Blue...

This next weeks Summer of Color is Blue and I guess we were all just so excited we couldn't wait!

My Blue song to set the Mood...(Music moves me so you will probably see a lot of music in my posts as well. To music, there is color, for sound, color abounds)

 

Beautiful, beautiful Blue!

you

"There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine."

- Colette

 

I used the Glimmer Mist stencil and my Blue sprays

along with a combined doubled up set of old Creative Memories stencils for the edging

Blue bees and butterflies and Bloom decals

Blue flowers to represent a variety of blue

Blue Paris sticker and Blue dresses

Blue water and a Blue whale

Blue Butterfly's (since they are my Totem)

Blue dragonfly in the corner

Blue oh so blue...

The tools to make my Blueness...

Blue acrylic for the little painting I did along the left side

I even wore my Blue headband for inspiration

My Blue Glimmer Mist Sprays

MP to pull it all togeter

...and Acrylic Spray to set it!

Welcome Summer of Color! Week One (out of 10) What am I Gonna do?

Once upon a time, I fell upon this blog, which made me trip into another blog and then into another and next thing I knew I was  reading about this Amazing course called Summer of Color. It is free and for the next ten weeks starting today we get to explore and be creative with the aid of a fabulous person Kristin, gently pushing us along and opening our minds to creativity. Being a Social Media Strategist I offered my help and create a FB group for her. Here is how the course is explained...

"Each week, (summer of Color) will provide a color prompt. You then will have a week to complete your piece based upon that color. When you are done, simply post about it and link it (on her site)" from the following Monday on. Of course, you can also share your work through Flikr. Each week the color will change and we will get started on another piece. There will also be a giveaway each week for the participants of the challenge. Just leave a comment to be considered for the random drawing. The winner will be announced the following week. 

Whew, so in the end, it goes like this: 

* Come every Monday to find out what color we are working on

* Create art based upon that color

* Come back the following Monday (or within that week) to link your work and enter the giveaway

* Discover what the next week's color will be

 

The first Challenge for Week One is :What are you going to do? 

 

Simply post a picture in Flickr or on your blog along with your thoughts about your project. Please also include a link back to Twinkle, Twinkle so that anyone else who wants to join in can find us. 

So, What am I Gonna Do?

Whatever I want! :) Ok, really, I am thinking about a couple of things actually.

 

Tools for School :)

Mostly, Mod Podge related.... and things I can Collage...

An assortment of ideas...

Some Crayola Twist Pencils I keep in my Harjuku tin and some markers

Raised stickers and a variety of paper pieces, Mod Podge, some Acrylic Spray,brushes, stickers and misc items....

some journal books, Mary Englebreit cut outs from an old desk calendar, my embossing gun, my glue gun...

Thin Canvas boards of two sizes and some Natural and Regular Sketch Cards, some punch outs...

 

Basically a variety but mostly I will probably stay within the Collaging Theme and some techniques I have learned from Melody Ross through Soul Restoration.I can't wait to have fun in these next few weeks with this class.

Also, I have been encouraging my MALE friends to do this with me as it is NOT gender specific and ALL and ANY artists are welcome.

If you want to link back to your blog, post a comment below and add your Blog link. I will try my best to skip on over to say hi! Be seeing you for the next 10 Weeks! Keep coming back for more!

Promises Book

Many of the Brave Girls from Soul Restoration were left with a final task to do a Promises Book for themselves.

For my fellow Brave Girls, I took pictures of the Book all in one place and are posting them here. I hope this helps you along. I will write a bit about it more over on my other blog but here is an example of what I did if it helps you at all. For an up close reading on what is on each page please go to As Days Go By

The Beautiful Truth

Inside Cover and Front Page

Used Glimmer mist and words Melody gave us from Promises sheets

Some items leftover from our SR1 packets

Added stickers and items I bought at stores

After awhile I started using truths from the truth sheets

and words that emulate the promises I want to keep to myself

how I want to be and who I want to be

Wax paper cut in half to put in between so the pages don't stick

How I want to think of myself

To promise to remember I AM Fabulous!

and I AM a Beautiful Soul!

Unfinished pages still left

No cover or anything on back, just chipboard and a ribbon holding it all together

I hope this helped. Again. For more in depth take on the words and my thoughts on the book go to the ADGB blog. Love you all!

The dimensions are 6 x 8, Chipboard, Watercolor paper for the inside and then start laying down promises to yourself.

Be Kind to Your Soul Truth Card

I was in a creating mood the other day and I didn't have a lot of time, but I wanted to unleash that creative juices into my brain. I recently had picked up some items from Archivers and when I looked down at my table I realized I had all the items to do a little Birdie. Brave Girls is always asking us to submit a Birdie and so I thought, hey this might be cute and maybe I can enter my Birdie and it will get chosen.

I recycle a lot and so I used the back of the package the stickers came in and cut the top off. I think the backing card from KC & Company work great for little cards or Truth Cards like I make. Then I took some of my left over paper strips I had to make a little flowery grassy strip on the bottom.

I took the little stickers from the package and laid then around to make the corners and little flowers. Then I Mod Podged the Birdie with matte podge and stuck it donw like I did with the cloud and flowry grassiness.

I looked into my BG Truth Book I made a long time ago that I keep my Truths in and this one jumped out at me. It was elegant and simple and said it all. I cut it out and MP it onto the cloud.

Then I took Sparkle MP and went over the whole card. I used my blowdryer on a low setting to dry most of it and then let the rest dry. I snapped a few pics and sent it off to Kathy at BG and a few days later I was honored as the Featured Birdie for the Brave Girls Daily Truths

It was very exciting to be a part of something I love so dear.

and remember, you can create in many ways, try to take the time to Create Daily and live a fuller life by unleashing the creative juices in your soul

Morning Pages Journal Cover

I have been down and sick as some of you may know from my other blog. But I finally felt up to do something and wanted to create a nice cover for my Morning Pages that I will be doing that I learned and remembered from The Artist's Way. It is basically a place where when you get up you just write down your stream of consciousness. She says three pages, but I always just write until it pours out and I can think straight again. or at least the best assemblance to that, (I hear you all snickering out there)

So here is the Cover for my Morning Pages Journal

ignore the cards that is another project I will tell you about later

So I bought a Papyrus Card I found and cut it out

The bottom is a tear off from a magazine

Then the inside parts of the card

Mod Podged them all together and let them dry and tada...

The final product

                                                

I am happy with it for what it's purpose is. I jsut wanted something fun to write in in the mornings. This makes me smile now and makes me want to pour my thoughts out. The sooner the thoughts pour out, the junk gets out of the way, and the good stuff starts coming in and then...

We got magic baby!

Hope you enjoyed the Composition Journal Cover!