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This is something I'm working on right now for my art journal - I actually love the contrast of colors and the way it looks at the moment but I'm far from done with it yet, it will probably change in the next couple of days. Ideas keep popping into my head that I haven't concretized just yet and I'd like to experiment with a few more things.

  

I love my Fish bowl (it holds various things on any given day...candy, spare change, scraps..today it is a container for water while I'm "watercoloring" my art journal page.  To the right is my art/vision board, can you see that I love color? I think my board is too small now for me, I might just start sticking stuff to the walls, LOL!

I've also prepared another page for my weekly based journal calendar page (no picture yet!), I think I'd like to continue with that style and insert it along with my single page art journal pages.  There are a lot of things I would like to experiment with and I'm feeling quite adventurous.  Gone are the inhibitions of the past and fear of whether or not the work I'll do is good enough or that my art will be open to criticism.  I simply create for myself and the process of creating and journaling is so cathartic, healing, fulfilling - it is just a bonus when someone else appreciates your work.  There is simply no sense being afraid to create just because there are countless others better than you.  Appreciate, learn from them, practice, nourish your spirit and pass on what you learn.  It is the journey that counts and how we touch the lives of others while on that journey. 

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Enzo the Ink Dabber :)

I'm very proud that my son Enzo loves to draw.  I believe he can draw even better than I do, way, way better.  I hope to be able to nourish this ability he has because I see that this is his passion.  I was so inspired by what Gennine did (she was our inspiration for Itinerary #2 of the Art Journal Caravan), she created an illustration blog to showcase her children's work, check it out here. Boy, these children are as gifted as their momma! How wonderful to be able to live that kind of creative life.  Kudos to Gennine, she makes it all look so effortless.  Go visit her site and look at her pretty birdies and lovely art.  Ah, my heart and soul are really meant to be on this journey....

Taking my cue from her site, I created a blogsite just for me to be able to post my son's drawings...and just so he knows - I truly believe in his talent.  Its called The Ink Dabber (he loves drawing with ink at the moment and maybe just maybe he will grow into the site and learn to handle it himself when he is a little older.)  I haven't put anything in it yet but I'll be posting a link on my sidebar once I've done so.

This is what he's into at the moment, he came to me yesterday saying "Mom, I have a drawing for you and I'm sure you will like it." By golly, for sure I do! 

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An image I drew for a wedding album I just finished creating, the art was inspired from an image I saw, gosh I went through all my bookmarks looking for the specific site and artist but it escapes me now - she draws doodles on shadows and I love, love, love the effect.  So created my own shadow looking girl - more like those main street silhouettes and doodled on her skirt and bodice to look like a wedding gown, with silver glitter gel pen.  This composition though is not how I used it for the album because I made it my own here with the journaling.

Journaling: I feel the little changes going click click click inside of me...they are even louder than they used to be.  It always feels this way when I am more in touch with my artistic soul.  Like so many windows are opening up inside me allowing my spirit to fly freely in and out.

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Art Journal Pages #3 & #4

I haven't got much time to post but I'd like to share with you my two new art journal pages.

P.S. Just found out that my layout was featured in Gallery Standouts! Whoohooo! What an honor! Thank you Sandra :)

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Happy 2010 to All!

Hello 2010, so glad to meet you!

I joined the Art Journal Caravan hosted by Tangie Baxter over at Scrapbookgraphics.com - finally had the guts to try creating my own art journals using collage and mixed media. I love it! This art has always appealed to me and I am having a really grand time creating. I wish I could spend each and everyday creating stuff like these and learning new techniques and approaches to this art.

We were asked to think of one word to focus on for the whole year - I chose "LIVE". It seems to me that to have all that I wished for, I needed to stop telling myself I can't do it because of this and that reason and to just live! Live the dreams...live creatively...live without fear, live masterfully, live without regret....and embrace life to the fullest.

I decided that since I have been wanting to learn how to do collage and mixed media art, I would create my pages on paper. Here are my first two journal entries:

You can find them at the scrapbookgraphics.com gallery too ;)

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Saying Goodbye to Digiscrap Designing...for the meantime

Well its official, I'm saying goodbye to my short stint as a digi-scrap designer at Bouquet of Pixels for the meantime. Life has a way of taking over and no matter how hard I try, I could not seem to find the time to create kits on a fixed schedule. Joni has been very nice and very patient with me and I'd really like to thank her for giving me the chance to participate. I do hope that when everything is in place I do get to start digiscrap designing again. Of course, this does not mean that I will stop doing digi-design work, just that I really can't promise to keep up and continuously produce kits and digi elements on a consistent basis.

My stuff over at BOP will be removed from their store and so I will be hosting the items over here at my blog for the meantime if anyone would be interested to purchase them.

I've also got a little wordart freebie I created for a page I scrapped:

Here is the page I scrapped:

And here is the download link:
SASSYINDY_WORDART_INYOURARMS.zip


ENJOY!!

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