Bubble head girl - Fille tête à bulles

Here is the finished doodle. I quite like it. For the background, I drew circles with a white gel pen. All the colour was done with colored pencils.

Have a nice weekend!

Voici mon gribouillage terminé. Je l'aime bien. Pour le fond, j'ai dessiné des cercles avec un stylo gel blanc. Toute la coloration a été faite avec des crayons de couleurs.

Bonne fin de semaine!

WIP Doodle face - Visage gribouillé PEC

My mother offered me a challenge. She stamped the face on a blank coaster and told me to doodle around it. This is what I have so far but it's not finished. I will add highlights to the background and colours in the doodles. You'll see the finished piece tomorrow.

Ma mère m'a offert un défi. Elle a étampé le visage sur un sous-verre blanc et m'a dit de gribouiller autour. Voici ce que j'ai pour l'instant mais ce n'est pas fini. J'ajouterai des "lumières" sur le fond et des couleurs dans les gribouillages. Vous verrez l'oeuvre terminée demain.

Step inside - Un pas à l'intérieur

Day 7.

This is an example of a page that didn't quite work out for me.

I've done worse pages but I'm not happy with this one nevertheless.

Oh well, they can't ALL be pretty, right?

And this ends my week of art journaling.

Now, I need to decide what I'll use for my next art journal.

So many possibilities...

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7ième jour.

Voici un exemple de page qui n'a pas donné ce que je voulais.

J'ai fait des pages bien pire mais je ne l'aime pas quand même.

Bon, elles ne peuvent pas être TOUTES jolies, n'est-ce pas?

Et ceci conclut ma semaine de journal artistique.

Maintenant, je dois décider ce que je vais utiliser pour mon prochain jouranl d'artiste.

Tant de possibilités...

Doing this forever - Toujours faire ça

Day 6.

I don't have much to say about this page.

I did try a new technique for the background, which I found on Hanna's blog.

I like the effect so I'll be using that technique again.

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend.

I'll be back tomorrow with my last page for this journal, which will also conclude my week of art journal pages.

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6ième jour.

Je n'ai pas grand chose à dire sur cette page.

J'ai essayé une nouvelle technique que j'ai trouvée sur le blogue d'Hanna.

J'aime l'effet alors je vais réutiliser cette technique.

J'espère que tout le monde passe une merveilleuse fin de semaine.

Je reviendrai demain avec ma dernière page pour ce journal, ce qui mettra fin à ma semaine de pages de journal d'artiste.

Creating feels good - Créer fait du bien

For some reason, I always wait until the evening to create something, especially for my blog. But when I do create, I feel good. So I should really start creating earlier in the day whenever possible.

For this page, I used: leafing pens, watercolour, inks of different kinds, rubber stamp, date stamp, patterned papers, sticker border, rub-on, self-adhesive vellum tag, decorative label, Poster Paint marker and a dip pen with ink.

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Pourquoi j'oublie toujours que créer me fait tant de bien? Je dois me souvenir de créer plus souvent.

Pour une raison quelconque, j'attends toujours jusqu'à la soirée pour créer quelque chose, surtout pour mon blogue. Mais quand je m'y mets, je me sens bien. Alors je devrais vraiment commencer à créer plus tôt dans la journée lorsque c'est possible.

Pour cette page, j'ai utilisé: stylos de peinture métallique, aquarelle, encre diverses, étampe en caoutchouc, étampe de date, papiers à motifs, bordure autocollante, transfert, étiquette autocollante en vélin, étiquette décorative, feutre Poster Paint et une plume avec de l'encre.

Nobody is perfect - Personne n'est parfait

Day 4.

Very simple page. Not much to say about it really.

I started by colouring with oil pastels then covered that with a thin layer of gesso. I could see a face peeking from the background so I drew its contour with a Poster Paint marker. Because the face is not perfect, not balanced (third time I've used that word this week...) I wrote the phrase: Nobody is perfect. The character's colours were darkened with chalk pastels and the words were coloured with markers. The end.

And that completes the small journal! Now I have three pages to make in the big one.

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4ième jour.

Une page très simple. Pas grand chose à dire à son propos.

J'ai commencé par colorer avec des pastels gras puis j'ai recouvert le tout avec une mince couche de gesso. Je pouvais voir un visage émerger de l'arrière-plan alors j'ai dessiné son contour avec mon feutre Poster Paint. Parce que le visage n'est pas parfait, pas équilibré (c'est la troisième fois que j'utilise ce mot cette semaine...) j'ai écrit la phrase: Personne n'est parfait. Les couleurs du personnage ont assombries avec des pastels secs et les mots ont été colorés avec des feutres. Fin.

