52 Little Questions : #5

So Question Five is What is the last book you read?   Seems an easy enough one...

I feel like I need to be getting a little more creative...artsy with these cards....so Watch Out next week....I'm going to get a little crazy. The trouble I had this week....is exactly how do you get artsy with a simple answer...?  The book is Executuve Privilege and I attempted to get artsy by tearing out a small picture of a big city. The WHO is my attempt to convey that the book is a mystery...Who did it?

Make It Monday: Button Heart

 

It's Make It Monday....so I thought I'd try something for Valentine's Day. Well while browsing in the craft department I came across some packages of buttons and since I have been seeing button art everywhere I thought I might give it a try. Let's just say I was surprised that it was a little more difficult than you would think!

First I drew a light outline of a heart on my wooden plaque (which I had painted white)  Then I attempted to glue some buttons to make the outline.

 

 

 

Here's what it looked like after a little effort. It was hard to get the buttons to fill the center of the heart without too big of gaps.  I am wondering if I should have painted the heart red on the plaque so that the spaces wouldn't be quite as obvious. IDK.

 

Then I decided the heart on the plain white looked a little "unfinished" so I used a sponge to add a little pink.

 

I'm still not totally satisfied with it but I will definitely try something with buttons again...they are fun to work with. Have you seen the Christmas Trees created out of buttons? I'm thinking a jack o lantern might be fun to try with orange and black buttons. Well, my heart is nothing fancy but I put in on display in the little desk.



52 Little Questions #4

Question #4  Where would you like to travel/visit?

I love the simple card format. I'm glad I decided to use it for the 52 Little Questions project. I am also find this project easier to do because it is one a week....rather than the one a day index card challenge from last year!

52 Little Questions: #3

Week Three.....How can I be kinder to myself?

Sounds a little hokey....right? But think about it!  Aren't we always beating ourselves up over something?  Isn't it time to be kinder to a very important person...yourself!

52 Little Questions #2

This question was harder than one would think....mostly because there are so many things I could answer...so I just summed it up like this.....

52 Little Questions 2013: Question 1

 

I found this idea while browsing the internet. Do something creative with 52 questions during the year.  As some of you may know...I tried the index card a day project last year....and made it through three months without falling on my face, the next three months were iffy in accomplishing the project and the last six months of the year...nada!

 

I still like the index card a day project, I'm just not very good at long range projects. In fact I plan to finish up the June and July ones that are missing, lingering etc AND then for the second half of this year I will do Index Card a Day (phase two) and finish up August through December,  However I was looking for a NEW kind of creative endeavor for 2013 and stumbled upon the 52 questions idea at Life is Art.  I'm going to use my own set of questions although some might overlap. I hope to do better with one a week rather than one a day!

 

Above you see the question for Week One: What word will you live in 2013?

 

I'm using a deck of cards, a small canvess but I think workable. The question on one side and the answer on the back. You don't have to do art to complete this. You could journal the answers in your journal or some other formatt.  Below is the answer to the question:

 

December Art Journal Cover

Here it is....the newly created cover for the Christmas Art Journal. I had so much fun with the art journal last year and I hope to this year also!  I'm not very good at all about pre-prepping pages like is always suggested. 

This cover is made from an old board book that I stripped off the original printed materials and then covered with some green card stock.  The Ho Ho Ho part is actually holiday packing tape!  The December is cut from a magazine, the 2012 are stickers, the snowmen cut from scrapbook paper, and the Santa is a recyled card front! I plan of doing the inside of the front cover next as a dedication page!  More details to follow soon.

Once again I am trying to create the art journal without buying materials. I do admit I bought some materials last year on clerance after Christmas so I will use those, combined with recycled cards and other materials to create! I am also "allowed" to use anything from my stockpile of materials. My goal is to eventually not have such a BIG stockpile!