New journal love

Hello out there, I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! Mine was great! On Saturday I met Samantha Kira Harding for coffee and I really look forward to our Saturday meetings, it's someone else who gets just as excited about fabric that you die cut or a new paint color you bought or a new product that's come out. We went to Goodwill and I got a neat apron pattern for 50 cents and a small binder for a project I am going to do soon! We also went to a local art store and I got some pastels a new copic and some 4x6 canvases! Sunday I felt crappy and sat and watched movies on the couch with the puppies and my wife! I started a new journal and it has such good JUJU compared to my last one! It's a journal Samantha made and did not want so yay for me that she did not want it! I also started the note card a day project and am having a blast with that! Alright enough chit chat onto the pictures!

The first note card I made it is so much brighter in person! It says "find beauty in the ordinary"

Another note card!  The hearts are made from sticker paper (meant to print on) that I put through my Cuttlebug and painted!

Mini journal page for my wife <3

Well I hope you are all doing well, you will be seeing some changes on the blog and new things going up and such! So stay tuned!

xoxo

Rebecca

Adventurous Thursdays!

Alright hello and welcome to Addventurous Thursdays!

This week your challenge is to use 3 scrapbooking products on your journal pages!!! It can be anything from brads to stickers to chipboard to scrapbook paper to gems and flowers! I will be back tomorrow with my result! Until then happy scrapjournaling!

Please leave us a link of what you did! I love seeing how different people react and create different challenges!

Buttons and Fabric oh MY!

I have been an art quilting fool for the lest week, I love it! It's making me a better sewer and finally starting to use all of the felt and fabric I have! So it took me a week to do one and then two days for two! I highly recommend trying it, I am going to make more and possibly sell them on Etsy once I get better! If you make Art quilts I would love to see them feel free to post a link to your blog! Here are the ones I have made which were all given to my wife for her birthday yesterday!

They are not the best pictures but my wife hung them up as soon as we got home from dinner!

So last week I challenged you to use something from your kitchen in your art journal, I used salt and a straw and it came out pretty cool!

Samie Kira let me use her white sharpie on this page and then I sewed on it as well! If you tried this challenge I would love to see your results!

Alright tomorrow I will have a small video for you as well as another art journaling challenge so please check back then!!!

Adventurous Thursdays!

Hello hello everybody! I have totally abandoned my 30 days of blogging but I am back and I will make up for those two days at the end. So my journal has two pages left in it and then I have to decorate the cover and I promised myself I would send it into the Art Journaling magazine, let me tell you I am really nervous! I don't know what's going to happen, I don't know if I am good enough to get into the magazine but it is worth a try! The worst that can happen is that they say no.....

Alright so I am starting something new called Adventurous Thursdays where I dare myself and all of you lovely readers to try something different and then post your results! So this week I DARE you to use something from your kitchen! I will try this tomorrow and post my results! Please feel free to play along!

Alright last but not least two journal pages I finished today!

It says- I've left the past and all of my mistakes behind me, and what did I find? Myself

Don't be afraid to fly!

Alright well that is all for tonight! I will see you tomorrow!

Oh Deer! day 2 of 30

I hope everyone is having a great night! So today I actually HAVE some pretty things (well I think so) for you all to look at! Tomorrow I will be doing a vlog for you all and next week I will have a very big announcement for you all! Lots to look forward to!

I love this page for two special reasons, a few of my kids in my class painted it for me AND it is about my little puppy Dellah who turned four last week! We actually had a doggie birthday party with cake for the dog's and all! Samantha Kira brought her two dogs and we had another friend come with another dog so tatol we had 8 dogs! It was lots of fun!

The lyrics on this page come from a song by Taking Back Sunday, it says: I've got strong will just weak hands and I don't know what to do with either one of them.

Here is a close up of my first little art quilt! It is not done but getting close! On Saturday Samntha Kira and I met for coffee and she brought me a quilt blank and this is what I have done with it so far! Samie's is amazing but she is on her second and I am on my first, so we will see what happens!

 

 

Well hope you all have a great rest of your Monday or even Tuesday by now!

Let me tell you a story...

So on Saturday I turned 31.... wow 31! I had a really amazing birthday I met Samie Kira for coffee and she showed me how to make an art quilt and I actually really love how it is coming along! We also went to the scrapbook store and I got some cute things to go into the hair flowers I sell (I will show you tomorrow). After that my wife and sister and I went to paint pottery, went to dinner and then went to the casino! We played black jack until almost three in the morning! I had a wonderful birthday, but it also reminded me of what I was going through twenty years ago.

