tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3725123360952743712024-03-13T23:22:34.121-07:00*Creations For A Star*Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.comBlogger530125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-21014909661221386762022-08-21T07:11:00.000-07:002022-08-21T07:11:10.181-07:00Funky Cactus<p style="text-align: center;"> Well it's been a long time! </p><p style="text-align: center;">I took quite a hiatus, plus we moved, and did a full renovation of our (new to us!) 45 year old house! </p><p style="text-align: center;">That was fun and interesting, and stressful at times as well! There is nothing quite like living in a house that's being renovated! But the best part was waking up one night and having finally made a decision on taking out a wall I just went at it with a sledge hammer! </p><p style="text-align: center;">I am so blessed to have a HUGE crafting space now, and God has given me time each morning to spend with him, and then I get to work on my crafts. The ideas are definitely flowing! </p><p style="text-align: center;">Saturdays seem to be my biggest crafting day, I get my coffee, I do my devotions, and then I dive in! I have had a renewed love of my Big Shot die cutting machine! Like seriously, I almost got rid of it in the move! But with Tim Holtz's new chapter 3 release I have been going gangbusters on this thing! </p><p style="text-align: center;">Then I found the Funky Insects, and the Funky Cactus! WHAT! I am so in love with both of these sets of dies! Yesterday I had this idea to use an old Ikea frame I had in the craft room, I made background papers using stencils and texture paste and then distress sprays and distress crayons, and then I made the green paper for the cactus, and cut them out and voila! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqT5TBdCDHLF1JiIR7Ftdaamy3I29DcnakEOEM4VBbuBQt7gZ4cieHL_5pdSgYysrXs7p6uykRDDcxfRagAdMFbp47Y_MjSkTm5F7g7X-5iqbbjXWClccDUcwZxtNPPfX7Byhy7lVjD7RFixwUWNusR_vMoBILyXHRPKIZI2ANHM8XWXeWtadLKTSAA/s1800/4ED8D22D-2B4C-417D-BB1F-E8AC55451461.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrqT5TBdCDHLF1JiIR7Ftdaamy3I29DcnakEOEM4VBbuBQt7gZ4cieHL_5pdSgYysrXs7p6uykRDDcxfRagAdMFbp47Y_MjSkTm5F7g7X-5iqbbjXWClccDUcwZxtNPPfX7Byhy7lVjD7RFixwUWNusR_vMoBILyXHRPKIZI2ANHM8XWXeWtadLKTSAA/s320/4ED8D22D-2B4C-417D-BB1F-E8AC55451461.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The cool thing is the frame is two sided, it opens like a claw at the bottom. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgacC2u7NjZm2GQYFmVL6Zb91EuYEIhcgDQ_2KW-_2cp7Y_05qdAve3hJJ6MKSjMrSvPXjTvvRZqdFacEjsPOxZYDwZcdS8ra4dE4016RJgwF4PUnk5s6zGWTg16OZgjqUAvQguG6Quvo0oZOGp7DnbARqIYbVVAiOMNX06AGl46khC0pwktOPKtDR_5w/s1800/67A5FC3F-ED77-4D6C-872A-8A4DD2C18075.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1440" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgacC2u7NjZm2GQYFmVL6Zb91EuYEIhcgDQ_2KW-_2cp7Y_05qdAve3hJJ6MKSjMrSvPXjTvvRZqdFacEjsPOxZYDwZcdS8ra4dE4016RJgwF4PUnk5s6zGWTg16OZgjqUAvQguG6Quvo0oZOGp7DnbARqIYbVVAiOMNX06AGl46khC0pwktOPKtDR_5w/s320/67A5FC3F-ED77-4D6C-872A-8A4DD2C18075.jpeg" width="256" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hope you are loving it as much as I am! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Linking to:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://just-add-ink.blogspot.com/2022/08/just-add-ink-617choose-two.html">Just add ink</a>: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.simonsaysstampblog.com/mondaychallenge/?p=28723">Simon says stamp Monday challenge</a>:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">From this morning bible reading: </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">John 9:5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have a blessed Sunday and rest of the week! </div><br /><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p>Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-48979591568822096572019-07-01T05:38:00.001-07:002019-07-01T05:38:30.633-07:00July 2019 Set up in my Bullet Journal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The section on the left will be my memory keeping section. </div>
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I like to add photo's that I print from my sprocket here, and then journal about what was going on. </div>
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For the Calendar side I hand draw the boxes and the numbers and the days of the week. </div>
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The July title is from the <a href="https://www.cocoadaisy.com/product-category/past-kits/south-beach-kits-june-2019/">Cocoa Daisy July South Beach</a> planner kit. </div>
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The stickers came from an assortment pack I found at Hobby Lobby, and some pieces from the kit as well! Don't you just love that lovely floral Washi tape? </div>
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For my weekly spreads I went back to the long horizontal days. I used the Tim Holtz "type lower" stamp set for the big numbers. I honestly love these big numbers! </div>
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You can see the days of the week are pieces of Washi tape that matched the color scheme perfectly this month! </div>
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Isn't that flamingo to die for?? </div>
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When my kit comes each month I try to pull out items that I have in my stash to match up.</div>
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Today's verse is: Philippians 4:6 Be Anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God;</div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-61166671381817869472018-11-14T08:20:00.002-08:002018-11-14T14:53:24.717-08:00Painted paintbrush<div style="text-align: center;">
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Today I am sharing with you a project that I've wanted to create for quite a few years.</div>
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About 6 years ago I was visiting my parents in North Carolina and I got the chance to stop by </div>
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the Donna Downey studio. </div>
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She had all these painted paintbrushes up on the wall, and I thought I'd love to try that. </div>
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Fast forward to this week, I have had a bit of free time off work this week, </div>
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and I thought why not try it!</div>
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I also have been using a lot of my Lindy's Stamp Gang magical and sprays,</div>
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and I thought why don't I use the inspiration to create my paintbrush. </div>
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So here is the inspiration piece:</div>
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I would have loved to do all the butterflies too, but they didn't appear as I was working!</div>
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Here is my paintbrush</div>
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And because it's amazing, a close up of the quote plaque</div>
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I will be entering this in the Lindy's stamp gang challenge on facebook, you can find it <a href="https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.1897492223633848&type=3">here</a>. </div>
