Okay, here it is, as promised, the weekly 365 Challenge
Prompts for week 15 (Days 99-105):
- A bad influence on me
- Self-destructive
- Sisters
- The color brown
- Mumbo Jumbo
- How does your garden grow?
- When I was young, I wanted to be…
It’s been a real trick keeping up with the challenge this
past week with all the preparations for our R. L. Turner Benefit Crop Party,
but here they are:
Day 92 - My morning routine…
I used this prompt to try out a technique I’ve been wanting
to use in my smash book. Last year on
our annual scrapbooking cruise, one of our participants was working on a smash
book of the cruise (while we were on it!).
On her opening page, she had some great journaling about their
experiences getting to the cruise and she used this technique that really
caught my eye. Spaced periodically in
her journaling, she used stickers instead of writing out words. I would give anything to have a picture of her work for reference, because it
looked so cool. My efforts pale by
comparison.
Day 93 - My deepest regret….
My regrets were really personal, so rather than share them
with the world, I wrote a bit of prose instead.
The background was one of my ready-made backgrounds. I tried to get a nice even chevron pattern
with a stencil, but the stencil was so thin that the paint bled under it. At first, I was displeased by it, but it has
grown on me. The legs with the
mismatched socks came from a magazine and yes, the picture was exactly like
that. I just cut it off the background.
Day 94 - What makes me, me?
Christen did a piece a while back where she took a bunch of
faces from magazines and cut them up to do a mix-n-match with their facial
features. It turned out really
cool. I wanted to give it a try, too,
but I used some leftover family photos I had printed out for another
project. Most of the pictures are of my
parents and grand parents, but there’s a great grand parent and an aunt or two
thrown in as well. I was really surprised
when I cut the faces apart that it would be so hard to match them up again, and
I was also surprised to recognize certain facial features that I share with
some of my ancestors. The background was
made by smearing my blank paper across my paint pallet after I finished another
project. There wasn’t much paint left on
the pallet, so I wet it first with a little spray of water before pressing the
blank paper into it.
Day 95 - If I could only teach you one thing
I found this mouse in a magazine and have been wanting to
use it for a long time. This seemed like
the perfect opportunity. I used a
paintbrush to dab paint through a stencil for the background and used various
inks to do the rest.
Day 96 - If my pet could talk, it would say…
This simple page is more journal than art. I used a brayer to make the background, and
the paw prints were stamped with Memento ink.
Day 97 - Safe
I tend to create my work in safe mode, mostly sticking to techniques I am familiar with or at
least have practiced a few times. This
time, I decided to try something new. I
saw a demonstration on how to draw a realistic eye, and I thought I would give
it a try. Mine is not as good as the
example in the tutorial. Part of the
problem is that I have very cheap colored pencils with limited colors and they
really don’t blend at all. The lips and
nose were pure accident…the paper I was practicing the eye on had somehow
gotten into some ink from another project.
I noticed it after drawing the eye, and deciced to make a face around
it. The hair and eyebrows are made with
paint.
Day 98 - Favorite season of the year
This background was made with some over-spray from another
project. Basically, I pressed the paper
onto the other paper to help absorb some of the liquid. I also tried out a stamping technique (the
butterflies) on it before using the technique on another project. The rest was simply a matter of stamping the grass and punching some little flowers
out of leftover cardstock.
That’s it for this week!
Now go be creative!
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