Diva Challenge #377 and a photo bomb...

Diva Challenge #377

Duo-Tangle

featuring: Fengle and Pokeroot

I can't say I'm much of a fan of either of these patterns, but it was a fun challenge getting them to work with the previous weeks challenge.

Other stuff I've been doing:

My first attempt at Faux Gelli printing
In lieu of a $40 gel plate
I squirt the paint onto an .89 cent sheet of fun foam
and roll it with a brayer

then layering on some stenciling

I made a collage out of the paper I used to clean off the brayer

adding some stamping and stenciling to 

then I color copied it

playing with my new circle punch

I have several art journals in the works:

random watercolor backgrounds on the latest Trainwreck journal

My Travellers Notebook Junk Journal
the cover is made from sheets of baby wipes
I use in clean up from other projects
I glued several together to create a large sturdy sheet
ran it around the sewing machine several times
then finished it off with painty circles

the signature is made from a bunch of random papers 

including a coloring book page

I glue in fun things and there's space to write notes 

I coffee/tea dye index cards and use those to write notes,

 ideas and art prompts from my YouTube sessions at the cafe

I paint, stamp and art random pages

My 2nd Junk Mail Journal

literally made from junk mail
initially a challenge prompt from one of the Facebook groups I follow
but I have so much fun with this that I finished one
and immediately started another

I play with color combinations and stencils

Glue more stuff on...

Thanks for stopping by!

Diva Challenge #376 and other stuff...

Diva Challenge #376

String Theory

in the Trainwreck Journal

This is the plan

I just haven't gotten there yet

made a new Trainwreck

already makin' a mess;-)

Happy Mail:

Joey Van Oort sent me this great package of Italian Renaissance illustration,
 mostly from calendars
I used one to cover my Trainwreck Journal 
I love the giant whale stamp on the envelope
Thank you Joey!

A Flow-ish Journal I received from a swap partner

for the group Trashy and Flowish Junk Journals

It's a collection of decorative papers, images and ephemera

 one uses in the creation of Mixed Media/Art/Junk Journals

it's a great way to diversify your stash without adding to it

nothing is permanently bound or attached 

so the recipient can remove items to use in other art

it's a stash swap;-)

Thanks so much for stopping by. Your thoughtful and generous comments delight and inspire me😍

Diva Challenge #375 & My Week in Art...

Diva Challenge #375

Use My Tangle: "Burtz" by Fabienne Blumberg

I saw this version of a simplified "Mooka"

on Jem Millers blog The Ragged Ray

The Trainwreck Art Journal

loved the streaky nature of this page 

I'm in the process of making a couple of art journals including another Trainwreck journal and I finished this for a swap:

For Trashy and Flowish Junk Journals FB group Signature Swap

This signature consists of two 8 1/2 x 11 inch pages, folded in half to create 8 pages decorated using purple, orange, black and white as the color parameters.

Pockets stuffed with tags, postcards and other bits of paper ephemera

There was no theme but I had the last bits of some fun, masquerade, decorative papers and an eclectic assortment of costume history/decorative art images.

a handmade envelope paper clipped onto the back page...

...filled with little bits of ephemera,
 hand painted stickers
 and a washi tape sampler on a library swipe card

Thanks so much for stopping by. Your thoughtful and generous comments delight and inspire me 😍

Diva Challenges and other artsy stuff...

Diva Challenge #374

"Splotch- tastic"

&

Inktober Day 30

The Botanical Series

This couldn't have been a more perfect challenge for the Trainwreck Sketchbook, which is to say not a challenge at all since splotchy messes are what it's all about 😉

I've been seriously off my Inktober game this week but managed some doodly bits here and there.

The splotchy pages

Diva Challenge #373

Non- dominant hand

I did this early last week and though I always react to this challenge with an audible groan, I always have fun with it. I looked to the Inktober prompts as the jumping off point. Narwhal seemed like a safe bet seeing as the wonky factor might work in my favor. The rest just appeared where it wanted 😉

Inktober Botanical Series

Days 27, 28 & 29

I've been noodling around on this for several days from a page actually started months ago, but as a whole, my Inktober botanicals fell by the wayside. I, once again, fell down the art/junk journal rabbit-hole, finishing off the latest Flowish Journal for a swap going in the mail today for another FB group Trashy and Flowish Junk Journals.

This Flowish Journal is a collection of junk journal fodder assembled from my stash of images, papers, postcards, stickers, notecards etc. accumulated from over 20+ years as a theatrical costume designer and student and my current occupation as a Cheesemonger in a small specialty food market.

I collaged a file folder with tea bags, tea tags and tea bag packets. Junk.

Decorative napkins fun for collage

and color copies of my original butterfly drawings

there's a hand painted envelope made from a magazine page

I have a lot of lovely costume history images

Museum postcards

hand made tags and journaling cards

 and playing cards I got during a trip to France

spraying coffee through stencils

The small photograph in the corner is a hidden paper clip

And lastly, a few things from what has become my most favorite journal ever. It was instigated by a challenge at the Facebook group Trashy Smashy Funky Junky Journals last month. I just finished this one, well, that is to say that there's paint, images and words on all of the pages. I could noodle around in this for ages.

Junk Mail Journal

made from one week's worth of junk mail 😉

Grocery store advertising covered with painty calligraphy paper...

...and envelopes  painted, stamped and stenciled...

...then decorated with images from an open art studio directory I picked up at the library 

and words from several free publications available at my neighborhood cafe...

...adding more stamping, doodles, framing and shading.

 My favorite play space to experiment and have fun!

Thanks so much for stopping by! Your thoughtful and generous comments delight and inspire me😍