Summer Date Ideas

For In The Sun's prompt "Summer Date Ideas". Natty asked you to try cutting out a different shape and use it as your journaling spot. I thought feathers would be fun, and it looks like we are wearing a headdress...lol. I didn't feel like laying down any gesso, so I used a piece of scalloped card stock for a mask, sprayed some Adirondack Color Wash spray in Stream, painted it with some water, and blotted it up with a paper towel. The paper towel had been used before to blot other colors of the spray, and once it got wet it started to leave behind those colors. I love the look! I sprayed the paper towel with a little water, and blotted it over the white to get some colored texture. For the feathers, I sketched them on some paper, lightly misted with Adirondack Color Wash spray (in Butterscotch, Plum, and Lettuce), painted them with some water, colored the shaft with white pen, and cut them out. The wood grain was stamped on a piece of packaging plastic using StazOn ink. Other supplies are BasicGrey scrapbook paper and some washi tape.

Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 20

I was so tired this past week. Even the thought of making an index card would exhaust me. I decided that I would take a break. It's supposed to fun and not stressful, so I wasn't about to force myself. This was the only card I made and it took me a few days. Maybe I will get back on track this week ;)

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Take A Vacation

For In The Sun's prompt "Take A Vacation!". You are to use the music video to take a design element from it. The things that caught my eye was a bright striped wall, Polaroids, and the font used on the base drum. Moira from Literary Tease posted a tutorial for DIY Mini Polaroid Prints. I made mine full size and cut a window out of white card stock instead of putting my photo on top. I originally painted bold bright stripes with acrylic paint for the background, but I didn't like it with my photos. I toned it down with white gesso, and then used Natty's scratch paint trick. I had some vinyl letters in the perfect font so I used them for the title.

No Summer Movies

For In The Sun's prompt "Summer Movie Blockbusters". I loved Natty's Technicolor Thursday colors and had to play along. My journaling is about being due in July and how I'm disappointed that I won't be seeing Harry Potter in the theatre.

Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 18 & 19

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Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 16 & 17

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Ideal Vacation Spot

For In The Sun's prompt "Ideal Vacation Spots". We went to Cape Cod before having Charlotte, and this was one of the photos taken. Richie took it on our best friend Sarah's point and shoot camera. I have been really inspired by Bea Mahan's work on flickr, and that played a roll in this page.

Alter-Ego

For In The Sun's prompt "Alter-Ego". The girl is from Peruvian Connection catalog. I love her dress and shoes, but always feel super awkward when I dress up. Since it's my alter-ego, I felt it would be perfect. For the background I stamped some circles in wet gesso, painted the base for the background, rubbed some charcoal over the circles and blended, did some splatters, used some heart punchella for stencil, and used the leftover catalog page for shadow stencil.

Wishes

I just love this photo of a little girl dressed up in a fairy costume. The photo was found on The Graphics Fairy blog. I started this page last month and just got it finished. It's not my favorite but I'm calling it quits.

Summer Wants

In The Sun's prompt 3 was "I want my Summer to be full of...". You are also to use a picture of one of the things you list. I had a picture of Charlotte laughing and really wanted to use it. The picture is fuzzy so I thought it would be fun to make it into a fake ttv. I used this ttv layer I found on Flickr to make my photo. For my background, I gessoed my page, added blots of watercolor, and blew on the blots to make them run. For the journaling strips, I wrote on purple tissue paper and glued them down with Modge Podge. I have 6 rolls of washi tape but none of them were the right color for my journaling strips, and I remembered that last week Natty had posted a technique with tissue paper. I've used tissue paper with Modge Podge in the past and always liked the results, so I thought I would give it another go.

Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 14 & 15

For the one made on the 11th, I used oil pastels with a stencil, then went over it with some yellow acrylic paint, and wrote on washi tape. I really like the texture of the oil pastel, but it was hard to clean off the edges of the stencil.

The one I made yesterday was done on my lunch break. I was scanning the break room magazines in hope of finding something to glue on my card. I was pleased when I saw this in a People magazine.

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Monday ICAD Challenge

Daisy Yellow added a Monday challenge to the Index-Card-A-Day. You are to post a photo of one of your cards in a wacky environment. Yesterday while at work, I thought it would be funny to take a picture of my "I don't want to be at work today" card on top of the time clock.

Who I Am

In The Sun's prompt 2 was Self Portrait. I came across a library card-generator on pinterest and had to give it a try. My colors were inspired by Natty's Technicolor Thursday. I had a hard time keeping them soft and muted though...lol.

Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 11-13

Hello Summer

Natalie Malik has created a free follow-along art journaling course called In The Sun. Her Awkward & Beautiful blog is one of my favorites! I'm very excited to be following along with her new course. The first prompt was to create an introduction. I made the Hello Summer 2011 paper with this Hawaii Lover font, and this brush pack from solenero73. After printing it, I colored in the center of the flowers with a marker, and then dabbed with some glitter glue. The rest of my supplies were, acrylic paint, butterflies punched out of a catalog, and BasicGrey Urban Prairie papers.

I spent all of my crafting time yesterday creating this journal page, so I wasn't able to make an index card.

Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 8-10

I got a baby registry catalog from Target in the mail the other day, so I thought it would be fun to make an index card from it. I was happy when I saw the notes to self list on one of the pages.

This pregnancy I get so many nosebleeds. I hate them! I will bend down to pick something up off the floor and I get a nosebleed. Charlotte starts having a tantrum and I get a nosebleed. I blow my nose and I get a nosebleed. I'm trying to do laundry and I get a nosebleed. They are so inconvenient, and I've stained 2 shirts. By the way, it's acrylic paint and not blood on this index card...lol.

Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 6 & 7

Today I'm super tired and want another lazy day! I'm behind on laundry, and the floors really need to be done, so I probably shouldn't slack too much. This morning Charlotte said "There is dog hair on the floor. Can you vacuum it?". When I told her not right now, she replied "but you need to" (yes my child really does speak that well). Is it bad when your 2 year old is telling you to clean?