Here’s a challenge that I worked with:

In This Moment – We’re all taking a million photos with our phones. Scroll back and find one from a year ago today (or approximately.) Then take a selfie – and don’t get too hung up on it! Make a page about who you were at that moment and compare with who you are NOW. Design twist – can you find an interesting, novel way to incorporate arrows, geo-tags or other directional elements?

I started with carving an arrow stamp. I like how this one came out!

And here’s the page I made.

The photo in the bottom corner is from December 2013 – suffering from a burn out and living in a house that we had to sell without having a new place to live… I was really afraid we would end up on the street… the photo on the right top corner is  is right now… my beloved and I moved to Zeeland (the province I was born and raised) and although we live in a small apartment in a lousy neighborhood, I’m glad to be back ‘home’… (journaling in Dutch is about this) I stamped the arrows from ‘then’ to ‘now’. The photos are transferred onto images of clouds (dark clouds and blue skies…) I also used a little bit of Dylusions spray ink and a template on the background.

The other challenge that I used as a kick start for the next page was:

Sunshine – Use your spring colors (whatever those are to you) to create a tag or page as an ode to the warmer seasons!!!

I combined this with a Documented Life Project challenge

April 25
April Theme: Color Safari (Exploring Inks and Paints)
Art Challenge: Inks
Journal Prompt: Before the Ink is Dry

I like how this page turned out: Sunny and happy!
I used spay ink (yellow, a bit of blue and greens), templates (dots, flower-circles and a hand cut silhouette of a woman), dictionary paper (the dress), water-soluble crayons and black & white markers.

I’m looking forward to the weekend, my friend (and her son) from Eindhoven will come visit and I plan some ‘free creating time’ on Sunday. I also have some fun things cooking for the next weeks… and I am working on ‘something’ that YOU might like too! More about that on Monday so… stay tuned! See ya then!

So yesterday afternoon I put two of my own projects on my desk that I want to work on today: the Chronicles art journal and the Documented Life Project. Also, the sewing machine I used yesterday was still there this morning (I put it away now.) Here’s my desk how it looked when I got out of bed.

WOYWW #307

The Documented Life page you see on the desk is finished (I showed it in this post.) The blank page is the one I will work on today. The desk looks a bit empty, but I have a nice photo of something fun that was on my table a few weeks ago:

Yep, stamps! I carved ‘week-stamps’ to use in my Chronicles journal, and they turned out wonderful! One night, I sat on our big dining table carving the last ones, when my beloved pointed out how nice the stamps looked in lamp-light, a play of light and shadows, so I got my camera to take a picture. Here’s another photo.

I am very pleased with this series! I carved a ‘line-stamp’ to go with the dates and used the stamps to create week 15 in my art journal. It turned out into a clear and simple page showing off the stamps.

The Chronicles of Marit 2015 – Week 15

Oops… so much I want to work on this afternoon and it’s already lunchtime… I better get to it! Have a nice day y’all!

**The What’s On Your Work desk? Wednesday bloghop series is hosted by Julia from the UK. Artists from all over the world post a photo of their desk on their blog and leave a link at Julia’s blog. More info about woyww can be found here.