tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56532673936128918132019-04-04T21:51:50.770-04:00"altering life one paper at a time...." I believe the moment you stamp on, crumple up, tape to, or ink up a piece of paper you have begun an "Altered Journey." Join us as we share many ways to enhance your "Altered Journey" to make it a fulfilling experience for you.Artbybdellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06664972811139254975noreply@blogger.comBlogger184125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5653267393612891813.post-69749826381630899442015-03-30T18:41:00.001-04:002015-03-30T18:41:50.958-04:00

Documented Life Week 13 challenge: Make a Custom Element, Prompt: Ride the Energy of Your Own Unique SpiritDocumented Faith week 14 "Forgive" Colossians 3:13 "Make allowance for each other's faults and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember the Lord forgave you so you must forgive others."This week I decided to glue my test runs off my gelli plate that I pulled onto deli paper right into my art

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I did not have intentions on writing a blog for this entry in my Bible but after I got it done I thought maybe you would all like a little information on how I did it. With that being said I do not have pictures of my progress, sorry. If you are not familiar with a gelli plate or how to use it there are many informative videos on you tube, be aware it is a addictive process before you know

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Our theme for March is "Making Your Mark" Week 1 prompt is "Surviving the Elements" and the Art Challenge is "As a layer element" I have created this page using several marks that are a usual for me. I started with using my gelli plate to lay some color on my pages. I used craftsmart light green and ceramcoat pale lilac with a harlequin and dot stencil. I always heat set in between each

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I did it....I was so wrapped up in my project that I forgot to take pictures. I initially took a couple pictures and then....well I will give you the idea. I started with covering my pages with guava and lavender gelatoes, spritz them and blended the color with my fingers. I love finger painting. I always heat set in between each layer with my heat gun. For the flower on the bottom right I

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Our Art Technique for Documented Life the Journal week 8 is "Repeating Elements" and thc Scripture for Documented Faith Week 9 is 2 Corinthians 4:18. I decided to use these two projects today for my layout in my Art Journal. I don't know why these pictures decided to turn this way, they are not like this on my computer. Oh well we will go with it. I decided to stray away from my gelatoes

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Our prompt for The Documented Life Project: The Journal February 21, 2015 was "Cover Up Good Stuff" and the prompt for Bible Art Journaling was "Perfect Love" inspired by scripture 1 John 4:18. I like to incorporate two prompts into one of these layouts and these are the two I decided to join together here. I began using my usual technique by applying tangerine and lemon gelatoes directly to

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  I have been wanting to make  mixed media Bible cover but was not sure where to begin. Today I decided that to begin I just needed to begin. So I went to my storage room and got out my sewing machine and a piece of tyvek material I had. Now I have begun and things just started to roll. I cut a piece of material to the size of my bible adding on length so it could be a slip cover. I wanted to

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Here are my planner pages for week 20. I am behind on the prompts but will catch up soon. I loved doing these pages this shade of melon is so yummy. I have also incorporated some of my happy mail I received from Renee Robertson. This was a wonderful package of happy mail and I got started right away cutting out some of the goodies to incorporated into my page that I did not get a picture of

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For me its very exciting to do the first mow of the season...its the smell of the freshly cut grass, the sound of all the mowers in the neighborhood and the feeling of being outdoors. Its like I have been set free. It doesn't even matter to me the temperature at this point, I just love to get out of the house and ride my John Deere mower. Along with this also comes the weeds growing in my

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Week 18: "Add a Quote" The quote was the easy part, now the page itself was a nightmare. When I was putting my journal together in February, I used acrylic paint and a credit card and swiped all the pages with 2-3 different colors each. I was being brave and used many different colors to get as many different pages as I could. Well it backfired. I used a lot of purple on this page, now mind

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My favorite shoes....well it would have to be going barefoot for me. So I chose my favorite shoes as horseshoes, even though my Belle doesn't wear shoes because she has nice strong hoofs. I drew the horse shoe and colored it with my copics the background is achieved by using gelato's and acrylics. These are pictures of my planner pages. We had two birthdays this week on Easter Sunday it was

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Where did the month of April go.....Its been a week since I have been home from my vacation with my sister and it took me that long to get caught up. I started this layout before I left and worked on it a couple of times while I was gone and just finished it up. This might be my favorite one so far, but the it was the most exciting week I have had since I started the DLP challenge so I had more

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I have been playing catch up with my monthly tip-ins for my journal. This one is April. I decided to do the letter of my first name and then put a little inspiration in it. I am thinking I might add a "bee" to the heart. This is how it looks in my journal. I used gelatos to color the paper first then used my water color pencils, white signo uni-ball pen, soufflé pens and fabre castell markers.

