Now I do of course have my Box of Longing – filled with index cards ‘my way’ – that I could consummate with some more cards but I decided to stick to the ICAD prompts and leave the Box of Longing alone….

Daisy Yellow provides a week theme with 7 prompts (one for each day) and started last Monday. I will show you my index cards on Fridays which means there will be 2 created with the before week-theme and 5 with the new theme (that is, if I manage to create a card every day.) Today there’s only 5 to show (because, like I said, it started on Monday.) Here we go…

Week 1 – Theme: Drawing & Doodling
ICAD #1 –  Chevron

Plain and simple. Cut out text, stamps and black marker.

Week 1 – Theme: Drawing & Doodling
ICAD #2 –  Carnival

Black fine-liner, colored pencils.

Week 1 – Theme: Drawing & Doodling
ICAD #3 –  Draw a Map

Map of our apartment; color pencils and fine-liner for lettering.

Week 1 – Theme: Drawing & Doodling
ICAD #4 –  Mailbox

Living in an apartment building is so much different than the house I lived in before – take alone the mailbox(es.) Quick sketch with a pencil.

Week 1 – Theme: Drawing & Doodling
ICAD #5 –  Owl

Based on a Native American totem pole. Black markers and felt tip pens. (It kinda looks like a picture from a coloring book isn’t it?)

Today is going to be a hot day in the Netherlands… the weather forecast predicts over 30 degrees Celsius! At the moment it looks a bit cloudy but the temperatures are already rising so I don’t think I will be in my atelier much today. There’s a lot I want to get done though but I can work on that in the weekend when the temperatures drop. I’m gonna enjoy this day in the sun!

Thanks for stopping by my blog, hope you all have a great weekend.

February 28
February Theme: Layers You Will Love!
Art Challenge: Using at Least Five Layers
Journal Prompt: Give Me a High Five

Layer 1: The ‘blank’ page is not blank because I work on old book pages. I used machine stitching on the former page (DLP #8, see this post) and so my first layer is already there!

Layer 2: I used some bright colors of acrylic paint to fill in the stitched rectangles.

Layer 3: I glued rice paper on the page and scratched some of the paper away with a craft knife.

Layer 4: I grabbed my new stencil and sprayed with yellow, red and green (dylusions) spray ink. The absorbent rice paper made the ink run which resulted in blurred lines.

Layer 5: The stenciled images were just too much, so I covered part of it under a layer of gesso.

Layer 6: Next I glued some left over pieces from a gelatin mono-print to the page.

Layer 7: I smeared some white paint through a dotted stencil to add more texture. (The underneath ink made the paint turn a bit green, an effect I like.)

Layer 8: Then I stamped a border to the left and some spirals with my hand-carved stamps.

Nearly done… the page needed some contrast so I doodled some extra circles with a marker and outlined the stenciled images. Finally, I wrote text around the big circle. (part of a quote by Ellen DeGeneres “It’s our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting.”

So – how many layers are there on this page? Does the doodling and writing count as a layer? It’s 9 then! Here’s the finished page.

As I said, I finished more pages but I show you those some other time. Wednesday maybe? Stay tuned!

If you’re into art journaling, spray ink, bookmaking, collageing and doodling, you are a person to my heart. And if you are such a person, you probably know the artist Julie Balzer and visited her blog. And if so, you may even recognize this logo

But regardless of whether you know Julie’s blog or not, I recommend you to go visit it today
’cause you know what…?

I wrote a guestpost that is published there today!
My guestpost teaches you – step by step – how to make this stenciled folded booklet

So… what are you waiting for?

Hop on over to JULIE’S BLOG (click!) now!