Journal'age

This week our Dar Challenge was Aquatic life; as is the Dar'way our choice as to what that is, what it means or what we want it to mean. Because I recently (LOL just checked - maybe not so recent) did a mermaid page, I opted not to do another one . . . sorta, well it's not really a "mermaid".

Johnny and I had a super Date Day this past Sunday (yeah sorta a subject change) After our lunch and a movie we lounged on the sofa watching TV and I mentioned to him about Dar's challenge this week. . . we joked around about poor Aqua Man, the not so super super hero (hey our opinion). Laughing I said, hey maybe I'll carve a fish stamp, cause I don't think I have any fish. And Monday while I was (yeah another subject switch) while I was doing stuff around the house, something I was doing (it doesn't matter what) was not going so well and I got sooooo MAD. I mean really MAD, so mad I was crying and all that kind of junk. I know, right? So I tossed down (NOT threw) my tools and stomped out of the house straight into the studio.

Awww that's the place to be. I remembered the fish and checked my stamps. . . Nope don't have any. Soooooo I drew a few out. Um really Jamie that's way to big, lol it was almost 5 inches long. What was I thinking? But two of 'em I liked. . . so I transferred my drawings onto my SpeedyCarve pink stuff and carved away. Then I stamped my fish onto the pink stuff and carved some more. ^5 I like 'em

I was just gonna tweet the above photo to Dar, but though no. . . I need to actually use these cute fish. And I did this Not really a mermaid, mermaid Journal page

The face is #8 from this year's 29Faces in Feb challenge; and yes her head is a pocket. I like doing that. It makes sense ya know, my head has secrets stuff in it and the faces I draw and paint can hold secrets  stuff / journaling too.

that is all except with this blog font the exclamation mark ( ! ) looks like a lower case L l - !

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Oh hello

Journal’age

This is how I wanted to show off ArteDar’s challenge this week, a bug or insect, but alas I didn’t get it finished until after the cut off time. Fortunately for me I at least got the dragonfly tweeted to @ArteDar.

A bit of background about this page: the face is from this year’s 29Faces in Feb #21. Dana and I talked about her expression and we both agree that she looked like she had just popped around a tree and found a cute bug, or maybe a bird. But because this was the bug/insect week I chose a dragonfly (love ‘em),

The background is a 12 x 12 scrapbook paper cut down to 8 ½ x 11, adhered onto cardstock. Tree trunk (or door however you look at it) is some Timmy card, the flowers are layered Tim Holtz tattered floral die; the leaves are (a gift from Dede that she had won but couldn’t use) Lawn Fawn die – stitched leaves die; the dragon fly is Elizabeth Craft Designs #712 die. Sweet girl is painted with acrylic craft paints.

And um yeah – Ta Dum

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Dar work

this past Saturday on her  uStream she challenged us to use a flower or maybe a fruit or maybe a veggie. I thought I would go with a flower. . . then the quote was spoken and so yeah Flower it was.

background sky was done first - marked the horizon with good ol' masking tape that I de-stickied (well we can't have it so sticky that it pulls the paper off) then I carded on some acrylic washes of - blue, royal fuchsia, light purple; again with the blue and fuchsia. Repositioned my tape and carded on two layers of green acrylic wash. Followed that with some finger painting of three different green acrylics. Next came the flower simple white cardstock with a black ink stamped flower. I then cut the stem and leaves from card and drew on 'em with black sharpie. I shaped the flower and leaves to have a little bit of popped up from the page quality. Finally I stamped the quote and date and then voila ( that's a french word that means ta dah!) it was done.

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DarWork

Umm that’s home work as assigned by ArteDar the challenge maker. This week was Women / Females of History – human OR alien, fantasy, whatever were also options.

I heard Luna call me, she was all like: ’Hey I’m female. I’m mentioned frequently throughout history. Commonly referenced to as Female and that means a girl ie woman.’ Then she started spouting off words and phrases and so yeah, I had to write a poem to quieten her down. {that word looks really weird – quieten}

Here is the journal page – with journaling (poem’age) so that counts as TWO ENTRIES.

Poem reads:

The Oldest Female

                        .I know

She guards in the darkness

With her strength of light

She beckons the wild

And the poet to song

She brightens lover’s eyes

And even calls the babe to be born

On the hottest of days

She backs up the Sun and

Then she cools and soothes

Dear Mother to rest

From blue, silver and white she shades

Then misty and red she mourns

She even dared to say cheese

When the astronauts came

Within her cycle is the power,

Power to change even the tides

 ~~~end of poem'age~~~

ps What's on my Easel @BladeTheArtist

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Dar's Homework

This week was a Bird and y’all for serious all I could think of was the word “Bird” so I found some letters that spelled out B – I – R – D {did y’all say each letter or just the word - cheater}

It is a journal page – la la la um, err; chip chirp cheep {insert musical sounds}

So I pulled a Dede and made my {one} bird tell a story. . . if ya read the caption / sentiment {whatever ya want to call it} you can see the progression as the bird goes from dark’age to bright’age and then to true freedom. {yep that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.

Full page 8 ½ x 11” cause that’s how I roll, background is scrapbook paper cut to size. I used die cuts and glued ‘em on and made the cage 3D {don’t know if it will stay that way - squish'age}, the wings on the smaller birds are 3D’age and the eye on the big bird is a brad. Serendipity that the colors worked out.

That is all

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