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Thanks for taking a few minutes to check me out, </div>
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I haven't been super active on this blog, but I have been in my crafting life! </div>
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Perhaps more to come soon!</div>
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Lindys magical: </div>
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<a href="https://www.lindysgang.com/collections/magical-shakers/products/time-travel-teal-magical-shaker">Time Travel Teal</a></div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-82012130821720982362018-06-02T07:08:00.001-07:002018-06-02T07:08:41.136-07:00Art Journal Challenge: Gelly plate<div style="text-align: center;">
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It's a beautiful morning here... a start to a HOT week coming up!</div>
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I'll be happy to be out of the extreme heat of next weekend!</div>
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Enough about the weather.</div>
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Today the challenge was Gel Plate.</div>
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I am very new to using the gel plate, but I'm doing my best to be fearless.</div>
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What did I take from this challenge?</div>
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Less is more when it comes to the gel plate.</div>
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Holy paint and stencils and craziness batman!</div>
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But I went with it anyways.</div>
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Here is how the page started.</div>
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I've been slapping excess pain onto the next page each day.</div>
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And it looks like the paint didn't dry enough before I shut the book</div>
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so the ripping in the middle. </div>
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But that never really bothers me!</div>
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I had some Lindy's stamp Gang sprays out on my table, </div>
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So I slapped some gesso on the gel plate, and covered that with a stencil, and then the sprays.</div>
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The result is pretty cool. </div>
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Obviously some of these got used, and some will be other things I guess!</div>
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But yummy! I mean the possibilities!</div>
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I got down to arranging, </div>
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And the verse is hand stamped again.</div>
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The bird is from Dina Wakley's like of stamps, and I need to find a few that seem to have flown away!</div>
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She is a cute little bird!</div>
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The verse is just a part of Isaiah 41:13</div>
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The final addition was the wash tape along the edge and the top.</div>
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But I ran out of memory on my phone, so there may be a camcorder or camera purchase in the near future.</div>
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The art journal challenge is coming closer to it's end! <br />
What a great experience this has been so far. <br />
Don't get me wrong, there are still at least 4 prompts in the bowl,<br />
But it's hard to believe its flown by so fast!<br />
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Today the prompt was Stars:<br />
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I absolutely adore stars,</div>
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and have probably been looking for the right project for those glittery ones for a while!</div>
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You can see that I'm working through my journal day by day,</div>
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soon it will be too fat on one side, and nothing on the other.</div>
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Oh well!</div>
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so here are the process pictures</div>
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First I just stamped these stars with permanent ink</div>
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Then I used my two star stencils to add more starts with acrylic paint.</div>
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This blob of paint started out as a sort of pink color, and it was just wrong!</div>
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So I covered it with orange, and then white, it's still not quite what I pictured, but there it is</div>
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none the less. </div>
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Next I started adding the stars, they are glittery, and have literally been on my desk for years! </div>
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Then I looked for a bible verse, I thought something with stars, </div>
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and then I opened my youversion bible app, and this was today's verse</div>
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On a side note, about three or four years ago I painted this same verse onto two pieces of scrap wood,</div>
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They have been in my kitchen ever since. </div>
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I'm pretty happy with my stars prompt.</div>
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I'm going to miss this little challenge when it ends next week, </div>
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Maybe I'll just start over again! </div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-45380953924757535612018-05-31T07:02:00.003-07:002018-05-31T07:02:40.482-07:00Art Journal Challenge: Paint<div style="text-align: center;">
Paint!</div>
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I want to say that this is a challenge, but paint isn't really for me!</div>
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I LOVE paint! </div>
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The colors, the thickness, the versatility!</div>
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I did get a gel plate about a month ago, and that has been a challenge,</div>
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So I decided to try to not make too much of a mess with gel plate </div>
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It gets a little busy, but lets be honest, my pages are almost always "busy!"</div>
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This was after just the first three layers.</div>
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The tag itself was just one layer of the gel plate. and then the stamps and some doodling.</div>
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Finally I added the verse in a big almost unreadable hand on the other side. </div>
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wonderful words of our Father.</div>
