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INSPIRATION,

a funny little thing

sometimes my head spins with ideas and inspiration,

other days not so much.

What to do on such days?

well, browsing the internet sometimes work,

but be carefull,

because before you know it the whole day has passed with "just" looking at what others have created and you didn't do a thing.

That said, for the next cards I browsed pattern images in google

and the ones that spoke to me I put down in my way on paper.

why stick to only black&white?

so much more fun to be made with the colors of the rainbow:

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1 stamp...4 prints

techniques clockwise:

different stampinks

stamp colored with Marabu artcrayons and spritzed with some water

acrylic paint applied with a brayer

black acrylic paint on booktext

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The next 7 indexcards in the 365 series.

yes, this time I did manage to create a series of 7.

Why weren't these posted earlier then?

Well, my weird brain and his logic, that's why.

I found that I first needed to create 4 more cards in the butterfly series,  

post them and then and only then I could post these. 

Sounds perfectly sain, right? 

no??!?

These were made during printinktober,

gosh, that is 3 months ago 😲

I grabbed my handcarving tools and carved away.

Can you believe that the first 2 cards are in fact made with exactly the same stamp???

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Why didn't I post these earlier?

Because to tell you the truth I could if I wanted,

 they are finished already for weeks, maybe even months.

But in my head I needed to make series of 7 of everything,

so also 7 butterflies.

how stupid is that, right?

so now I realize it is ok to have created "only" 3 in the butterfly serie I am ready to share them with you: 

week 3 Kasia's adventcalendar

Hello and welcome,

here are my interpretations of the final prompts from Kasia's adventcalendar.

The prompt for day 16 was to remind ourselves of our chosen colour palette.

I went for bright colours to counter the dark and gloomy days:

as this is an adventcalendar so something Christmassy couldn't be forgotten,

day 17

Also at the end of the year it is tradition to stand still at your accomplishments 

as well as the things you are grateful for,

this was our prompt on day 18

I am grateful for my family, my health, my home, my passions, the possibilities I have, to be born here and my job.

on day 19 the prompt was presents that cannot be bought with money,

time immediately sprong to my mind

and with time the rabbit out Alice in Wonderland sprong to mind,

finished off with the appropriate quote

there is no time like the present

and no present like time.

As Christmas was approaching, Christmas baubles was our prompt on day 20

day 21 = home

home is where you paint your own reality

Altough I did miss a few prompts I really enjoyed it, 

there are also quite some pages left in this journal,

so I will be focussing on filling them in next😉

that way I will have a finished book.

week 2 Kasia's adventcalendar

I really enjoyed Kasia's adventcalendar in December,

so much that I even was a little sad it was Christmas and it was over 😪

day 8 was poetry, 

we needed to cut out random words and create a pleasing text,

translated I have:

I would like to drink the sun all day

yes, be drunk

I am nothing without the sun 💥

day 9's prompt was free writing,

I started with scribble writing my feelings in the background

and the page evolved into this: 

day 10: simplicity

altough the page turned out how I wanted it to

it wasn't simple 😁,

it needed a few layers to come to this 

prompt 11 was a quote by Emily Dickinson 

which I loved so much I just included it as is:

If I can stop one heart from breaking

I shall not live in vain

If I can ease one life

the aching or cool one pain

or help one fainting robin

unto his nest again

I shall not live in vain.

day 12 was senses,

I included all 5:

the stamped eye for sight

there are musicnotes somewhere in the background for hearing

I painted with my fingers = touch

the cupcake represents taste

and the flowers scent

day 13 = collage

this was literally a 5 minute page

some spraying and some glueing and done

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day 14 = mindless doodling

ok, I doodled, but it was not mindless,

I can't seem to stop my mind of thinking about a zillion things meanwhile,

hopefully I can practice this this year with me focusing more

this gelli printed page in my journal was a great jumping point for this prompt,

as this is a folded A4, I have 3 more of such pages I can use that way,

here is already one of them

focus

Welcome 2019!!!

I've chosen focus as my word for this year

meaning just focus on what I am doing

whether it is creating, eating, working, doing paperwork,....

maybe that way I will be able to finish projects,

that is my goal for this year,

finishing unfinished projects!

a few examples:

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lessons Wanderlust 2016

lessons Wanderlust 2018

bind my junk journal from 2014??!

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