Created By Hand Challenge: Pastel Colors

All Stamps by Quietfire Design

Background created using Lyra Aquacolor Crayons

And darn it-they never scan as nice as they REALLY look in person.

Twilight Movie Trailer

In reference to my previous post for Twilight :)

Dazzle Me

Okay. I know, I have it bad. All that comes to my mind right now are the words "Dazzle Me."

Sigh. Those of you who read the Twilight series will know exactly what I am talking about. If you don't, you NEED to!!:)

On this journal page today, I used Acrylics, old text, graphite, and alphabet stamps. The larger alphabet is one I carved myself :)


I confess, my heart just flutters for Edward Cullen! But please don't tell Robert. Oh wait, I think he might already know!

TMTA: Colorful

This week's theme at TMTA is Color!

Stamps and collage image by Inka stamps

RED

A couple weeks back, one of the Artistic Alchemy workshop assignments were to find out own colors. Well today I realized that RED is really my color for anxiety, stress, sadness, whatever.

Today the color red spoke to me, after the day I have had. Here's an emotional page.

Its always hard to share these.......I will probably go take a nap when this is done. Its hard to be honest sometimes, and believe me, I wish every day was happy but today has not been a good one, at least this afternoon. Then again, I realize realistically, we all have hard days, thats the brutal truth. Knowing that makes it easier to share these sorts of pages. Oh well, it did help to work through it and I am thankful to be able to pour my feelings out onto my journal pages.

stamping with inkastamps

I did a couple things for Inka today :)

Where are they at now?

I often wonder, when looking at my very large collection of old pictures of these "instant ancestors" , where they are now. Who they are. What are these people like.

This page uses:

Old text, handtinted photo, gouache, peerless watercolors, vinyl letters, rubber stamping (sequin waste by Inkastamps), masking tape, calligraphy ink, gesso, collage,

Just chopped my hair off

I swear i have been so sick of my hair I almost did a "Britney" but restrained myself!

I did chop it off though........like I mentioned in a previous post I DETEST pictures, but here is one with my short hair. My Hairstylist went crazy over it-she loves it! As for me, it will take a few days. I just worry about looking like a guy! I don't want to look like a guy! :(

Wednesday Stamper: Newspaper!

This week's challenge at Wednesday Stamper is using newspaper. I have some really old newspaper clippings in my stash so was able to put them to use for this!

The stamp images I used here are by Quietfire Design

Background created with Caran D' Ache watersoluble crayons and gesso.

Butterflies

These old illustrations really spoke to me today........and being summer is in full swing it seemed perfect today with the mood I am in. I love butterflies anyway, and was excited to be looking through a vintage book with a slew of these fantastic illustrations.

This journal page contains :

Gouache

gesso

calligraphy ink

doodles with a sharpie

Prismacolors (colored pencil)

graphite

and collage, of course