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Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, </div>
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You haven't heard from me for a couple of days, </div>
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that's not because I haven't been journaling, </div>
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it's because I ended up combining two days of challenges.</div>
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Stencils and Clippings</div>
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James 1:3 Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.</div>
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James is one of my husbands favorite books. </div>
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He gets all excited whenever he reads it.</div>
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And this is such an amazing reminder of how important Faith is in our walk with God.</div>
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So for the first part of the challenge I used paint and an assortment of stencils.</div>
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If you've followed me any amount of time you know that this is a pretty standard for me!</div>
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I have started using a better quality acrylic paint, and I'm noticing a big difference,</div>
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Not as much muddling of the colors! </div>
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So for the second part of the challenge I started by walking down to my mailbox</div>
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After I'd picked out the verse and written it down on my desk paper I started to cut out letters, and some words. </div>
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I knew I wouldn't find perseverance, nor apparently did I spell it correctly the first time!</div>
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The good thing about clippings is that they are easy to cover the mistakes! </div>
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Yes, I am posting two times today. </div>
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Like many of you I work a full time job </div>
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(Sometimes more than full time since I own my own business!)</div>
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And while I make the time to get creative,</div>
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I often run out of the time to get the blog live!</div>
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So since it's Saturday (yeah!) and that is a slower work day,</div>
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I get to blog while I sit and enjoy a cup of espresso at a local coffee shop! </div>
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So today's prompt was Gelato's.</div>
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And I KNOW that I have some in my studio...</div>
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But alas I could not find them! </div>
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So I pulled the closest thing I could think of, and that was Distress Crayons. </div>
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Not quite the same, but in the same family! </div>
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It's pretty bright and kind of busy but I'm liking it! </div>
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Besides, it's about pushing myself right??</div>
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So first I put down the crayons</div>
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spritz with water and rub with my finger and there you go!</div>
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Not exactly what I was picturing, but I went with it anyways!</div>
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So I added a bit of white paint through stencils.</div>
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That seemed to be a bit more me! </div>
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Then I saw the houses,</div>
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two of which I had already stamped, colored and cut out the other day, </div>
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but never used them. So there they sat on the desk.</div>
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I just stamped a couple more, and then colored them with the crayons.</div>
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cut them out, and they had to have something to sit on,</div>
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so I used the black crayon to make the "hills"</div>
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After gluing them down I realized that I wanted to write on the black. </div>
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No bueno though, my uni-ball would write about two letters. </div>
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So I used the white distress crayon. </div>
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It's not quite the look I wanted, but that was a learning lesson! </div>
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Next time stick to the paint!</div>
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<br />Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-84788508324330103262018-05-26T10:52:00.003-07:002018-05-26T10:52:55.325-07:00Art Journal Challenge: Paper Scraps<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The update is that I'm right where I should be with doing a challenge every day,</div>
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However I don't always have time to blog what I've created each day.</div>
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Soooo this challenge (paper scraps) was actually created yesterday.</div>
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I used only scraps of paper for this. </div>
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And yes that included the girls!</div>
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Here is one of my dirty secrets...</div>
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Probably not the best picture, but that is my stash of paper pieces.</div>
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And in that stash I found the girls.</div>
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I'm almost positive that I got them at one of the two Dina Wakley classes that I attended a few years ago.</div>
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So this was a pretty simple and straight forward.</div>
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I glued down scraps of paper onto the journal.</div>
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Some overlapped, some didn't.</div>
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Then I did a white wash of watered down acrylic paint to sort of bring the boldness down.</div>
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From there it was time to work on the girls.</div>
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They are by the way just printed on copy paper. </div>
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I colored them with the scribble sticks, and then a little bit of water brought them to the state they're in.</div>
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I didn't even really have to fussy cut them. </div>
