Week 8 and 9 Projects in Lifebook 2013

 Week 9 was to learn how to paint over a printed image with watercolor crayons and gesso! It was so much fun!!!! Love it, and it will be fun to do this technique again and again!

Week 8 was called unstumpification Technique. Elong..gating images ! The girl on the left was the original size, and the girl on the right is done using same image, just "unstumpifying. I struggled with this one at first..i didnt have the supplies  like she had so had to be inventive! lol  But in the end i love how it turned out and love the layout.
I am so enjoying this year long class...it really makes you step outside your comfort zone and it also teaches you so so much. I am LOVING it!

Vintage Friend Tag Album!

 Yummy papers by Glitz, Pretty in Pink. Love the pink and brown combo..pretty flowers , lace and rhinestones. 

Fourteen pages front to back....picture placements and journaling tags through out! I will be listing this on Etsy soon.....let me know if you are interested! Thanks for stopping by!

Weekly Planner Special Order

Here is a weekly planner I made for a customer...a lot of work and figuring on it...but the customer was pleased with it and that is what counts! It was going to fit 52 week calender pages but it was WAY TO FAT...so we decided to cut that in half and that seemed to work out a lot better. If you notice the final page has a pocket with a little note book and then the extra weekly pages tucked in behind to replace the ones used.  I didn't get pictures of all the pages they were not clear...so i just have a few to show you, but you get the idea of what they are like! I told the customer too in the end one could use it as a photo album and use the tags for journaling about the pictures! Double use!

LifeBook week 6....wow!

So I am doing this Art Class for the year....called LifeBook2013...and this is week 6 class....Called Celebration and Courage... Taught by the wonderfully talented Tamara Laporte! The idea was to celebrate you bravery from what you have been through in your life...and she taught us how to draw people using drawing techniques ! I am happy with how my girl turned out...so fun using the technique of basically using shapes for the parts then going back and smoothing things out erasing the shapes to show the figure! Then adding the clothes and so forth! The next part was to think of an animal that represents our courage/strength....I could not think of one that i really liked to represent that..the ONLY thing that came to my mind was Jesus.  I knew that behind me for my strength and courage in MY life was Jesus. So that is what i went with, you did a mask and did a spray technique and then i journaled on jesus one of my favorite verses...and I also did some journaling (that is what this class is about! journaling too!) and i think it turned out pretty good! how fun!!

Being Brave....Journaling Page

The terrifically talented Tamera LaPorte did a journal this past week on Being Brave. About dealing with your feelings and moving forward.  You can find her blog HERE where she gives step by stop details on how do do your own page!  So I gave it a go as this past week and weekend have been a rough one for me and I needed to let go of some of the load i was feeling... You start out with putting gesso on your page and letting that dry to prepare it for paint. Now Tam used different supplies then i did, I do not have the items she  used so I made do with what I had.  My page was painted with acrylics, and i used a variety of techniques to get the effect. I used an old credit card as did Tam, i used my brayer, paint brush and a lid . I scratched in the paint with the end of my paint brush  too.  BUT before you paint you journal on the page about what you feeling, thoughts whatever and don't be afraid to write it all out as it gets pretty much covered up with the paint, it is cool to have some of it show through the background though....you cant see mine as much as you could Tams.  Anyways, then you start doing the painting effects.  Let it dry then start your drawing, it doesn't have to be anyone it just have to be what it ends up being so just draw! Tam gives you good directions on doing that on her blog.  Shade , shade, shade...and then high light with some paint pen or marker, or just paint! Then write some words of what your feeling or needing or wanting to put out there.  Acceptance was my main word. Being accepted for who you are is a biggie for me. Showing compassion, and care and love , just accepting and loving. For the last five years I have felt such loneliness and non acceptance,  that I have never felt before....but even still if we don't gain it for ourselves, we can still give it to others. To finish...  She pasted a picture of herself at the top of the page so I added one on my page of myself. The printer was running out of ink and so that is the effect I got from it but it surprisingly fit the page. I love this technique of journaling and writing over the top...you will know when you look at the page what you wrote...it will be meaningful to you and that is what matters. This exercise was big time for me. I loved it...and more of this technique will be coming from my craft room into my journal.  Give it a try......

Baby Journal

I took a cheap comp notebook to make this cute little journal for my daughter in law for her sister who is having her first baby.  I had left over paper from the crate paper line that i cute out in rectangles and mod podged them to the front of the  journal. I also made sure I set them off  each row so it would have more interest. After getting them all glued on front and back I added one more layer of mod podge. After letting it dry I then sewed with my machine,  the lace onto the front and back edge. Punching a hole in the front and back for adding the ribbon to tie it shut, I added some green sheer ribbon. We dont know if its a girl or a boy so i didnt want to just use pink or blue , i used some yellow and greens and reds...and green seemed to stick out the most and so that is why i went with the green ribbon. 

Then i took some white acrylic paint and white washed the covers, and edge. I had a spray bottle of water with me too so that the paint would not dry to fast, before i could wipe it off.  After letting that dry, i took a tracing wheel and went up and down each row and across each end of the "quilt pieces" to make it look even more like a quilt.  

Next i took a saturated canary imange...isnt it adorable!? I colored it up with pro markers , added some stickles and glued it to the front of the journal. I cut out the tabs for the corners, again i used the tracing wheel on the image to make it look sewn on as well as the tabs too. I then added the BABY pennants that came with the papers. 

I added some more mod podge to the spine to make sure it would wear well.  I also painted the inside covers with white paint so that it covers up all the words and make it look more classy. 

I hope that Katie will enjoy it as she watches her baby grow! 

Fly Away Home, Journal Page

My Fly Away Home Art Journal Page!

I had fun coming up with this image and with this page. I find so much joy in creating these journal pages, so relaxing and fun to see what you come up with each time. How it starts out and then how it ends, at some point in the middle you wonder if it will work out at all and your about to scrap it! lol I like my crazy looking bird its so darn cute! I was inspired when my daughter bailee was wearing her brothers hat the other night, so cute on her, with the earflaps..so i decided to draw this girl up with that same style hat! I think i will create more scenarios with this girl maybe in different hats! lol 

Thanks for stopping by...remember the montly planner i posted before this  post is still available for purchase if you cant find it on ebay, email me at ibredrenee@ hotmail.com if you are interested!