Lori's Artsy Obsession

Sunday, January 4, 2015

Journal Pages

Happy Sunday,

This weekend I worked on a couple of journal pages. The prompts are from Documented Life Project 2014. I did not start the journal at the beginning of 2014, I actually just started it. I figure I can do the prompts in order from now till I finish them.

The page on the left was the prompt for week 14 and the instruction was "write your name and embellish it". I used watercolors to color the background, a paint marker to write my name, gelli pens to do the doodle and coloring.

The page on the right was the prompt for week 15 and the instruction was "Monochromatic". I used 3 color pink gelatos for the background. I stenciled on some pink flowers with texture paint, punched out the flowers with two colors of scrap paper and glittered them with pink glitter glue, added some pink dots with liquid pearls and doodles with pink glitter gelli pens.

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Sunday, December 28, 2014

Mini Album

Hi,

Today I would like to share a mini album I was commissioned to create. This album is just shy of 8x8 and had to have to include a cat, kayak, plant, and something to do with hiking.

This project is linked up at Jusy's Cardmaking and PaperCraft Blog If you have a few moments have a visit and check out all the great projects everyone made.

Thanks for visiting my Blog. Please feel free to leave a comment, I would love to hear what you have to say about my post. If you dont have the time to leave a comment please check one of the reaction boxes. I appreciate all feedback. Hope you can stop back soon. ((Hugs)) Lori

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Documented Project Life 2015

Good Morning,

I'm really excited to share a year long project that I signed up for. It's called Documented Project Life 2015 and it's free for anyone to join. Art to the 5th Academy is the website that will be hosting this wonderful project. They also have a Facebook group FaceBook - Documented Life Project 2015. I understand each week we will be given prompts to follow. I love this idea because I tend to lose my way when doing this type of project on my own. I am hoping this group will help me keep on track. So far the only thing I know is they are recommending the Dylusions 8x11 journal (although you are more than welcome to use any journal of your choosing) and most everyone is decorating their covers.

I purchased the 5x8 journal before I knew we would be using the 8x11 so I ordered the bigger one 8x11.

Here is the cover decorated on the 5x8 journal. I will use this for another project.

Here' is the cover decorated on the 8x11 journal.

I plan to add more to it as the year goes on. This is just a starting off point. I'm really excited about this project and can't wait till Jan to get started.

I hope this might peek your interested and get you started on your own Documented Life Project 2015.

Thursday, December 18, 2014

Yellow Butterflies: A Tribute

Here's a set of ATCs made for a swap titled "Yellow Butterflies: A Tribute"

I was playing around with some water color paints, oil pastels and markers, stamps and fabric. I'm not using the water colors correctly or maybe I'm using the wrong paper, I'm not really sure what I'm doing wrong. I think the colors are coming on to thick. The water color paint was from a tube and I added the colors to a tray and mixed with water. I guess I'm going to need a lot more practice with them to figure it out.

Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Christmas Squash Book

My project Friday night was a squash book for the office manager at my husbands work. I don't think she is a scrapbooker so I have included some extra journaling tags & embellishments she could add to the book along with a picture of one of mine that is completed with the journaling and pictures so she has an idea of what to do with it. I hope she likes it.

My project is also listed in the LinkUpLine at

Judy's Handmade Creations

Stop by have a look around and add your project to the line as well.

Sunday, December 14, 2014

I had company

Hi,

On Sunday 12/7 I was playing around in my craft room and I was visited by my Hubby and our good friend Jim. They came down with their cup of coffee just to keep me company. What great guys. The real truth is that it was way to cold for my hubby to be out in the garage like he planned, but we can keep that a secret hehehe!

Jim on the left - Hubby Dave on the right

(just in case your wondering... he does not work for Walgreens I do)

So first on the agenda was to get the first month of the Brooklyn project done. I just stamped and colored the balloons, present and cupcake with color pencils and used some gamsol to blend.

The second order of business was to complete Brooklyn's 1st birthday layout. I thought the first picture was cute. She didn't stick her hands in and squish her cake. She touched it gently with one finger and then leaned over to take a small bite. After she had her fill of cake she opened her presents and got a little push and ride ambulance. Now she can be just like her Auntie Tammy. She played with that all afternoon.

For the layout I stamped out and fussy cut Brooklyn's Birthday, used some birthday papers and stamped and colored the balloons, present and cupcake as I did in the project above. Added the #1 cupcake and flowers ( that is actually an iron on decal). After I glued the letters down I had an extra h. I thought to myself how did that happen oh well and tossed it in the trash. It wasn't till after I took the initial picture of this layout that I realized I spelled birthday and not birthday. In the trash I went to retrieve the h. Good thing I was able to place it where it doesn't look to bad. Oh well it's all good. Until next time....

