Another pg from my journal- love these new stencils!

Art is on hold until after our yard sale this weekend since my tables are outside and full of stuff!

The bathing beauties are from digitalcollages.com- they're so cute!

I stenciled the sun in a glitter paint- maybe you can see better in the next pic

 I guess I went too far into the purple so the sun doesn't show up as well as I'd like..

I'm having a lot of fun with this journal- I glued 2 pages together throughout the whole book. You can kind of see the pages are a little bubbly, but they still work. I also didn't gesso the pages first since I liked the feel of the paper.

The weather has cooled off some here and it makes me want to work in the studio more. I sent off my mystery envelope swap to my partner for this time Amy@papertrailsleaver. Can't wait to get my envelope! Any swaps or challenges that you all enjoy?

week 3 ICAW

I love Laurel Burch art and I found this stamp at a thrift store! The quote is from the movie Babe.

This is the cover of my ICAW book.

The squiggly line at the top is some tape rub on- I haven't used that before. Kind of interesting...

New journal pgs

I really need a camera of my own... Anyway here are some new pgs I've worked on.

I've kind of decided to put some kind of vintage image on each page-s ort of a starter point.

I used some really old mulberry paper on this one- I mean like 15 years old!

These pages aren't finished of course, but for now I'm concentrating on painting the pages and putting the starting image- a new way of working for me. I still haven't sewn my journal together :( It's on my to do list. I haven't had as much time to art journal lately since we're getting ready for our yard sale this weekend. I hope the weather is good :)

ICAW 2

This is my new index card-

And this is another stencil-

I'm still not real great at stenciling with paint- I always seem to glob a bit :(

Oh well, life is a learning process right?

Thank you for all the nice anniversary wishes- we had a nice day.

Anybody trying out a DIY Smash journal? I'm thinking about making one. I saw a video by journal artista and it looked like a cool way to use up old supplies.

anniversary!

Today is our 31st anniversary!

ICAW?

I didn't get in on the index card a day, so I thought I'd just try one per week for fun :)
Here's my first

Here's another pg trying out stencils.

On this one I used a large stamp I got at a thrift store and I used it while the paint was wet- kind of interesting,