I did find something that will help me create mine, though...here is the image of a sketch that someone posted, so I will share it here with you.
This should not be too difficult, right? We shall see over time.....
Sunday, January 5, 2020
Prompt for today is "Create a vision board"
Since this is going to be an on-going project; I will have to keep coming back to this page to show improvements on how I have been progressing with my Vision Board. But I will say this however, that I googled "how to create a Vision Board" and oh boy lots of goodies came up to investigate, which simply cannot be completed all in one day...
I did find something that will help me create mine, though...here is the image of a sketch that someone posted, so I will share it here with you.
This should not be too difficult, right? We shall see over time.....
I did find something that will help me create mine, though...here is the image of a sketch that someone posted, so I will share it here with you.
This should not be too difficult, right? We shall see over time.....
Trading ATC and Art/Craft supplies - Daily Journal Prompts
January 3, 2020
1= 2019 in review
2= 2020 on Horizon (set goals, new techniques/art forms, etc)
3= create an entry page with dried&/or silk flowers
4= one technique you find yourself using repetitively
On January 3rd the journal prompt was create a page with dried &/or silk flowers. Wow, I was like really? That Yvonne sure is not making this year for me, whatever was I going to do??? Who has dried flowers in the middle of winter? But then I remembered; omg, you won't even believe it...I was given a lovely gift from the Pastor's wife's Mother from our church....I never knew the mother but she made cards. I was given a couple of boxes of crafty goodies that I was welcome to go through and keep what I wanted and distribute what I did not want as I pleased. I am so very rarely ever thought of for such things. You can imagine that this made me happy and that I was excited to get home and check it out. Inside one of the boxes was a box of pressed flowers. Yes, real pressed flowers, they were an awesome find, and of course one of the things I kept, for one of those "just in case I need it" projects. And for January's challenge, of course was the day that I needed them for and just happened to find it...well, it took me a little bit, but I found them, and this is what I have done with them so far, I decided I was going to make a back ground out of them. And I am quite impressed with how this project turned out. Here is the photo:
Isn't that just absolutely gorgeous? I will probably make an ATC or 2 and will probably make a birthday card out of this. I love how it turned out. Thank you so much for the challenge Yvonne!
January 4, 2020
1= 2019 in review
2= 2020 on Horizon (set goals, new techniques/art forms, etc)
3= create an entry page with dried&/or silk flowers
4= one technique you find yourself using repetitively
Now this one is an easy one! The very first time I ever saw this technique was quite a while back, like maybe a few years....at least. There were a set of video's on this site that offered demonstrations of a variety of techniques. I love these video's because they are short, to the point, and well demonstrated without any silly chatter going on at all but belly dancing music. Here is the link: OneMinuteMuse it is the 3rd video, you can actually see the word "Saran" underneath the video before the rest of the name of it disappears. Or here is the link to the actual video if you can't find it. Saran Wrap Technique.
I recently found another site called Cloth Paper Scissors, where they have their own version of this technique that they call "That's a Wrap" with a beautiful written out description of step by step exactly how to do it. I followed this and I ended up with 5 beautiful pages of this technique, so you cannot go wrong! I did not get photos of all 5 pages but here are 3 different colours of ATC's that I'd already cut down before realizing that I was going to be documenting this on my blog. But anyway here is a photo of 3 different colours of what I did.
If you can actually bring the photo up closer to see the actual phenomenal detail. The detail of this technique shows up very well especially on the pink one. I love this technique, its simple, quick and not too messy even though your using paints. Which I have been using up all of my cheap dollar store paints, which I won't be buying anymore, I will be moving over to the smaller tubes of acrylic paints.
Here is a photo of a pile of the ATC's that I was able to cut down from these beautiful pages I created and cut:
And last, but not least, here is the description they use on their site to describe how to do it, again, follow their direction step by step and you just will not go wrong, I promise!
1= 2019 in review
2= 2020 on Horizon (set goals, new techniques/art forms, etc)
3= create an entry page with dried&/or silk flowers
4= one technique you find yourself using repetitively
On January 3rd the journal prompt was create a page with dried &/or silk flowers. Wow, I was like really? That Yvonne sure is not making this year for me, whatever was I going to do??? Who has dried flowers in the middle of winter? But then I remembered; omg, you won't even believe it...I was given a lovely gift from the Pastor's wife's Mother from our church....I never knew the mother but she made cards. I was given a couple of boxes of crafty goodies that I was welcome to go through and keep what I wanted and distribute what I did not want as I pleased. I am so very rarely ever thought of for such things. You can imagine that this made me happy and that I was excited to get home and check it out. Inside one of the boxes was a box of pressed flowers. Yes, real pressed flowers, they were an awesome find, and of course one of the things I kept, for one of those "just in case I need it" projects. And for January's challenge, of course was the day that I needed them for and just happened to find it...well, it took me a little bit, but I found them, and this is what I have done with them so far, I decided I was going to make a back ground out of them. And I am quite impressed with how this project turned out. Here is the photo:
January 4, 2020
1= 2019 in review
2= 2020 on Horizon (set goals, new techniques/art forms, etc)
3= create an entry page with dried&/or silk flowers
4= one technique you find yourself using repetitively
Now this one is an easy one! The very first time I ever saw this technique was quite a while back, like maybe a few years....at least. There were a set of video's on this site that offered demonstrations of a variety of techniques. I love these video's because they are short, to the point, and well demonstrated without any silly chatter going on at all but belly dancing music. Here is the link: OneMinuteMuse it is the 3rd video, you can actually see the word "Saran" underneath the video before the rest of the name of it disappears. Or here is the link to the actual video if you can't find it. Saran Wrap Technique.
