Challenge Blogs

Over the last 10 months I have run various challenge blogs.  Each blog has provided quotes, Bible verses, inspirational videos, journaling prompts and art techniques which are usually accompanied by a YouTube video.

I began with An Attitude of Gratitude - a daily prompt through November to produce a finished Gratitude Journal at the end of 30 days.

In February a similar format led to An A to Z of Me with 26 daily prompts.

During July there was Passport to Art with travel related prompts to build up an Altered Book.

All of the above are still available.  You can set yourself the goal of working through them on the same timescale as when they were originally posted, dip in and out of any of them or work through each topic at your own speed.

Whichever you choose to do the linky tool is now closed and the comments box removed.  However you are very welcome to post your work in the appropriate Facebook group which I still keep an eye on.

There is also a year long blog, 12 Months in View, which is ongoing at present.  You are very welcome to join us.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

made

In September 1st I started a new online class developed by Beth Morey.  It is called made.

It's for Christian Creatives - art journalers, photographers, poets, embroiderers, writers.  Anyone!  And you can still sign up

We are on week 2 at the moment but it is one of those courses that you can take at your own speed and so you can never be behind!  And I have met such a lovely group of supportive people on the Ning forum and the Facebook group.  Some are online friends from other workshops and some are new but feel as though I've known them a long time.  It is a very safe place.

I haven't shared week one with you because I haven't done it.  My head wasn't in the right place last week to answer the questions so I did some other journaling instead.

So on to week two.  This week's class was provided by Megan Armes.  And we were shown a bookbinding technique to make our own journal.  Regular readers will know I love making small books so I loved doing this.

I had done some pages on brown paper when I was doing a Roben-Marie Smith online class.  We were to use Manila folders but I didn't have any so used brown paper instead.

I also found some of the gelli prints I had done which are mostly on thin card.

I thought I'd add some sketchpad paper.

I followed Meagan's instructions and here is the inside of the finished cover.

Here's the outside cover - this is also a paper made on Roben-Marie's course.

Here's the finished journal.

Here you can see how I had sewn the signatures and then attached them to the cover.

Here you can see some of the inside pages.

Just have to decide what I'm going to do inside it!

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Journaling the Dyan way

In 12 Months in View today the challenge is to make an art journal page in a Dyan Reaveley style.


First I sprayed 3 colours of Dylusions inks on the page and spread them ovver the page with a wet wipe.

I stamped with Archival Ink on a piece of acetate packaging.

I tried to cut it out so I made a stencil and a mask but the acetate was too thick for the knife I was using so I ended up using the scissors.

I drew round the mask (template) 3 times - the first one on the left and then the other two - stopping as I drew round the template when I got to the previous one so that they look as though they are standing slightly behind each other.

This is the page I did at one of Dyan's workshops at Art from the Heart.

And this was the page I did from where I blotted the stencil.

I own one of the Dylusions Journaling Blocks so I used as described in Dyan's video.

I felt I had left too much space between the edge of the page and the first border so I added another border around it.

Then I drew some patterns and coloured them in with black pen.

I added my journaling.

And then the white highlights.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice