Monday, February 15, 2010

A Blissful Color Explosion!!!

Caution: Bright Colors! Please wear protective eyewear! hee hee
This first page is part of my newest journal....when it is all put together I will share...so much left to do to it....
The page was made for AJC
Again I combined a couple of the weeks together...
Week 4- PLAY and Week 5-SEEK
And a bit of BLISS!!! I just love the blissful bubbles all over the page! Don't you?!
Image Credits:
Border: number game piece by: Tangie Baxter...Some imagery from some of my old works and some from the sheet I was creating for my shop that got lost during a puter revamp...imagery from Anahata.
Main Image (left of page): by me all hand drawn and then hand painted with acrylics. Words on her dress are from my WORDY WORD collage sheet and can be found here .
Little People (bottom of page) by: WackyStuff and bodies from other Flickr users...Little girls head from I believe Fresh Fruits book. Word ("GO" and "PLAY" by: Me....Word ("BLISSFUL") Also by: Me handpainted and lettering done with a red Sharpie Paint Pen
Word Bubble/ "Smiling&pleasant thoughts" by: Cemerony
Quote reads, "Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss...Nothing is as rich...Nothing is more real." Author Unknown but was wonderfully supplied by AJC.
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Not too sure what happened here...surely did not turn out as planned but hey...it was a process and that is what it is all about! Right?!
Image Credits:
Border: Tangie Baxter....Teesha Moore...Anahata...Jackandcatcurio....and if I remember right Landofnodstudio's and some of my own stuffs.
Main Image: Face/Crown altered from a magazine.
Body: again memory loss (maybe cuz I cut the head off LOL) But was from Flickr.
Journaling was created with a brown pitt brush pen from Faber Castell.
Other details created with....Acrylic paints, Sharpie poster paint pens and Neo II's.
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I had forgotten all about this page....It was an example I used in my class Collage Dreams on Paper last fall.
Image Credits:
Border: Handmade images...some from my own collage sheets and older works...magazine tidbits...and a couple from Teesha Moore. The fishy(both halves hee hee) are by: JadesFunkiJunk
Main Image: Crown by: Teesha Moore...Face: Altered magazine tid bits....body from Fresh Fruits book.
Lettering and details up top are hand drawn and colored in by Me with Neo II's.
Words: "Getting to know me" are from my WORDY WORD collage sheet.
The rest of the background was done in acrylics and art journaled with my evil ball point pen and a white prismacolor pencil. Ya I know...whatever works! lol
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And one more page.....



This page was inspired by the wonderful and talented gal at Pringle Hill.... Terri !!
Her art is so wonderfully inspiring...but there is no way this page can come close in comparison to her colorful works! I can appreciate that! But my effort was fun! :OP Terri I don't know how you do what you do but it is amazing! Thank you for always inspiring! xoxo
Image Credits:
Border and birds: Magic moonlight.....printed out and handcolored with Prismacolor pencils.
Flags: magazine tid bits.
"Bird Brain" piece by Me....that has me written allllllllll over it! LOL
Main Image: is a magazine tear sheet and altered just a touch!
Well that is about all for today!
Hope you find some time to PLAY!!
xoxo
NancyB


Saturday, February 13, 2010

Freebies!! Happy Valentine's Day!!!!

Valentine Goodies for you!!
Just left click on them for larger version and save to your computer!!
Hope you show me what you make with them!

Please feel free to use these in your art or personal art! Not for use in collections to sell on CD or Collage Sheets! Thank you!



Have a lovely Valentines Day!


With much love!
xoxo
NancyB
****Be sure to check out the previous post....more goodies! ****





More Goodies for you!!!!

More goodies for you! Just left click for larger version and save to your computer!!

Hope you can make something with these!
Please don't use them in any collections for sale on CD or Collage Sheets!!



Thank you!
Happy Valentine's Day!
xoxo
NancyB



Wednesday, February 10, 2010

The Crow has landed.....