I recently found another site called Cloth Paper Scissors, where they have their own version of this technique that they call "That's a Wrap" with a beautiful written out description of step by step exactly how to do it. I followed this and I ended up with 5 beautiful pages of this technique, so you cannot go wrong! I did not get photos of all 5 pages but here are 3 different colours of ATC's that I'd already cut down before realizing that I was going to be documenting this on my blog. But anyway here is a photo of 3 different colours of what I did.
Here is a photo of a pile of the ATC's that I was able to cut down from these beautiful pages I created and cut:
And last, but not least, here is the description they use on their site to describe how to do it, again, follow their direction step by step and you just will not go wrong, I promise!
1. Lay down a wash in a strong color or combination of colors.
2. Next, lay a crumpled piece of plastic wrap on top of your painting, making sure that it is in contact with the wet pigment.
3. Let the painting dry with the plastic wrap in place; this may take 24 hours or more. When you remove the plastic wrap, there will be lines in the wash left by wrinkles in the wrap. These lines can be enhanced with metallic colors or white ink to form more pronounced and decorative abstract shapes.
For softer lines, remove the plastic wrap before the painting is completely dry. You can also try this technique with wax paper or aluminum foil.
I love this technique not just because of the effect, but because you can line up several pieces of watercolor paper, paint on your wash, cover them with plastic, and go do something else while your background paintings "cook."
Jacqueline shows how to create so many watercolor art techniques for textured backgrounds, including using salt, sand, charcoal, powdered metallics, alcohol, Rit dye, absorbent ground, and more.
It's all in The Cloth Paper Scissors Book, along with scores of other techniques, tips, projects, and inspiration. (This is not written by me, its taken directly from the Cloth Paper Scissors website.)
P.S. I just used a piece of plain white cardstock and cheap dollar store acrylic paints, So it works with both.Friday, January 3, 2020
2019 in review for Trading ATC and Art/Craft Supplies
OK Here we go, a new year and a new year! This year I am going to do my utmost best to keep up with the journal the Yvonne Oliver posts over on Trading ATC and Art/Craft supplies group on Facebook. I Have been a member there for quite sometime, since the beginning I think, and its the only group on Facebook that I can say that I am truly a founding member of. LOL I would like to be a little more active and focus my time mostly on this particular group.
It is my intention to not only keep up, but to keep each entry short, sometimes it will be just an image with a description, and sometime it may be just a written entry. Since it is already January 3rd, I will just go ahead and post the first couple of days here.
1= 2019 in review
2= 2020 on Horizon (set goals, new techniques/art forms, etc)
3= create an entry page with dried&/or silk flowers
January 1, 2020 & January 2, 2020
In Review of 2019, it was a very bizarre year. I had been so sick and tired of being so sick and tired and decided that in 2019 I was not going to keep my mouth shut regarding my pain. My chronic pain and fatigue had been a misery for me pretty much since about 2011 or 12. I know that my closest and dearest friends know what is going on with me and that is all that matters. But having said that, I'd been sent to numerous doctors and specialists and it has been discovered that I have Fibromyalgia and OsteoArthritis. I am still waiting on getting into the Women's College Hospital. It's been more than 8 months now, so I am sure I will be hearing something from them soon.
Throughout the year, Abby and I had made several trips to Embro, ON which the closest town to the Happy Hills Retirement Resort was where my Mom and Dad had been living for 15 years as their pre-retirement home. As time went on, in 2019 Abby and I had talks and visits with them and realized something; that they were definitely not getting any younger. My Mom is 78 and my Dad is 83 now and it was not only time to move them out of that retirement resort and move them closer to our end of the world. Driving to Embro was a 5.5-6 hours long one way!
In August we prepared Mom and Dad and told them that we were going to parent-nap them for an entire week. So, on August 30th, we drove down to pick them up, spent the night and drove back and we spent an entire day of visiting a variety of Senior Retirement homes for them to take a look to see if we could find anything they liked. Sadly, there was not one single solitary appropriate living quarters that was not even slightly suitable or affordable for them. Almost at the end of the day we got a call from a place that was not even on the list. It was something that Abby was looking into before the parent napping was arranged. An appointment came up that exact afternoon, and we went in, and we were all quite impressed and would you believe that was the place my Mom wanted to go to. And that my friends was a wrap....that was the place we moved them too. And they are quite happy there.
