It's been an interesting week for me. Sometimes I do many things throughout the day. Right now I should be tweaking my website and adding things to the buymeacoffee.com site but I'm not. Plain as that.
I have found that with eye strain, working on anything longer than it takes to write this post is too much. I want to use my time creating rather than working on a computer.
Recently I watched another wonderful video by Laurie Richardson Haley on YouTube showing a way to make a little booklet with collage cards. Well, I certainly had to try that because I have many cards I could make into a book.
The next one will have all the same colored ribbon or material. I learned after I made it, I really didn't like all the different colors I used. My art is colorful enough, apparently. But it's successful in my eyes, so thank you Laurie! I made a video I'll share on Instagram and Facebook after this post goes live. Check it out if you're interested and use those social media sites.
Is it perfect? No. Do I love it anyway? YES!
I'm also continuing with getting my stickers and cutouts organized. I came across some odd painted papers, some doodled bits I had cut out. I decided to put them in with the sorting I'm now doing to get them sorted by color.
I emptied this white box shown above on the pink table completely. I still have two different sized boxes to sort through and put in the folders by color.
I took a lot of extra, unnecessary steps to get to this point but I guess it's how I had to work it out. I'm positive I can now use this system for all future stickers and cutouts I do.
I put, by color, everything on a piece of computer paper and then file it in the appropriate folder. When I want to use a few of the stickers or the whole page I'll scan it and cut them out. This keeps the originals I've found ready to be used many times which thrills me to no end! Unlimited fodder is a little slice of heaven!
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I'm still working on the 30 day art journal. It might take a year but it will be 30 days of art in a book once finished. I used up the rest of my printer ink and scanned and printed out a few of my favorite pages to use in collage.
Turns out, I really do like the first page I did using my favorite word: "Awesome". It grew on me. LOL The flowers will get cut out separately and added here and there in journals and on cards as will the cute little doodle faced folks.
Shown above is a piece of computer paper and I took a lot of the painted papers pieces I didn't put into the color folders on it. This will get cut down and used in some way; probably on cards. I might add a few more embellishments to it with stencils and an ink pad as well as my favorite acrylic circles I like to do. I had tried gluing all the painted papers together making a large sheet, embellishing it (some are used here) then cutting it down but honestly this works for me a little better. I can make these often and file them in a folder and use them at a later time. This works for me. In the end that's all that matters!
Enjoy the journey.
Cindy aka EarthMotherMosaics
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