day ten: Telling Tall Tales

For day 10 we were to "keep our readers guessing". We were to create a layout telling 8 truths and 1 lie about ourselves. I glued scraps of papers down the edge of one page, painted a border on both edges of the pages. I doodle painted over the borders. Glued a piece of material to the lower left edge of the left paper that I had pinked with my pinking shears. I drew my banner on painted and added the title into it. A picture of the girl was added, and a lot of her features were outlined in a darker color.

I painted doodles into any open spaces that I had. Now you are suppose to guess which are the truth, and which one is the lie...Good luck!!! Post which one you think is the lie, thanks.

I cannot get the photo link to open, so I will list the 8 Truths or 1 Lie here so that you can read them.

1. I love Gingham material. 2. Springtime is my favorite time of the year. 3. My family loves my home made biscuits. 4. I love vintage buttons and trims. Once I purchased 12 lbs. of buttons off of Ebay. 5. I enjoy long walks with my husband and our dogs - Hollie and Kylee. 6. I love living in our trailer. 7. I hate retro- shag carpet (especially gold) 8. I enjoy camping with the family. 9. I have a new Cricut Expression Machine.

I typed them like they were written into my journal. At least you won't have to read from page to page.

Thanks for stopping by, Have a wonderful weekend,

Debxx

day eight: windows to my world

I believe this project was one of my favorites. I loved everything that we done in our journal. Each project was new and exciting to me, so each adventure was a lot of fun.

This layout was decorated with scrap pieces of paper from my stash, journal boxes, flowers that I used "My New Cricut" to cut out flowers and leaves and brackets. The window is "plastic" from a package of new product that I had purchased. The "window" was cut into 2 pages, the plastic and window dividers were sandwiched between the pages.

I also drew lines across the page to make it appear as if there was "siding" on my "house". I put a window box and flowers with small jewel centers.

The 2nd layout of this project we were to decorate with journal boxes, grids and connect the pages together some how. So I made a large swirl that went from one side of my window to the other page.

I decorated the "room" with paper stash scraps of paper, painted the background. I made a curtain from a scrap piece of material, tied it back with twine. I used the space below the swirl as a journal box.

I have my little girl, who looks out the window and appears to be praying. I also journaled in the swirl underneath the little girl. I will journal as the summer goes when there are more memories to add.

Another wonderful project from Teresa McFayden for her Summer Journal E-Zine.

Have a wonderful Monday,

Debxx

day nine: distorted sketches

"Grab a pencil with your least dominant hand. I am left handed, so my pencil goes in my right hand. Now, look around you and find something in your immediate surroundings. Zero in on it with your one good eye. Squint...stare...study the lines and shapes.

"Fixate that squinty eye on the top left (or right) of the object. Draw it on your journal page. Slowly. Very slowly. Study those lines...where are they going? Slow down and study them and map them on the paper with your pencil. Here's the kicker: don't pick up that pencil. Ever. Well, pick up the pencil a couple times if you must (I did) but try your absolute darnedest not to look at your sketch while it's in process. For if you do, you will become stupefied and upset....enjoy this process and look forward to the end result. It will be quirky....you can bet your bottom dollar on that!

After you've given your sketch color, add some shading now. I used that ever popular charcoal pencil and mostly shaded the right edges of the sketch.

Let's move on to the other page now. Add a few snips of paper, or doodles and spritzes of color to pull things together. Company's coming for crying out loud...we gotta clean this mess up! I left room for journaling. Hope you do, too."

This was a lot of fun. I had never did anything like this. Was really pleased with the sketch, especially since I did it all with my left hand. I am right handed. Thanks Teresa.

Have a great day!!!

Love,

Debxx

day seven: title page and pretty post

Now that we are half way through our Summer Journals, it's time to create a title page. In this post we will be going backward and also forward a bit...but worry not, it's all good!

So now that our Summer Journals have a sense of style and personality about them, it's high time we move to the front of the journal and create a title page.

A title page serves as an introduction to the entire book. It gives the book definition and an introduction. It's typically clean and simple--lots of white space.

You create yours as you like. I chose to stay with that clean and simple notion. Some of the elements or techniques we have covered to date were incorporated into this title page. It helps us use those ideas again, and reinforce them a bit. It also can serve as a way to change them a bit, now that you've tried them once.

For this title page, I did the grid background and

built up from there. First a light pink wash of acrylic paint

was applied and then a grid was penciled in.

Next, I added a phrase: THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF A WONDERFUL STORY. This is one of my all time favorite titles.

I doodled a framed label, placed on the left page, with my

Initials inside of it Viola!

