These eyes are so cool! This background was done with a credit card. I dripped yellow paint, then light green paint onto the paper, then scraped it off with a credit card. One of my favourite techniques!

I did the same thing on this page as the previous page, but used a different background stamp. I love the magazine cutout! I had given a workshop on Art Journals this day at a small stamping convention.

This page was done with acrylic paint with gel medium added to it, making it shiny. Then I stamped a script stamp all over, which takes away the paint, leaving a white image. I used a torn piece of paper to write on. The stamps are all stamps that I bought on sale at Michael's that day!

This background was made by wiping the paint with a baby wipe. I didn't really like it too much, and it smelled funny for awhile@ I drew my foot at one soccer game, and my bag at another. I think I uploaded these two pics before!

I was having a bad day. I sat down to write and my mind went totally blank. I looked through my clippings and found this "ideas" one. I needed some of these!!! My favourite birdie stamp across the middle (SU).

This is a stack of pictures I took at Caitlin's new place. This is a way to get lots of pictures in a small space. Each one flips up to show the next. The background is paste paper.

We spent Sunday at Ikea. They have these neat measuring tapes that I saved lots of! The drawing is of parsley and an orange peel left over from breakfast! I used paste paper for the background of this page and the next page.

We went to Toronto for the long weekend. I took a coupon folder full of stamped images that I had collected over the last 10 years or so. I used some while I was away.

This page has two photocopied newspaper articles in it, one is about the heat wave we've been having, and the record heat of 35 degrees celcius that was reached (I don't know what that is in F). Let's say really really hot! (For us anyway). I didn't really notice, since I was inside with AC all day, but the next morning it was 13 degrees C, a big drop!

This is the next page, I used the other half of the scrapbook paper to make a pocket to hold these little rubber stamped booklets that I found when cleaning my stamp room.

On this page I used a piece of scrapbook paper (no reason for choice, it was just there) torn in half. I used one piece for this page and one for the next. This was a page I didn't like, so I painted over it and started again.

This is the view from my front window, looking out to my porch and beyond to the road. I have a split rail fence that you can see a bit of. This was a big undertaking for me, and I'm happy with it! Played with a lot of dark colors for black-but still haven't achieved a nice black black. In the small spot where I needed it I used my marker. I used Danny's advice, and started drawing what was closest to me, the chair, then went out from there. It worked well! I think if I had done this before reading Danny's advice I would have started in the background. Don't know how to get the window to look like a window. Didn't wan't to do the 3 white lines thing. And it is very clean!

EDM #3-Draw a purse, wallet or bag I drew this at my daughter's soccer game last night -as it says around the picture, it's the only thing that isn't moving all the time! Someday I'll learn how to draw things that are constantly changing.

EDM#23 -draw your foot. I drew this while at my daughter's soccer game last week. I used a sepia pen.

My zucchini

EDM #26-draw a vegetable

I drew a zucchini that I bought at the market today. Not totally happy with it, but I guess it does look like a zucchini!

EDM #18 challenge-draw what you see out your window...this was a bus ride where the view kept changing, I just put in what I saw when I looked up each time-these were never all together in the same place! It was a very bumpy ride, a bit tricky when drawing and painting! I used the brushes with the reservoirs so I didn't need any water. But I did need paper towels which I forgot!

My grid page following Dawn's recipe, except I had to make fewer boxes, may pages are so narrow! My theme is "my spring garden", although it should be my summer garden, as it was summer by the time I planted it! Perhaps I'll do another one at the end of the summer.

The left side of the journal

The right side of the journal.

My Everyday Matters Group challenge #2-the lamp that sits on my worktable. It is taller than it looks, I probably should have left off the base! The things are hanging from a magnetic clip, which is sticking to the edge of the lamp.

My daughter and I went to a local Craft Fair on Saturday. Beautiful sunny but not-too-hot day. We found a photographer who was absolutely brilliant! He does not use a computer to manipulate his photos, but it sure looks like he does. He's incredible, but we couldn't afford anything of his-too bad!

This was a play we went to. It was very funny, but also very hokey. The children were large puppets that were manipulated by the 3 actors. There were also baby puppets that looked like strange aliens! But it was fun, and that is the reason we go out, after all! 

This was a pre-prepped page, playing with light and dark. I used the metal touch 3-D paint for the highlights of the circles. This was the day I went to our local art store and bought a few new pens and brushes. 

Last day of school, a happy/sad day! We always have a big picnic at a local park with parents and kids. I really like the way this page turned out with the dry brushing on the top and bottom. 

My daughter is back from Halifax. She had a great time! They stayed in residence at Dalhousie University, right downtown, only $60 for two nights for two people -can't get better than that! I love the yoga in the coffee cup -fits my daughter to a 'T"! I used a cheapie plastic stencil to do the dark letters. 

The postcard my daughter sent from Halifax-we are big Dim Sum fans, and these are her favourite dumplings! I took the suggestion of someone on one of my Yahoo lists to punch holes, then slit the holes so they would fit over the spiral binding -worked beautifully! 

My daughter is off to Halifax! 

We celebrated Father's Day a day early by going out to dinner and to the movies. The receipt for dinner is in the folder, with what everyone ate that night. 

Played with background stamps 

This is the front of a card I made for a challenge. I really liked it so I put it in my journal. 

This was a strange day...I had a real feeing of doom and gloom, but i thought it was from something I had done, turned out my co-teacher was in a car accident on the way to work. This is the first time I had put "premonition" feelings down on paper. She wasn't hurt badly, but was out of commission for the next 2 weeks. 

This one turned out really neat, a picture from Harry Potter, then I put the mosaic head on it and continued the drawing. Fun! 

I like this page, did all the writing with sparkly gel pens, pretty much the only gel pens I have that actually work. I prepped a few pages with watercolors (just to experiment) and found that the paper got too wet, it took a long time to dry, and it ruined the pictures on the other side, which I had to replace. So I think I'll stick with acrylics. 

This picture really shows how I felt this day, when I got new bi-focals. I had never had them before, always had progressives, thought I'd try them. Now I know. Never again! 

We went to a play, and took these photos before it started. My daughter and her best friend, and me and my daughter.