Finished Kalona's AJ

In my pessession: Kalona's AJ and Shari's pages.
For Kalona on her theme Journeys, physical and metaphysical.

Lucine for Loren: Halloween in Wonderland

Three art journals I will mail to the United Kingdom today. I finished the last art journal I had. It's Loren's with Halloween in Wonderland as theme. There are very nice pages in this journal. Here I share with the page I created for Loren. I wonder how I could mix Halloween with Alice in Wonderland. I assumed Halloween in Wonderland must be a mix of Halloween and Alice in Wonderland. Love this theme as it is another challenge to be creative in a very broad way. Vivid colours can be used on both themes, but one can choose to do Alice in Wonderland in a vintage look. Loren's art journal has black pages, so I used a lot of white in addition to collages. I hope Loren enjoys this page.

Haiku: Lucine for Sadie

Great things about a Round Robin is that someone's art journal passes you. You challenge the theme of your partner and share your page with others. I received Sadie's art journal a couple of weeks ago. The theme of Sadie's art journal is Haiku. So I will create an art journal page for Sadie in her Haiku art journal. Yes, I had to look up what Haiku was. Once heard of it, but I could not remember what it was. It is an interesting poetry style. I came up with several Haiku's and I share my best Haiku's with Sadie in her art journal.

These simple words

life hope trust

where to find

We and trust

it will be found

in our nature

We and hope

it will be given

me to you

We and life

it is given

take and share

Mi Mariposas bonitas

mi te quiero

en mi corazon

Mi Mariposas bonitas

voy a ahorrar

ahora y siempre

Mi Mariposas bonitas

mis hijas bonitas

vivir reir amor

Translation in English:

My beautiful butterflies

I love you

in my heart

My beautiful butterflies

I will carry you

now and always

My beautiful butterflies

my beautiful daughters

live laugh love

Sending love to all of you♥

Lucine

Lucine in Marie's art journal

It has been a very long time since I received an art journal to work in. My art journal is back home. Together with my art journal I received Marie's. Here is my contribution to Marie's beautiful book. I love your theme. Marie, I hope you like it♥

Received ...

The art journals are really moving, yayyy☺  I received a page for Mary (theme: Fairy Tales). A second AJ was delivered; theme is: Bygone Era, so it is Beth's AJ. I'm so glad to have an art journal of this round robin again. Beth's art journal is just sooo beautiful! It is so nice to watch impressions of the good old time. Awesome, really awesome.

Kalona's page for Rhelda

Rhelda didn't get a journal going so we are doing loose pages instead. The theme is "Soul Play"

I used photos, cutouts, embossed card, stickers, copics, gellies and markers, sequins, oil and soft pastels, acrylics and gel mediums. One of my websites has Art and Soul in the title so I couldn't think of anything more appropriate...

Purple -- Owl -- Tree

There was a loose sheet, so I simply tipped it in to the journal. The "front" of the tip-in has a forest scene at dusk; the "back" of the tip-in is the bottom half of the owl on a purple-dusky-night background. The owl was drawn and coloured separately before being glued over the two hinged sheets. The hinge is packing tape, so it should stand up to the journal's remaining journey.

Kalona's spread in Rachel's journal

Here's my spread for Rachel...

It's a funky mix of fantasy film on wire, clear gel medium,crackle paint,pens and paints... hope you like it! xx

Shari "Rtist"'s pages in Anne's Light Through the Cracks journal

 

Will send the journal on to Mary M. as soon as I get it packaged up and to the PO : )

Totem Animals spread from Anne

I got Louise's journal at the start of the week. I knew before hand I wanted to do something with Zuni fetish bears (I collect them as well as other fetishes). We're travelling the the US southwest next week so its colours and motifs were on my mine. So the result ...

Two spreads for Deedee.

 I have finished my spread in Deedee´s beautiful little journal. I was just on my way to my daughter in Scotland, so I guess the city, nature and waiting for spring is what´s in my picture.

Deedee invites friends and family to join in, and do a spread. Well, as I was taking her journal on vacation, I asked my Daughter to contribute, and she was delighted to do so. Its back in Denmark now, and ready to send on. xxx Trine

Loren's journal

This is my contribution to Loren's journal. I have a very old Alice in Wonderland book that I scanned for some of the little pictures. I also used rubber stamps. "Alice" is acrylic.

Mary's Page Spread in Sadie's Journal

I enjoyed working in Sadie's Haiku journal. I found a butterfly Haiku that I liked and went with the butterflly theme. Love butterflies and I hope Sadie does too. I do get carried away sometimes so there's lots of butterflies fluttering through the sky.........

Once I mail Sadie's journal to Loren next week, I will not have any journals to work on from our group.

Where are we at?

I post (see below) on milliande to inform you about Louise's journal.

Elvira, on Saturday the 15th I received the package you sent me. I am a bit late with this post, but thank you so much for all the goodies. You did not have to... but I sure appreciate your gesture. Here some pics. Elvira, I adhered the picture on your page in Louise's journal. The pic you sent is a bit smaller than the one on the page. I did the best I could do:-) Hopefully you'll like what it look like now. So I also did some repair. See what it looks like now. As I pm you, I added some extra wax paper between the pages to prevent damage as when I received the journal it still stuck. Hopefully the pages will travel safely from now on. Enjoy... ☺

I expect to finish Louise's journal tonight and I plan to mail the envelope with two journals (from Rachel & Louise) this week. I'll keep you informed.

Blue is the colour of...

Blue Hydrangeas. This is my spread in Trine's beautiful journal.

Acrylic paints, stamps (I made), tissue, gel medium, markers...

Now I have Lucine's journal to play in.

Hello, it's Deedee and I'm finally aboard!

A few pictures to share with all of you. First is Liz Monaghan's wonderfully beautiful journal cover. OMG the whole journal, the entry page, the sign in pages, the front and back covers are just unbelievable! This picture does not do it justice. There are actual beads in the stitching all around the cover!

My contribution

I just received Loren Cranes journal from Liz and will begin this week. Pictures to follow...

"Bygone Era" Page Spread

Here's the page spread I completed for Beth's journal. I loved the image as it reflected a New Year - okay 1875 but, still a new year; another new beginning for everyone. Hope Beth likes it.

I hope to get this journal on it's way to Loren soon.

I will begin working on Sadie's "Haiku" journal spread.

Purple Owl Tree

My first entree in Rachel's art journal. A whimsical page. I do not feel to be too serious, so whimsical it is. I like this page very, very much. The second page will be uploaded today. So I did my part in Rachel's journal:-3

My second page for Rachel. So I did my part in Rachel's journal:-3

Here are the pictures of my journal Sanity by a Thread........

Marie's work in Kalona's journal, THEME: Journeys, Physical and Metaphysical

"Happiness is a Journey not a Destination"