100 day challenge

Day 20/100 Photo meme?

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Today wwas my 57th Birthday and I was blessed to be able to spend it with my kiddos and grand kiddo!

My daughter saw this mug while we were in The Artful Hand at Orchard Park Mall in Kelowna and I loved it!

I thought it would look great on the glaring photo of Nia and since i only had time for a quick create today it was a perfect time to do it,

Would this be considered a meme?

Does it show my age that I don’t know? 🤔

The kids also gave me this skookum new 3D pen!! You can be sure that will be what I use in my pursuit of joyful creativity tomorrow!

Day 17/100 Collage Tags

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Four more collage tags for the junk journal project.

It took a lot of cutting and tearing before anything wanted to fit together tonight.

I decided it would be okay to just get some prep work done then all of a sudden a few pieces looked like they wanted to be paired up so, Yay! I got to play with the glue too!!

The “You & Me Mom” book was great – all round good images, paper and colors.

I also used a calendar, an old Christmas craft book and one of my favorites lately – a Greek sculpture book, which I noticed is a discard from the Calgary Public Library…meaning I’ve been carrying it around for 18 years or so! I knew it would come in handy 😏🙄

Day 14/100 – Photo

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Historic Kaleden Hotel

Sunshine today!

I drove to Kaleden to pick up some vintage books (I’ll share pics another day). Then took the pupper for a walk.

What a relief to see the sun! And it was hot! It felt like a summer day. 🙂

I did some quick feather drawings for a work project…

and after watching Treasure Books tutorial “DIY Hidden Paper Clips” On YouTube I’m going to make some of those – hopefully tomorrow.

Day 13/100 – Pocket Pages

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Another Eileen Watson pocket tutorial today. Old books, gluing, inking and sewing.

I got a couple done then spent way too long fixing my fave pencil. Sort of fixed…all the while thinking I should just chuck it and do more pockets.

It’s a conundrum, I want to be productive, but I like to fix things and I tend to procrastinate.

It’s all good, two is better than nothing and I’m pretty sure if I wasn’t doing the challenge it would have been none.

Day 12/100 Day Challenge – Photo Editing

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  • Penticton Ancestors

Photo Edit today because I was blessed to be with family!

I brought my computer with me and played around in the Sketchbook app with a couple of older pictures.

Originally I was going to add a mandala to a photo but then as I was looking through my pics I was drawn to Penticton Ancestors pic and the daisy – which is natures mandala!

I haven’t used the app much so the learning curve is steep which made bringing my ideas into fruition a challenge. It’s a fun way to create though so I think I’ll be playing more often.

Pretty happy I’ve been on track for almost 2 weeks now!

Happy Weekend!!

Day 11 of Joyful Creativity Challenge – Journal Pockets

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More paper folding today.

One of the Many things I like about the junk journal idea is being able to incorporate anything and everything into it.

One way to keep little bits and pieces of memorabilia like movie stubs, receipts or notes tucked in is with pockets.

I made a few tonight and what I Love about this pattern is you can use any size paper!

Check out Eileen Watson’s YouTube video Junk Journal folded pocket tutorial if you’d like to try it out. Thanks Eileen!
(Links to videos will be added soon!)