out to our vehicle. That’s it straight from the camera…no edits…no fussing with color balance etc….with the exception of my watermark, of course.
Here’s the same photo after playing around in Photoshop. It has a completely different mood.
I could play in the digital world all day but there are things in the real world that need my attention today.
I wish I had a time lapse of this journal page. It went through many different stages and colors before arriving at the finished product. This definitely made the background rich and with great depth.
The words were an afterthought…but they fit just perfectly to me. When I rip pages out of my journals to reduce bulk, I often look for phrases that speak to me. I cut them out and save them for a future project. I never pick the words beforehand….always after I have set the paintbrush down.
Whenever I go outside to photograph my art for the blog I have an assistant who likes to tag along.
She really isn’t much help. In fact, she is usually a distraction as I must keep one eye on her so she doesn’t get into trouble.
It usually works out best when she finds a nice sunny spot to get her daily dose of vitamin D.
Oh, the life of a spoiled cat.
I’m not excited about the colors I used on this page but I’m having a lot of fun with the doodles. I think it’s something I’m going to play with more.
Speaking of flowers…
I’m in need to some identification of a “flower” or maybe a weed that has planted itself amongst my spirea bush.
It’s quite large. The leaves are about 6 inches long and the bud it about 1.5 inches in diameter. It seemingly grew up overnight. I’m sure it didn’t and that it was working its way up while I was sick for a week.
The goofy thing is tall as well. I’ve been leaving it now just to see what comes of it but would love to know if anyone could tell me ahead of time. Patience is not one of my virtues.
I’m enjoying a quiet, overcast, drizzly morning with a cup of coffee. Mr. G is out the door to work and the kidlets are still sleeping. How long do you think I can keep calling them kidlets when the oldest is my height? I say, FOREVER!!
Since it is so gloomy I decided to light my tea cup candle while I read and sip my coffee.
Knitting group is on the docket for today as well as a little back to school shopping. School supplies have been purchased and are packed in the backpacks. Big J is in denial while Little J is excited to go back in just over a month.
Gracie is attempting to will away the rain with her mind so that we can go sit outside. Good luck kitty. Maybe we can enjoy a little time later but that concrete has to dry to make it comfy for furry paws.
What are you doing today?
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