thank you, kelly rae

i am loving kelly rae's book so much lately that i find myself flipping through the pages frequently. i have been so inspired that i even got myself a little canvas and decided to break out the paints! so exciting. i love the look of mixed-media collage, however i've never tried to pull it off and tend to think that it's not in my nature to layer...who knows(?) but i do love the look of layers upon layers. in the name of inspiration and exploration and the general desire to create, i have attempted it and i have to say...i loved it! it's really hard for me to create without a plan (never mind paint - haven't done that in a very very very long time), but it was sooooo good. i am planning on going back to the craft store to try another one and maybe this time i'll make it a big one...

this was an 8 x 10 canvas and clearly i wasn't thinking because i didn't take pictures throughout the process. it's too bad because i really loved the papers that i had adhered to the canvas prior to painting. i just used whatever paint colors i had on hand...all MM scrapbook paints - chocolate, buttercup, celery, sky, steel and spotlight. also, various rubber stamps and some black and cocoa ink. i am going to hang this in my craft space so i can see its message often - 'believe' - as in, me.

detail:

heck, maybe even next time, i'll even attempt to paint a person a la kelly!

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mid-year check-in

so, it's june already and i took on several year long projects this year. like so many others, i am doing the 365 challenge (well, 366 this year!), an atc journal spinner, monthly recap scrapbook pages, as well as documenting my daughter's first year and keeping up with my son's growth and on and on....i thought i'd share just a few photos of my spinner, which i have to say is one of my favorite things right now. i could work on those little cards forever and would love to do one of these as a travel album. it's a combination of patterened paper (of course), stamps, word stickers, journaling, ephemera and photos. love it. i look forward to seeing it complete.

the larger spinner that 7g just came out with is cool too and i SO have my eye on that for an 09 project - forget storing clear stamps in it! :)

anyway, i'm happy that i'm pretty much up to date on most of my projects...



i also bought some of the little 7g atc transparencies...am loving to layer those in as well:

i got a flyer from hallmark about their (red) products and i saved some of the awesome paper to reuse here:

that's all i have to show for now...