366 Art Journal/Calendar - Jan/Feb

YAY! I kept up with the January calendar every day and my February page is ready to go! If you are unfamiliar with this project, see my original post here.

So here is the January calendar completed:

The full January spread:

Here is February scrapbook side:

February calendar side:

and the full February spread:

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Fabulous Friday at Frosted Designs

This week at Frosted Designs we have a recipe challenge for you!

3 patterned papers
2 buttons
1 word title

Here is my layout:

One of the purposes at Frosted Designs is to use your stash, well, I can certainly say that I rarely buy any new product and this layout is proof positive - the paper is Scenic Route Loveland collection from at least 3 years ago, probably more like 4 or 5. It is really pretty paper though, the colors are very rich. The buttons I used are vintage, picked up from the button bin at the thrift store. Felt flowers are Queen & Co, other flowers and leaves are Prima, pearls are Basic Grey, distress ink is Ranger, and heart trim is from Michaels.

This page will be the left side of my February calendar. I will post the right side and my completed January calendar next week. You can see the original post about this calendar here.


I hope you are inspired to make a layout or other project using the recipe and link it up at Frosted Designs for the chance to win! The prize this week is THREE paper packs by Graphic 45 = holy wow!

Thanks for looking! I appreciate your comments!

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Scrabble Tile Shadowbox

I did not create this awesomeness - my daughter Sandy did and I didn't want my followers to miss out on it!
It was a gift for my mom and is the surname of my parents, their children and grandchildren. If you leave lovely comments for Sandy, I will pass them on! Thanks for looking!

Frosted Designs DT call!

Hey all you fabulous papercraftin' friends!

Frosted Designs is having a Design Team call!

I am staying on the team for the next 6 month term but some of the girls are stepping down so there are open slots!

It's an awesome team to be on 
so give it a whirl!!
Applications are being accepted 
until February 10th.

Here are the details: Frosted Designs DT Call

Scrabble tiles

 ok, I admit it, 

I drank the Scrabble Tile Kool-aid !!!!!

 Whoever started this craze is right, they're so cute and fun to play with! I WILL be using them in my projects, I promise. In the meantime they are fun to collect and decorate!

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 I shared this post at Life Made Lovely Monday - check it out!

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Fabulous Friday at Frosted Designs

This week's Fabulous Friday Challenge at Frosted Designs is to use paint. Here is a page from my art journal on which I've experimented with paints called "Pan Pastels".  The flowers and leaves are done using Pan Pastels, the black highlighting is done with Copic marker. The paint is creamy and lovely to work with and the colors are amazing! Imagine my delight when I discovered that the Staz-On ink I pounced through punchenella is exactly the same colors! The image transfer in the upper left corner and the tag in the lower right corner are by KandCo. The base is an old map and the alphabet stamp is by The Stamps of Life. Rub-ons and brad from my stash.
I hope you are inspired to try using paint on a project and share it with us at Frosted Designs!

 

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366 Art Journal/Calendar - January

I think that I am basically a generous, thankful, creative person and these things run as part of my base personality all the time. However, I decided that this year I need to bring these things to the forefront and consciously make sure that every day I am purposefully generous, thankful, and creative. I found the perfect vehicle to help me with this quest - I am joining Kate at The Kathryn Wheel this year for her 2012 366 challenge.

This book will be a year in the making and will be 

a hybrid Scrapbook/Art Journal/Calendar. 

My theme for this year is 

"Be Generous, Thankful, and Creative Every Day"

Here is my cover:

My book is 9"x12" and really is rectangular - the pictures look all wonky because when you add layers and layers of paint, paper, and decoupage medium the paper no longer lies flat!  Each month will have a calendar page on the right and a scrapbook style page on the left. The calendar page will have a box for each day to write something in for that day. At the beginning of the month the blank calendar page will be posted and at the end of the month the completed page is posted along with the blank for next month. These all get linked up at Kate's site, there are already 96 people participating this year! Hopefully we will all get to visit a few of each others blogs for inspiration and to leave encouragement.

The left side of my January page is not really scrapbook style, the idea hadn't really gelled in my head yet, but it's really pretty! It contains definitions cut from an antique dictionary of my three key words.

My other month's I do intend to do the left side scrapbook style.

So here is the left side of January:

And the right side of January:

And the spread together:

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Christmas page in art journal

Oh my, it's taken me so long to post!  I lost my camera sometime between Christmas and New Years Day. Fortunately, I had moved the pictures from Christmas day on to my computer so at least they are not lost. I realized on New Years Day that the camera was missing and I have been searching for it with no success. I found an old camera so was able to get a few pics to share with you.
Today, before Christmas is long forgotten, I want to share this page I made in my art journal.

Later in the week I will share a new project I've started!
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