TGF Heart Journal--week 3

Hi! It's week 3 of TGF's Heart Journaling. I hope I can keep up with this weekly journaling. The assignment this week is to create a 1 or 2 page spread using the concept of gratitude. The tip of the week is trying to add lots of layers. My daughter and I decided to make a one page layout since we have the binding in the middle of our books.

My daughter's layout using pastels. I think she was kind of stuck with the concept of gratitude. She didn't know quite how to express it on paper. She added some beads for the sun and a flower in the middle of the TGF stamps.

My layout. I think I kind of went crazy this week. I layered on lots of my scraps and didn't really even bother to glue everything down. I used washi tape to hold most of the papers and used my kids' glue stick for the parts that still stuck up. Then I used my kids' water colors to paint over some of the papers, mostly shades of green and blue. I used my leftover bees (Paper Smooches digital stamp) that I thought hadn't printed too well and glued them on. I water colored them as well. Then used the frame and sentiment from Lawn Fawn. I glued some paper flowers with dew drops in the centers, and used some stickles on the bees' wings and also dotted the stickles in random places over the layout. I used a black sharpie to draw in a frame. Even though most of this was kind of random, I kind of like it. Two bee friends in a chaotic garden. Hehe.

Thanks for reading and have a great week!

Comments

Cheryl said…

You guys are doing so great with the art journal, I didn't even realize it was a new week, where is the time going? Nice coloring with the pastels! Great Thank You banner! Yeah, I have to agree, it's a brain twister theme. Cute background and bees! Everything seems to work nicely together even as a hodge podge of papers.

August 7, 2011 at 3:10 PM

Lorraine said…

So cute that you & your daughter are doing this together! Love her artwork and your bees in the garden. Sounds like you had fun - like a little kid going crazy and just creating - that's how it should be!

August 8, 2011 at 6:44 PM

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