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I mounted them onto some old scraps of dictionary paper.</div>
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A secret: I liked the lines on the dictionary paper, but only had enough to do one of the girls.</div>
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So I added the lines to the other piece of paper that I used! </div>
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Finishing touches were some nonsensical writing with the uni-ball white pen, </div>
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and the addition of the Bible verse.</div>
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All hand written! </div>
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I'm starting to like my writing a little bit more. </div>
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Ok, so today is Scribble Sticks. </div>
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So today I decided to do a little more drawing, </div>
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I figured a cactus would be a good place to start, </div>
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and then I could color them in with the scribble sticks. </div>
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I'm not always good at leaving white space, so this was a bit of a challenge for me. </div>
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But I got to work with a pencil first,</div>
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and you can see where I started coloring in the drawing,</div>
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At this point I could have just colored them in with the sticks and not gone in with water.</div>
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It looks sort of like crayon.</div>
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But you all know that wouldn't be me! </div>
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This was fully colored with water, and then I went over the drawing with my pen. </div>
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I'm pretty happy with how they came out! </div>
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I mean not bad for my first try!</div>
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Then of course I had to add a verse to the other side. </div>
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This was in my "the Book of Mysteries" devotional today, and it really is what prompted the cactus.</div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-50441272278407069132018-05-22T07:29:00.001-07:002018-05-22T07:29:09.277-07:00Art Journal Challenge: Only one Color<div style="text-align: center;">
Ok, so only using one color can be a bit daunting right?</div>
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I mean most of us love the ooooey gooey lovely colors of our backgrounds.</div>
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However, there is something freeing about not having to make all those choices too!</div>
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I opted for blue of course, because it's currently my obsession!</div>
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I can't think of anything more refreshing than water.</div>
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The Living Water of Jesus Christ, and the giving life of water.</div>
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I am beyond blessed by my Lord to get to create these pages, and to live in a life of wonder.</div>
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Thinking about all the tiny details that go into each of our lives and how </div>
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He took the time to create all of it!</div>
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Some process pictures?</div>
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I started with distress inks and covered the whole background</div>
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Then I splattered some water. To do this I spray water on my hand until it starts to pool, </div>
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I liked how most of it was towards the bottom of the page.</div>
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After this I guess I forgot to take any pictured until it was done.</div>
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and I drew circles for the air bubbles, and then painted them with white acrylic paint.</div>
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Finally I did a little outlining with scribble sticks and my fude ball pen.</div>
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Lastly I added the verse. </div>
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Like a lot of you I'm not too keen on my own handwriting, but I'm continuing to work on it! </div>
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I may get to play some more later as I'm off from work today! </div>
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So todays prompt is "only things not on the desk"</div>
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I'm sure there are some of you out there that have messy desks like me! </div>
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Sometimes I wonder how I get anything done!</div>
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The ironic part about this prompt today is that just last night I cleaned the desk off!!! Well not completely, but I did put a lot of stuff away! </div>
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Mostly because I needed space for a sewing project. </div>
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So today's page is one that I'm really proud of! </div>
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I wasn't really sure where I was going with this when it started. </div>
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Well first I had to pull some stencils and paint,</div>
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And I was lucky that my makeup sponges got "put away" last night so I didn't have to use my fingers!</div>
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I forgot how much I love these mandala looking circles! </div>
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However I got a little paint happy, and there is a big blob of paint under the spotted piece of paper.</div>
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This is the best part of Art Journaling isn't it?</div>
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I get to cover up my "mistakes" with stuff that's laying around! </div>
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His blessings are amazing, and I know he knows my future.</div>
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This has been the verse for us this week, </div>
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And this was a lesson in patience as each of those letters is hand stamped! </div>
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But I just love how they turned out! </div>
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Did you think I wouldn't be around today?<br />
Nope, here I am!<br />
I did get my crafty time in earlier, but haven't had time to blog until now!<br />
Lots of exciting stuff going on today, but you'll have to wait a little bit longer to really hear about it!<br />
So the prompt for today is Journaling<br />
I don't always add this element to my art journal, but lately I have been.<br />
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Here is the finished product,</div>