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I had sap to cook down and it was a very rainy day ....so I decided I was going to catch up on my prompts for Journal 52. This is Week 11 Prompt "Stars" I kept putting this off, cause I wasn't sure what I wanted to do. With the task at hand of catching up, I decided to do this one first. I started with black card stock and stamped the larger star with versamark ink and embossing with silver

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The "Creative" page is one my Wonder Kids are working on. We are suppose to do a "Selfie" page with things about us that we like or that could be worked on.  Next week we will finish the pages and then go over how special we all are and that God loves us just as we are. The "Hope" page is the back side of my February monthly calendar page for "My Documented Life Journal" I wish I would have

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  As I sit through a car wash, it never ceases to entertain me the beauty of the colors during this one cycle. Oh and it smells nice to, two senses in one, love it. This was the beginning of my 3 day stay at Rob's watching the girls while Rob and Kim were away. I stopped halfway down for potty break, lunch and to get my car washed.   When I arrived the first thing the girls asked me was "

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"Add a Flap to Your Flap" I found this new stamp a couple weeks ago on one of my beloved shopping trips and knew I would use her somewhere in my journal. The strange thing was after I got to my shopping destination, I checked my fb page before going in the shop and a cousin of mine asked me if I had seen these stamps. She had just received hers. I told her they were really cute. Then while I

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 I am learning a lot about my Artistic interests....before I joined this group I had never incorporated pre- printed art (ie: magazine pages, articles, bulletin) into my own art projects. I had also thought that was a process that just wasn't me and I would probably never do it. Never say never!!!! That is one thing, along with others, that I am thankful for this group for. It makes you think

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Week 11: Prompt "Draw, Photograph, or Collage a Bird" This is exactly how I feel today....like flying away to warmer temperatures where the grass is green and flowers are blooming. Soon I keep telling myself. This is my tip in page on the back side I will put some pictures that I had posted yesterday of my maple sap. till next time.....

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I just love fresh maple syrup....oh and the maple tea before its at syrup stage. Many of you probably already know that it takes a lot of sap to make a little syrup, I call it liquid gold. My first and second harvest ended up being just one of these buckets 3/4 of the way full and I received 3 cruets and 25 little pieces of candy from two days work. I will be putting some syrup and

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  "Add a Doodle Border" My page for this prompt is much simplier than the last few I have done, but I am happy with it. How could I not be, I journaled my favorite song, it just speaks of my heart's true feelings. The only true love is the love of Jesus and my whole being longs for the day when I will be with him. I have a very strong stubborn will and to God only will my spirit yield. Ok,

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Sorry about two posts in one day....actually knowing my track record this is a record.   "Write a Secret Message" to achieve this I painted both sides of my journal and left the words "birthday". The secret is whose birthday is it? If you can read under all those layers of color, you would see. I love my new number stencil by Tim Holtz....well anything Tim Holtz is simply fantastic. One of

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  One of the benefits of belonging to The Documented Life Project is also being able to join all the wonderful swaps. This February I joined a swap called "Happy Mail" and a dear sweet lady sent me all this wonderful stuff that I can incorporated into my art journaling pages, thank you Tanya. I also joined in on the "Art Swap" and I received this beautiful piece with a mermaid. I am

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  Prompt 10: "Make a List of the Things That Make You, You" I have already incorporated this task in on the "Selfie" Prompt for week 2, so I choose to do my page on "Be Yourself" This week I strayed away from using stencils which I have used in all the pages so far, so I thought I would challenge myself to not using them. I was worried I would not be able to make the page busy enough

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I am stepping out of my comfort zone with this prompt....who am I kidding I have been out of my comfort zone for this whole project. Playing with bright colored inks and paints, art pages and journaling, all things I have struggled with in the past. I am a vintage, aged person that usually plays with fall colors and not the brights either but the darks. But I am really enjoying this and am

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