imagine the possibilities

 I did a little creating today after not even feeling like getting out of bed. Sore throat, headache, but I did get up and several cups of coffee later, I felt better!

In my ATCFUN group I joined a mingle where we start with a 6X6 piece of corrugated cardboard. It actually turned out pretty well. The scan didn't turn out very well so I used my phone. It isn't great but it's a lot better than the scan.

It all started with a leaf. You know those dried up skeleton leaves that come in a package? You used to could get them. I've had these a long time so I'm not sure they still sell them. Just looking at them gave me several possible ways to use them. I finally settled on one. Although it changed several times along the way.

Hope you are having a Happy Day!

October Journal

The journal prompt for the 18th was to jump into a book or a movie and what character would you be. I really couldn't think of a book or a movie that I would want to be in unless I was a minor character like maybe the wealthy relative that "doesn't" get killed off. So I just put a couple of stick folk jumping into a fairy tale. Castles, knights, dragons and damsels helping the distressed.

Oct 18 Jump into a book

 The prompt for the 19th was Masks. The thing that came to mind were the Comedy & Tragedy Masks. I didn't realize until I was finished that I had used the colors from an earlier prompt. Lime green, purple and blue, which I really like together. I think it needs something though. Ya think? I'll have to work on it more.

Oct 19 Masks

The 22nd - What door in your life is begging to be opened? There are too many doors to just choose one! This is the first time I have tried anything Zetti-like. I think I like it.

Oct 22 What door to open?

The 23rd was Daydreams and Nightmares. I couldn't get a good scan of this for some reason but the butterfly is done in a shimmery watercolor paint that you can't really see in the scan.

Oct 23 Daydreams and Nightmares

The 24th was the Wisdom Monkeys, you know, hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil.

Oct 24 the wisdom monkeys

Thanks for looking.

October journal pages 3 - 4 - 5

I'm a little behind in posting these pages from my October Journal. I had them done on time (surprise!) but my scanner is a little persnickety so I waited until I had several pages to scan before I messed with it.

Last Wednesday we were to make a page to eradicate a fear. I had some trouble with this because I don't really fear something until it's pretty close to in my face. But here's something that I really watch for when I'm outside. I'm thinking this snake needs a cartoon caption. What do you think?

eradicate a fear

The background on Thursdays is a little "bleck" but I was trying out some dylusions spray and man do I need more practice! The lime green didn't show up very well. It's really much darker than the scan shows it to be. I did the background but this is a collage not a painting. Well, someone painted it, it just wasn't me!

Combine lime green, teal blue and plum purple

This last one was an easy one. I Praise my Lord so that's what came to mind for this one. My vision was of  real people but I don't do them very well so I opted for these. I think I need some work on lettering as well. And again the colors are somewhat brighter than they appear here. Maybe my scanner is trying to tell me something?

Praise

My Barney book turned journal is working out really well. It's probably the phone book pages and Gesso rather than Barney but I really like the way everything works on it. Watercolor is a little pale but I'll just have to figure it out as I go.

A steampunk challenge

This week we were given a challenge to do a "steampunk" page in our journals. I've never done anything 'steampunk' and started to skip the challenge but after some research I decided it might be fun. It was! I love all those gears and gizmos so I'm sure I will be doing more.

This is the finished page for last weeks challenge. I wasn't very happy with it.  Sometimes you just need a little help from friends. The ladies on the ATCFUN group are great at  that. It's better but I'm not really liking it. Well on to the next.

And another face. I think I'm doing a little better on the faces.

Confidence and Art

In one of my Yahoo groups we've been discussing confidence in our art. Some of us seem to have the same problem, believing that what we create isn't good enough. I think maybe instead of not being good enough I'm just not serious enough or not patient enough. I want the end result RIGHT NOW! I am going to work on my patience when I create. (I think it's a little late to work on serious). 

It's so hot out I've been working on a few things inside. I added borders on the flower ATC's. they look more finished now. 

 I found this unfinished one in my stash so finished it. Kinda plain, I may do something else to it. 

Someone in my ATC Fun group hosted a Birds swap. It really pained me but I resisted, it was hard but I prevailed! So now there's an owl swap. Really? Like I can NOT join a swap with owls. I'm so weak. I only made seven owl ATC's.

I worked in my journal a little. Very little, but here is a page I did. Surprise! It's an owl!