Small Creative Efforts

First things first-strathmore class.  This is the doodling lesson.

I used found items to stencil two sheets of paper...

Then added painting and doodling ....

Made bright colorful painting... what shall I do with these pages?

Then, I prepared a book to make a Book of Days book... tearing out about every 3rd page... the paper in this book is really nice and creamy if a bit dry and fragile... 

Then, using stenciling... I painted the book and added a bit of doodling... yep, the same technique as the strathmore class... it worked okay for the book cover. The original book's name was Adventures in Music and it was an early 1940s if I remember right... I taped over the adventures on the spine to retain that part of the name then added adventures on the front edge...

The inside cover I covered with a tyvek envy with a good buy to 2011 letter inside...

and then, decided since this is a book for 2012 I would greet that year too...

I had decided last fall I would use the word Trust for my focus word for 2012... so I did a spread on that in one of my other journals while I waited for the BOD to dry up good.

I thought I wanted to use the word Trust for 2012.  So, while thinking about it, I decided the reason why is because my trust is rather rusty... so, when the BOD was dry enough, I did another spread in it.

The problem I have now is I don't like this word, I don't want it to be my focus word and I don't have another word I can work on instead.  

Duh!

So, perhaps I will be focus wordless for 2012.  

Just kidding!

And the last fun thing I have done lately is to play with the oldest car girl.  We decided to "scan" her face on the scanner.  She had fun with this idea!

First try, she was a bit shakey...

Second try better and she liked it cuz it "looks like a heart."

First scan cropped...

So, what creative things have you been playing with?