With my Dad have dementia and my Mom having her own issues (high risk of stroke) I can't even express how grateful I am to have my parents living closer to us. They are now but a 15 minutes drive away from us...and they are in good hands at Chartwell. Also the other most amazing thing is that they are only just around the corner from the local hospital in Huntsville.
I absolutely love having them closer to us. As soon as my parents got here, Dad ended up in the hospital for almost two weeks, with quite a serious situation and a week or two ago, Mom was taken to the hospital by ambulance and I was called at 5 am that morning.
We have absolutely NO regrets for doing this. We started praying about this at church early in August and it was TWO MONTHS TO THE DAY literally that the move from Embro was complete.....We love you so very much Mom & Dad!
January 2, 2013
1= 2019 in review
2= 2020 on Horizon (set goals, new techniques/art forms, etc)
3= create an entry page with dried&/or silk flowers
It is my intention to not only keep up, but to keep each entry short, sometimes it will be just an image with a description, and sometime it may be just a written entry. Since it is already January 3rd, I will just go ahead and post the first couple of days here.
1= 2019 in review
2= 2020 on Horizon (set goals, new techniques/art forms, etc)
3= create an entry page with dried&/or silk flowers
January 1, 2020 & January 2, 2020
In Review of 2019, it was a very bizarre year. I had been so sick and tired of being so sick and tired and decided that in 2019 I was not going to keep my mouth shut regarding my pain. My chronic pain and fatigue had been a misery for me pretty much since about 2011 or 12. I know that my closest and dearest friends know what is going on with me and that is all that matters. But having said that, I'd been sent to numerous doctors and specialists and it has been discovered that I have Fibromyalgia and OsteoArthritis. I am still waiting on getting into the Women's College Hospital. It's been more than 8 months now, so I am sure I will be hearing something from them soon.
Throughout the year, Abby and I had made several trips to Embro, ON which the closest town to the Happy Hills Retirement Resort was where my Mom and Dad had been living for 15 years as their pre-retirement home. As time went on, in 2019 Abby and I had talks and visits with them and realized something; that they were definitely not getting any younger. My Mom is 78 and my Dad is 83 now and it was not only time to move them out of that retirement resort and move them closer to our end of the world. Driving to Embro was a 5.5-6 hours long one way!
In August we prepared Mom and Dad and told them that we were going to parent-nap them for an entire week. So, on August 30th, we drove down to pick them up, spent the night and drove back and we spent an entire day of visiting a variety of Senior Retirement homes for them to take a look to see if we could find anything they liked. Sadly, there was not one single solitary appropriate living quarters that was not even slightly suitable or affordable for them. Almost at the end of the day we got a call from a place that was not even on the list. It was something that Abby was looking into before the parent napping was arranged. An appointment came up that exact afternoon, and we went in, and we were all quite impressed and would you believe that was the place my Mom wanted to go to. And that my friends was a wrap....that was the place we moved them too. And they are quite happy there.
With my Dad have dementia and my Mom having her own issues (high risk of stroke) I can't even express how grateful I am to have my parents living closer to us. They are now but a 15 minutes drive away from us...and they are in good hands at Chartwell. Also the other most amazing thing is that they are only just around the corner from the local hospital in Huntsville.
I absolutely love having them closer to us. As soon as my parents got here, Dad ended up in the hospital for almost two weeks, with quite a serious situation and a week or two ago, Mom was taken to the hospital by ambulance and I was called at 5 am that morning.
We have absolutely NO regrets for doing this. We started praying about this at church early in August and it was TWO MONTHS TO THE DAY literally that the move from Embro was complete.....We love you so very much Mom & Dad!
January 2, 2013
1= 2019 in review
2= 2020 on Horizon (set goals, new techniques/art forms, etc)
3= create an entry page with dried&/or silk flowers
- It is my heart's desire to want to do this challenge every single entry that Yvonne post's every single day or minimally group of days possible.
- It is also my desire to spend more time with my Mom and Dad as I possibly can now that they live so close to us.
- I want to explore more of a variety of different art technique back grounds
- I want to start making cards to sell, and a variety of other different items that can be easy to make.
- This is the year I want to start selling die cut kits at local trades along with cards etc.
- I want to get my art cave all completely organized.
- I want to get all of my ATCs that I received in to binders
- I want to keep visiting this and adding to it as the new year goes under way.
WOW! Christmas coming soon already?
So this all happened by October 1st which made it a steady two months of getting them out of where they were, so needless to say, I have not been getting to spend too much time in my cave of late. I did manage to get a few swaps squeezed in though, and I managed to get in the Halloween Howl and the Christmas Advent in which both were so much fun!
I intended this to be a longer blog but the holidays caught up to me, so I am just to post this and move right along!
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