Glitter ATCs

I recently participated in a glitter ATC swap... "glitter" was the only directive.  Here are some of my creations:

I thought this was fun; it was definitely a challenge to use glitter paper.  I suppose I could use actual glitter or glitter glue, but I got hooked on using glitter paper.  Glitter paper, is, by the way, VERY hard to glue onto.  But, I was very happy with my creations and I hope that whoever they end up with likes them!

Art Every Day Month 2014

Did you know that November is art every day month??  This is probably the 4th or 5th year that I have participated.  On the 1st of November I made some ATCs for a swap hosted by Rainbow Gecko Gallery  - The swap is to make 7 ATCs in rainbow colors... here are some of what I made:

And since I was on an ATC roll I made another one just because I wanted to:

I REALLY enjoyed making these cards.  Perhaps I should do ATCs more often!

ATC Swap Part 2

Here are the cards I received from the ATC Swap at the AATA Conference:

I put them in my travel journal:

More conference posts to come soon!

Art Therapy ATC Swap part 1

One of the fun things I got to do at conference was to participate in an Artist Trading Card swap!  The theme was "Art Therapy Dreams;" so, here are my creations....

My first dream for art therapy is "equality" - equality between art therapy and other professions, between men and women, between different races, between different sexual orientations; equality in the broadest sense of the word, for all people to be equal.

 My second dreams is "research" - as a profession we are not the best at publishing research.  I hope that this changes and more art therapists conduct research and publish their results.

 My last dreams is "veterans" -  I hope that I can do art therapy with veterans and find treatments that work for veterans!!

I will share the cards I received from the swap once I get back home!

DIY Postcard Swap May 2014

I participated in the DIY Postcard Swap and earlier this month the cards went out and then cards came in!  When I went home to visit my family I found this card in my room:

Mom made me my own postcard!  Here are all the cards she mailed out:

And here are some of the ones I was lucky enough to receive:

This one came from a retired art therapist - how cool is that?

I love postcard swaps so much because they bring so much fun mail to my mail box (which is otherwise filled with junk mail).

Last art journal page for the class swap

Here is the last art journal page that I created as part of our class art journal swap:

 Light at the end of the summer = graduation!  I can't believe it is only 3 months away!

And here is another page from my right brain planner inspired fitness jornal:

Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a wonderful day.  "See" you tomorrow!

A Few More Postcards

A while ago (a year...two???) I got this book:

Its an old Kotex booklet from 1962 that tells young ladies about growing up.  I got it because I thought it would be good for art journaling.  I finally used it!  I used it to make a few postcards!  Here they are:

That last picture was just a line drawings like the others above but I colored it in with Pitt Pens.  They are quite different from what I normally do but I like them.  Well friends I hope you have a wonderful week!  "See" you on Monday!

Postcards for the Upcoming Swap

I am participating in iHanna's swap next month so I having been slowly making mailart postcards to send across the globe!  Here a few that I just recently finished:

I think that last one is my favorite!  Art is my secrete weapon in so many ways!!  Come back tomorrow and I will show you 3 more cards!!  Have a wonderful day.

A Few New Postcards

If you have been following me for a while you know that I love mailart postcards and that I will do a swap wherever I have the chance!  Thankfully, iHanna is have a swap soon!  You can join the DIY Postcard Swap by clicking this link!  Since I signed up for this swap I have started making more postcards.  Today I wanted to share what I have done with you.  Here they are:

So this means I have 4 cards ready for the swap and still need to finish 6 more!  I will share them with you once they are done.  Thanks for stopping by.  Have a great day!

Page in Mary's Journal

Today I wanted to share with you a page I created in my classmate Mary's Journal:

Its pretty simple, but I have been super busy and simple is about all I can muster recently.  I am still creating - just taking less time to do so.  Hopefully after finals (May 1st) I will have a bit more time to devote to art.  I really miss it when I don't have much time for it.

Swap Doodles

Today I am sharing some dooles... doodles are good for you so feel free to doodle away!!!
This first picture is from Olivia's Journal.. I made this mandala doodle in her journal when I had it for our swap:

These next doodles are ones I made in Jacky's journal....

This was my first zentangle in so long... It was kinda hard to remember the patterns.  I feel like I should do more tangles!!  Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a wonderful weekend!! "See" you next week.

FATA Cruise Art Journal Swap 1

On the Florida Art Therapy Association's (FATA) Conference Cruise I presented about art journaling swaps that I do with my cohort.  As part of my presentation I decided to do a mini-swap while we were on the boat.  So, I brought 3 journals:

And I asked people to make art in them and then pass them along to someone else that was on the boat for the conference.  I collected them on the last day.  The conference had art therapists, dance/movement therapists, social workers, artists, and several other professions in attendance and everyone was welcome to participate.  Thankfully I had my classmates to help convince people to participate!

Today I wanted to share some of the photos from journal number 1 with you.  All photos are posted with the signed consent of the artist that created the art.

Please come back tomorrow when I will be showing the art from Journal number 2!

Journal Pages

Here are some page that I created as part of my class art journal swap.  This first one is in Hillary's journal:

 And the second one is in Brianna's journal.  She is actually a year behind our class but wanted to participate in our swap so I added her in.

Thanks for stopping by, have a lovely day!!