Mini Art Journal Day 13

Hi there my crafty friends!

I'm so glad you're visiting!  I have another page in my mini art journal for the Art Marks Challenge from Rae Missigman and Sandi Keene.

Day 13 - Whittle

 

This one was a real challenge.  Even though I have tried to rid my life of things are may not be as important as they once were, or I'm seeing things from a different perspective, it's still a process.  You can look at it as losing things, or as freeing yourself.  Could also be a combination.  I thought about it a lot and what it meant for me.  I have been trying to clean out my life.  Remove what doesn't work, and instead of seeing it as losing something, I'm trying to remember what I gain.  Space in a physical sense perhaps (such as having a garage sale or donating items you no longer want or need), or perhaps you can find peace is deciding what's important to you emotionally.  So in whittling away at my life, it is about remembering who I am, and that it's to help me care for me so I can life my best life.

I'm also entering my page into these challenges:

Creative Fingers Challenge #261

Crazy is Our Fame September Challenge

For some Art Marks Challenge history, you can click here.  And Rae's Instagram account here shows what's she's making for each prompt.  For those who haven't seen my previous posts yet, I'm working in a mini art journal I made out of envelopes, but you can use many different things, including scrap or underpaper, so some pages already had stuff on them.  A hole punch and some baker's twine later and a mini art journal for the challenge ready for art!

I've posted either groups or individual.  We'll see how I'm feeling for the rest.

I have a lot of gelli print papers from printing sessions I've done in the past.  This background paper featured at least two different stencils.  You can see a backwards print of Dylusions numbers stencil.  When you're gelli printing, you can do reverse prints, masking, layered stencils, oh the possibilities!  I used Liquitex Basics in yellow, ultramarine blue, and free flow aqua green.

I stamped a simple message that I felt was a whittled down version of a speech one could give on being true to one's self.  It's a snarky phrase from a Badass Art stamp set I got from a company of the same name out of Poland.  You can also see a die-cut star from my stash.

I also added a couple strips of washi tape and a pair of legs from a larger stamp from a Dylusions set and colored with Tombow markers.

I also added the sentiment die-cut "Seize the Day" is also from my stash.  Lastly I added some doodles with my Sharpie pen.

Thank you so much for stopping by and checking out my art journal page.  Bye for now!