It's All About The WHIMSY!

Dreams

Black and white or Color...

Both!

 

collage piece NME 2013

Thought for the day

And there you have it!

Winter Wonderland Mash Up!

Winter Wonderland is whooshing by!  

Our fearless leader,

Gina Armfield,

has provided a wealth of varied ideas on a weekly theme

to fill loads of journal pages.

 

 

This Mash up of pages is from several weeks

and in no particular order.

 

 

color palette play

 

 

black and white

 

 

shadows

 

 

light to dark collage

 

 

vintage books

 

Just loving this class!

Winter Wonderland

 

My view this morning as the sun rose...beautiful, silent, snow!

And a quick look into my Winter Wonderland journal...

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you are enjoying the Holidays!  

Happy New Year to you!

Winter Wonderland!

 

Week 1 of the next segment of

Journaling the Seasons

with Gina Armfield!

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snowflakes are featured.

 Gosh I wish we had some...mid December in New England

and there are none...chances of a white Christmas seem quite slim.  

Not that I wish for a full blown snow storm but I would like a few

snowflakes to make it more festive.  

We could all use that right now.

Smashing Autumn ~ Week 9

 

 

Samhain 

and 

Dia de Ls Muertos!

Collage for Samhain

Sugar Skull

Dia de Los Muertos

Fabulous theme for the week!!

Under the Influence of Joseph Cornell

October's featured artist in NME-Under the Influence was

Joseph Cornell.

 What an interesting and creative man!

 Oh the pieces he made using found objects ~ just incredible!  

Take a peek at a few of my pages for the month.

 

 

 

Smashing Autumn week 8

 

Week 8 in Smashing Autumn and we are exploring

Victorian Architecture.  

Who doesn't love painted ladies"? 

A look at a few of my pages, drawn, painted and collaged.

 

Such a fun workshop!  

A little rainy day journaling

Happy Friday to you!

Smashing Autumn: Ravens

 

Week 7 in "Smashing Autumn" already!  Time flies!  

And so appropriately the theme for this week is Ravens.

 

 

 

Collaging over a copy of a Raven watercolor I did last year

A Raven feather in watercolors on Arches cold press 140 lb,

added into the journal with Smash album's nifty connectors.

A Raven feather in white pen on black paper and a little poetry

A Raven stencil cut from cardboard centered on

an Edgar Allen Poe poem

Musings on the Raven, essentially brain storming Raven characteristics,

I love word play!

Over-painting a Raven photo , a really fun technique!

And a few hand cut stamp designs..Speedball, it's a good thing!

And an apology for odd spacing...typepad is being very persnickety this afternoon.....and I am done arguing with it....