My Heart and Head are Not Speaking

I'm having those days were my head is full of a million different emotions and my heart can't figure them out.  Plus my head is spinning with all these things I need to get done and no matter how many I accomplish when I go to bed my mind won't shut off.  No sleep makes me grumpy. Here is quick journal page. The background was already done. I don't even remember when I created it. I just added the stamp and writing.

 

 

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Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas Week 2

Today I have another tag for Linda's 12 Tags of Christmas.  Her tag is monochromatic, has a deer and stars on it and that is my inspiration for my tag.

 

If you want to join in you can get all the supplies you need at Linda's Funkie Junkie Boutique

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Bubbles of Ideas in My Head

Today I have a journal page to show you. It already had leftover inks from stencils on the page so it was a quick page. I felt like I had all these bubbles of ideas floating in my head and I couldn't see them; like my mojo was running so fast I could figure out what it was thinking. You can see the white circles all over the head. 

I used the following stencils; Three Quarter Profile, Circle Explosion and Herringbone. The circles and herringbone are my favorite stencils.

 

I'm linking this to Julie's Art Journal Every Day at Balzer Designs.

 

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Challenge: 12 Tags of Christmas: Week 1

Linda is again having her Christmas tag challenge on her blog,  The Funkie Junkie. Of course I'm behind. She is on week 7 and I just finished week one. I'm hoping to be all caught up by the end of the weekend.

This is how the challenge works. Linda creates a tag and you find something about her tag that inspires you to create a tag, card, scrapbook page, tree ornament, etc.  Week one is all about chalk and for me I decided that I loved the idea was black and white so I created a tag.

 

I used a black tag, die cut snowflakes border (Memory Box Die), punched tiny circles and used the snowflake from Tim Holtz stamp set, Christmas Blueprints. You can buy this stamp set in Linda's boutique, The Funkie Junkie Boutique. I really love the black and white. I may do something like this for Christmas cards.

 

Head on over to Linda's blog and join in on the challenge.

The link to each week's tag is located on the

top right hand side on her blog. 

You can get all the supplies you need in Linda's Funkie Junkie Boutique

You have until December 22nd to post all your creations.

One down, 11 more to go!

 

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I met Seth Apter at the Contemporary Art Fair in NYC

As a surprise to my god-daughter I took her to NYC on Sunday, October 27th to see the Contemporary Art Fair held at the Javits Center and I wanted to finally meet Seth Apter. Click here to see a few of his pieces.  Meeting other artists online is wonderful but to finally meet one of them in person is fantastic.

Let me tell you that everything you hear about Seth is true. He is so nice, down to earth, and an amazing artist. He was one of only a handful of artists who let you go up close and touch his pieces. I have his surface techniques DVD and it was great to see these techniques close up.

Here is a picture of the two of us. I can't believe I posting it. I hate my picture taken.

 

 

I was so amazed at the art work that I didn't take many pictures. I did take a picture of the flying artist and his art. Yes, flying.

 

 

Then we went to lunch in Time Square and took pictures of all the characters.

 

Of course, we had to go into the Disney Store. When you go up the escalator you see all the lanterns from the movie Tangled and we took our picture in a mirror. I actually love that picture.

 

What was really interesting this trip is everyone was taking pictures with their cell phones. Not very many actual cameras. I think I would feel naked without my camera.

 

If you look at her cell you can see she was taking a picture of the naked cowboy.

 

Going back to Saturday we pulled out all my Halloween stuff and created a couple of pieces. This is my god-daughters canvas. She doesn't feel that it's finished yet but I love it. She also made a tag but I didn't take a picture of it.

Here is my tag.  We both made Halloween tags with Prima's doll stamps.

 

 

 

We had tons of fun in NYC.

The art show was amazing.

 

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