Creative Everyday Challenge...more projects

I had this old bulletin board just laying around the house. I really didn't want to use it because it was just SO ugly. So, I decided to give it a face lift.

I sanded the frame and painted it black whit acrylic paint. I did not draw the picture, it is actually wallpaper that I found at the thrift store a few years ago. I hadn't used it yet but I thought that this was a perfect project to use it on. I am going to hang this in the kitchen over my desk.

This is a flower that I made out of paper. I was really just experimenting. It turned out ok, the paper is too thin and it did not stay curled up like I hoped.

These flowers are made out of satin. They turned out really nice. They look beautiful (sorry, the photo does not do them justice).

Having a TON of fun!!

Creative Everyday Challenge...recent projects

This is a background that I started working on a while ago. I am planning on doing a fluid painting on this one but I have to sace up some money for some good paints. Fluid paintings are really cool but you have to get the correct kind of paints so that you have very vivid colors otherwise they are a little lackluster. I am sure that I will paint over this three or four times before I decide on a good background, I just like playing. This is actually three small canvases put together.

This is another background that I have been playing with. I have since changed it because I tried to do a fluid painting but it did not seem to workout. The colors flowed but they just all mixed together too much and did not look interesting.

I have been working on these quite a few days. They are Bible bookmarks. My mother-in-law asked me to make these for her for gifts. They were a blast and I was able to get them done pretty quickly. The biggest problem is that I had to wait till the kiddos were in bed. Benji thought it was great fun to mix all of my piles together. I also just finished some for myself to give as gifts. I just thought that it would be nice to have something around the house for when I need something for someone.

I will post again with a few more things that I have been working on.

Despite my lacking of proof...I have been...

Despite my lack of proof, I have been working on being creative everyday. I have been working on Bible bookmarks for my mother-in-law and I only have 19 left of 96. They are a lot of fun and very relaxing. I normally work on them while Chris is watching basketball or some other sporting event on TV (I would rather be creative then watch a game even though I enjoy college basketball). I have also been experimenting with some backgrounds to some fluid paintings. I am excited about these but will have to wait as the paints that I need for these are VERY expensive. I will wait till this summer for those probably because I need some more space and they will be so much easier to clean up outside.

I have also been doing a lot of brainstorming. I have been playing with the idea of doing paintings for my children with their names. I wanted to get started on them but we are planning on moving Benji upstairs this summer and I am not sure what colors we are going to paint his room, and Kaiya she will have her own room downstairs and we may just have to paint her room too. I just don't know yet. I thought waiting would be best. I did finish one the other day for my newest niece. My step brother had a baby a couple of weeks ago and I was not sure what to get for her. I found a canvas and decided to just paint a name painting for her. I think that it turned out pretty cute. I will post later with photos of all of these projects. Another reason that things have been slower the last couple of weeks is that our laptop just quit working a couple weeks ago and we had to go get a new one, which we have been talking about anyway. The problem with this is that I am not able to get onto my other laptop and there are all kinds of ideas that I need to move over to this computer. I guess I will have to call our personal IT guy sometime. I am excited because I have a ton of ideas...now I just have to get all of the stuff that I need and I can get started! SO EXCITED!

One piece of good news. My biggest struggle is that I really don't have a place to be creative. There is no place in this tiny, little house for a studio. There is a basement but I refuse to go down there unless to get food from the freezer or to flip a switch in the breaker. My mom and step dad are building a house and she offered to let me us a room in the basement for my studio. I am so pumped. It will not be done till this summer but it is something to look forward to and she said that she would help me with the kiddos while I am painting. I will not move everything over there (I will need to keep some things at home so I can still work on things here). What a blessing this will be!

Day 3

Creative every day challenge Day 3



I finished my first painting. This is the one from the other day, I used what I had as a background and just played with the paint last night (day 2). Today, I added the words. I have been toying with the idea of incorporating words for awhile but I just had not started anything.

I am having a blast with this challenge and I am proud of myself for trying. Now I will have to start something tomorrow. I think that tomorrow I need to get my art journal going again. That way I can have some ideas on paper before I move to another project.

Days 1 and 2

I started this yesterday, the Creative Every Day Challenge 2011! I am pretty excited about it. I needed something creative to do and a way to keep me motivated. I think this will do it. Yesterday was my first day.

This is what I started on yesterday. It is the background for a painting that I have been wanting to do the past week or so. I will be adding to this in the next week and will post working photos of it.

This is something else that I worked on last night. My mother-in-law inlisted me to make 90 of these. They are beaded bible bookmarks. It is amazing how much better I feel since I have started being creative again.

Day 2

Benji and I played with playdough for a over an hour this morning. We had a blast!! I hope that he can see how fun it is to create things too!