17 Days of Green: Day 17

Final page... :) I made it through all 17. That in itself is an accomplishment. For Day 17 a simple pot of gold at the end of the rainbow...covered with glitter paint and a Happy St Patrick's Day!

17 Days of Green: Day 16

Dance little leprechaun! We are on Day 16....I can't believe I am actually going to finish this little project!!

17 Days of Green: Day 15

I decided to include a page with a short list of things I've learned from doing this art journal. I didn't journal as much in it as perhaps I should have so including this page added some "personal thoughts."

17 Days of Green: Day 14

Since leprechauns are famous for their shoemaking...when I say this wording in a magazine I decided to create a page using it!

17 Days of Green: Day 13

I found this little skeleton and I thought it would be fun to create a forensic page for a leprechaun! Ok, as I've said before this little art journal is making me STRETCH my imagination!

17 Days of Green: Day 12

Page of words....to describe leprechauns. I used some metallic marker to edge the page, torn paper and words clipped from magazines.

17 Days of Green: Day 11

For Day 11 I decided to try creating a leprechaun's house....there the little fellow is...dancing on the roof! I added some moss for a three dimensional look too!

17 Days of Green: Day 10

I used those little colored bears....only because the colors made me think of a rainbow...they are sort of interesting though. This page is a combination of modern (bears) and the ancient (sand design and old page from a journal). It remind me that Ireland is a mixture of a modern and ancient. I am of Irish ancestory and have always wanted to visit Ireland but alas have not had the pleasure of doing so!

17 Days of Green: Day 9

Day 9....I thought about all the folklore and "magic" associated with St. Patrick's Day and Ireland....so hence this page. As I mentioned in an early post this little project is stretching my imagination. I am looking for ways to have the "essence" of Ireland or St Patrick's Day present on each page and yet use a variety of materials and techniques.

17 Days of Green: Day 8

I love this little cottage and I was thinking about how awesome it would be to live in a place like this....then I started thinking about working on those flower beds....lol.

17 Days of Green: Day 7

I decided to do a mandala page....I added the shamrocks because the page seemed sort of "empty". I used sharpies but they didn't work as well on the painted page as they do a regular page. I also used the metallic markers. They worked great!

17 Days of Green: Day 6

For this page I started out sort of collaging on bits and pieces. I didn't really like the way it looked so I picked up a bottle of green glitter paint at Walmart. It certainly did the trick.....I like it a lot better with the glitter paint.

17 Days of Green: Day 5

As I posted earlier, I didn't want to but a lot of material for this journal but when I was in the Dollar Tree I found some window clings. There are quite a few on the sheet. I wondered in they might work in the art journal because for a dollar....they were cheap enough. So here's one of the little lerprecahun guys and he worked just fine. He almost looks like a rub on. I modge podeged under and over him!

17 Days of Green: Day 4

I wanted to get a little different look on this page and I happened upon the frog in a magazine...and with the saying...'its easy to be green." I thought it would work nice on this page! It's day four and I feel like I am getting a little be more flow to the journal process.

17 Days of Green: Day 3

I wanted to make a page that was about GREEN but ended up making a page about Ireland (well sort of). I can tell that this project is going to STRETCH my mind with trying to keep the pages different.

17 Days of Green: Day 2

Here's the day two page. I am really liking the metallic pen in gold....it goes on very smooth and is nice and shiny. I used a Celtic design I printed off the internet and then a Irish saying. I then added some design around the design. It's pretty simple but I like it!

17 Days of Green: Day 1

Today is Day One in the 17 Days of Green series. During the first 17 days of March I will work on my St. Pat's art journal and share it with you here at The Creative Spirit. I hope you will create an art journal too and post that you are working on one in the comments section along with a link to a blog or photos so we can see your work also! For me as always it is not about being a great artists (I'm not).....it's just about the fun of creating. The photo above is my cover page. The photo below is today's page. Some days I'll work on one page and some days a two page creation. It will depend on time and my creative muse.

Getting Ready for 17 Days of Green

At Christmas I created a 1-25 art journal and enjoyed it so much I decided to try it for another holiday. I missed an opportunity at Valentine's Day but decided to move forward with one for St Patrick's Day. Honestly I'm not exactly sure what it will look like just yet. I just know it will involve shades of green, orange and white. I decided to make some base pages ahead of time to help make the process smoother. I also decided to keep it cost effective by using 5 x 8 index card dividers instead of a "purchased" book. I used these for the Christmas art journal and found they worked fairly well.

Here are the base pages. I painted them. I didn't worry about getting them "covered" perfectly because I know I will be collaging over them etc. Some of them actually have a bit of texture to them because of the way the paint dried or the use of the brush. I'm going to hole punch two holes in them and use binder rings.

Next I have some St Patrick's Day images selected from the internet that I need to print and I need some ink for my stamp sets as I have several St Patrick's Day and shamrock ones that I think it would be fun to "play with" for this art journal. I only have a couple days of prep time left and then the pages begin! One a day for 17 Days! I hope you'll visit again and see how the project is going! Happy art journaling to each of you!