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Who needs a deadline! Who needs the stress of having to finish right now! I sure don’t! But I used to think I was required to finish in one session. Shockingly, that led to creativity crushing stress.
I decided that stress was not what I wanted so just rewrote the rules and gave myself permission to work in stages, days or even months apart. Here’s an art journal page that has been in progress for a very long time.
This page has had lots and lots of layers…I would come back to it a week after week and add little bits but in the end, most of it was covered up. That’s the beauty of art journaling, I can just add another layer until I like it.
I cut out one of my Gelli printed faces from the September Colorful Gelli Print Party. You can see the video showing how easy this was to do here. I have a wonderful stack of prints that I can use whenever the time is right.
I like layers so I added more to the script with a scribbly layer of white.
Art journaling is all about getting in touch with what I’m feeling so I grabbed a white pencil and scribbled out my thoughts.
The face was just one layer and I love layers so I added some fine line sketching and scribbling with the new Derwent paint pens. I found them to be very opaque – I’ll keep using them before I decide if these are as great as I hope they are. Of course, I’ll share here what I learn!
I’m trying my hand at jewelry for the 4th Annual Handmade Holidays blog hop! There’s lots of inspiration so be sure to check it all out including the fabulous giveaway from the very generous sponsors!!
If I’m making something, it usually involves a bit of color and this necklace is no exception! These may not be traditional holiday colors but these are colors I think my friend will love when she gets this necklace as a gift.
Welcome to the final day of the 4th Annual Handmade Holidays Blog Hop! We hope you enjoyed the projects from the last 2 days! A few years ago we were looking online for handmade gift ideas and thought it would be great if there was a resource dedicated JUST to handmade gift ideas. Enter the Handmade Holidays hop! We’ve gathered over 100 of our creative blogger friends in the craft industry as well as some of our fellow product manufacturers to bring you a plethora of inspiring gift ideas you can make now to give to your friends, family, and colleagues. Pin and bookmark these ideas for this holiday season and to use throughout the year! Each day of the hop features approximately 30 gift projects and you can “hop” from one blog to another to check them all out.
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A plain brown bag? Never as long as I have stencils and paint. Just some quick stenciling to transform these grocery store lunch sacks into gift bags. When I say quick, I do mean quick. Sloppy, messy, and fast.
In the video, I employ some of my favorite skills such as
not lining anything up -that would involve precision
using sloppy fast stenciling -I have patience issues
making coordinating paper – that involves leftover paints so nothing is wasted
using a tool that makes me look far more precise than I really am
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The face was just one layer and I love layers so I added some fine line sketching and scribbling with the new Derwent paint pens. I found them to be very opaque – I’ll keep using them before I decide if these are as great as I hope they are. Of course, I’ll share here what I learn!
Now you know there had to be an Oops or two here…and there was…especially since I am not a master jewelry maker in any way!
