{"id":18086,"date":"2015-05-15T11:35:10","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/?p=18086"},"modified":"2015-05-15T11:36:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-15T10:36:12","slug":"documenting-my-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maritspaperworld.com\/blog\/documenting-my-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Documenting (my) Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have not much time to ‘document my life’ lately… I’m two weeks behind on my Chronicles (my weekly art journal) and I don’t create much in other journals\/fields too… but in the weekend of May 2-3 (National Scrapbook day in the USA) I saved some time to be part of the online crop that Inside Out Visual Journaling<\/a> (aka Scrapbooking from the Inside Out<\/a>) organized on Facebook. I made two pages with their challenges and guess what… I won a prize! (That’s the extra fun of these kinds of ‘old fashioned’ online crops: they usually have prizes!)<\/p>\n

Here’s a challenge that I worked with:<\/p>\n

In This Moment <\/strong>– 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?<\/em><\/p>\n

I started with carving an arrow stamp. I like how this one came out!<\/p>\n

\"carvedstamps-arrows\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here’s the page I made.<\/p>\n

\"13-toen2013-nu2015\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

The other challenge that I used as a kick start for the next page was:<\/p>\n

Sunshine<\/strong> – Use your spring colors (whatever those are to you) to create a tag or page as an ode to the warmer seasons!!!<\/em><\/p>\n

I combined this with a Documented Life Project challenge<\/p>\n

April 25<\/a>
\nApril Theme:<\/strong> Color Safari (Exploring Inks and Paints)<\/em>
\nArt Challenge:<\/strong> Inks
\nJournal Prompt:<\/strong> Before the Ink is Dry<\/p>\n

\"dlp17-sprayink\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I like how this page turned out: Sunny and happy!
\nI 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.<\/p>\n

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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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