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I clipped the prompt to the upper corner.</div>
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I'm sure you're wondering where the journaling is,</div>
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well, it's under the flap!</div>
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See, there it is! </div>
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I tried to keep it sort of simple today, </div>
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The flap is held on with a bit of washi tape,</div>
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The background is just a bit of paint.</div>
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The arrows are part of some Tim Holtz rub ons, as is the blessed card.</div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-81600757381573412602018-05-19T07:20:00.002-07:002018-05-19T07:20:29.769-07:00Art Journal Challenge: Letters<div style="text-align: center;">
The challenge today: LETTERS</div>
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I think when I wrote that prompt out I thought of gluing old letters to the background. </div>
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But that's not how it turns out! </div>
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I made the colorful background with paints and a brayer. </div>
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I did gesso the pages first, and that's a great great great idea! </div>
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Then I stamped and stenciled the letters. </div>
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I painted with my white acrylic paint. </div>
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Which many of you know isn't the easiest thing to write on!</div>
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I looked everywhere for my fude ball pen, </div>
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But it's been lost over my two year hiatus!</div>
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The final touch is I added the black around the edges. </div>
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To say that this was a fun challenge would be a gross understatement! </div>
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I have ink on my hands and fingers even still!</div>
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So simply put the challenge was Drips. </div>
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You want to see the pictures I know so here they are! </div>
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Then a little bit of stencling </div>
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I didn't really want anything to detract from the drips, and I think I accomplished that! </div>
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Today is day three of the Art Journal Challenge, </div>
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So today I drew the slip that says Bible Verse From Daily Reading. </div>
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I should let you all know about my morning routine I guess! </div>
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So I get up and get coffee</div>
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because I love the warmth and little bit of sweetness. </div>
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And I spend about an hour doing a daily devotional </div>
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(Currently the Book of Mysteries by Johnathan Khan)</div>
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And then I read the Bible. </div>
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I had tried one of those 365 bibles, and it wasn't for me. I never felt like I was retaining books, just jumping around. So now I read through an entire book. </div>
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I'm currently in II Samuel and man is David a fun read! </div>
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However the devotional had a great verse in it. </div>
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Ephesians 5:13 But everything exposed by the Light becomes visible - and everything that is illuminated becomes the Light. </div>
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Ironically that wasn't even in the devotional, it was actually Ephesian 5:14, but I looked above and it struck me as wonderful! </div>
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So I tried to do a happy yellow background. </div>
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I layered on with some stencils, and did a little "journaling" that I mostly covered up.</div>
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To be honest, I'm pretty sure that this will be a page I will come back and do some revisions to. </div>
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Here are a few process photos:</div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-60164247155623546752018-05-16T07:43:00.002-07:002018-05-16T07:43:22.335-07:00Art Journal Challenge: Put a Button on it<div style="text-align: center;">
Good day! It's a glorious morning here in Arizona. </div>
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We are creeping up in temps, but the nights and mornings are still cool and beautiful!</div>
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After my morning devotional I raced to the craft room with coffee in hand</div>
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(Cause I don't do much til that's done!)</div>
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I was excited to pull another prompt, and get back at creating!</div>
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As you can see from the title, today is Put a Button on It.</div>
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And I immediately started to overthink what a button would do to my journal this early in the game. </div>
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I'm picturing the bumps and bruises to future spreads. </div>
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I should preface this page with I put gesso on this page last night when I had too much come out of the bottle when I was gessoing some tags.</div>
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And as Dina Wakley often says, gesso is like wearing underwear. </div>
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So I can't say I'm sad I did. </div>
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Anyways, I layered on some scribble sticks, and then moved the pigment around with water. </div>
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Then I had an ah ha moment (Bear with me, it's been a while since I journaled!)</div>
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I remembered how to make yummy backgrounds... </div>
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So I grabbed some that were laying on the desk and went to town. </div>
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Then I grabbed some prints I made with the gel plate yesterday, and hand drew and cut out the hearts.</div>
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Lastly I worked up the tag. It had also been printed on with the gel plate yesterday (when I made my sister's birthday card.)</div>
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I looked about for a sentiment, and settled on this one. It's pretty true as I've only done yoga once, and I'm pretty sure I didn't wear yoga pants that one time! </div>
