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    Calendar challenge

    March 31, 2014 - By 

    I’m keeping up!! I’m so excited that I dove in and took this art calendar challenge hosted by Kate over at thekathrynwheel.blogspot.com.

    First I’ll show my completed March calendar. See… something every day. March completeAnd I’m on time with my April calendar too! April calendarReally pastel and spring like. You can’t see it but the page is very rough from a new gesso brand I bought so we’ll see how that works out for writing on all month.

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    Art calendar check in

    March 6, 2014 - By 

    I’m a few days late but I made it with the first week of March so I’m calling that just fine after the past couple weeks of craziness our house has endured. I’m pretty sure our challenge hostess, Kate, won’t rap me on the fingers with her ruler.

    Here we have my February calendar all filled out and very simply decorated.

    February complete

    For March I was thinking Shamrocks and Leprechauns even though I don’t have an ounce of Irish in me. Although given I’m 100% Norwegian with strawberry blonde hair and green eyes…they was likely a bit mixing of the blood way back in the Viking times. march

    I wanted to use alcohol ink for this one. I thought sure it would stay on top of the glossy paper and give a much different effect. I was wrong. It bled into the paper. I then hit it with some straight up alcohol trying to thin things out since the color was so dark. It certainly helped but I did not achieve the desired look. Oh well…live and learn. I have exactly 12 of these pages so I’m determined to use them and not scrap it if it turns out odd.march closeup

    My paint was pooling up so nicely in spots that I thought it could use a wee bit o’gold…ok now I’m trying to hard. Anyway…the paint got a sprinkle of gold which really added a nice touch of bling.

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    Calendar Challenge…and I’m late already.

    February 3, 2014 - By 

    JanuraryHere we are with the first check in and I’m 2 days late. Nice. Oh well…I made it and that’s all that matters.

    I managed to get something in each day.  Just a brief note about my day…or a picture…or whatever came to mind. I noticed that Sunday I don’t really have much to talk about.

    FeburaryMy February calendar is ready to go… I’ll likely add more embellishment along the way but for now I’m thinking that I’m going to leave my calendar pages somewhat unadorned then if/when the mood strikes during the month I can add whatever I want.

    I like that I only have an inch and a half to fill…well likely more like 1.25 inches. Short and sweet, no pressure journalling. Just my speed. I’ve got to get dinner going but I’ll be back later to check out the linky gadget over at thekathrynwheel.