This week’s question was “what was the last thing that made you laugh out loud?”



I thought about this one for a long time. In the end, it always comes back to my family. My husband makes me laugh a lot and so does my 4-year-old son. Watching them play together also makes me laugh out loud often and all the memories I could remember of myself laughing involved either one or the other, or both so I centered my tag around family.



This week’s technique was inspired by two very talented ladies: I used the wax melting (using a crayon) technique Claudine Hellmuth highlights in Collage Discovery Workshop and this beautiful art journal page by Ali Edwards that has inspired me for a long time. Besides the wax, I’ve also used acrylic paint rolled over with a brayer and green alcohol ink as well as several distress inks and brown chalk ink.

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I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here

This week’s question was “what would you do, if you knew you could not fail?”



For me, the thing that I keep coming back to over and over is to write. I want to write novels and be published. if i weren’t worried of failing, i’d be a writer. (and maybe an artist, too). So I made this little girl who’s holding a book and the letters spell “write.”



This week’s technique was inspired by the talented kelly rae roberts. I tried to use one of the techniques she highlights in her book “taking flight.” this tag uses old music, book, and mechanical drawing sheets and some stamps. Acrylic paint rolled over with a brayer and green alcohol ink as well as several distress inks. i really do wish i could draw better…but oh well 🙂



here’s another look:

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I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week.



see full list: here.

This week’s question was “if i could do it all again, would i change
anything?”



I don’t believe in looking back. When I make a decision, I think for a
long time and I work hard to make sure I believe it’s the best decision
I can make with what information I have available at the time. This way,
I don’t regret anything because I know I didn’t do it haphazardly. I
believe life is about moving forward and looking forward. I also firmly
believe that we don’t know how the paths we didn’t take would have ended
up, so I wouldn’t change anything.



This week’s technique was inspired by the amazing Loretta Grayson,
specifically this
piece. I’ve always wanted to try sewing more creatively and I used
acrylic paint and the back of my brush for the while lines. It doesn’t
come close to comparing to her beautiful art but it was still a lot of
fun to experiment.

I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a
new technique each week. You can see the see full list: here

This week’s prompt was “How do I feel TODAY?”

Honestly, I thought a lot about this one. The one prominent thought was
tired since I’ve been so so tired all the time lately but then I wanted
something that’s more specific for these last few days as opposed to the
last few months and since so many friends around me are struggling and
it’s making me blue, I’ve decided to go with feeling blue. It’s not even
that I am sad for myself, but mostly at all the hardships my friends are
suffering and how pensive it’s making me.



The main technique I tried to use on this one was resist. I used clear
embossing to stamp the “blue” and then inked all over the tag to make
the word standout. Then I covered the letters with Tim’s crackle paint
to emphasize the feeling of feeling broken/blue. I then used alcohol
inks to make the bling, ghost heart, and the shells blue. I also used
the sparkling H2O’s for the edges and inside the letters a bit just to
give it a glimmer of sparkle. I used stickles to cover a white heart and
put the two hearts to symbolize relationship related issues my friends
are having. That’s it. I wanted the whole card to be tints of blue.

This week’s prompt was “when i look into my eyes, i see _______.”



This tag didn’t photograph well at all but I couldn’t figure out how to
fix it. It has a lot of techniques from my list. The bottom brown
section is flocked, there’s wax all over it which causes the blotches.
The brown color is alcohol ink. The butterflies are embossed with
glittery brown powder. And the stamping of course.



To me, the tree represents potential growth and opportunity. The
butterflies, too, represent future full of possibility which is what I see.

This week’s prompt was “Do you believe in fairies?”



I wanted something really shimmery so I took a purple butterfly and put
pearl ink on it and then some white felt and then some white glitter
just to be sure it would shine. I used UTEE on the hearts in the
background (which was an afterthought, hence the not perfect pattern)
and some alcohol inks with the pearl mixative on the blue in the
background.



here’s another look: