Carving my own stamps!

The stamp carving tutorials I've watched make it look easy...but I thought it was hard.  I got better by the time I got to the third little house.  I think its just one of those things that's going to take more practice.  I used black ink to stamp the three little houses over a Gelli printed blue card. I colored in some house parts using Ranger Distress markers.

Here is the link to the tutorial that I watched: Stamp carving

DLP challenge: draw a shape, repeat, color.

I met two friends at Paneras this morning to work on this weeks Documented Life Project challenge.  The challenge was to draw a shape, repeat it, and fill it in.  We took some circle and raindrop shapes and traced around them repeatedly to make birds.  We added beaks, legs, and filled in with doodles, and marker.  Fun to do and fun to do with each other!

Valentine for 27

 My Valentine Sweetheart has not changed in 27 years! 

He still makes my heart thump!

Cling stamp trick!

I do not own very many cling style stamps.  I much prefer the traditional wood block rubber stamps.  But every now and then I come across a cling stamp that I really like and I am willing to buy with a 40% coupon!  I love mason jars...I have three different mason jar wood block stamps and a mason jar die cut.  I loved the jar style and shape of this cling stamp I saw at HL this afternoon.  All stamps were 40% off this week, so it flung itself into my buggy!  When I got home I realized that I did not have an acrylic block big enough to use it.  My husband ran down stairs and came back with this sample flooring block from HD. It is highly polyurethaned on one side so the cling stamp did what it is meant to do....it clinged!  My husband says that these pieces are free in the flooring section. (Kind of like the paint chip cards are free.)  He says that he usually picks up one or two when he is in there and uses them for all kinds of little projects in his wood shop.  This was a perfect solution for me since I don't have very many cling stamps.  You could even use them to spell out longer words than will sometimes fit on the acrylic blocks.  Off to play with my new mason jar images!

Me and The Super Bowl!

I do not watch football.   The last ball game I watched(not really) was one at school because I had ball game duty! This is what I did instead...

Inspiration came from a video tutorial by Jessica Sporn that I watch this morning.

Journaling the last week in January

A whole month of art journaling....I have loved documenting my life and my inspirations in my journal this month.  I finished out the last week in January and started entering in the first two days of February.   I have been pouring over pinterest, blogs, and tutorial videos...I have so many things I want to try in my journal this month!  Here is how the inspiration played out this last week in January.

DLP: Open pin board and be inspired: "Bird Doodles"

Trying Gellatos over a Gelli printed paper.
Inspiration: Paper Source Calendar

Jan. 27- Feb. 2nd Planner page

Mini calendar of Feb. tip in.

Planner page set up for next week.

Is is Summer yet?

I need to be grateful for Winter but I am longing for Summer!

I used watercolors on watercolor paper, acrylic paints with a tree and raindrop stencil, gelli printed torn paper, and a quote printed from the web.