Sketchbooks, Scrapbooks and where to go from there

Hi there,

I've just spent a few days looking through and re-arranging some scrapbooks an sketchbooks and deciding what else I can do with a lot of the material available that I hadn't done before.

I turned a number of drawings into rubber stamp designs and was even inspired to do a few new drawings for that project.

I re- arranged scrapbooks so that there's one for press clippings, one for drawings and then several others on different subjects so that I've got everything close at hand for the times that people ask me what sorts of other art and craft projects I've done. I find it much easier to show them than to tell them and keep all of this on the same shelf as the books and magazines that I've been in.

Between that and the scrapbook wall I put together recently I'll be in good shape in case anyone comes around to interview me again.

That done I can get relax and get back to some real art again.

I can hardly wait!

3 step Daisy inspiration page

1. Start with some daisy pictures from magazines, greeting cards, calendars, stationery or photos.
2. Cut everything out
3. Attach to a blank page with double stick tape

I'll be adding more pictures to this page until I run out of room on it. They're drawn and painted in a number of different styles and should give me lots of ideas the next time that I want to paint some.

Triple Project Tuesday

Still Raining at Mid-Morning

I shot both of these photos from the front door.

It looks like a while before I can get out in the garden today so I'll be working on an archival project for a local Senior Center. We're scanning an old, fragile and damaged scrapbook and trying to restore the images with the computer and make new copies of the most important photos and articles. It's a big project so it's just as well that we've got some extra time to work on it today.

Scrap Happy Organizing

As you can see I really enjoyed going through that box of photos yesterday. It was nice to get them sorted down and organized a bit.

 Here are a few pictures of pages I put together:

Recycle Yourself

Looking for something new to do with yourself? Put together scrapbook pages with all of the hobby and craft projects that you've done over the years. You may discover a passion that you can share through a community education program or in other ways.
Photocopy the pages of projects that you think other people would enjoy and you can use them as handouts or illustration and instruction sheets for your classes.

A bit of fun in the mail to brighten your day

This card contains bits of a card from a friend, a photo of flowers from my garden, a picture from some note paper and a bit of pen, ink and pencil. We find it kind of fun to write back and forth and keep adding things until the cards (or art, depending on how you look at things) get too thick and heavy to drop into envelopes to mail. This one is starting to get pretty interesting...and it's an idea that you and your friends might enjoy too.