Weekend of fun...

Another fantastic weekend of fun with Chelsey's Creative Events Scrapbooking. Another full weekend of friends, fun, art journaling, canvas making, recipe book making, class designing, and teaching hand lettering. Here are a couple of sneak peeks at what went on this weekend:

Friday night began with my Hand Lettering class. Here are some examples of my students' work:

Here's a canvas I made, just playing around with some mixed media:

And my "home"made cookbook cover and back...

I also worked on designing a mixed media class but for some reason the photos of it won't load right now. I'll post them later when I can get them to work.

I did, however, get a chance to create a facebook group. Feel free to check it out!

Documented life project and Lettering classes...

Over the last year I've learned more and more, making me more comfortable with my art journaling and lettering. Something I've been meaning to do for a while now is go back and retake each online art journaling or lettering class I've taken in the past year. I want to fill up one journal with all my classes, back to back. Redoing all projects, whether I loved them or not. Partly for additional practice, partly for a beautifully documented journal at the end of it all. Speaking of 'documented', I'm also part of the Documented Life Project put on by Art to the 5th. Five amazing artists, part journal, part planner, weekly challenges, you name it, this project is fantastic. You're supposed to use some type of agenda or planner for the project. I found myself too stingy to pay upwards of $20 for an agenda so for the first 15 weeks I just used a regular journal. Last week I found a discounted agenda and decided I should move my work into it and continue on with the year in it. Well, low and behold, I wasn't loving the small size of the agenda I bought. Today I came across an 11"x8.5" agenda/planner at the dollar store for a whopping $2!!! After juggling through a typical Sunday with my girls and then not so typically getting to take them to my mom's for a sleepover tonight, I got a few hours to get this new journal/planner ready for the year. It's going to take some catch up now (17 weeks worth - 17 art journal challenges - 17 weeks of empty calendar/agenda pages) but in the end of it all, I think it's going to work out very nicely. Here's how beautiful it looks before even starting!! All this is is a mini workshop through Art to the 5th on how to prep your planner for the process. It's so chunky and delicious already!!! I'm excited. Isn't that so yummy?!?!

Some other projects I've been working on this week are for my National Letter Writing Month group. Here's an envelope I made out of a piece of wallpaper from a wallpaper sample book my sister scored for me. How awesome!!

The full journal of classes I've taken over the year will be inside a new journal that I decorated like this:

I figured since 95% of the classes I took are Joanne Sharpe's classes, there's a good chance I may even fill the journal with just her classes anyway. So it seemed like a good choice of cover.

On a side note, I walked past this picture at the mall last week. I love it and I need it. So I checked the price... $1400. Yup. Not happening. I wish I could have captured a better picture of it but I wasn't sure if I was allowed to take pictures in there so I snapped this quick one with my phone and bolted.

let me teach you...

My class is advertised!! Get all the details here

sneak peek...

My latest creation in my art journal:
This is the amazing intensity of Inktense watercolour pencils. First, before water...

 And after the water...

 I love how from a side view you can't even make out the writing, it almost becomes a fantastic background...

 And some sneak peeks from my upcoming LIVE class!!! I can't share any more details YET but I will be able to real soon!!

until then...

Creative Lettering!

I have some very exciting news!! In the next couple months I'll be teaching a Creative Hand Lettering class at The Inked Stamper here in St. Albert. If you would like me to let you know when the date is chosen, please comment below and I'll be sure to let you know first!

time flies...

I have to apologise. It's been MONTHS since I've been here. Carpal Tunnel release surgery on both wrists caused me to put down the journal for a few months while I healed. Then, you know how it is, you stop doing something and you find something else to fill that time with. So I finally pulled out the journal(s) again and here I am.
Last Christmas my sister made me some vinyls for my kitchen walls to match the ones she made for me at our last house. We finally got around to putting them up and I must say, they are amazing!! (Excuse the mess)

 Before I really jumped back into journalling, I had to make myself a little pouch to carry my coloured pencils and pens in when I take my journal with me. I'm so proud of my little pouch that I designed myself and sewed without experience:

 ...and my love for Joanne Sharpe continues. I'm taking both her Draw Your Awesome Year and Draw Your Awesome Life classes online.

I have to take the time to take pics of what I've been up to. I'll try to do that tonight so I can catch you up on my last couple of weeks back into art journaling!

doodling with joanne...

Yet another fun class via Joanne Sharpe:

Still healing from my second surgery, that's why I haven't been around. I promise I haven't fallen off the edge of the art world.

Color love 101

My Joanne Sharpe inspired art girl.

Surgery

I had my carpal tunnel surgery yesterday. I'm now at home, healing and resting. I'm going to go through some of the online classes that I've taken and play with colours as much as I can. I'm in a lot of pain so it will be in short bursts for now.

always time for a little art...

It was a long day, it's 10:30pm and I'm just now finally sitting down at my art desk. Won't be much time for creativity tonight but there sure is time to gesso the next pages in each of my (currently) three art journals so they're ready for tomorrow's creative inspirations. I want to take a moment to give credit where credit is due:

Whimspirations - by Joanne Sharpe

• Letter Love 101
• Letter Love 201
• Artful Alphabets

Homegrown Hospitality - Stephanie Ackerman

• 52 Pickup
• Doodle 101
• Doodle, Too!

The Art Studio - Kate Koch

• Gesso

Creative Workshops - Lori Vliegen

• Letter Lab

Online Card Classes - Tim Holtz

• Creative Chemistry 101

Annie's Crafts

• Stamping 101

Yipes. I think that's it. Can you believe I JUST started Art Journaling in January 2013?!? I've always been known to find a new hobby and really take it by the reins. I will learn it in, out, sideways, and backwards. I will perfect it in my own unique way. I will love it in and out. …and that, I do. Although I'm learning that I'm not only learning the ropes, I'm also meeting fantastic people along the way too. That, in itself, is worth every cent I've spent on classes.

my most recent accomplishment

I'm proud to say that I may have actually figured out how to doodle. Sounds odd, doesn't it? Everyone knows how to 'doodle'... well, not I. I really had a tough time figuring out how to let the ink flow without boundaries. I loved it. Thank you Stephanie Ackerman.

broadening my horizons

I've been trying to broaden my horizons. Take some classes, whether for lettering, art journaling, techniques, you name it. I've been having a ton of fun but I've also spent a wee bit too much on the classes. PayPal's too easy to use. Nonetheless, I've been having a great time and likely will be doing more soon. I'll round up the addresses and links for each of the classes I've taken so as to give credit where credit is due.