Sunday, December 7, 2014

ATC SWAP

Hi,

I hosted an ATC swap and my swap partner was Dana.

I made the card and the ATC in the top row and Dana made the ATC and card in the bottom row.

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Project Brooklyn 2015

Happy Sunday,

This week I have started year two of my Brooklyn project.

For those who have been following my posts this is how I started the year one of my Brooklyn project. I have listened to everyone's comments, it was great advice and decided to continue on with year two. The layout will start in November with Brooklyn's birthday picture. I will get a picture of Brooklyn as close to the 17th of each month as I can to make that months layout.

I chose my background paper, made my 2.75 x 3.75 mats and stamped each one with the month. I wanted the mats and the months to match and then when I start doing the layouts they will still be somewhat uniform.

For those who have just stopped by, this is the finished project of year one.

I added this post to Judy's Handmade Creations Link Up Party. If you would like to see all the great projects this week click on the link. Feel free to add your projects to linky party too. Just remember to link back to her site.

Thanks for visiting my Blog. Please feel free to leave a comment, I would love to hear what you have to say about my post. If you dont have the time to leave a comment please check one of the reaction boxes. I appreciate all feedback. Hope you can stop back soon. ((Hugs)) Lori

Postage Stamp People

This weeks project was for another ATC Swap. The name of the swap is "Postage Stamp People". We were able to use and medium we wanted. This is what I came up with. This is also my first time doing Postage Stamp People.

Sunday, November 23, 2014

More JAMs

I spent a great day in my craft room. Made some ATC's for JAM's.

ATC = Artist trading card (2.5" x 3.5") in size
JAM = Just add more ( three people work on a set of three ATCs)

On this set of flowers I am starting the JAM with a set of bases. I used an old dictionary with yellowing pages for the base (taped to a heavy duty cardstock) then I stamped the flowers using a black archival ink and colored with spectra noir colored pencils. When I was done coloring I inked the edges. Now these are ready to send to the second person who we call a middler.

On this set I was the middler. I received these cards with the black background, gold edges,the rooster tag with a brad. I then added my touch with the black and white ribbon, word friend and the black fibers. Now I'm ready to send this off to the third person who will complete the cards and send one back to the first person and one back to me and keep one for themselves.

This set I received as the third person. The first person did the background, and added the legs, the second person added the coloring to the background and the washi tape. For my part I added the poodles and the ooh la la. I made the ooh la la by using a punch for the base lable, colored some white letters and added crystal laquer. Now I will keep one for myself, send one to the first person and one to the second person.

So my friends, that how the JAMming process works.

The best part of a JAM is once you get the cards you can take them in any direction you want using any medium you wish to use. On one of the previous JAMs I received as the number two player was a stamped pumpkin image on a white background. Most people would think to use colors of fall and turn it into an autumn themed card. Well I went in a different direction and used red, white and blue I have not seen the finished card yet as it has not made it's way back home. It's still in the hands of the third person. I guess getting your JAM back home would be another best part of JAMming.

Sunday, November 16, 2014

Fall Picnic

Good Morning,

Fall is my favorite time of the year and when I love to have picnics. The nights are chilly so everyone wants to gather around the fire pit to stay warm and you don't have to shoo away mosquitos. Instead of having just the normal picnic foods we also have soups and stews and things that are warm.

Saturday, November 15, 2014

There's Something Something Magical About The Sky

Hello,

There's something magical about the sky. I see myself looking up quite often and never seem to get tired of it.

The day shots are taken from a plane so I am actually looking down on the clouds. They remind me of calving glaciers.

The night shots had so many colors coming through it was amazing. I did not capture the true colors in these pictures.

I used sand color cardstock because both pictures had some of that color in them. Then I stamped the words, quotes and added the clouds with cream metallic chalks (just for the record, I am not a fan of the cream chalks and will not purchase again). Then to finish it off I sprayed some perfect pearls for the shimmer. I did place a piece of paper over the pictures while I stamped, stenciled, and sprayed.

Friday, November 14, 2014

Testing

This blog post is just a test to see if the scheduling a post works. I created this post on November 13 @ 6:15am and have it scheduled to post at 5:00am on November 14.

To make it interesting....I'm sharing this picture. A total blooper from the bread bag.

And it worked... I checked on November 14 at 5:29am and the post was posted. For once I figured something out on the first try.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Sticker Art ATC Swap

Happy Sunday,

I completed my ATCs for the Sticker Art ATC Swap over at ATCsForAll.com. Here's how they came out.

Saturday, November 8, 2014

Glue Dot Holder

I just wanted to share a tip on how I am going to store my glue dots for easy access. I purchased a toilet paper holder and put the glue dots in order by size. Now I have easy access.