Book of Days, Inktober and Decorating My Ephemera Journal Cover

Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is having a good week and staying safe.  Me and my family are doing well.  I have been busy creatively.  This week I have a couple of art journal pages I completed for Book of Day, a couple of my favorite Inktober drawings I've done so far and a video showing how I fixed my Ephemera journal cover and decorated it.  Here are the two journal pages I finished for Book of Days.

Here are a couple of my favorite Inktober drawings that I've completed.

And here is the video showing how I fixed the cover on my Ephemera Journal and decorated it.

I'm really enjoying Book of Days this year; I'm having fun with Inktober; And I love how my Ephemera Journal turned out.  Next week I will show you how I fill my Ephemera journal up and the kind of Ephemera I included.  Thank you for stopping by and watching my video.  Until next time, Happy Creating.

Creating an Ephemera Journal Part 1

Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.  We are doing good.  This week I have an ephemera journal that I created to put some of my ephemera in and use when creating journal pages and other projects.  I saw one that 49Dragonflies created and was using in one of her projects, so I decided to make one for myself.  I decided to use an old book for the cover and some page protectors to create my pages and pockets to put my ephemera in.  The plan was to keep the book cover as is and perhaps add some ephemera to the front to decorate it.  However by the time I was done creating the inside, I noticed the spine was splitting so I ended up having to completely redo the outside of the cover as well to fix the spine an decorate it.  The video was so long that I had to split it into 2 parts.  The first part is showing how I created the inside and the pages, part 2 is how I fixed the cover and decorated it and then I also created a part 3 showing how I filled it up and the types of things I included in mine.  Here is a picture of the complete journal filled up with ephemera.

 And here is part 1 of the video showing how I created the pages, decorated the inside and bound the pages into the journal.

I am really happy with my ephemera journal and know I will get a lot of use out of it.  I now have one place where I can go to for a variety of ephemera to use in my projects.  If interested the video that I saw from 49Dragonflies is located here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHpdwMsMHJI  Thank you for stopping by and watching my video.  Please let me know if you have any questions.  Until next time, happy creating.

I am Grateful for Smiles from Strangers Art Journal Page

Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is doing well.  I've been doing good and looking forward to taking some time off of work this week.  Here is an art journal page that I created for the Dina Wakley Year of Gratitude.  This is for the August challenge "I am grateful for smiles from strangers".  So I'm getting caught up on these.  Here are pictures of the journal page I created for this challenge.

And here is the video showing how I created this page.

I really like the way this page turned out and I had fun creating it.  Thank you for stopping by and watching.  I hope you have a great week and stay safe.  Until next time, Happy creating.

I am Grateful for Reflection Art Journal Page

 Hello creative friends. I hope you and your family are doing well and staying safe.  Me and mine are doing good.  This week I have an art journal page I created for the Dina Wakley Year of Gratitude Challenge and the prompt for September is "I am grateful for reflection".  Here is pics of the art journal page I created for this challenge.

And here is the video showing how I created this art journal page.

I really like the way this page turned out and I had fun creating it.  I'm finally getting caught up with this challenge LOL.  I did complete the August challenge also, even though it is late, and will post that one next week.  Thank you for stopping by and watching my video.  Until next time, Happy Creating.

Inktober ArtSnacks Unboxing and Book of Days Pages

Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is staying safe and surviving in such an unpredictable world.  I've been doing ok.  Getting stir crazy being at home for so long.  Going on six months of working from home and very grateful that I am able to and am still working.  This year has been a challenge for me to get motivated to do much creating, but I am planning to participate in Inktober this year again and hoping to be able to do it all month.  I ordered the Inktober ArtSnack box again this year and then after found out about the plagiarism accusations.  I watched the video from the accuser and some of the points he makes seem very compelling.  I guess we will have to wait and see what the courts say about it all.  Because of all of this I was reluctant to do an unboxing video, but decided to anyway, not to promote it, but so people can see what came in the box.  Again this year they did not tell you what was in the box, however if I had known what was in it, I'm not sure I would have bought it.  Anyway, if you are interested here is the video showing the unboxing of the Inktober ArtSnacks box.

I have also been doing Book of Days with Effy Wild.  I've completed a few more pages and I think finally caught up with this class.  Here are the pages I've created recently.

I've really been enjoying creating these art journal pages.  And I am looking forward to Inktober starting.  Are you going to participate in Inktober this year?  Let me know what your thoughts are on all of this.  Stay safe and until next time, Happy Creating.

I am Grateful for Color Art Journal Page

 Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is doing good and staying safe.  I've been doing good and staying busy.  This week I have an art journal page that I completed for the Dina Wakley year of gratitude challenge "I am grateful for color".  This is the July challenge so I am behind and trying to get caught up on these.  Here are pics of the art journal page I created.

And here is the video showing how I created this page.

I really like the way this page turned out and I had a lot of fun creating it.  Thank you for stopping by and watching my video.  Until next time, Happy Creating.

Creating Affirmation Cards and Book of Days Update

 Hello creative friends.  I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.  Me and my family are doing well.  I'm still working from home due to covid and no word on when we will return to the offices.  Which I'm not complaining, so no rush.  You would think that since I don't have the long commute to work that I would have more time to do art, but for some reason I am finding it hard this year to get inspired and motivated to do much art.  I'm still trying to keep up with the Book of Days that I signed up for this year and the Dina Wakley year of gratitude, but not doing well with either.  I've had a lot going on this year though with the surgery, therapy and all.  Anyway, here are some of the recent pages I've done for the book of days.

I also managed to complete a project that I've been thinking about doing for more than a year now and that is making my own affirmation cards.  I bought some cards from the dollar store for a kids game, put gesso on one side, scrapbook paper on the other side, and then proceeded to paint, stamp and color the side with the gesso to create my affirmation cards.  Here is a picture of the whole deck and some pics of some of the cards I created.

And here is the video showing how I made these card.

I really like how these cards turned out and had a lot of fun creating them. Thank you for stopping by and watching my video.  Stay safe and until next time, Happy creating.