Art Journal Journey

The month is speeding by.  I find I have less time than expected, so I'll see about doing July or not. I'd like to though... Prompts appealing to me this week, relates to fabric and wall papers etc. The full lists of prompts can be found HERE I plan to use some of the stamps my sister gave me a few years ago. These stamps are inspired by textiles and quilts in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. I have used them so much on so many different projects! For fabric I looked for small cut offs that I have around and pieces that were not yet secured into my art journal! Day 22 - Started of uncertain, but I ended up with something I like well enough. Here the white embossed flower is from the stamp set. Coloured with alcohol inks and white embossing powder for the florals. Day 23 - I got pretty close to giving this one up for a lost cause...until those tiny white flowers saved the day. Still not crazy about it, but it will have to do. The large blue flower an...

The prompts for this week did nothing for me, but I did like the technique prompts which called for collage. I always have bits & pieces of interesting papers and 'stuff' around. It is more a matter of making the choices than that of finding something! I did want to be less random about the next 7 cards though so I decided to make a large background piece in Photoshop using a variety of tools and printed it in grey scale. This would give me a starting point for a thread that would allow me to create a cohesive set of cards. From here on I cut, tore, painted, sprayed and otherwise altered the original print. Day 15 -  I stuck the plain card onto the print and trimmed it out. That was when  I noticed the word 'commerce' on the bottom. That decided the 'theme' for me. I found a couple stamps to suit, dug into the postage stamp collection and found some stamps from Zimbabwe that suited the bill. They all have to do with commerce in one way or another...

This week's prompts is to use paints and there is a daily colour combination suggestion. Really really nice ones. Day 8 - grapefruit & cherry. I was still in the same 'mode' as last week. This is not very inspired... Day 9 - carrot and lemon. Also a left over from last week. Not a bad but had I just played with the colours and paint, both the last 2 cards might have been more vibrant. Day 10 - ginger & eggplant. Great colours together and the new stamp set that had just arrived begged to be used ;-) Day 11 - mango & lime. I finally broke out the (craft) acrylics and immediately wished I had done so before. This was very fast moving, imprompto and 'free' I had no idea if it will work, but I knew I liked the colours and I'm pleased with the card Day 12 - parsnip & kiwi. Not as vibrant, but I like how it turned out. The black splatters are the kiwi seeds ;-) It is much too easy to revert to spla...

Index Card a Day for 2015. This is my first go at the challenge over at Daisy Yellow. I hope to see it through at the same time I have no intention of stressing over it either. Got to keep a balance, right? My intention is to post weekly, on Sundays seeing as the challenge started on a Monday. I used inks, chevrons and stamping for this one. This using some of Daisy's prompt challenges. Again I may keep it up or I may just wing it some times. We'll see how it goes.(I do like the idea of a challenge though, just to see what I can do with someone else's ideas ;-) ) Day 1 Day 2 - I used the 'Carnival' idea prompt, but also the 2nd exercise/doodle idea from 'Keys to drawing With Imagination' by Bert Dodson. I've had this book for quite a while and like to spot read in it, but decided to follow the sequential exercises to see how it goes. Not too keen on the card for today, but moving right along. Day 3 called for a map...I decided ...