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Where in the world have I been!? Good heavens! I really don't know for sure...but life got busy...turned 45 and lost my art mojo! Well if turning a year older means losing my art mojo...I really don't know if I want any more birthdays! LOL
ANYWHO! I am back....I have had these pages worked on for awhile and just haven't had time to post them. But this first one is for AJC Art Journal Caravan....I had jumped around alot on the weekly itinerary challenges. And as always I do my own thing. For me the "Verb of the Week" is a good enough jump off point for me to start a page.
For Week 1: Believe
I also, included Week 3: Mend on the same page.
Credits: Border- handmade images...and Anahata.
Main Image: Hat/Hair-Anahata....Face-Flickr Collage Image group...Body-scrap from Fresh Fruits book(could of been Fruits)
Word Bubble-JadesFunkiJunk
Words- "Believe"..."Fortunes Told"..."Mend" from my Wordy Word collage sheet.
Misc Images-FreshFruits...Teesha Moore...and Flickr Collage Images Group on Flickr and some vintage bingo markers from a shop on Etsy.
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Week 2 with AJC
ACCEPT
I wrote random things that I can accept...the last one with a little sarcasm for myself not to listen to outside critics who may not think of what I do as art. :OP
Credits: Border-Anahata....Teesha Moore...handmade images...magazine tid bits.
Main Image: Crown-Anahata.....Face-altered magazine tid bits. Body-torso a magazine tid bit...skirt-handmade image.....legs/shoes-FreshFruits.
Word: "Accept"- Mailbox prism stickers. (love these things)
Words: "The Now"..."This Dream" from my WORDY WORD collage sheet.
Words: "They can go suck a fish" (hee hee) typed on a Brother label maker.
Fish: Old childrens encyclopedia.
I am still giggling about the fish comment! *snert* lol
And then something changed.........Really! Not sure what happened but I kinda like it!

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I do love this page. And the next few pages are all about change. Usually when I lose my art mojo it is about change. At first I don't see it coming....but when I start thinking about the whole thing of losing art mojo...it is not really about losing anything at all...it is all about growth! I will either do two things about it...one is...nothing and just go about daily life...or work through it! This page and the next few pages are exactly that! Growth and Change.
I do apologize for the bit of shine on the page....still not yet a photographer LOL But it reads, "She always knew when a change was coming on...It meant new things were about to happen."
Credits: Background-Collage Image group on Flickr.
Maid and blue Marilyn are tid bits from a magazine.
Quote: Brother label maker.
And a small tid bit from Teesha Moore.


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This has got to be my favorite page of all time. Not sure why that is...but I likey!
I like all its simplicity! And I will tell you how I created this page....It is easy...and it is a page you can create when you don't have alot of time, but feel the need to art journal.
I love Vogue magazines for images to alter! I flip through the magazine and tear or cut out pages (Whole Pages) that catch my eye and place them in a folder and sift through when I need that certain something.
But for this page.....I used the whole page...well with the exception of the little bit I had to omit so it would fit my journal page. After the fit....I used a glue stick and only glued around the outside edge of the backside of the page and adhered it to my journal. (Keeps it from wrinkling and buckling).
I added a tid bit of a face from Teesha Moore. I also added a striped border from one of my handmade papers. I added my own quote to the side of the page with my evil ballpoint pen and then shadowed the letters with a Pitt Brush Pen by Faber Castell.
I added imagery to the girls handbag. and a green chair from PaperScraps on Flickr.
I then added the word "change" from my randsom letter stash box and also Teesha Moore. And then used my hubbys Brother Label Maker for added words.
Lastly I did a bit of journaling on the lower left corner of the page.
That's it! It's that easy!
If you try this I would love to see what you do!

On last page for now....

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Another page done in the simular fashion as the previous page. Whole mag page...glued down...did some rubber stamping using stamps from Tuscan Rose. Added some words and called it good! The girl looks depressed....not my expression in the least bit...maybe a bit more absorbed in thinking about change and wondering where it will take her.
I hope you enjoyed this post! I have more pages to share in the near future with you! And hopefully some freebies!!
Much love hope you stay warm...It is snowing here in Tennessee....it's a whole whopping 23 degrees...snowing and blustery!! Brrrrrrrrrrr!
xoxo
NancyB