Just a few weeks before finishing sixth grade I became really ill. I had a brain tumor, it was the size of a golf ball and it had made it's home on the left side of my brain right behind my left eye. I never understood the seriousness of what was happening at the time, I did not realize I could die, lose vision in one eye or even both. I was in the hospital for two weeks and I woke up comepletly blind in my left eye and bald - bald right before junior high. I still vividly remekber saying goodbye to my parents while they waited for me to go to surgery and for me to fall asleep.  My life has been impacted by this in so many ways, from my weight, to my self conciousness to being a miserable teenager and becoming the adult I am now.

Now onto the lighter side, I am starting thirty days of blogging, which will be difficult since I already put off writing blogs! The idea for this came from Diana Trout  I know I can do it, so I am starting today June fifth and will end July fifth ! Alright I will be back tomorrow will some fun things for you!

What I am working on!

I have been quite the busy bee lately! I have gotten up to making a full journal page a day, which is a lot considering when I started this two years ago it was once or twice a month! I am an art journaling addict and am proud to be one because someday in the future this is GOING to turn into something amazing <3 It's hard to look at  my friend Samantha Kira's life ,she has so many challenges she has to overcome everyday and she is published in several magazines and sells her art like crazy! One day I am going to be like her one day... (By the way she has become a great friend and I forget that she is this big time artist when we are together, she rocks my sox) But the point of the story is that one day I am going to make it and one day I am going to finish school and make my family and wife proud because that's all I am really looking for.... I think that's what all of us are looking for.

Ok so I am done with my ranting now onto the pretty things....

I love the background on this page and it has so much potentional and I don't feel like I let it go as far as it could have but that's ok...

I made some felt and punchella hearts with my cuttlebug and sewed them together with a button! The lines you see are a sewing pattern for curtians! The title says love yourself.....

I love the background and all the layers on this page, it was a lot of fun to make! By the way the flower things are ketchup cups I stole from Fatburger!

A page I made for my amazing wife <3

Another journal page made from some inks Samantha let me use and some new fabric my wife bought me and Samantha sewed it on for me!

I snapped this today when I was done taking pictures of my journal pages, This is from the tree in our front yard!

Well thank you again for looking and thank you to my little group of followers <3 I hope you all had a great Hump day!

Vlog!!!

 Hi everyone! I hope you are having a great weekend! So I decided to do a vlog because I hate typing but I love sharing my art and bits and pieces of my life with you all so here it goes!

Also here is the one of Samantha and I
video diary day #25

Alright well I am leaving you with that for now! If you have a vlog then feel free to post a link so I can check it out!

Amazing textured background tutorial!

I hope every one is doing great! Today I have a really cool tutorial that I am proud of and am really proud of the cool results! I have been having so much fun journaling lately and am brewing up some cool ideas and products for you all so be sure to stay tuned! In today's tutorial I am going to show you a great way to get texture on your journal page!  I also have a few pages to share with you! I recently put up two things for sale and they are not really going as well as I hoped but I will keep trucking on, you never know! Alright so here is my tutorial and I also gave you some links to some other cool textured tutorials! I hope you try it and let me know how it works!

And here is my results

I just love how it turned out and the pictures don't do it justice!

A journal page I finished tonight, I used the same purple sand in this page as the tutorial!

Well I hope you are all having a great week and here are some more texture tutorials!

Hello lovlies!

I hope you all are having a wonderful Monday so far! Well I have a few things to share with you all today and I actually am putting up my first painting and prints for sale! I don't know if anyone will buy them but it's worth a try!

This little lady if for sale for 25.00, I really like her, in the corner it says "Picked all my weeds but kept the flowers" which is from the song Sober by Kelly Clarkson. It makes me think about my past and how I have come through and survived so many things.

This is also for sale for 10.00 but it is a print on heavy card stock! I love this page I love the glitter and the girl, I am just really happy with how it turned out!

A journal page I started on Saturday and finished last night, the quote is actually from a song by Rise Against!

I have been drawing these little lovelies alot lately! I think they are super cute!

Well I will be back tomorrow with a tutorial but what tutorial should I do ?

A.Water color backgrounds
B. Making collage elements out of your own art
C. Super textured backgrounds

You guys let me know!

Well that's all for today, if you are interested in my print or the original you can find them here


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