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Well, it's begun</div>
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Ironic that I pulled the one I was the most afraid of on the first day!</div>
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Yep, Sketch/ Draw. </div>
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Day 1 and I decided GO FOR IT!!!</div>
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After all that's what this whole thing is about, </div>
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Pushing myself to do the things I haven't been doing for a while, and enjoying every minute of it. </div>
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I'll be honest, there was a minute (or three) of me thinking Ummmm what should I draw?</div>
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I just used a plain old mechanical pencil. </div>
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She progressed a bit, and then I added some color. </div>
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Personal critique is that she's too orange, but I'm going to just say she's been out in the Arizona sun like ME! </div>
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Then I added the background, and the little quote. </div>
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Pretty fitting for this first challenge if you ask me! </div>
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Thank you for checking me out, and I hope that you are a little bit inspired! </div>
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Remember to leave a comment for a chance to win! </div>
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Oh, and if you want to know what products I used they were:</div>
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Mechanical Pencil, Sharpie Pen, Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks, a Stephanie Ackerman stamp from documented faith, a dotted stamp I had laying around (it doesn't have any markings left on it so not sure where it came from!) </div>
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And of course my Imagination. </div>
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The verse for today is John 14:6 : <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><sup class="versenum"></sup>Jesus answered, <span class="woj">“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.</span></span></div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-84352120139749400412018-05-15T16:59:00.005-07:002018-05-15T17:00:42.863-07:00Art Journal Challenge<div style="text-align: center;">
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It's hard to believe it's been over two years since I've blogged.</div>
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I miss this community, and I'm hoping there's still some of you out there! </div>
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Today I am coming to you all with a personal challenge</div>
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I am challenging myself to get back into the swing of getting messy. </div>
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If you know me you know I love to use color and paint, and stencils and stamps. </div>
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I have been out of the game for far too long, and am returning to my love! </div>
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Ok, enough lamenting about me. </div>
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So here's the deal, </div>
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I am challenging myself (and you if you choose to accept the challenge)</div>
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to 20 days of Art Journaling.</div>
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Don't worry, they don't have to all be in a row! </div>
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I personally am challenging myself to 20 days in 25 days.</div>
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And that's because in 26 days I leave for vacation, and I can't make any guarantees when I'm gone!</div>
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What's a challenge without a list?</div>
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The plan is this, there are 20 prompts, I will choose a promt each day that I journal. </div>
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It will be a surprise until I sit down to do it. </div>
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Well not a total surprise since I did make the list up myself, but it will be a choose a prompt out of the hat sort of challenge! </div>
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So do you want to see the list? </div>
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Here it is: </div>
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Each prompt will be cut up and put in a bowl (aka the hat) </div>
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and each day I will pull a prompt. <br />
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Sooo, what's in it for you? Well my dear followers (those that are left, and those that are new.)<br />
One of my new obsessions is the Dina Wakley Scribble sticks.<br />
So if you follow along each day, and leave a comment, I will draw a winner at the end of all this.<br />
(And after I'm back from vacation,)<br />
And I'll send you your own set to play with.<br />
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But here's the deal,<br />
I want you to be inspired to play along,<br />
Take one or two or all of the prompts and get a little messy. <br />
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As always, thank you for following along, and I hope to see some of your creations as well. </div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-18495592384352682962016-05-01T07:00:00.000-07:002016-05-01T07:00:00.167-07:00Just for Fun: May Challenge "just the girls"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This month we are challenging you to do something "Girly" </div>
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If you know me then you know I don't do this well.</div>
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I am pretty much a jeans and t-shirt hair in a ponytail kind of girl.</div>
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This is what I came up with.</div>
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I altered this composition book. </div>
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My niece turns 16, and she is much "girlier" than I am. </div>
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I thought she would like the colors, the butterfly, the buttons, ect. </div>
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Hello all you in blogland!</div>
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There is a brand new challenge up over at Just For Fun Stamps</div>
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We are challenging you to make something with the theme </div>
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"Birds of a Feather"</div>
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I have used this amazing stamp in the past, and it was perfect for this challenge.</div>
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Look at how amazing the stamping is and then covered in embossing!</div>
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WOW, what detail!</div>
