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!

Documented Life Week 27

Today I wanted to show you my Week 27 WIP for Documented Life Project!  Here is the weekly page:

And the challenge for this week was to add a puzzle to your page...

That is a "hard" puzzle...and I am good at them and I think it is actually quite hard.  I think the page looks unfinished so I will probably add more to it after my trip.

Happy Art Swap Cards

Hello friends!  I am away on a trip tomorrow so I had to get my Happy Art Swap cards done early.  So, I thought I would share them with you today! Here they are:

I hope you have a great day!  "See" You tomorrow!!

The Last of June's ICADs

Happy 4th of July! Today I am finishing up showing June's ICADs...

On the 29th I spent  several hours at the pool with Hillary:

 Then we made dinner and watched some Harry Pottery (Hillary's favorite movies!)

On the 30th I had to go to class again... but I doodled a lot and realized I had a card in my bag so I did these lines in class:

and here is a picture of all of my June cards:

Some more  images of in-class doodles:

Well friends that is all for now!  I hope you have a great 4th of July!  

Documented Life Week 24

Hello friends!!  Today I am sharing Week 24 from my Documented Life Planner.

The week's page:

I got to spend time teaching adolescents how to art journal and I spent two days doing art therapy during one of our weekend workshops.  

Here is the weekly challenge page - the challenge was to use text on the page:

It's hard to tell since I used dark paint and collaged over a lot of it, but I used dictionary pages to make the background so there is a lot of text there!!

Thanks for stopping by!  Hope you have a wonderful day!

ICAD JUNE 10-12

Hello friends!  I am going to share some of my ICAD creations with you today!!  First, June 10th:

 That little circular see-through piece on the top right is from a rice package!  I thought it would look cool on my card.

June 11th:

On June 12th I went to teach some 12-18 year olds how to art journal:

It was kind of wild but I had a lot of fun!

Well, friends, that is all for now.  Hope you have a lovely day!!  "see" you tomorrow.

ICAD June 7-9

Hello friends!!  More ICAD for you today!!!

On June 7th we went to PCB to celebrate Hillary's birthday (even though it was a month ago!)

 Here is a picture of us at the beach:

On the 8th we went to see The Fault In Our Stars:

I read the book in 2012; it was awesome.  The movie was awesome too.  If you go bring lots of tissues and be prepared to cry.

On June 9th I had school but that is boring... so here is my card:

Hope you guys are having a wonderful week!  "See" you tomorrow!

Documented Life Week 20

Still way behind on sharing Documented Life Project photos with you, so this week will be my catch-up week!!

Week 20 - Use a stamp in a new way:

You can hardly tell in this photo but behind the black ink skeleton stamp is silver wings also stamped.

Come back tomorrow for week 21!!

Postcards

This past Tuesday I passed my art therapy comprehensive exam!  I celebrated by spending several hours doing art!  I made these postcards:

It was nice to not have to do homework.  I do still have a lot of work to do on my thesis but I chose to take a day off since I passed my comp exam!  Later that evening I went out to dinner with the art therapy girls - it was a wonderful way to celebrate the end of the semester.

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.

Final Art Piece for Practicum

This semester my last semester of practicum - the class where we have supervision for our internships.  Part of our final class is to present art pieces based on our work with a particular client.  This is the pieces from my first practicum class when I was interning at a rehabilitation hospital:

And my second one when I was interning at a women's prison:

The purple side represents how I thought the semester would be and below is how I felt the semester actually went (it was MUCH better than anticipated).

And, finally, here is the piece for my final practicum class:

Its hard to read those tiny letters but they say "small unnoticable (yes I forgot an N) changes can be mighty" and "keep truckin.  Stay positive."

Documented Life Project Weeks 14 & 15

I'm doing my documented life project catch-up post after only 2 weeks.. I think that may be a first.  Anyways, here are some photos for you...

Week 14 was the week of the Homeless Veteran Stand Down and the CVA's Military Ball.  The challenge this week was to decorate the page with your name:

Week 15 - the monochromatic week... of course I did pink again! Here is how it turned out:

I like how both of the weeks came out!  Simple but good!  I hope you guys enjoyed seeing the pictures!!  Thanks for stopping by today!  Have a great day!!

Documented Life Catch-up (again!) weeks 11-13

Hello!  Time for another Documented Life Project catch-up post!  Lets get to it!
Week 11 - Put a bird on it:

Week 12 - cut up a magazine...add:

Week 13 - Let someone draw on your page and finish it....

my friend and classmate Erika drew this mandala during a class

My finished page

Hope you guys enjoyed seeing my responses to the challenges.  Thanks for stopping by - have a great day!