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Creative Rolodex Truth Cards #2!

Good afternoon!

This video has been a long time in coming!

I had gotten a Rolodex while I was working at a hospital a few years ago, and I had no idea what to do with it after our bosses gave us the a-okay to toss them out. I decided there had to be a way to get arty with them, and so I had saved them up (a few of my co-workers gave me theirs), and they have been in my art stash waiting for something to be done with them! Well, last Summer, I finally got out my Rolodex goodies out of the mothballs and I finally started to play with them! Well, for the most part I primarily got jiggy with creating some fun and colorful backgrounds! Something I have had a little bit of practice at.

Today was the day that I finally pulled them out again and decided to take a handful of Rolodex cards out and see them come to completion!

I had an entire mess of my art stash out and at the ready for playing with! I will see if I can list all  of the supplies that I actually had used:

  • UHU Glue Stick
  • Stabilo Marksall Pencils: green, blue, orange, and brown
  • A bunch of small pics – most of which were either printed by FreePrints.com or I printed them myself using my Selfie Printer.
  • Scissors
  • Fiskars paper cutter
  • Aleene’s Quick Grab Tacky Glue
  • Words printed out on regular printer paper, using my home printer
  • Signo Broad Ink pen; White, and Black
  • Die cuts
  • Tim Holtz People cut outs
  • Washi tape
  • Hole punch
  • Mini paper doily

I hope I did not miss anything!

I seriously had such a fun time making these cards. I am seriously considering making this a more frequent visitor in my weekly video catalog!!

I hope that this video has inspired you to go find your own Rolodex (they can be easily found in most thrift stores), and get to playing on your own Creative Rolodex Truth Cards!

As always, if you have any questions, please let me know down in the comments section, I am always happy to be of help! Also, please let me know if you do decide to do a spread like this, what song would you choose to use?

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Now it is your turn to get creating!

Here is to having some fun!

 

Weekly Art Journal #12

Good morning!

I am happy to announce that my weekly Art Journal Video #12 is posted out on YouTube! 🙂

Here is a list of supplies that I used in today’s layout:

  • Book pages
  • Ranger Collage Glue Stick
  • Golden Acrylic Paint: Teal, Naphthol Red Medium, Cadmium Yellow Medium Hue
  • Liquitex White Gesso
  • Fineline Bottles: one filled with black acrylic and one filled with white acrylic
  • Black Sharpie, Fine Point
  • White Signo Pen
  • Archival Ink Pad
  • Ranger Dylusions Numbers Stamp from the Basic Backgrounds – DYR34568
  • Sentiment printed from computer onto regular printer paper
  • Scissors

DSC06339When I set out to get started on this week’s spread, I really only had two things in mind, I had some pages from a specific book that I wanted to use, and I was really excited about using a new Teal acrylic paint that I had picked up from my local art supply store. The book that I had found was a 1915 encyclopedia that I had picked up for a few dollars from my local Goodwill.

DSC06343Being a self-profession bibliophile, I have a very hard time ripping pages out of books, ESPECIALLY OLD books. However, this book was in such dis-repair with torn pages, a broken spine, and just an all around mess that I felt that by using the pages in some of my art projects would be a great use of this long forgotten little treasure! Plus the cover is a DIVINELY BEAUTIFUL leather that I have hopes for recreating my own art journal from.Anyway, back to today’s spread…In addition to my book pages, and my new teal paint, I really wanted to keep today’s layout quick and simple. With the busy holiday season upon us, we have so much that we are trying to do. I wanted to prove to myself that I could still make time for art journaling even when life is crazy busy hectic!

DSC06348I love all of colors of this week’s spread, and I don’t usually mute my backgrounds down, but if you watched the video you might have noticed that it was done entirely on accident. I had made marks on my page using white gesso, and because I did not like it I used a heavily watered down brush to disperse the gesso, and in doing so muted the entire page down just a little. I really REALLY like how that turned out…I may have to do that more often!

On a side note, whenever I make a mistake, I like to call it an “OFI” (pronounced owe-fee). This stands for opportunity for improvement! This gesso incident was a perfect example of an OFI!! 😉

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I also was having some trouble coming up with a sentiment for this week, so I started to look around my art studio and came across some “Truth Cards” that I had created a few months ago. When I came across the truth card that had these words on it,

“You already know what the answer is…Just trust it…it is right.”

I knew in a moment that that was it! I could stop looking!! I needed to hear this message in exactly that moment!!

DSC06351So, what do you think? I would LOVE to hear your thoughts on this week’s art journal!

Also, if you have any ideas, or techniques that you might like to see me try in one of my future layouts, please let me know in the comment section and I will see what I can do to be accommodating! Also, I really do LOVE answering any questions you may have about art journaling, mixed-media, or anything you might have seen me do here! Please feel free to ask questions in the comments, and I will try and get back to you in a timely manner!!

Until next time!

Here is to a BEAUTIFULLY CREATIVE week! 😉

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