Today I'm very happy, so happy, so happy
Today I'm very happy, as happy as can be...

You wanna know why?

• I finished writing the articles for the March edition of
  Creatief met Foto’s. I will have the next Month all for myself!
• The stamps I ordered at VivaLasVegaStamps arrived this week.
• The ‘Tim Holtz scissors’ I ordered arrived yesterday.
• My beloved cleaned the bathroom while I was working
  on the last article yesterday.
• I will meet my blog-scrap friends Jenneke, Jeanet and
  (maybe) Petra this Sunday.
• I won collage sheets, a sharpie, paper and gorgeous (handmade)
  postcard-art at OWOH.
• I drew a winner for my OWOH giveaway (a handmade art journal)

And the winner is…

Lorraine of  Love of Collage! Congratulations, Lorraine!

I was in ooh and aah when I visited her blog. Lorraine is an amazing
(collage) artist and my art journal will find a creative and warm ”home’!

I want to thank all the visitors who stopped by during the “One World
One Heart” event. I never thought I would get that many, lovely comments
and I was a bit overwhelmed to say the least… I met so many amazing
artists and found inspiration on every blog I visited. THANK YOU ALL!

Also, I’d like to ‘virtual’ embrace all of my followers – both old and new.
You are the wind beneath my creative wings, and I am very grateful that
I am part of this creative, supporting and loving group of bloggers that I
can call my friends!

OK, that should be enough compliments to get you through the weekend.
Let’s talk about me now… or better – let me show you my latest work…

..

The next prompt for A Year in the Life of an Art Journal

THE PROMPT: Fight
THE SONG: Breakin’ Dishes by Rihanna
PRODUCT/TECHNIQUE: Bleach

I never worked with bleach before so I had to look up some tutorials on
the Internet. After that, I went crazy – experimenting with bleach and
stamps (you saw some of that on my latest ‘Chronicles’ page) and brushes
and ink and watercolor paint.. woowheee… I had a blast!!!

I ended up with this page, but I’m sure I will use more bleach in future work.
I would never have thought of using this technique if it wasn’t for this prompt,
thanks Rachel!

I used adirondack spray ink and a brush to make the strokes and some
splatter with bleach (be sure to wear old clothes if you try this!)
The quotation marks were done with a stamp dipped into bleach.
I cut the images of pointing hands out of a magazine.

Next is a page made by the marvelous Eliza, from druga szesnascie
(That’s Polish, no idea what it means 😀 )

Some time ago, E. started a collaborative project with a friend: a special
kind of conversation. They both made their own altered book in which
they ask one question and sent it to the other to answer.
Questions and answers in ‘art’ – WOW!

This collage is E’s answer to the first question that her friend asked:
“Why not?”
Her answer is: “Courage!”

Inspired by her collage, I made an ‘answer to her answer’.
Here’s mine:

“I might drown in my own thoughts”

And now, my friends, I’m going to dive into my new stamps!
I won’t drown… but I have enough stamps to take a nice bath!

I wish you all a nice and creative weekend.
And Jenneke, Jeanet and Petra… see you on Sunday! Woohooo!!!