Scrapbook Life Journal February pages

I love this idea organised by Stephanie Ackerman.  She is so generous with her artwork and her weekly prompts.  Plus you can do it your way if you want!

I have been recording my weekly walks in this journal - they are not scrapbook pages so you scrapbook purists may have to look away now.  The background for the page is whatever sheet of paper comes next in the folder and as I used papers I wasn't likely to use for scrapbooking they are not always suitable for the occasion but never mind!  It was a great way to use up 80+ sheets of scrapbook paper from my stash.

The walks:

The Febraury pages based on the word for the month: Surrender

Stephanie supplied us with this doodle to colour and to personalise.

She gave us artwork to print out and use in whatever way we chose.

Another piece of Stephanie's art

We were asked to doodle about surrender but I chose to use this verse from a song.

The paper didn't have a border across the top and down the righthand side.  I used one of Dyan Reaveley's new stencils and mynewly acquired Pan Pastels to produce the flowery border and then drew the black lines on afterwards.

The focus for March is 'Owning Your Talent'.   Come back to see what I make of or from that!

Design Team News

Exciting stuff!

I have been chosen to be on the Design Team for Faithful Hearts Papercrafts.  This is an online shop which also has a regular kit.

A member of the Design Team is given  a particular kit with a particular Bible verse and is asked to produce layouts with instructions for hose who buy the kit.

My kit arrived this week and is based on Travel and Rest.  Here's a sneak peak of some of the kit.  i obviously can't show all of it to you!

I'll let you know when my work is displayed on the website.  And you know I love minibooks so there might just be a minibook and a layout!  Or 2 layouts or ........

Watch this space!

Do you have to do what I say?

"No!"

That was Dina Wakley's mantra over last weekend.  Dina is a great teacher and had produced this fabulous idea for a book.  The class was called 'Poetry in Motion' and took place over 3 days at Art from the Heart.

On Friday and Saturday we painted backgrounds, stencilled, used Dyan's new stencils, learned about Pan Pastels and did lots of other painty, messy, playfilled activities.  Such fun.  We were encouraged to fondle other people's work although I think we were probably quite restrained and only looked and were inspired.

On Sunday we assembled the book.  Did I get it right?  No.  Did it matter?  No!  I had listened and then put the page the wrong way round.  Not wrong! Different!  However I did add an extra sheet (which means 5 more pages to decorate).

On each day we were encouraged to dance. Not always a pretty sight!  But encouraged to move because we were making a book that moves.  I didn't completely finish at the workshop.  Had I done everything Dina had said to do?   Say it with me: "No!"

Dina had provided us with sheets of poetry which didn't really appeal to me.  (Sorry Dina).  However since I didn't have to do what Dina said, I printed out some words from songs we used to sing at church (well apart from Lord of the Dance), that were dance related.

Is the book finished?  Well it is for now because I have lots of other stuff to finish.

Will I add more stencilling and stamping to it?  Maybe. 

Did I enjoy the workshop?  Definitely.

Will I go back for more?  I really hope so.