This week’s question was “who do you need to thank?”
This one was obvious to me. I need to thank my parents. They have been incredibly generous and it allowed me to have a huge dream come true recently. Thank you mom and dad, I love you!
I used sticky back canvas with acrylic paint (used like water color) and some pretty hero arts stamps. I played around with stamping on ribbon. And I added some dimensional pearls. That’s it.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
Catalyst Seventy-Two is: Tell us about your best friend or the effect of friends in your life.
My words are:
Maybe it’s odd that my best friend is also my husband. Maybe it sounds like one of those cheesy Hollywood movies. However it might sound to you, all I can say is that it’s the truth.
No I don’t have the best marriage in the world. Yes, we have ups and downs. Many of them. Some days, I’m not even sure it won’t all fall apart. But even on those days, I am sure of one thing.
He is my best friend.
He is the person who knows me best. He is the person whom I want to call when I have something big to celebrate. He’s the one I call when I am so deep in sorrow that I want to curl up and disappear. He’s the person I want to experience new things with and celebrate old memories with. He is the person who knows me best. He is the person with whom I don’t have to fake anything.
Ever.
I don’t know how it happened that I found him. SAnd there are times when it’s rough that my husband is also my best friend. There are times I wish I had a different best friend. Someone with whom I could talk about my husband and my worries. But the rest of the time, most of the time, I am so glad that I found him. That he’s my husband. My love. And my very best friend in the whole wold.
I love you, my love.
This week’s question was: “Do you have a recurring dream?”
Since Nathaniel’s still not really sleeping much at night, I don’t dream much so I decided to make this about how I stay up at night and love him. I put a love tree, lights for staying up, a clock that shows how I’m awake at 4 in the morning and how he’s my #1 and this beautiful quote which I love.
I used stickles, distress stickles, liquid pearls, distress inks, embossing, and a lot of stamps.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
Catalyst seventy-one is: If I had one day to do over and over, what would I want to do with it?
Here are my words:
On this day that I’d like to live again and again, I wake up before everyone and enjoy a warm drink and some solitude. Then, slowly, my household wakes up and we have a delicious breakfast as a family. Then, we take a car trip to the beach or forest. We take photos, we have a picnic, and we play together and laugh. We drive back home and we take quiet time as we read and relax. For dinner, we cook together and eat something delicious and healthy. Then we snuggle up and read or watch TV together. After some kisses and bedtime words, the kids go to bed and we have some us time just my husband and I. That’s about it. Maybe it’s ordinary to you, but I can live this simple day over and over again and always be so so happy.
This question was: “What are your favourite days of summer/winter filled with?”
My days lately have been filled with dreaming about the life I want for myself and for my family. About making my dreams come true. So I decided to dedicate this card to that.
I painted the card green because I decided I didn’t have enough green cards so far. I then used clear embossing powder to stamp dream over and over again. I highlighted one and embellished around it and ta-da!
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
This question was: “What have you found lately?”
This one took a long time. In the end I decided to make it about freedom. I feel freer and happier than I have in a long long time. So here’s to my newfound freedom.
I cut a transparency in a tag shape and used a collection of alcohol inks on it and some copper mixative. I then stamped it with a music stamp and put some butterflies and a few letter stickers. I don’t really like how it turned out but honestly I can’t ever get the alcohol inks right no matter how much I try. These tags are for experimenting after all so I am letting this one stay.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
This question was: “On my walls i would write… ”
I can never remind myself this enough. Before David was born, I literally put this on my wall “Give up that there’s something wrong.” I need to live life happier and less worried.
Fabric, some leaves, a frame, buttons and a little baker’s twine with some pretty trim and some small letters.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
This question was: “Have you had a hug today?”
I am lucky that I get and give hugs all day long. My husband and kids are very generous with that.
I stamped with the clock and used clear embossing powder. I then inked over it and added two clock faces and spinners.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
This question was: “Name something you don’t understand, but you want to…”
I thought of math and science. I am good at math but I wish I were excellent.
I put chipboard numbers and painted over the whole thing.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
Catalyst seventy is: What’s the best advice you received that encouraged you to follow your dreams? (or advice you’d give to others so they can follow their dreams.)
my words: It may sound counter-intuitive but I have found that the best advice I ever got was someone telling me that I couldn’t do something. When I was in high school, I visited Israel and this gentleman told me that if I wanted to study computers (which I did since I was seven) I should attend Carnegie Mellon University. I had never heard of the school so I ran back to my room and wrote it down in my diary. When I went back home (to Turkey), I told my teacher that I wanted to go to Carnegie Mellon. She told me that there was no way I could get in. I didn’t have what it takes, she said. I was so mad that I made it my mission to get in to the school. Not only did I get in but I graduated with both an undergraduate and a graduate degree in four years and I graduated with honors. I have since then learned that nothing motivates me as much as someone telling me I can’t do something.
This question was: “How can i be kinder to myself…?”
I need to love myelf more. Be kinder to myself and allow myself to make mistakes without judging myself so much.
I covered the background in red ink, stamped the little hearts with embossing stamp, embossed with clear powder, stamped the tree, cut it out, tied a small baker’s twine, and a little bling (of course), a few letters and I was done. It’s hard to see the little hearts but in person it looks neat.
I am combining Emily Falconbridge’s art journal questions with trying a new technique each week. You can see the full list: here.
Catalyst sixty-nine is: What is your favorite thing about where you live?
My text: We just bought our very first home ever. I have wanted a home of my own for as long as I can remember and I love every corner of this little house. It’s my favorite place because it’s where all the people I love live. It’s ours. It’s going to be filled with our wonderful memories. I can’t ask for anything more.
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