Online classes

One of the many classes I've signed up to is Colour! Or is it Color? with Big Picture Classes.

And of course, it is COLOUR.

This week I'm attempting to catch up with the 3 weeks I've missed.  Week 4 is released tomorrow.  I signed up at the same time as my friend Nicki, so if you would like to see what I should have done have a look on her blog.

The pre-class activity was to make 6 tags.  Here are mine:

I'm not keen on the blue one, but it will do for now.


The blogs of a couple of my friends from the U.S. are well worth a look too!

Firstly there's my friend Paige who has been blogging every day since her 43rd birthday having set herself the task of writing every day for 366 posts.  She's now on #357.   If you want to see why she's doing it you will have to go back to the beginning.

And then there's my friend Kaere who is stepping out into online courses for the very first time.  So for all my journaling friends have a look at this: Planet You.   It's not an art journaling course ~ it's about the words!   Why not sign up with me?

Ahead of the game!

Those of you that pop in now and again will have read my blog posts about the fact that I am behind with whatever course I've committed to, but today I'm going to reveal a first!

 

I am a week ahead of myself with the Color of Summer.   This week is red (and although this journal entry might well fit this week's challenge), Kristin has revealed that next week is:

PURPLE

(Monday July 25 - Sunday August 1st)

"But, luckily, he kept his wits and his Purple crayon."

- from Harold and the Purple Crayon (1955)

Will there be a bonus challenge with Purple?

Um. Hum. And let's be honest: this one's really for me ;) Should you like to give it a go, your Bonus! challenge for Purple week is to bring on the sparkle and shine . . . You may use anything that would stop a deer in it's tracks . . . fine glitter, chunky glitter, glass glitter, crystals, beads, shiny discarded embellishments (like the flip flop above ;), glass holiday ornaments . . . I could go on . . . you get the picture . . .

So here is my purple page:

And here are the words by Jenny Joseph that are journaled on the page:

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat that doesn't go, and doesn't suit me,
And I shall spend my pension
on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals,
and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I am tired,
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells,
And run my stick along the public railings,
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick the flowers in other people's gardens,
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat,
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go,
Or only bread and pickle for a week,
And hoard pens and pencils and beer mats
and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry,
And pay our rent and not swear in the street,
And set a good example for the children.
We will have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practise a little now?
So people who know me
are not too shocked and surprised,
When suddenly I am old
and start to wear purple!


I stencilled the numbers onto the page and then coloured them with a Sennelier Pearl Oil Pastel.  I sprayed Dylusions purple paints over the whole page and red on the hat which I found as clipart on the internet.   When all this was dry I drew over the numbers with Lime Ice Stickles.  I cut the flower with the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die.  

Explore

Explore is a brand new course by Shimelle.  I love doing Shimelle's courses and usually start with a flourish and then tail off and sometimes don't finish.  However, this one WILL be different.  I aim to finish this class.

So, drum roll for day one.  Today's task was to make a playbook which could be of any size but I followed Shimelle's example and made a 6"x4" notebook.  I used black and grey cardstock and some patterned paper in similar colours.  We also needed to take a photo of ourselves!

The cover

 The pages

 The other sides

 The photo of me which I cropped to put in the notebook

And the journaling:

Explore ~ day one ~ 18th July 2001

Today is the first day of Explore - a new class with Shimelle and one I propose to finish.

I rarely appear in my scrapbooks or minibooks because I am the one behind the camera.  I really dislike having photos taken of me - I usually look like a rabbit caught in the headlights!  And an added difficulty in taking pictures in the mirror is that we only have 2 full length mirrors and they are in awkward places.

Currently I have committed myself to several online courses which enable me to take part in a variety of creative expressions.   Most of this is art journaling rather than scrapbooking.  I love to take photos but tend to take landscapes or photos of street furniture or parts of houses rather than people.  These don’t lend themselves to being put on a layout.

I signed up for the class because I love Shimelle’s classes , it sounded exciting, and I got a discount!