This piece was completed for Explore Your Creativity Challenge 9 over on Junk Journal Junkies and Mindful Art. I created it in anticipation of our 4000th member as we are very close to achieving this milestone. Please feel free to come and join a very friendly and supportive group of creative people, led by Louise Withers. The prompts were 'Doodle', 'Ink' and 'Rainbow'.
I was asked to run a one hour craft session in school for rewards afternoon at the end of term and decided to use the opportunity to aid the pupils to relax and unwind. By adding doodles and patterns to stamped images while quiet music played in the background we had a mindful session and they each had a topper to take home with them. I am not a qualified Zentangle teacher and do not claim to be an expert. I have several of the excellent books by Suzanne McNeill (who is a certified Zentangle teacher) and took them into school with me for the pupils to look through, as well as some examples of previous cards that I have made using doodling and zentangle patterns (see HERE, HERE and HERE). While the pupils were doodling I also worked on a topper, which I later made into a card as you will see.
This page was created for week 3 of Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More. My word this week is 'Joy' and the page combines my love of art journaling with another of my passions: Stoke City Football Club. Last weekend we kept our first clean sheet for 3 months and escaped the relegation zone with a win over Huddersfield Town. It was also our first game under the new manager and the atmosphere at the ground was electric. It seemed an easy choice of word therefore!
I completed this page for Lesson 3 of Wanderlust 2018 with guest teacher Jennifer Lee. She actually created two pieces, but I decided to put my own spin on her mandala project. Although Jennifer worked on a wood panel, I decided to risk working in my journal. Despite the layers, the pages remained remarkably flat.
An additional mid monthly challenge has been added into Tag It Tuesday this year. You have to create an ATC or altered card instead of a tag, but still using at least two of the four monthly prompts. The four prompts for January are Circles; Add fabric; Beginnings; Drips. I chose circles and a quote about beginnings as my prompts. I attempted to add drips with the Distress Oxides, but didn't like the effect, so went back over the background to try and hide them.
This page was created as a response to the January 2018 Challenge on Mission Inspiration. The choice of words was 'genesis', 'renew', 'wish', 'resolve' and 'memories'; as you can see, I decided on 'wish'.
My creative word for 2018 is dare and this is the first year that I have dared to follow an art/journaling course. I signed up for Wanderlust 2018 on the last day of 2017. This page was created in response to lesson 1 of Wanderlust 2018 and is the first time that I have produced an entire art journal page which is completely hand drawn, hand written and hand coloured. In addition, I decided to finally start working in the expensive Moleskine journal which I bought nearly two years ago and was still unused (although I hadn't had any problem using much cheaper journals). So far, I feel that I am living up to my creative resolution for this year.
I will only just get this page submitted to Junk Journals Junkies and Mindful Art in time today, as the new challenge will be starting later on. I was inspired to get out my Gelatos again having watched Kay Halliwell-Sutton demonstrating them yesterday.
For the Journal52 group with Effy Wild, where you can find additional prompts. The success of my previous attempt at free painting led me to attempt another page using the same format; acrylics (finger painted), Neocolor II for detail and a stamped/printed quote. Not sure if I like this one quite as much as the first page (see HERE), but I can but keep trying. The quote by Mario Fernandez is the inspiration for the painting.
Since the start of the year, I have been joining in with the Journal52 prompts by Effy Wild. To find out more, and to join in yourself, you can check out her page HERE. This week the prompt was 'soft', and for the first time ever, I created the whole page (except for the quote) myself. It is the first time that I have created a picture/painting without using stamps or stencils for help; while I know that I have a long way to go with my painting and lots to improve on, I am really proud of my first attempt.
The first thing that came to mind when I saw this prompt for Journal52 was Work / Life Balance and the second was the Yin-Yang symbol; I decided to combine both.
I've been after the new Hipster stamp set by Stamper's Anonymous since I saw the preview that Tim Holtz shared before Creativation; it arrived in the post on Saturday morning and I couldn't wait to get started.
I admit I did a google search for quotes which included the word stillness when I saw the prompt for week 8 from Journal52. As soon as I found this Eckhart Tolle quote however, I knew exactly what I was going to do on my page.
The actual event, as you can see from the card, was back in June; here's the card I made for my husband, using only dies and peel offs!
