July Journaling

I am happy to report that a bit of extra effort in creative journaling is giving this lack-luster layout design some life. 

 

It even makes my uneventful life almost "look" fun.  LOL

 

Happy July days to all!

Annie

Art Calendar Journal - July

July

has arrived here with a sweltering bang of heat!  Two more days of 100+ temps before we get some relief.  The worse part is the rare added humidity.  I don't like to wish my life away, but I DO wish the next two days go by quickly!

 



I said I was done with traditional themes for these calendars, but I already bought the stars paper and just wanted to use it and be done with it.  A while back Carol drew some birds for me to make postcards with (which I still have not done yet).  I decided to give one a try for my July calendar in hopes of adding some whimsy to the spread.  July doesn't turn out to be one of my favorite month creations, but I'm not totally disappointed, so I will journal it and move on.



On the other hand, I quite enjoyed working on June.  June had an over abundance of high temps.  Some I didn't even note, but wish I had now.  We don't usually get so many 100+ days.  Obviously I thought the 8th was going to be one of those really unusual hot days.  Oh, little did I know...!

 

Wishing everyone a safe, sparkly and happy 4th of July!

 

Annie



Altered Dictionary - B

It's a new fortnight and the

Alpha Challenge has assigned us the letter B  

I wasn't much inspired by any odd words this time.  I've chosen Bucksaw as my entry for the challenge.

 

 

This "junior" dictionary is already so full of illustrations that adding more to some pages just makes clutter.  I added some color to help my altering show out more. 

My intention for this book is to alter at least one word on every page.  So I challenged myself to choose a word to alter on the first B page.  I chose Babel.  And I proceeded to learn about The Tower of Babel, which I had not known about before. 

 

I found quite a variety of images of this tower, but this one seemed the most common.  The variety of images was fascinating to look through.

 

Back in the letter F when I illustrated the word Flourish...

 

 

 

my attempt to only lightly ink my stamp was a flop.  I was so disappointed that the ink bled through the page SO badly.  Once I calmed down over it a few weeks later, I began to read the words on the next page to see what possibly I could do with this mess to use it as part of this altering process.

WHAT LUCK!

part of the definition for the word Fluke is "a failure".  And it couldn't have landed in a better spot.

 

And that's how my dictionary alters to date.

 

xxx

Annie



Altered Dictionary - U

This time around for the Alpha Challenge the letter assigned to us for word illustration is U

 

I've selected the word Ulster. 

A great benefit of this project is learning words I've not ever known before.

 

 

 



 Never before have I ever read practically every word in any dictionary...who does that?!  But when this project reaches it's end, that's exactly what I will have done!  Who woulda guessed. 

 

xoxo

Annie



Sissy and Missy...

...are very large face stamps.  And not so easy for me to be crafty with.  A couple of posts back I mentioned that I love Renee's creativity with Sissy.  Renee's creations are on large envelopes but I'm not sure of the exact size.  I wanted the face to appear quite large, so I used 6" X 9" envelopes (and because I have lots of them).  A meager beginning, but a beginning none the less.

 

 

 

I got greedy and thought I had to have both sides of the face.

 

 

 

I don't know why now.  I hope to find a good reason soon.  Not that it really matters.

I need to work on how to work things out at the top of her head.  Renee solves that problem with 3-D accessorizing.  But I want things flat for mailing, so I'll have to muse on this for awhile. 

 

My first stamping, of course, went awry and was crooked on the envelope, blah blah blah.  Rather than toss the envelope, I cut out the face, colored it and added it to my blog/flickr friends journal that I add art to here and there. 

 

Maybe the solution for the top of the head is to keep it at the top of the page or envelope.  Hmmm

And of course I had to add a "face" to my altered dictionary.

 

 

These large face stamps that I've been addicted to lately have me intrigued and stumped at the same time.  I hope that's only temporary.

 

Off in search of more play time!

xxx

Annie