Get back up...

Once, there was a time that I created two or three pages like this in a week...now it is taking me a month to complete three pages.
But..as I am a positive thinker...three is more than creating nothing at all! So, to keep up with my blogging frequency once a month now, here are the newest pages in my pizzabox journal.
It seems like I'm in a flow using 'heads, flowers, birds and butterflies...and some fish!'

I started decorating the cover of my journal too. I decided to give it a metal look, inspired by this video on YouTube:

The front:

Omnia Causa Fiunt means: Everything happens for a reason....

There is an extra flap on the right side, where I added some gears to symbolize my brain:

And the back:

As soon as I have finished all the pages in this journal I hope to find a way to bind it all together.

To be continued!

TFL!

Sandra

Happy!

I'm very happy with my last three pages, in my pizzabox journal. I bought some new paint in all the colors of the rainbow and painted twelve new backgrounds in one session...
Three have ended up like this:

I love rainbows...

TFL!

Sandra

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