Et voilà mon petit journal de complété! Maintenant j'ai trois pages à faire dans le gros.

Today I love - Aujourd'hui j'aime

Day 3.

A different type of page. I did something like this a couple of years ago and decided to try it again last night. It's very easy. I cut out the word "today" out of self-adhesive fun foam then glued them on the page. Then I covered the whole page with a few layers of red acrylic paint. It took a while to dry so I created some texture by putting a piece of paper over the page to pick up some of the colour. When everything was dry, I used rub-on letters for the "I love" and glued down a piece of patterned paper (I wrote the text before gluing the paper down.) Finally, I cut out a parenthesis out of black cardstock and glued it next to the text portion.

Have you tried a new technique lately?

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Aujourd'hui j'aime: rendre les gens heureux, la limonade aux fraises, entendre ma chatte ronronner, ma famille et mes amies, manger des Skittles verts, faire une sieste dans ma chambre innondée de soleil, voir et entendre les oiseaux de l'autre côté de ma fenêtre.

3ième jour.

Un différent style de page. J'ai fait quelque chose de similaire il y a quelques années et j'ai décidé de ré-essayer hier soir. C'est très facile. J'ai coupé le mot "today" dans de la mousse à bricolage autocollante puis je l'ai collé sur la page. J'ai ensuite peint la page complète avec plusieurs couches de peinture acrylique rouge. Ç'a pris du temps à sécher alors j'ai créé de la texture en plaçant une feuille de papier sur la page pour enlever un peu de couleur. Quand tout fut sec, j'ai utilisé des lettres en transfert pour le "I love" et j'ai collé un morceau de papier à motif (j'ai écrit le texte avant de coller le papier.) Finalement, j'ai coupé une parenthèse en carton noir et je l'ai collé à côté du texte.

Avez-vous essayé une nouvelle technique dernièrement?

Feminine... and a winner - Féminine... et une gagnante

I want to try making a journal page every day this week. Since I had 7 pages left to complete my two journals, I thought it would be a good challenge to fill them up in a week. We'll see how that goes as the week progresses.

Today, I'm showing you last night's page. Done in the smaller journal. I usually go for bolder colours for my background but decided to keep it soft this time. And the rest of the page came together from there. I used some supplies that I've been keeping for "that special project." I can always buy more if I really want to.

About the journaling: I've always felt like I have two sides to my personality. Sometimes, I want to be more feminine and classy, other times I want to be colourful and stand out from the crowd. I haven't found the perfect balance yet. (It's a Libra thing, I'm sure.)

Now, for the giveaway winner. I am very happy to announce that the winner is one of my newest readers: Marianne from Art Project 2010. Send me your mailing info at sophietousignant[at]videotron[dot]com and your prize will be in the mail shortly. Thanks to everyone who participated. I really appreciate all the wonderful comments you wrote.

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Certains jours je veux être plus féminine dans ma façon de m'habiller et certains jours je veux être plus excentrique.

Je veux essayer de faire une page de journal chaque jour cette semaine. Comme il ne me restait que 7 pages pour compléter mes deux journaux, j'ai pensé que ce serait un bon défi de les remplir en une semaine. On verra comment ça se passe au cours de la semaine.

Aujourd'hui, je vous montre la page d'hier soir. Faite dans le petit journal. J'utilise généralement des couleurs plus vives pour mes arrières-plans mais j'ai décidé de garder ça plus doux cette fois-ci. Et le reste de la page a pris forme après ça. Je me suis servie de fournitures que je gardais pour "un projet spécial." Je peux toujours en acheter d'autres si je le veux vraiment.

À propos du texte: J'ai toujours senti que j'avais deux côtés à ma personnalité. Parfois, je veux être plus féminine et classe, d'autres fois je préfère être colorée et me démarquer de la foule. Je n'est pas trouvé l'équilibre parfait pour l'instant. (C'est une affaire de Balance, je suis certaine.)

Maintenant, pour la gagnante du tirage. Je suis très heureuse de vous annoncer que la gagnante est une de mes nouvelles lectrices: Marianne de Art Project 2010. Merci à toutes celles qui ont participé. J'apprécie vraiment les commentaires merveilleux que vous m'avez écrit.

