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 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

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 Summer Journal

I want to let you know why I haven't been posting as much. I have started a new Summer Journal. It is taking a lot of times for some of the projects but I am Loving every minute of it. Accomplishing some things that I didn't know I could do.

Teresa McFayden, is the author of this fabulous E-Zine. I am going to quote her and allow her to explain it.

"Is there ever a right place or time for artistic play? What would you write or create on those pages? If you hesitated to respond, then this summer journal escapade is for you. Every Monday Wednesday and Friday between June 2 - June 27, the E-Zine will feature a new journal prompt, detailed technique or artful exercise. If you have an old blank book (6x8 or so in size), pens or markers you like, interesting embellishments and patterned papers, you have most of what you need for this E-Zine. Truly! Several down loadable templates and even a video or two of techniques also will be included. I’ve taught similar journaling courses over the years and they are always very well received. Past students have loved these exercises. I’ve updated my lesson plans and added more just for Write Time, Write Place. It’s like getting a little bit of inspiration every other morning! It’s paperless! No advertisements, no 6 month old projects. Just techniques, 12 projects with detailed instructions and photo step outs, ideas and fun with your fellow subscribers! View the site as many times as you like. Many subscribers print out the projects for safe keeping and for easy referral later." Thanks Teresa.

Please go over to her fabulous blog and see her great artwork. She is a wonderful teacher. The first project was called "defining you". We made a 2 page spread about our self. "Defining" our self. We used a color blending technique, found a picture of our self to use, and then came up with words that we thought defined us. Here is my take on it.


Here is the first page of my layout.


Here is the second page of my layout. I used the blending technique on my hand. It was a 3 step process. 1. color with a light color of your choice 2. Pick a color that is a little darker and color with medium pressure. Also color in different angles. 3. Take a darker color, outline the right side and bottom of your color. Take your first color now and pushing hard, "blend your colors". Pulling your highlight colors into the others.

Thanks for inspiring us Teresa.