June P12

Had a little extra time yesterday so I put together a layout using the Project 12 sketch for June.

I'm still not following the official rules of the challenge, (scrapping the events of the month), but I am getting photos down on paper, which of course is my own personal challenge.

Here's what I came up with. As you can see, I only used the left side of the sketch. 

This layout gets me caught up on the challenge, (love that phrase "caught up"), and brings my total pictures scrapped for the month to, (drum roll please), FOUR! I need to get busy. 

Happy Creating.

Susan

Purple People Presents

Yes, ridiculous title. My daughter thought I was nuts but it suited the story of the photos, (the pictures were taken at one of our local beaches. Framed and wrapped in pretty paper my girls gave them as Christmas gifts). This is also my take on the May Project 12 sketch and my first layout using wet media, (I used watercolor paint on the stamped flowers).

I love the flower I made using a punched scalloped circle with a button for the center and trimmed with book text. Using the book text for trim is a technique I learned at one of the Donna Downey classes I took a couple of weeks back at She Scrapbooks in The Villages, FL, (yes, that's really the name of the town).

Here's the original sketch.

I didn't want to do another double page layout so I shrunk down the scaling while trying to squeeze as many elements of the original into my page. (sometimes after I finish a layout from a sketch there's very little of the original plan left and this one seems to be no exception).

Thanks for dropping by.

Happy Creating.

Susan

Art Journaling

Recently I've started an art journal. I like to write, (I'm sure you've noticed some of my wordy posts), and I love playing with all sorts of media, (especially the messy media), so this is a project tailor made for me. Something about art journaling relaxes me and, since my journal can be shared or kept private, I can create without worrying about the end result. Here's my first entry.

The mix of media used in this project includes paint, ink, fabric and rub ons. 

I owe the spark of this new passion to Julie Fei-Fan Balzer at Balzer Designs. She posts new journaling projects everyday at her Art Journal Everyday site.

Happy Creating.

Susan