XL mandala

After going XS with my inchie mandala, today I went XL in my big sketchbook. Working this big was a bigger challenge than going small, especially with the detailed work I was going for. But I think it turned out very well. At the bottom of the photo you can see the 3 mandalas I made for the XS experiment.

I really enjoyed participating in this month's GPP Crusade and look forward to playing in the ones to come.

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Après avoir créé mon mandala "inchie" pour le XP, aujourd'hui j'ai pris la route du XG dans mon gros cahier à croquis. Travailler si gros était un plus gros défi que d'aller plus petit, surtout avec le travail détaillé que je voulais faire. Mais je pense que le tout a bien tourné. Au bas de la photo vous pouvez voir les 3 mandalas que j'ai fait pour l'expérimentation du XP.

J'ai beaucoup aimé participer dans la Croisade GPP de ce mois-ci et j'ai hâte de jouer à nouveau dans celles à venir.

Found poetry

One of the swaps I'm participating in is about reusing/recycling and Found poetry. I've always loved writing poetry but it's been quite a few years since I've done it so I thought that doing this swap would be a good way to play with words again.

The idea of the swap is to use discarded papers or left-overs from another project to make the background. Some people have used images from magazine. I personally use a lot of patterned paper and cardstock so I just picked a few pieces from my big baggie of left-overs. The tarot paper is a wrapping paper I've kept for many years because I loved how it looked. I had used pieces of it on chunky pages for another swap so I decided to use some more on these cards. The text is from "The house at Pooh's corner" which is, for those who don't know, a Winnie the Pooh story. The text itself was already full of poetic words so it was easy to create beautiful found poetry.

I liked making these cards so much that I made a second series with different papers and a text page from an old National Geographic about rock climbing/trekking. Completely different for the poetry but a lot of fun too. I plan on doing even more of these types of cards so if anyone wants to trade Found Poetry ATCs with me, don't be shy and contact me. It's a good way to get started with ATCs if you've never tried them before: a simple background collage and assembled words/phrases to complete. The only thing I added other than that was inking the edges for a more uniform look but even that is not required.

Well, I'm off to create more ATCs for swaps and for fun. Happy Canada Day to all my Canadian friends. And if you're moving today or helping someone move, stay safe!

CeeCee's CC#6

Another colour challenge up on CeeCee's blog. You have until tomorrow night to play if you feel like it. This challenge was, well, challenging, to say the least. I could still add a sentiment above the heart but right now, I'll leave it as is.

Candace tagged me over on her blog so I thought I'd play along.

1. What were you doing 10 years ago? I was working as a cashier at Reno-Depot, falling in love with the wrong guys and learning about wicca.

2. What are 5 things on your TO DO list? Wash dishes, fold and put away clean clothes, make skinny book pages for a swap, start exercising, eat healthy meals.

3. What are 5 snacks you enjoy? Chips, chocolate, PB&J sandwich, cereal with milk, fruits

4. Name some things you would do if you were a millionaire: buy myself a house, pay off my debts, go to Europe with my mom and throw myself a big party. Ok, maybe not that last part!

5. Name some places where you've lived: my parents' house in Pierrefonds and my apartment in Lachine (both are suburbs of Montreal for those who don't know.)

6. Name some bad habits you have: I'm lazy and messy. I'm a procrastinator. I'm very self-critical.

7. Name some jobs you've had: cashier, scrapbooking instructor and elementary school educator (lunchtime and after school program.)

I'm not tagging anyone in return but if you feel like playing along, let me know!

Still alive...

For the past week, I've been battling a really nasty cold. Thankfully, I'm getting better. Yesterday and today, I didn't cough at all though I'm still a bit stuffed up.

My only creations lately are for challenges and swaps. No "free" creation. It's not that I don't want to create. It's just that lately, I've been overwhelmed by the amount of stuff in my living room. I'm trying to get rid of some of it, little by little but it's not easy. A lifetime of accumulating stuff can't be undone in a few days.

Another month bites the dust

Can you believe it? It's already the end of February! Time really flies by!

Today was fun. It was a ped day which means more hours and fun activities for the kids. And today, we went to Fort Angrignon which is a really cool place for kids. They have all sorts of activities, mini challenges and more. The staff takes care of everything and we could follow the kids or sit in the main hall and relax. I usually follow the kids when I go there but this time, I sat and talked with my boss and coworkers. We're all still getting to know one another. One of my coworkers is really into The Secret and Law of Attraction so it's really nice to have someone to talk about that stuff with.

Lately, I've been feeling a little bit icky. Not really sick but not 100% well either. I've regained some of the weight I had lost but not all of it so that's positive.

