Ashley's treat that she got from King's Dominion.
Today's 'school' is learning how to use our new smoker....
Clay & Jon split up a bunch of Hickory wood & we are smoking two chickens for supper tonight. It smells SO good outside.....the kids said it smells like the Fall Festival. Mmmmmmm!
Today's 'school' is learning how to use our new smoker....
Clay & Jon split up a bunch of Hickory wood & we are smoking two chickens for supper tonight. It smells SO good outside.....the kids said it smells like the Fall Festival. Mmmmmmm!
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OK, here's the beginnings of my art journal. I am having so much fun playing around with this. I have so many ideas floating around in my head all the time & I am so loving looking at all the different blogs I've come across through this.
I started off with the thoughts of keeping a Gratitude/Art journal & realized that this was also a good place to include special scriptures that I come across on a day to day basis that I want to remember or that mean something special to me on a certain day...
This is a combination of water colors & acrylic paints. I absolutely LOVE the way water colors look & the way they 'crumple' the page as they dry.
These two pages were so fun to do....both pages have a base of gesso, a torn page from an old book glued down & kind of painted over. The first side I used an old vintage Valentine cut-out, spritzed some walnut ink all over, stamped the word 'LOVE' & then painted the gold dots with a pencil eraser. The flowers on the pink page were just some scraps of scrapping paper that I had saved....cut them apart & pieced them back together here & then outlined the whole thing with black acrylic paint.
The background for this was done with watercolors & the rest I just borrowed Alli's water based markers & doodled away.
I really like how this one turned out. This was the page shown previously that had been stamped with TP tube dipped in acrylic paint. I went back the other night after my devotions & filled the circles in with several verses about rejoicing/praising the Lord. The next day, I doodled around them all with my black pen & then even later, decided that the whole thing needed some color & so I broke out the water colors & voila! I LOVE it!
Just a bunch of water color painting over gesso....outlined with black pen & just awaiting whatever I decide to do with these pages. It just hasn't hit me yet. LOL
This is another page with acrylic background & then scraps of paper used to piece together my design & black paint outlines the whole thing.
Someone left a half of an apple on the table yesterday & while I was fixing supper I grabbed my paint & painted it & then stamped in my journal. I immediately knew the verse I wanted to use with this.
A couple pieces in the works here. I found this 7 of hearts card & knew I needed to use it somehow to represent our family. So far, I've water colored the background, glued down a piece of a doilie, the card & some buttons. The card has a very thin coat of gesso on it....just enough to give me some 'grip' so I could write......I outlined the hearts & put each one of our initials on a heart. Will see how it all turns out in the end. I LOVE this other little tag that I had saved......the texture of it was like water color paper to begin with so I painted it & now I need to add some cool ribbon or funky fiber to it & see where that takes me.........
I started off with the thoughts of keeping a Gratitude/Art journal & realized that this was also a good place to include special scriptures that I come across on a day to day basis that I want to remember or that mean something special to me on a certain day...
This is a combination of water colors & acrylic paints. I absolutely LOVE the way water colors look & the way they 'crumple' the page as they dry.
These two pages were so fun to do....both pages have a base of gesso, a torn page from an old book glued down & kind of painted over. The first side I used an old vintage Valentine cut-out, spritzed some walnut ink all over, stamped the word 'LOVE' & then painted the gold dots with a pencil eraser. The flowers on the pink page were just some scraps of scrapping paper that I had saved....cut them apart & pieced them back together here & then outlined the whole thing with black acrylic paint.
The background for this was done with watercolors & the rest I just borrowed Alli's water based markers & doodled away.
I really like how this one turned out. This was the page shown previously that had been stamped with TP tube dipped in acrylic paint. I went back the other night after my devotions & filled the circles in with several verses about rejoicing/praising the Lord. The next day, I doodled around them all with my black pen & then even later, decided that the whole thing needed some color & so I broke out the water colors & voila! I LOVE it!
Just a bunch of water color painting over gesso....outlined with black pen & just awaiting whatever I decide to do with these pages. It just hasn't hit me yet. LOL
This is another page with acrylic background & then scraps of paper used to piece together my design & black paint outlines the whole thing.
Someone left a half of an apple on the table yesterday & while I was fixing supper I grabbed my paint & painted it & then stamped in my journal. I immediately knew the verse I wanted to use with this.
A couple pieces in the works here. I found this 7 of hearts card & knew I needed to use it somehow to represent our family. So far, I've water colored the background, glued down a piece of a doilie, the card & some buttons. The card has a very thin coat of gesso on it....just enough to give me some 'grip' so I could write......I outlined the hearts & put each one of our initials on a heart. Will see how it all turns out in the end. I LOVE this other little tag that I had saved......the texture of it was like water color paper to begin with so I painted it & now I need to add some cool ribbon or funky fiber to it & see where that takes me.........
1 comment:
Amy, I love your journal! My fav so far is the tp circles and the way you filled in the scriptures and colors! Keep it up, girl!
blessings!
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