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Artful Intentions: Week 4

Artful Intentions: Week 4

Well, January is just flying by, isn't it? For the 4th week of our Artful Intentions art journaling project, Cilenia Curtis challenged me to create a piece using these prompts: Use the word seek Use a flower Use some ephemera In case you're wondering, "ephemera"...

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Artful Intentions: Week 2

Artful Intentions: Week 2

Another week, another art journal challenge! If you've been following along, you know that the word "fearless" presented itself to me over and over in the past several weeks. So much so, that it became obvious that, although I had no intentions of doing choosing a...

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Fearless Art Journaling: Week 1

Fearless Art Journaling: Week 1

It’s been such a busy couple of weeks that I haven’t had a chance to post photos of my first week’s Documented Life Project and we’re almost through week two!

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Artful Intentions: No Limits

Artful Intentions: No Limits

You will recall that last week I kicked off Artful Intentions 2014 by challenging Cilenia Curtis to create a journal page using these three inspirations: The colors yellow and red Inky or stamped chevrons The words "no limits" And boy did she deliver - didn't she?...

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Happy Place – Journal it Out

Happy Place – Journal it Out

So much has happened in my family this year that after some recent and (very) good news, I felt the need to do some journaling. It ended up being a very simple page (with lots of journaling which I covered up with paint and gesso), but I'm happy with how it...

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