To try and recenter myself, or whatever (:-p) I've decided to start meditating. And what better way to start a new habit than with Rhonna Farrer's 21 day challenge. They say it takes 21 days to make or break a habit so I've decided to give it a go. I'll keep you all updated on my progress. I've never really meditated before but I think I'm ready now. And there's no better time than the present, right?

Synchronicity

Remember when I was saying that I've taken the No Stuff challenge? I'm really struggling right now. My favourite online shop just got some new goodies and I am SO tempted to treat myself. Maybe I will... just a little bit... I'll keep thinking about it until the weekend.

I've been noticing a lot of synchronicity (or synCROWnicity as Pam puts it!) lately. I've been having a lot of strange dreams and I'm sure there's a message somewhere in there. Recurring themes and images. One word that's been coming back for the past couple of days is Renaissance. As in rebirth (and once it was as the historical period.) It was even in one of my dreams. I remember that it was written on a black board in a classroom (I've been dreaming a lot about being back in school lately.) It said "entre deux renaissances" which basically translates to "between two rebirths." Hmm. Interesting. In my quest to living a greener life, I've had the idea to make my own net bags for fruits and veggies instead of using those flimsy plastic bags they have at the grocery store. A few days after I had that thought, JoyceAnn was talking about the same thing on her blog. Little things. Big things. Lots of synchronicity. I'm loving it.

So far this week, I've really been watching what I eat. Not counting calories or anything like that but I make sure to eat enough from all food groups and especially fruits and veggies. I'm doing really well. Also, today was my fourth day in a row that I've been walking, and not just the walk back and forth to work. At least 10 minutes each day. I'm feeling good. I'm enjoying it. Life is beautiful.

Before I go, I want to direct you to Lisa Vollrath's upcoming countdown. And today's image is last night's Art Card. Made with Stampin Up! papers and Amercian Crafts rub-ons. Using up that stuff I have on hand.

Stuff... and No Stuff...

I've known for a few months now that 2008 would be a year of changes and challenges for me. Positive changes that is. And fun challenges. I'm doing great on my artistic challenged so far. In fact, I think I've been more creative in the past three weeks than in the whole summer of 2007. And I'm not stopping now. Here's proof: my Daily Art Card for yesterday. And below, a journal page done in my spiral journal. I took the "Feel" theme again, used the same words but went about it in a completely different way. For details on how I did this page, go here. I loved doing this one and kept looking at it the rest of the evening and all day today.



Changes. A lot of people are going through them, whether positive or negative. I've always believed that there is a reason for everything that happens. Even bad things have a reason for being. I've come to realize that I've changed a lot over the years. I've matured quite a bit. It was ten years ago that I started my love/hate relationship with the internet. I was barely twenty, still naive and bit foolish. I got sucked into the chat life. Fell in love (or at least that's what I thought it was) with men I have never seen or even heard. I did stupid things. I actually bought a plane ticket to meet a guy from chat, in the USA (I'm in Canada for those who still don't know.) And I did this, not once or even twice but THREE times! My mother nearly had a heart attack every time but I was legally an adult, in both countries, and she knew that I wouldn't listen anyway. I was lucky. The guys I met were sweethearts. But the long-distance thing really wasn't for me. So I started going out with friends a bit more and getting away from the chatrooms. Until I moved out of my parents' house, five years ago.

I was living alone, bored, lonely, you name it. So I got sucked back into chat. And I guess that's when I hit rock bottom. I reconnected with a guy from chat I had know since the beginning. Fortunately, this one lived in the same country as me. I went to meet him. He came over for a week. He got what he wanted and I never heard from him again. I got depressed. I didn't know what was wrong with me. Blah blah blah. Eventually, I decided it was time for forgiveness. Not for him. For me. I forgave myself. Why am I telling you all this? Because I only recently realized that I had to live that experience in order to move on beyond the chatroom. It made me a stronger woman. So yes, bad things do happen but they can lead to good things. Now, I know that the next man that will come into my life will be a good man because I won't have it any other way. And seriously, I'm hoping that 2008 is the year that I will meet him! Because this year is MY year!

