Weekly Update

It's time for my weekly update on my flower-a-day project. Don't for get that you can see all of my flower projects and more on my Facebook page here.

Here is my favorite thing I've made this week. It's a rubber stamped card that I colored with watercolors.
It's kind of plain and I will probably add Happy Birthday or Thank You depending on who I decide to send it to.

And here is my Documented Life Project page for week three. It isn't what I started out meaning to do, but I like it. The quote says "Color has taken possession of me; no longer do I have to chase after it. I know that it has hold of me forever... Color and I are one. I am a painter." - Paul Klee

Weekly Update

Well, this last week has gone by pretty fast! I feel like I was out running errands all week. But I did manage to get some crafting done.

Flowerpocalypse Update: Still going strong! Don't forget to visit my Facebook page to see all of my daily flower projects. My favorite for the week is this purple gerbera daisy designed by Lia Griffith. You can get the instructions and templates by clicking here. Over the rest of the year, I think I might make a bunch of these in all sorts of colors. But then again,she has so many other flower tutorials I want to do. I have 346 days left so I can probably do them all!

In other crafty news: I've recently become obsessed with Perler Beads. If you aren't familiar with them, basically, you put them on a peg board in whatever pattern or picture you want, and iron them to melt the beads and fuse them together. I've seen some really elaborate works of art on Pinterest. I haven't really got the ironing part down yet - how much to melt them or whatever, but ironing has never been my strong suit. Here are my first tries:

 Aren't they cute? I have a ton more ideas, but each one of those beads are placed by hand so it can take a while.

I'm also doing the Documented Life Project again this year. This isn't a great picture, but here's this week's page:

It looks like I put the magazine cut out at an odd angle, but she was just standing funny in the picture, I think.

AEDM #21

Day 21 of Art Every Day Month! Here is today's art: it's this week's Documented Life Project. The prompt was to add a map. The background is a layer of torn up map pages, covered with gesso, and sprinkled with spray ink. The card on the right is from ICAD (Index Card a Day) a few years ago. It's a map with marks in all the cities I've lived in over the years. I thought it fit well with the prompt.

AEDM # 14

Art Every Day Month day 14! Today, I worked in my Documented Life Project journal. It's a sort of combination art journal and planner with weekly prompts. I'm not using mine as a planner, but I am following the prompts. The prompt for this week was to use fabric. The pants were cut from an old pair of flannel pajama pants.

Projects for 2014

I've been trying to write a blog post for a month about the different projects I plan to do this year and I just keep putting it off again and again. But hey- it's February already. It's time for me to buckle down and get this post written!

One of the things I'm doing this year is a year-long altered book class taught by Lisa Vollrath of Ten Two Studios. I've been interested in altered books for years, but never really did anything about it. One of the books I'm using I've had for three or four years from when I first became interested in altered books. Looking online, I was overwhelmed with information and spent about a year mostly just watching YouTube videos and reading blog posts because I was scared of paint, since I had never really painted before. Some how I got focused on art journaling instead of altering books. So I'm taking the class for motivation more than anything.
So far, it's been very informative. A lot of the info is stuff I'd heard of already or figured out for myself while art journaling, but some of it has been new to me. There's a lot of feedback and discussion, which is great. I don't usually like to participate in that sort of thing (I belong to several art focused Facebook groups and rarely, if ever post or comment) but I'm trying and I do read everyone else's comments.
Here is my first completed page:

Another project I'm doing is the Documented Life Project. It sort of a combination art journal and planner with weekly challenges. I'm not using it as a planner- I had the idea before I found the Project and made my own book and there's isn't really room to use it as a planner. I'm using it as a combination written journal and art journal/ sketch book. I know some people do personal journaling on art journal pages, but I never have. I've always kept in separate, mostly so I could show the art to people and not worry about them reading it.
Here is the cover of my journal. The background is security envelope pieces (glued to a piece of cardboard) painted with twinkling H2Os and the picture came from a travel magazine I picked up the last time I was in Louisiana. This photo was taken before I finished putting all the monthly tabs in.

I'll probably do another post later on to show some of the inside pages. I'll want to blur some of the more personal journaling before I post pictures.

I'm not doing Project Life this year. I did finish last year and I still like the idea of it, but it just doesn't work for me. I think this year, I'll do a sort of smash book/ scrapbook kind of thing where I don't have to fill up a whole page every week. I can just use as many pages as I need to for the month, however many that is. I haven't actually started this yet, but I do have plans.

There are other projects I want to do this year and several that I want to finish, but I hope to blog those as I do them.