envelope book

Last week I watched a video on making an album from envelopes. At  Follow the Paper Trail  . Most of the stuff she used I don't have so I improvised. I made the cover out of a frozen pizza rolls box. It's really heavy cardboard, and covered it with brown grocery bag paper. I have no clue why I made it. I'll never use it and I don't know anyone that would use it. I worked on it for three days but I enjoyed messing around with it. Here are some photos of the finished product. I took them with my phone so I can use that as an excuse if they aren't so good!

It's hard to see the colors but the pages, flowers and tags are all black, beige, tan and white.I didn't photograph the tags. They are just blank with a small pull tab on them. I made all the flowers and leaves with heart punches and added clear and mirrored rhinestones in the flower centers. I've had this paper a while and never knew what to do with it. Some of the pages have flocking. I think it came out pretty well.

Front cover

I've been working on a few more things but can't show them until after the recipients receive them.
Thanks for looking.

The Last Page

I finally finished the last page in my October Journal. The prompt was to draw the outline of a skull and fill it with things that remind you of a loved one.  This is for my Dad, "Pop ZJ"

October 31 memories of a loved one

My Dad was one of those guys that could do anything he set his mind to, but would rather be fishing. We spent some great times on the banks of  fishin' holes. Most times fishing far into the night and sleeping in the truck or on the ground. He started smoking when he was 9. He died in 2001 of emphysema and lung cancer, He was 79.

My Dad before he was sick.

Two more pages for the October Journal

It's taken me a while but here are two more pages from my October Journal from Blissfully Art Journaling Yahoo Group. I am definitely not a page every day person.

The prompt for October 29th was to use a color that you don't normally use. I finally came up with what  looks like an old green olive that's been lying around for a few days. Although the scanned picture came out looking brown rather than green.

OCT 29 color not normally used

The prompt for the 30th was to describe an October day. Although this October it was mostly 70 degrees F and above the leaves did change. The colors are not showing up as well as I would like on my leaves. Maybe its time for a new scanner.

Oct 30 describe an October day

Thanks for looking.

October Journal pages 25 & 26

I finally finished the Journal pages for last week.

The prompt for the 25th was What's Outside My Window? This is basically what's outside my window - if you ignore the fence, the overgrown weeds and the two disintegrating chicken pens on the other side of it. (Which I did). Then this is close. Mostly.

Oct 25 whats outside my window

The prompt for the 26th was - A different view outside the window and in her dreams she could fly.
My "Dream" place to live would  have snow capped mountains on one side and a beach on the other.

Oct 26 She Could fly

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.

Friedensriech Hundertwasser

On the journaling group we were to do something in the style of Friedensriech Hundertwasser. I'm not really a fan so I had to talk myself into doing it. I may have been able to come up with something better if I would have worked at it longer but I just got tired of it. Here's my page. Thanks for looking.

In the style of Friedensriech Hundertwasser

Copy Cat

This weeks journal challenge was Copy Cat Creativity. We were to copy or make our own version of the Edvard Munch painting, The Scream. I think the painting is totally creepy and don't care for it at all so it took me all week to get to work on it but I finally came up with something.

challenge 10 Copy Cat

If you would like to join in the weekly challenge they are posted every Monday on Raevens blog.