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I'm totally and completely in love with gold trend that is popping up EVERYWHERE!</div>
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So, I'm officially on the bandwagon.</div>
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I used the gold embossing and the gold foil from Deco-art. </div>
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Please come on over and throw your feather in the hat, there's even prizes to be won! </div>
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Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-33467874588267090172016-03-31T06:35:00.002-07:002016-03-31T06:35:45.454-07:00Spring Poppies at Just for Fun Rubber Stamps<div style="text-align: center;">
Good morning!</div>
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It's a surprisingly cool morning here in Arizona.</div>
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The weather forcast tells me it's going to be excessively HOT next week </div>
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(like very close to 100.)</div>
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I can't really say I like the heat.</div>
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It makes one sticky and smelly!</div>
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However I can say I have been loving all the amazing blooming flowers here in the desert.</div>
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That inspired me to create this card with a wonderful poppy on it. </div>
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I stamped the poppy with my distress inks,</div>
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and then I filled the poppy in also using the distress inks, but as a watercolor.</div>
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I love this technique.</div>
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It leaves a beautiful image.</div>
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I finished off the card with a little gold washi </div>
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(cause I can't get enough of the gold trend right now)</div>
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and some gold embossed sentiment. </div>
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How are you enjoying the beginning of your spring?</div>
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There will be a brand new challenge up at <a href="http://justforfunrubberstamps.blogspot.com/">Just for Fun Rubber stamps</a> tomorrow.</div>
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All I can say is it's something the "nest" in.</div>
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Have a wonderful day! </div>
Diana Fernandezhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17448044112118919944noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-372512336095274371.post-39673650813612615882016-02-18T08:19:00.002-08:002016-02-18T08:19:46.346-08:00Painted ipad cover<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I'm having a hard time getting my craft mojo up and running this morning,</div>
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Sooooo I'm going to blog about altering my ipad cover.</div>
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Yep, I finally did it! </div>
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I of course should have taken some step by steps for you all to view and love, </div>
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But alas I did not!</div>
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I will tell you that I started with two coats of gesso,</div>
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I then finger pained on deco arts media fluid acrylics in quinacridone red, primary yellow, and cadium orange hue. </div>
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Yes I used my fingers, and yes, it was amazing!!</div>
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I then stamped using archival black ink and an alphabet stamp. </div>
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Then I went to town with the circles. </div>
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Again using the deco arts media fluid acrylics, this time in yellow green light, and cobalt teal hue.</div>
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I also used Media white tinting base.</div>
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To add the little bits of gold I used the metallic lustre in brilliant turquoise and put it through a stencil. I love how this adds a bit of dimension. </div>
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Finally I used an Andy Skinner stencil Serendipity and Carbon black paint to stencil the words.</div>
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I created the border, and finished it all off with the triple thick gloss medium to seal it all in. </div>
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I am over the moon in love with how it turned out, and will be finishing off the </div>
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If you are bored with your plain black ipad case, you too can do this project.</div>
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It took less than an hour, with another hour or so for dry time on the gloss. </div>
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This last weekend was Valentines day,</div>
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I worked.... ALLLLLL weekend! </div>
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And even an extra long day yesterday!</div>
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However I found a little time to work on this card. </div>
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I am teaching a monthly class to my Art Group based on </div>
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But mine is a card instead of a tag.</div>
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This is what I came up with for this month.</div>
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I used many of the same techniques, </div>
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but interpreted it into a card instead.</div>
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I love how the heart and the starts and arrow all turned out.</div>
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Tomorrow I teach the class, and I'm excited to let everyone try out embossing pasted!</div>
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Hope you all had a wonderful Valentine Day.</div>
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Good morning!</div>
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Today I am sharing a fun birthday card with you all.</div>
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I am loving all the fun stamps I get to play with from <a href="http://www.jffstamps.com/">Just for Fun Stamps</a>,</div>
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and I used up some of my scraps from my scrap bin for this one! </div>
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The cupcakes were stamped with distress ink, and then I added a little bit of glitter embossing </div>
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to them for a tiny bit of sparkle. </div>
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I hope you all have a happy and creative weekend. </div>
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I will be at work,</div>
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