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Rose garden journal

July 25, 2016 - By halleday

After sitting down to create ATC’s for a swap (more on that another time), I was feeling quite inspired. I decided work in my art journal with the current AJJ theme of In my garden in mind. I definitely wasn’t going to limit myself to the theme though.

Turns out that was the direction I was heading anyway.

After painting on the page with my fingers, I added some more background texture with stamped text to simulate greenery. I fussy cut around one of my rose photographs then went off to find some words.

I like that I leave you hanging…wondering….”what did she realize?” I added a bit to line-work with both black and white pens before stamping my date and calling it a day.

Stop by Art Journal Journey and check out all the fun entries for this months theme.

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T Tuesday: progress edition

June 14, 2016 - By halleday

Welcome to T stands for Tuesday…grab a your favorite cup and stay a while.

This summer I’ve been tackling projects and items long overdue on the to-do list. I’m drowning in half finished goals. It’s really beginning to drive me a bit crazy. I start my morning or my 3am bout of insomnia with thoughts of how my day is going to go and then BAM…I get hit with a curve ball or worse yet, am distracted and start another project. I haven’t even finished a pot of coffee lately, which is totally out of character for me. (Ah ha…just there….see how I worked in a beverage reference) 🙂

But seriously, the frustration with myself is mounting. Every “not used daily” surface has something in progress all over it and that’s not even mentioning the outdoors. I think I have too many ideas and unfortunately have enough stuff around to get started but either run out of steam, ideas or gumption to continue. I even totally blew up my blog over the weekend and am still working on fixing it. UGH! The blog backup I used definitely didn’t work the way I thought it did….I could not recover what I lost.

I am feeling a bit of accomplishment with both a personal project and a household one.

I completed the cover on my heART journal just yesterday.

Here are the inside pages. The earliest page was from Feb 2014. Good grief…talk about taking a long time to to 6 pages.

Mini-me and I did get her room painted. Here’s an old before and the after side by side.

What a difference. She’s had the green and stamped flowers since we moved in 13 years ago. It had just been painted so we just left it as is. Definitely time for a change.

We’re slowly going to be replacing the accessories such as the fabric bins in the cubbies. Mini-me had yet to decide what color she wants for her accent color.

It’s definitely more sophisticated already. Agh…my baby is growing up!

So today…I’m going to try my best to finish a thing or two I’ve started. Wish me luck!

What are you doing today?

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Often chaotic

May 26, 2016 - By halleday

Inspiration has finally taken a hold of me. I’m feeling creative. Feeling the need to express myself or at the very least put paint to paper.

Without knowing the direction I was heading I just grabbed the colors that spoke to me and used my fingers to apply them to the last page in my heART journal. Truth be told, I was covering a seriously hideous background I created quite some time ago. After much rumination on options to save it I realized covering over was the best option.

Next I used washi tape to add interest but I wasn’t done. I have a stash of rub-ons that never seem to work when I want them to be perfect so I’ve taken to using them in backgrounds. That way when the image messes up…it’s perfect. Messy is the look I was going for with these.

Then all of a sudden the words hit me. The page was chaotic yet interesting…just like our journey through life.

Linking up with Art Journal Journey again for the theme Journeys picked by Erika aka BioArtGal.

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