And before I go, let me tell you about the result so far of another challenge. This year I'm taking the No Stuff challenge after seeing this little film, which is to buy as little as possible, to reduce the amount of stuff I have and to buy in an intelligent and eco-friendly manner (less packaging, reusable bags, buying local, etc.) Since January 1st, except for groceries and other necessities like that, the only thing I have bought is ribbon by the yard, because it was 50% off that day and I used a cloth bag instead of plastic. I am SERIOUSLY proud of myself! No magazines, no art supplies, no books, no CDs, no bits and pieces from the Dollar Store... nothing! nada! niet! rien! zero! And what I do plan on buying, eventually, will be from thrift shops, second hand stores and garage sales. Hopefully, by the end of the year, I'll have saved a nice little amount of money and I'll be that much closer to my dream of being wealthy! Heck, I found a quarter this morning on my walk! Not a penny, a whole quarter! Ok, it's nothing like Violette's daughter-in-law who found $100 but still... it's better than not finding anything at all, right?

Alright, enough of this. I'm off to do my Daily Art Card and then a bit of knitting before bed.

Art Cards and a tag

Yesterday was definitely a fun experience. I met my brother for brunch before we set off on our little photographic adventure. We spent a total of 3 hours walking the Biodome and taking pictures. I haven't uploaded them to my computer yet so you'll have to be patient if you want to see them. There were a lot of people there, mostly families with young kids but everyone was polite. There was no pushing or shoving. Everyone was there to have fun and enjoy the view of wild animals. My favourites are always the small monkeys. I dream of one day having my very own little monkey! (Hey! Who said dreams can't come true? Not me!)



Anyway, not much else to say. I have a bit of a cold but nothing major. Just a bit stuffed up so I'm drinking plenty of fluids, eating fruits and veggies and getting some rest. Today, so far, I've only been outside to go grocery shopping (it's cold!) and I baked muffins. I tried a recipe my coworker gave me and it smells yummy. I still have plenty of Vegetarian Spread left for the beginning of the week and I plan on doing something with barley... Found a simple recipe I'll try after I finish writing this post. I'm really enjoying cooking and baking for myself even if I don't have the best kitchen. This is the 3rd Sunday in a row that I do it and I'm not giving up! So many recipes I want to try... so much potential for yummy discoveries...

Today's images are of my Daily Art Card I made last night which is mostly doodling and my 3rd card for the Deck of Me Challenge. Visit my Flickr for more info.

Before I forget, Violette tagged me. I'm supposed to say 5 odd things about myself so quickly here they are:

1. I once spent a whole summer eating almost only dairy products.
2. I love the smell of skunk (not on me though.)
3. I used to be a goth girl.
4. I don't like ketchup, which leads me to
5. I eat my shepherds pie with mustard. Lots of mustard.

I'm not tagging anyone but if you feel like playing, please do so! Off to cook barley...

Edited at 5:45 pm to add: The barley recipe is delish! It's Barley Pilaf and it's a great alternative to rice... I just goggled "barley pilaf" and there seems to be tons of different recipes for it. Follow my lead and try something new! Oh, and you can view my Biodome pics here. Have a peaceful evening!

A little bit of this

And a little bit of that...

Today's Daily Art Card. One of my girlies again. Very simple this one. I started with the rub-ons by 7Gypsies, painted over it with a watercolour crayon (I scribble first with the crayon then I go over it with a wet paintbrush.) Drew the girl on a piece of Newsprint paper (just found this again this week after a bit of cleaning up!), coloured her in with colour pencils before glueing her on the card. Smeared oil pastel around the edges of the Newsprint and then doodled the borders with Sharpie and PosterPaint Marker (for the white.)


This next image is something different. I had already done Kira's challenge for the first week on a loose cardstock to be swapped but never actually did a page in my own journal. So that's what I decided to do with this one. I picked random bits of paper (mostly Japanese papers from a little package I had received before Christmas.) I stapled and glued them on the page and then dry-brushed some white acrylic to give everything a more uniform look. Punched 2 holes on the right side and set 2 eyelets with my Crop-o-Dile. Threaded a ribbon through them to make a bow. Glued an envelop on the left side and cut a piece of cardstock to fit into it. Attached a little cardstock tab to the piece. And then I re-wrote my goals for the year. You can see them here since I didn't change them. This page isn't like any of the others I've done so far but I like it.




And last but not least, my page for Emily's second word prompt. This time the word was FEEL. There was so much I could have done here, so much I could have written. I decided to keep it simple. Focus on the positive. I try to do this as often as possible. It's not always easy. There are days where I want to give up and just stay into bed all day and cry but what good would that bring me? Not much really. I do let myself get sad, when I need to. But I don't dwell. I don't wallow in it. I used to. Now, I always try to look at the good side of the medal. I don't ignore the bad side but I don't acknowledge it like I used to.

