Documenting June on T Tuesday

Week 26 of the Documented Life Project:

Add a scripture or quote from another book

to your page.  I added another flap to my

tip-in page, in the shape of a woman's

profile.  The scripture is Romans 12:2.

The profile is taped with decorative (Washi) tape on the right

and is watercolored in black on the back side, with border

designs collaged onto the profile shape.  

On the left, collage "challenge yourself."

When all the flaps are opened, this is the spread

beneath.  Media included are gessoe, acrylic, watercolor,

painted deli paper, Sharpie pen, painted papers,

scrapbook paper, and a scrapbook flower sticker.

The flower on the lower left is a very pale colored

scrapbook embellishment sticker, which I outlined in

black Sharpie marker for stronger contrast with 

the background. The yellow flower is my own drawing.

Week 26 means the year is half over, and I am still

'in the game!'  Time does go by quickly...

Above, Keep Calm and Have Lunch with Art Friends!

A Smash Book collage page...

I had lunch with some fellow artists, and we had 

'show and tell'.  Isn't it funny how a term we used 

in kindergarten is still so appropriate?  I suppose 

there are more 'mature' terms for it, but we do

enjoy seeing what each person has been creating

and catching up on the lives of dear friends.

I hope you enjoyed some  tea (or coffee)

on T Tuesday, and make a visit to Elizabeth at

Altered Book Lover to see what

others are getting up to for T Tuesday. 

Perhaps you would like to join the party!  

The guidelines to link up

are very flexible:  share a photo or art work about

something tea (or beverage-related) or 

something related to tea, or even the Letter 'T'.

And just because it's going to be a 

sweltering week where I live...I'm including

a fun page I did a while ago...just to cool

things down and hopefully make you smile.

I suspect some of the beverages featured this

 week in the link party may be cold!

Documenting Life: Hearts and photos

Above ~ Week 25 of the

Documented Life Project:

Add hearts to your page.

I made color copies of some of

my art work, at 50%, and

glued them onto my page.

I did add some black line-work

on the copies to give more

contrast to the smaller images.

The background is a fluorescent

pink acrylic paint, and the border

is done with Sharpie pen.

I have succumbed to the 

Project Life scrapbooking style...

Since I had so many photos, and the

supplies were on sale at a local discount store,

I took the plunge.  I thought it would be 

less expensive to do one large scrapbook

for the year, instead of several small ones.

Above, a beautiful sunset that we enjoyed in 

February 2014, at Panama City Beach, Florida.

It's supposed to be 'faster' to put

together a Project Life page...

but I end up fussing over tiny collages

like the one above. I love the way it

turned out, but smaller is not

necessarily easier or faster...

the above card is 3"x4".

Do you document the

days and events in your life?

A Father's Day Wish

Happy Father's Day

to all the fathers in my life...

especially my Daddy!

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Documenting Life - on T Tuesday

 Documented Life Project pages.  Above,

inside the Week 21 Tip-In. (which I 

posted here)  Contrasting non-representational

painting with the pen and watercolor 

representation of flowers.

Fragrant peonies just don't last 

long enough...especially when it rains, 

so I wanted to draw them before they

were gone...

DLP Week 23, above.  The challenge was to

write something you are grateful for

each day.  I have many things to be

grateful for, so it was hard to choose.

Even small things can be a big

boost for your health and well-being!

Week 24: Use book pages 

or text paper on your page. 

Included in my collage

 are scrapbook papers with

writing, text pages from a book,

painted text pages and a page

torn from an old calendar/planner. 

Sharpie pen for a bit of line work and details...

The strips of flowers were printed 

from my computer.

Linking up with Elizabeth

for T Tuesday, and sharing a  

tea-inspired collage, above.  When you

create mixed-media collage, every

bit of scrap cardboard and things

like tea-bag tags hold possibilities

for creating art.  Look around you

for the possibilities...see with

a new perspective.

Documenting Life on T Tuesday

Documented Life Project - Week 22: 

Draw, paint or sketch a house 

on your page...

had a bit of trouble figuring out what

I wanted to do  for this challenge, 

but finally came up

with the quilt block house...

and the Tree house!  The quilt block page

folds open to reveal the pen drawing of the

Tree house.

Facing page...the days that week.  

Brought in some flowers from the yard

this week, and enjoyed the fragrance of

the peonies.  Lovely yellow iris,

along with pink and white peonies.

Decided to do tiny drawings of them on

several of the days that week.

Linking up for T Tuesday with 

Elizabeth and Bluebeard, and

sharing a Tea collage.

The herbal peppermint tea bag package

was a lovely color, so used that 

as my 'jumping off' point.  The flower

is a print made from using a Bib lettuce heart

dipped in inexpensive craft paint. A 

snippet from an invitation, scrapbook

papers, and washi tape finish it off.