AJC 2010 - Working through

I've been working through the week agendas for AJC 2010, as I had to stop after last year's surgeries, but I've not been posting my pages here, as it's been a speed thing. However, I love this page I've just made and the sentiment that I came up with last year, so I'm sharing. This is for Week 39, so it's coming along...

Credits: All from Studio Tangie Baxter @ Scrapbookgraphics:

Yacht (reversed and altered) and lifebuoy - AJC 10 week 40 parcel

Background - Junque Journal

Font - Mock Turtle

She-Art Workshop - "Be less invisible"

This is my second Art Lady from Week 1. She is a copy of my first lady, but this one I coloured with watercolour pencils and then wetted the colouring to produce a painted look. The background paper is scrapbooking paper (12x12, trimmed to fit the watercolour paper the picture is on) from K & Company, Classic K Charlotte, and the dove, floral and heart accents are also from K & Company, Elegance Die-cut Cardstock Acetate accents. Her hairbow is a scrap of ribbon I had trimmed with a tiny bit of purple suede, both of which I received as decorations to craft parcels last week. Her waistband is from the background paper's trimming and her pinny square is another scrap (origin now forgotten, I'm afraid). The ripped vellum is from a 6x6 sheet ripped in half and then lined up to cover the backing paper from Papermania's Exquisite Silk Screen Printed Vellum Collection. The saying came to me this week as one to use for this workshop.

She-Art Workshop - The Evolution of a She

As the Soul Restoration course closes, I enrolled on another course, the She-Art Wokshop, being run by a friend of Melody's, Christy Tomlinson -
http://christytomlinson.typepad.com/christytomlinson/workshops.html This course is just a short one but involves mixed media work, which I love. I suppose it's because it allows me to use all my different hobbies - sewing, stamping, collage, scrapbooking etc - altogether. The course started last week, but it's taken me a while to think out what I wanted to do. It was also a working work-in-progress so here are my thoughts in photo form.

The initial layout with no background - I stamped the dress with a 7 gypsies stamp stack I had and used a mask with a white crayon to put a pattern on the dress although the waffle pattern of the watercolour paper I constructed the doll on shows more than the floral mask I used, but hey ho *rolls eyes* The doll's hair is some corrugated card I ripped from a parcel I had this week.

I used a 10"x8" canvas board. For a textured background, I used different wallpapers I picked up at our local B&Q - and as an aside, I found a great wallpaper for our living room when we come to redecorate there later LOL. The coloured elements for her face, arms, legs and dress are scrapbooking papers from Scrappy Chic and the coloured strips are from Julia Van Der Werk (http://www.cemerony.etsy.com/). The flowers in her hair, and on her dress and shoes are from my stash (suppliers not known now) and the birds and "This is my Path" are from the Soul Restoration course supplies. The "hope" scrabble tile is from Artwork To Love (http://www.download.etsy.com/) (I can't remember where the "What a Little Bird said" came from but I'll update this when I came across it again).

For the background I ripped up the cream wallpaper samples to cover the canvas. I put the layers together, but wasn't sure about the black flock or her shoes, the latter which seemed to disappear too much.

So I had a bit of change before finally settling on this version below - and so the name, the Evolution of a She...

Life is Full of Beauty - AJC 2011 Wk11

I've not yet started my journal for this year, but this is my page for this week's quote from Tangie's Week 11 parcel

SR Week 6 - I choose the light

I've had depression for over 12 years, initially diagnosed as post-natal depression, but then as mild-moderate clinical depression. Somedays the light from the end of the tunnel is closer than others, but where possible, I choose the light. For even in darkness, all you need is a candle of hope and a spark...

(This is my attempt at a candle to remind me of this and lessons of week 6)

I am still a work-in-progress, but I'm walking towards the light.

x

My first ever Swap

When I was growing up (here's where I show my age LOL) there was a Saturday morning TV show on BBC1 called "Multi-coloured Swap Shop". A portion of the programme would be broadcast live from a different place in the UK each week and the idea was that if you had an unwanted toy or other item, you could take it and swap with someone else - I digress, but the word "swap" made me think of this. Nope, this blog is about a card swap - a swapping of Soul Restoration truths.


As part of the course, Melody gave us sheets of what she called "truths" - they are similar to positive affirmations, but we were encouraged to make cards to illustrate what truths we liked, to personalise them. My cards I've made for me are ATC sized, but others have made theirs 4x6 size, and amongst the "Brave Girls" (our collective noun) UK-based, we did a swap of cards - making cards with truths we had picked, but addressing them to our fellow swappers. We may have been a small swap group, but I'm waiting to see what the post brings me today... :)


I thoroughly enjoyed making my cards for swapping. I enjoy collage/decoupage but have all sorts of crafting interests and goodies. I sew although that's on hold until my surgery on my right elbow - patchwork and quilting I enjoy - but I also have a lot of stamping stuff and enjoy card-making, although I don't make all my own cards I use, as not everyone nowadays appreciates hand-made cards (but again I digress...)


So these are the truth cards I made, using some digital collage sheets from Flickr Free to Use Collage group http://www.flickr.com/groups/freecollagesheets/ Julia Van Der Werf http://www.etsy.com/shop/cemerony and http://cemerony-share.blogspot.com/ , and www.lunagirl.com

Card 1 - Don't want to miss out

Card 2 - Absolutely worth it

Card 3 - Be thankful

Card 4 - Nurture yourself

Card 5 - It's Happening

Card 6 - Happiness & Peace

Day 2 of my Week 5 layout SR - Personal Happiness equals...

As I said yesterday, the task for this week was to look at the things that mean bliss, happiness or joy to us, as well as those things that bring about feelings of loss, guilt or feeling yucky in us. We were given some prompts but I added some of my own.

The happiness "hearts" are colourful, the yuckiness is a black, cracked heart. The last page leads from the blackness but shows I choose to get through the yuckiness, to recognise the things that lead to feeling yucky, and then choose something different wherever possible :) x