Close up!

Full View.

What a fun journal this has been!!!

Thanks for stopping by!

Debxx

day six: good griddins

Good griddins was the 6Th project for the Teresa McFaydren's e-zine.






"Bringing order to chaos is easily achieved with the help of grids on your journal pages. This technique is also a super one to use when you feel like journeying, and again fearing white blank pages.

It's also great fun to do--sorta like a puzzle! Let's give it a go and see what happens. Keep in mind that this is the technique to try today--but you are always welcome to adapt the technique to your liking. Variations from the path foster growth--so if you feel like changing things a bit, do it! Be sure to share your pages on the Flickr site so we can admire your pages!"

Page one of my "griddin's" pages. I divided this page into 6 grids, "the take time to smell the roses" is a picture of one of my ATC's that I made.


The second page is also divided into 6 grids. I the lady in the top row, center grid is the back side of my ATC. The rose picture is from my garden.
I love the little garden fairy that I used.


This procedure was completed by using stippling with a paint brush.

Thanks for stopping by.

Deb

Day 5: It's a Summer Breeze

A Summer Breeze was the title of Day 5 for the E-zine from Teresa McFayden.

Two great techniques for you today. So, relax--sit back, have a look see and enjoy the cool summer breeze. Yes, we have a double dose today! 2 fun techniques to share. First the visual one, then the journaling one.

This was a fun technique called Pointillism. We used the "pointed" end of a paint brush.. the tip of the handle. We would press it onto the stamp pad or into paint the "dot" it onto the canvas. Was a little time consumming but a lot of fun.

If you pay attention to just the Capital Colored Letters, and you would see that they spell out Summer Memories. So each letter represents a memory from summer's past.

Thanks Teresa, and everyone that stopped by.

Debxx

Day four: Where the day takes you

day four: where the day takes you was the theme for our summer journal over on Teresa McFayden's E-Zine.



"It's fun to think like that you know. As if the day has control over you--rather than the other way around--you have control over the day. I like the latter option, but the title to this journal prompt is more interesting written this way!

If you don't like the title, well good. Remember that and make an effort everyday to try and have control over your day and not the other way around. That's not always possible, but when it is, it's worth celebrating."

Of course the day that I picked to do was one of my busiest days..Oh well it was fun coming up with the different "houses". The title was fun to make. The letters are cut out of paper, no stick ons here...and was before I bought my Cricut..hehe. You would write the letter, ex. "A" on the paper, then outline around it in "balloon type". Then cut it out erase for markings, and then adhere to the page. The flowers are from a kids Easter stamp set. Still fun to play with. I used Staz-on inks. The papers were from my stash.

Big thanks to Teresa and all the work she has put into this journal.

Thanks for stopping by,

hugsssss,

Debxx

Write Place, Write Time

Day 3: Painting up the daises



This is part of the Summer Journal that Teresa McFayden is teaching this summer.
"A warm afternoon, soft breeze in your hair. You lounge on a cotton blanket beneath a tree, surrounded by daisies. A cotton ball cloud wisps across the sky. Before you, beside you, behind you, are winking and cheerful daisies. Can you imagine that feeling? Even better, imagine now that you have nothing else to do for an hour, but to study them."



Could you imagine getting lost in a daisy field watching them for hours. Doesn't it sound so peaceful and beautiful. I really had alot of fun making my field of daisies...

I love the quote that we used for this layout. It is by Anne Morrow Lindbergh.

"One can get just as much exaltation

in Losing oneself in a little thing

as a big thing.

It is Nice to think one can be

Recklessly lost in a daisy."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Isn't that just beautiful and makes you want to be in a field of daisies!

I just think my daisies turned out great. This is the first piece of "Art" that I have every painted..So I am proud of it.

Thank you for stopping by.

Love,

Debxxxx

Write Place, Write Time

Day 2: Ode to Summer was the second project for Teresa McFayden's Summer Journal.

We tore or cut some of our patterned paper and adhering them to a two page layout. We painted the pages with a color wash.

Then we added our focal points. To me you cannot have Summer without Roses. I love roses and have always had them. My husband and boys always get me Roses for Mother's Day and sometimes for my birthday.

So on this layout I have a bouquet of Roses, words that describe summer, and how I was feeling that day, and that was HAPPY!

The little girl swinging was my focal point on this layout. I loved to swing as a little girl. I could swing all day long. I added a grunge flower, sticker flower, along with a paper flower and chipboard button. Framed the little girl and added roses to the top corners of the frames.

Thanks for looking,

Debxx