Slowly...very slowly....

...am I getting back into creating art and blogging...
Slowly...very slowly..life is beginning to get some grip on solid ground...
I moved, together with my three kids and my dog, to a new place which we can call home again. We moved back to the village where I grew up as a child...I feel extremely lucky that this little spot on this planet is ours now.
The summerholiday was spent painting...lots of paint!...redecorating, cleaning, packing our stuff and moving.
Now, all the boxes are unpacked! Which means my art journal supplies were screaming at me...Use me! Use me!
Which I did....yeah!
First of all I will show you two pages in my pizzabox journal I made in the beginning of July, before I got all caught up with packing and unpacking my things.

(Body-part is from Crowabout Studio, I'm sorry, I can't remember who I have to credit for the crown...)

And these two pages are made last week:

(Border on the left from Tumblefish Studio)

I hope to be back soon to show you more...I really do! But life can be so unpredictable sometimes...

For now...TFL!!!

Going on...

Three more pages in my pizza box journal (size 24x24cm):

(Image from Girl Whimsy by Tumblefish Studio)

(Image from Girl Whimsy from Tumblefish Studio, text by Antonio M Arce, found on Pinterest)

(Image: body from Girl Whimsy by Tumblefish Studio, head from my own artwork)

TFL!

Sandra

Two more 'pizza box pages'...

(Image from Crowabout Studio, border on top from TumbleFish Studio)

(Border on top from TumbleFish Studio, image from my own art work)

TFL!

Sandra

Pizzaboxes recycled...

I started a new journal: a pizzabox journal! Not that I didn't have any journals to work in any more...but simply because I wanted to try something new. Apperently I'm not a person for a thick, fat journal with lots of pages but more a person of themed journals, with only a few pages...
I cut pages (size 24x24cm), leaving the fold from the box as it is and so I created a double page, with four sides to work on. I have decided to wait till I have finished enough pages before binding the journal.
I created a cover of a bigger pizzabox, but I still have to decorate this.
I cut three pizzaboxes, creating 3 times 4 pages and applied gesso to all of the pages. One afternoon I sat down with all my acrylic paint and randomly painted the pages with my fingers, trying to use lots of colors and shapes. (Good therapy, I can tell you, when you have lots of personal issues going on!)

Inspired by Kate Crane and Dawn DeVries Sokol I started doodling and adding text and images to my pages. I used Sharpies, Prismacolor pencils, washitape, rubons, a Faber Castell Pitt pen and a white marker.
Here are the first three pages:

(House image and 'Home' from Zetti Bird Junction, Crowabout StudioB )

(Bird image from Zetti Bird Junction, Crowabout StudioB )

So far, I'm very happy with how it all turned out. Hopefully more to show soon!

TFL!

Sandra

Deck of Me 2013..some more...

I haven't had the inspiration to work in my Deck of Me journal for weeks...untill last week!
I completed five weeks in a couple of days....
Here they are:

TFL!

Sandra

Doodling faces

Size A4. I cut out a black and white picture from a face in a magazine, glued it in my journal and simply doodled on top.

Same here...only now I cut the face in pieces before glueing it in my journal and added some color and text to my doodling.

TFL!

Sandra

Hello again...

I can't believe it is already more than one and a half month ago since I wrote here on my blog....
'Life' is still giving me lots of hard times. I feel like I'm in a kickboxing fight, undergoing and collecting all the punches and kicks and surviving each round...waiting for the final knock out...
Although, I still have faith in a good end for all of us. In a fight like this there are no winners, right? So skip the knock out and hopefully we can call it even...

My inspiration has been going up and down lately. Mostly I just don't feel creative...I read books and crochet a lot. Now and then I grab my art journal and try to paint or collage something. Sometimes I'm satisfied, sometimes it is more like 'oh, well...ok...for now...'
I have joined a year long challenge at a dutch forum, called 'Deck of Me'. During 52 weeks we get two prompts to write about in our journal or scrapbook something. You can chose to use both or just one of them. I managed to stay on track with this challenge (yeah!). I work in small altered book, which I bought in Sweden last summer. All my pages are about my divorce and how I'm handling all the changes, emotions and setbacks, searching my way for a new beginning.
I'm not going to show you all the pages in it, but here are some of them:

I know...not the style you're used to...which has something to do with the size of the book too. It is about the size of A5...way too small to make a decent collage! But just the right size to work on with a weekly prompt...

During one of the peaks of my inspiration, I found a new way to reproduce my artwork!

More about that later...but I can show you one page where I used my own design:

Recognize something?? 

To be continued...

TFL!

Sandra