Art Journal March 15, 2012

Here's my entry for March 15, 2012.  This was a fun and quick one for me, i dunno why but it was so liberating! :) Here's the skinny on the prompt for this particular day. :)  I just need to do my journaling on this and it's done.  :)   Paper used is 7 Gypsies papers.  I love that paper.  I put a pix i had of Jack Vettriano (love him) and my unicorn that i cut on my Cricut Expression.. I'vc had this cut out since i had my SCAL2! *zoik*, also some stickers i had in my hoard vault, and a sticker journal, and Creme de Chocalat from Tattered angels.  I painted the background blue cuz it's my favorite color.  Inside the pocket is a .10 ticket from Harrahs in New Orleans this past Mardi Gras year.


THE PROMPT: These are a Few of My Favorite Things
THE STUFF: List of your favorite things. ie: fave color, book, coffee creamer, drink, season, flowers... etc.
THE TECHNIQUE: Brown paper ie: "brown paper packages tied up with string" and labels from some of your favorite things

Paper used is 7 Gypsies papers.  I love that paper.  I put a pix i had of Jack Vettriano (love him) and my unicorn that i cut on my Cricut Expression.. I'vc had this cut out since i had my SCAL2! *zoik*, also some stickers i had in my hoard vault, and a sticker journal, and Creme de Chocalat from Tattered angels.  I painted the background blue cuz it's my favorite color.  Inside the pocket is a .10 ticket from Harrahs in New Orleans this past Mardi Gras year.  Also a quote rub on about traveling that i've had for quite a while now. :) 

Art Journal Feb 15

So for February 15th's prompt it's "My favorite things" over at The Year In the life of an Art Journal.  Here's the skinny on the prompt.
THE PROMPT: My Favorite Things
ie: a few of the things you LOVE about someone you love. Can be alive or dead.
THE STUFF: Lists and ephemera
ie: have a few tokens from that someone? Maybe the cover of the CD with "your song" or a napkin from the restaurant you both love to eat at...
THE TECHNIQUE: Pockets
ie: Use pockets to store those "things" on your page.
Okay, one of the gals that was a Guest DT she stated about her SB supplies and breaking them out; so that's what i did. :) I didn't add acrylic paint to it! Whoa! ;)  
Oh man, as i'm typing this, I just read to add ephemera! Darn It! I forgot that.  I love ephemera, too.  ha! oh well.  

I added my 7 Gypsies paper as a background paper - (My fave) and the "Top 10" is from from hoard vault.  It's from Deja Views "tell YOUR story" sticker tablet.  (can't remember if it was from a swap or if i bought it - LOL) Of course, had to use my Tattered Angels Glimmer chips from Creme de Cocoa and Tim Holts' Adage tickets for "Love".  A Stamp for hte luggage and back ground stamp.  I also used the Bingo envie to add 'stuff' in there. ;) Of course Rick's picture behind the MM (?) metal frame.  I'm quite happy with this. :) 

I Literally created "A-R-T" :)

I finally finished this altered canvas the other nite.  I really love working with stretched canvas.  I bought the 4x5 stretched canvas from Michael's a while back when they went on a crazy sale (80% off).  So far this has been my favorite project thus far.. Now, this happens to be my favorite kind of mixed media. LOL

I used 4x5 stretched canvas, acrylic paints and lots of other goodies such as; Prima flowers and bling, Recollection flowers, Tim Holtz items (grunge alphas, the metal bird, crown and the word stick) handmade flowers from swaps from The Beach as well as handmade stick pins from swaps again from the beach.  I also used Tattered Angel glimmer chips creme de cocoa, Bo Bunny Timepiece paper collections, and Glimmer Chips, other misc items.

*(excuse the mess in the background)*

Shadow box for my Uncle Harvey

I made this shadowbox for my uncle harvey. I hope he likes it. I made another for my Uncle Joe as well. I'll mail this out this week. These layouts came pretty quickly to me. I had to e fmake another copy of this picture b/c it's the only one i have.

The paper is Graphic 45 Le Romantique
The flowers (grey/black are from Sandra) the purple'ish/blue'ish one is the one i made
The flourish is chipboard die cut from TH Alterations die (glimmer misted it w/Scarlet)
Burlap and Prima Canvas for mats in the background
TH items: "B" Alpha grungeboard and ornate bookplate, "hope" Adage ticket, Memo pin
Tattered Angels: Glimmer Chips, Creme de' Cocoa
Misc: Denim (from one of Rick's old Jeans)

out of the shadowbox