Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 4 & 5

We bought Charlotte a vintage school desk. She loves to sit at it and draw us lots of pictures with her crayons. I cut the hearts out from one of the pictures she gave me on Friday.

Today I have no motivation, so I've declared it to be a lazy day. This morning after breakfast, I gessoed an index card, and got out my Prismacolor pencils. I started to doodle and Charlotte asked to help. I got her sketchbook out and let her draw with some old generic colored pencils. She is very excited to get her own pencils! They aren't washable though, so I'm a little scared to find markings in random places.

Index-Card-A-Day ♥ 1-3

Tammy over at the daisy yellow blog posted an Index-Card-A-Day challenge. You are to draw, doodle, write, or sketch on an index card each day in the months of June, July, and August. This sounds like a fun challenge and I'm going to do my best to keep up (not sure if I will be able to when Evelyn is born). I had a blank spiral book of index cards and decided I was going to start last night. I think mine will be more collages with an idea or thought written somewhere on them. I hope this qualifies...lol. We will see where it goes :)

some of my favorites

Yesterday I wanted to paint and play, so while Charlotte was eating breakfast, I started this page. When she was done, she told me that she wanted to paint too. I got out her finger paints and let her go to town. It makes me so happy that she loves to color and paint.

Gesso, acrylic paints, magazine image, masking tape, scotch tape transfer from a Starbucks magazine ad, Making Memories Journaling Book Tara page, Golden gel medium, clear stamps, and StazOn ink.

Play Everyday

I got a new journal! I love my Moleskine sketchbook but wanted something larger and with a spiral bound. I bought a Canson mix media 7x10 book and so far I'm liking it. I was too lazy to gesso, so I just stuck to stamping, some Adirondack Color Wash sprays, and Uniball metallic pens.