100 day project over:

 The 100-day project is over. My main goal was to post more artwork. I created more posts. Behind the scenes, I created more trinkets for my journals, which involves, printing, painting, cutting out and doodling, sewing and glueing, and calligraphy practice.

 

Here is a peak at what I was working on when I didn't post.

I really would like to improve in this area.

Garden love

 What I am eating and growing.

Flashy butter gem

and Little gem, both Romain lettuce from the grow box. 

Perpetual spinach, Flashy Butter Gem, Merlot,

and favorite radishes.

 

I used all of these to create this salad:

 

 

 

 i like to take remnants of ivory card-stock, and write calligraphy, and doodle.

The remnants come from the back of printed artwork that i paint black.

when it dries, it has an aged feel.

Illustrations using my new favorite font "Happy Star"

I bought bulk herbs/seasonings from Vitacost.

I repackaged them in

recycled containers and made fancy labels on sticker paper.

 

100 day project

 The 100-day project has been going on approx 70 ish days.

                                             One of my favorite ways to make a journal.

                                                       Bee ephemera for beekeeper journal

 

 These cards are stuffed among other things inside the journal. Some have 

pockets on the back.

 

one hundred day project

 

 

It's very challenging for me to post my artwork.

For my 100-day project I will be challenging myself to post artwork that I haven't posted,

and would love to share.

I would like to get into the habit of making time to share my work. And working on my blog every day.

So for the next 100 days I will work on this blog. This may not add up to 100 posts, but I will be working on it every day!

 

my favorite junk journal to make

Tons of unsolicited mail.

 

I use envelope and scrap brown paper. junk papers, stuff I usually throw away.

scraps of brown packing paper

You might say, "I get so much junk mail, how can 

I use enough of it in a project to make a useful dent in it?"

 Painting helps to flatten the papers out.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I present a journal that I created from over painted water color paintings, 

with painted paper recycled packing papers, recycled art 

and empty junk mail envelopes

 

The cover has a pocket with affirmation cards 

and a sheer organdy ribbon tie closure.

 

Journal pages with pockets stuffed with affirmation cards, 

and cards you can label with your own words. 

 

The pockets and backs of pictures are hand doodled 

with simple symbols.

 

The pages are copies of my paintings, cloud designs. 

Each page has a pocket. There are 5 signatures one page with 

a tiny insert. The signatures are attached to the single 

thickness spine hand sewn with black and white backer's twine.

The finished journal is embellished with charms, painted pages, 

and paper-doll angels.

There are tucks, papers for journaling.

 

This journal was such a joy to make, challenging me with

new ways my artwork is changing, and the surprising (to me)

forms that it could take.