I really should go to bed. I've been feeling a bit under the weather today and I don't want it to get any worse. Tomorrow should be a fun day: I'm going to the Biodome with my brother so we can both practice taking better pictures with our cool cameras (and to try my tripod!) I'll show you pictures, if there are any good ones! Goodnight!

Pieces of me

A few images tonight... First, Daily Art Cards number 13 and 14.

The first one is really simple. I started by picking the flower image from my "junk mail" pile. It's from a Home Outfitters ad I believe... The next piece of paper I picked was the Romeo + Juliette phrase. Following the romance theme, I looked for something else to fill the side and the tea lights were perfect (from an article on Enya that I had kept from years ago.) Everything just came together. The only thing I added that isn't collage is the "romance" written with a gel pen.



Second of these cards is just as simple. I sifted through my stash of paper scraps (you know those tiny little pieces you just can't bring yourself to throw away...) and just glued and stapled pieces on an ATC sized piece of recycled cardboard (I think this was from a box of tissues.) The ribbon is something I've been holding onto for over 10 years. My best friend had given it to me, knowing that I loved butterflies. I finally decided to cut a piece of it and use it (finally accepting the fact that she no longer wants me in her life.) And, last but not least, I stamped with StazOn.




Finally, the last two pictures are of the journal page I made for Kira's Swap. The prompt for this week was Words and Pictures. We were to take a picture (or find one) and describe it, how it makes us feel, etc.

The picture I chose is one I took last week of my foggy street. I played a lot with this page. Background is watercolour crayons to which I applied just a bit of water with a brush. That was done after the photo had been glued down and the journaling had been done (with Micron pens.) I doodled with the Micron pens some more and a bit of white (grid next to the picture) with a white-out pen. Added a piece of 7Gypsies paper then rubbed some oil pastels on it and around the picture a bit (I smudged it with my fingers.) Stapled a vellum quote at the bottom and attached another piece of vellum over the journaling with eyelets (my favourite tool to use eyelets is the Crop-o-dile.) And last but not least, I used my "office" date stamp just below the picture with StazOn ink.

On this last image, you can see the journaling that is otherwise hiding under the vellum.

We had a beautiful sunny day today. A bit cold but then that's what I asked for, isn't it?

Oh, and Artbrat asked about the crown in my latest shrine. I made it from pieces of German Foil Paper Borders and Gold Decorative Harware from ArtChixStudio.

Back to work it is then...

Today was the first day back to work. Starting with a ped day can be fun and hard too. Luckily, today I was working with Anik and we always get along great.

Yesterday's cooking was a fun experience for me and I plan to do it more often. I used to by frozen dinners or pre-prepared meals. No more (well, I'm not saying never but not as often as I did before.) I plan to use my Sundays for cooking and baking. Now if only I could have someone to share my cooking with... ;-)




Daily art cards 5 and 6 are what you see here. Very simple. Painted background. Patterned paper on the top one and Perfect Pearls dusted over the whole thing. Doodling and watercolour on the bottom one. Now I'm off to do tonight's card which will be the 7th so my first goal will be accomplished. Now to see if I can make it til the end of the month with these cards...

Art Cards and a Journal Page

Here are the 3rd and 4th cards for the Daily Art Card Challenge. I'm really enjoying doing these. So far, my favourite is the 4th one, the roller-skate one. I like the colours I used and the way it all came together.









I'll definitely try to do these as long as I possibly can. A week, a month, a year? I don't know. Time will tell.









This little card here is from my "Deck of Me" which was a challenge done on Emily Falconbridge's blog in 2007. I only read about it in the last month and decided to do it this year instead. I had a deck of playing card I didn't want to use for play so they were perfect for this. I still get to keep it as a souvenir from my trip to New York City years ago AND it will now be a work of art as well. The first prompt is Something you are proud of. I decided to do it in french... I'm proud to be french canadian (quebecoise to be exact.)





The journal page was made for the Journal Page Swap on Kira's Yahoo Group. AND it is also a good response to Nicci's Creative Juices Challenge.


Today, I baked! Unbelievable I know! I made Maple Syrup Muffins (mmm mmm good!) and a "all in one" casserole which consists of meat (or usually I use mixed beans), rice, veggies and broth with spices. So, technically, I've already been creative today! But I'm still going to do my daily card tonight.

There was something else I wanted to write about but right now I don't remember what it was... oh well, too bad.

I guess I'll go eat my yummy casserole now.