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Life documented 

Week 32: prompt: make a pocket out of a tag. Technique: collage, paint and stencil. Quote: I wish to live a life that causes my soul to dance inside my body( Dele Olanubi)

Colour me positive 

Week 32: orange frame / image: lizard on a leaf / quote: adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

Week 33: Forest green frame, image: elephant in the forest. Quote: choose your love, love your choice 

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Art journal journey 

Image: puzzle game piece. Word: solve. Prompt: write about your favourite game. Technique: incorporate puzzle pieces onto your page. Quote:  it’s always the small pieces that make the big picture.

Image: Apple. Word: learn/school. Prompt: write about a memory or situation relating to school. Technique: use a watercolour wash for your background and texturise it with wadded up the paper or plastic wrap. Quote: Sometimes you win, sometimes you learn.

Added bits to mostly made pages for these.....

Part 3

Life documented 

Week 30

Layers & stencilling, quote: do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path & leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Week 31

Theme: Travel. Prompt: Use map paper. Technique: Create and add a pocket and fill it full of your week’s treasures.Quote: “ Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” Dalai Lama

Art journal journey 

Image: earth/world/map/globe. Word: dwell. Prompt: write about your favourite place to visit. Technique: incorporate a map into your page. Quote: happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.

Continued...

Colour me positive 

Week 30

Aqua frame / dirty pour/ the wisest mind has something yet to learn. George Santayana

Week 31

Pale blue frame, image is an outdoor patio in the sun, quote: dreaming, after all, he is a form of planning (Gloria Steinem)

Still fighting with the Blogger app........

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Catch-up time as I've been a slacker....

Art journal journey 27

Image: flag or symbol. Word: honour. Prompt: write about the best thing that happened this week. Technique: incorporate tissue paper into background. Quote: The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be. Sophocles. 

I did a basic digital image for this and printed it out on my return!

Week 28:

Image soap. Word:  Clean. Prompt: write about your relationship with cleaning . Technique: find a way to use soap on your background. Quote:: soap is to the body what laughter is to the soul.

Another digital page....

Week 30

Image: alphabet. Word: write. Prompt: what are your highs & lows this week. Technique:: learn a new style of lettering & incorporate into your page.  Quote: you don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.  F Scott Fitzgerald 

CMP

Week 27:

Yellow orange frame. Be on a flower. The wisdom you seek is within you.

Week 28

Blue frame. Tents under starlit sky. I have loved the stars too fondly to be afraid of the night.

Week 29:

Pink frame, runners on the start line, quote: knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. Aristotle

Life documented

July: travel Theme: Travel. Prompt: Make a (watercolor) sketch of one or more buildings you like. Technique: Urban sketching. Quote: I want to make memories all over the world

I've used the business card for a local hotel where we like to dine on 🍕 pizza!

Prompt: create a whimsical scene. technique: mixed media collage. quote: follow your soul. It knows the way.

Prompt: Use your own photographs. Technique: Creating a multidimensional page using layering and ephemera. Quote: “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” Terry Pratchett

Meanwhile we are having a fun time with the puppy!