Make a Joyful Noise!

The other day I was playing with Neuland and script written on coloured card stock using bleach.  I'll make bookmarks out of these eventually, but I love all the colours on my desk.  The lyrics are by Linnea Good, becoming a continuing series using her song based on Psalm 100.  More here and here if you're interested.

No Greater Burden

Many of my journals tend to develop a "theme" over time, even if they start out as more general purpose.  This old book journal is where I've been cleaning off my brayer and stamps during gelli printing, and I like to draw over these backgrounds.

Counting

In this journal spread I "counted" a number of goals accomplished:

• I used two flower stamps for my "Use Your Stamps Challenge"
• I cleared a scrap off my desk which I created trying out a rubbing/resist technique using a glue stick
• I worked in a small journal I started in 2003.  I'm trying to finish off some of my old journals.

Working Small

These are a couple of small (4 x 5) journals I'm finishing off.  I like working small because it is quick, seems less intimidating, and it gives me a chance to use some of my smaller stamps.

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Stamp Challenge Continues

I'm making my way through my box of flower stamps in August, finding some old favourites and identifying some to give away.  (See this post for more on this project.)  

This set of flower stamps was on my "doubtful" list, but I think I'll keep them now.  They're nice and big and offer solids and outlines, giving them lots of scope.

The background for this journal page is distress inks and stains over a few other miscellaneous layers in my old book journal.

Silly Scraps Saturday

This is a simple collage made of scraps, done in my Scrap Journal.  I made my Scrap Journal with my Bind-It-All, especially to hold these "warm-up" collages.  When I want to make something but I'm not inspired to do anything specific, I make one of these.  One usually leads to two (or more).  I got the idea from iHanna's "Every Artist Needs a Scrap Notebook" post.

Every Saturday I post one of these simple collages.  Thanks for visiting my blog and I hope you are enjoying the weekend!

No Glue No Stitch Books

At our last Vancouver Trading Card Swap Penelope taught us how to make no glue/no stitch books.  These are simple and fun and make great gifts for art friends; that's what I'll do with two of these.  The third I'll keep as a prototype.  Thanks, Penelope!