Long time no see.....

I apologize for being MIA I have just been super busy! I spent all day Sunday hanging out with Samie Kira and then Monday afternoon my mother in law, sister in law, brother in law and their two kids came to visit and yeas they are all staying at our house! So it's been a bit crazy but I love it! Well I am going to make this a short one I hope you are all having a great week!

don't forget to give yourself love...

it says keep going but I used shimmery paint so the camera flash got to it!

oooh sneaky hidden journaling... bet you can't guess where it is?

Paper cloth tutorial!

Hello there friends! I apologize for not posting sooner but I have been a busy bee! Next Monday we have family coming into town, and I just had my best friend since junior high leave town so I have been pretty busy! But things are doing good, just s lot going on! On Tuesday I went with Samie Kira to her mixed media art group in Glendale and had a blast! I got to meet Dina Wakley and several other talented artists! But I have to say I really enjoyed watching Dina work in her numerous journals that she brought! So thank you Samie for letting me tag along with you! Alright enough of the talk and onto my oh so terrible tutorial! I filmed this so many times that I was just so so frustrated by the end! But here it is!

Here is my finished results!

I added stamps, puffy paints and some fun white circles! I can't wait to turn it into something great!

Here are some recent pictures from my journal!

More flowers!

for my wife...

playing with my new teal ink!

I finally made a cover for my journal! It's sewn together like a basic book cover you can take off and put back on! My sewing is terrible but I still love it!

I really hope you enjoy the tutorial! Any questions please feel free to email me or leave a comment! I hope you all have a great Thursday!

Sticky messy fun!

I hope everyone had a fabulous weekend and fourth of July, I know I did! On Saturday I got feathers put in my hair which are super fun, I just got black and white ones but my wife got purple, pink and black and white! I also went to a thrift store and got a pack of 10 doilies for a dollar, a book of sheet music, a lace doily and a purse for a whopping 5 dollars! On a sadder note this was the first Fourth of July without Rusty but our first Fourth of July with our Mexican Hairless Amiga. I keep thinking I  am going to see him laying on his pillow in the closet when I wake up, or walking into the living room and him all sprawled out on the couch... it;s hard I miss him alot but it helps to know he is happier now.So about two weeks ago I bought a book called Stitch Alchemy which is about combining paper and fabric to make paper cloth and earlier this week I finally got around to making some and I love how they turned out! I will be doing a tutorial this weekend on how to make paper cloth (it's sticky and messy) but so much fun!

This was the second one I made and I love it, the picture doesn't do it justice, it's sparkly and there are lots of different elements to it, I cant wait to cut it up and use it!

This was my first one and once again the picture doesn't do it justice! There are so many layers and colors and sparkly stuff!

Here is a 12x16 canvas mixed media painting I finished on Saturday night, I am really happy how it came out, the words didn't turn out the best but I am not going to obsess over it!

Another journal page!

This journal page was a lot of fun, the background was made with my Inktense pencils, and the stars and wings are sparkly!

Well I hope you all have a great Tuesday, I will be back Thursday with more fun projects!

Sickness and sadness....

The past week has been probably one of the worst weeks ever! Last Friday I woke up and threw up everything I ate for dinner the night before and was ill all weekend! 

During the week our dog Rusty slowly but surely lost all control of his back legs, he was 10 and after a trip to the vet we knew we had to put him to sleep. Luckily we have an AMAZING vet and she came to the house to put him to sleep. This happened yesterday and I am so sad and very much missing him right now but I am also trying to stay strong for my wife she has had him all of his life and I have had him since I met her six years ago. He went with friends and family surrounding him which is the best way to go I think.  I miss him and I don't know if I will ever NOT miss him...

Well no onto the art, I haven't done much this week, my craft room has been a bit abandoned due to me being sick and having to take care of a dog who could no longer doing anything on his own. But last night to cope, I worked in my journal and the rest were done last week.

I wanted to learn how to draw roses so these are the results!

You can be my lucky star

Take a chance you owe it to yourself

making my dreams a reality

Well thanks for taking a look, I will be back Monday with more! Have a great weekend!

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!