Art Every Day Month - Day 26

I have been very busy, so I have not been able to create every day.  But at least I have been able to create a bit on the weekend.  I made some Christmas cards and put a few more details on a little art journal page which I had started last week.

Stamped Images Moroccan Butterfly by Kaszazz

Even though I have not been creating every day.  Please go and visit the blog: Creative Every Day, to be inspired by lots of artists who have managed to create every day.  I have found some wonderful blogs through this site and seen some amazing art works being created.  Go and have a look.

http://creativeeveryday.com

Art Every Day Month, Day 21

I have not been able to keep up with posting every day and creating every day for the Art Every Day Month Challenge.  But I suppose the challenge is there for us to become aware of spending time more often creating something.
Even though today I did not get the opportunity to create at my own art desk, I did manage to create today.  I went to my daughters school this morning to participate at the craft group.  The school craft group is a group of mums that get together on a regular basis to create projects for the school for events like for example the school Carnival.   We make handmade gifts to be sold for fundraising projects.
Today we created our own thank you gift for being part of this group and helping out all through the year.  We made our own Christmas ornament.  It was a beading project.  What I love about this craft group is that we get to make projects that I normally at home would not do.  So it is nice to get taken a bit out of my comfort zone and create something different.  Well at least different for me.  I am normally more a paper crafter and I love to draw and use paint and inks.  Beading was a new challenge for me today.  But I really loved it, though it did test my patience.
Here is my result of today's effort:

Art Every Day Month, Day 18

I recently decided to start blogging more to make myself accountable for my commitment of wanting to create more often.  I like creating to be a way of life, rather then just a hobby I do in my spare time.
Up till now I would see creating as something I do in my spare time when all the chores and all the work is done.  With other words creating would come last on my to do list.  Lately I have decided to make creating a more important part of my life.  I notice that I feel great when I create.  It makes me feel calm and at peace.  It is like an active meditation.  In meditation we try to just be aware of one thing at a time and when our minds wanders bring it back to the one thing.  It might be a word or our breath or the awareness of how our body feels.  While creating our full awareness goes to our project in front of us.  I feel it is a great way to switch of from the world around us for a little while and go within.  Express ourselves through the media at hand.  They say we benefit most from meditation when we practice it regularly.  So I figured the same will apply for creating every day.  Then on the weekend I stumbled onto this blog: Creative Every Day where Leah runs: November is Art Every Day Month.  What a coincidence.  Even though it is already half way through November I decided to still give it a go for the remainder of the month.  And I am glad that she says we don't have to post every day, only when we get a chance.  As the idea is to bring more creativity into our lives not to feel overwhelmed or pressured.

Tonight I started another 13 x 13 page whilst cooking dinner at the same time.
Here is the start of the page:

I started with some spray ink which I had watered down, some stamping, washi tape and water colour crayons.

Then for the next layer:

Some more stamping, a bit more ink, and finally I had to stop after this as dinner was ready:

Added a bit of scrapbook paper and some paint.

When I work on these little 13 x 13 pages I often put them on top of a page of my bigger art journals.  That way when I use spray inks and stencils the extra spray will cover on the page in the art journal.  This then can be part of a background of a future page in my art journal.  The page below is the page that was under my project today and also under my project of my previous post.

13 x 13 Art Journal Page Peace Love Calm

I really enjoy creating these small 13 x 13 cm art journal pages.  Gives me the opportunity to let myself be creative for a little while.  I love playing around with my art and craft materials.  It makes me feel peaceful and calm inside.  The Dylusion Spray Inks are just devine.  They are so great to use with stencils to make a background.  The stamp set I used here today for this project is called: Inspirational Flight by Kaszazz.

Quick Journal Page

Here is just a quick art journal page I did this morning in my Winsor & Newton A5 Art Journal.
It started off with a little bit of stamping I did a while ago on this page.  Today I felt drawn towards colouring in the flower and butterflies.  Then I did a bit of doodling around the edge of the page and some writing in the centre.  I coloured this with Prisma colour pencils.  They are one of my favourite colour pencils to colour and draw with.  The background appears to be coloured with green, but in real life it is soft yellow.  I have not learned yet how to adjust the colouring on computer software.