Sketchy sketch

Hi there!

Over at Paper Issues, our current issue to to use a sketch from Simple Scrappers.

I thought I'd try an art journal page using this sketch.

You have until Sept 9 to link up and win some fun stuff!

Go here to hop and play along!!

My thoughts on art journaling...

Head on over to the Scrapbooking from the Inside Out blog today to find out more!

Serendipity

You have until Saturday to play along 

with PAPER ISSUES' latest issue: IT'S SERENDIPITY!

We are sponsored this time by Elle's Studio and

you have a chance to win some goodies!

GO link up something using Elle's Studio, or that has a theme dealing with 

serendipity (luck, fortune, karma, chance, etc)!

Here's an art journal page I made using SFTIO's FORTUNE kit:

(step by step instructions: HERE-- you'll have to join the forum, but it's free and easy to do!) 

And HEY! National Scrapbooking Day is Saturday! Need some new goodies? Of course you do!

Go SHOPPING and use my code LORISPILLS For 20% off your order!

Thanks for stopping by! Will you leave me a comment so I know you did?

Art Journal with me!

Head over to the 

Scrapbooking From the Inside Out forum

(it's free and easy to sign up)

and check out my process for an art journal page!!

Hey, and leave me a comment here!

I'd love to know you stopped by!

Fortune Favors the Bold

Find out more about this layout

I made for Scrapbooking From the Inside Out's April FORTUNE kit:

Come read about this layout and

my philosophy on mixed media on the

Scrapbooking from the Inside Out blog!

journal date

So, I have been taking part in an art journaling workshop online and am loving it. We get a new "assignment" each day for 21 days and are posting messages and uploading our pages as a community.
One of our assignments this weekend was to go on a journal date...to wherever, but we needed to create a page to let the others feel like they were with us. I really enjoyed myself. I went to Books-A-Million, grabbed some books to peruse and sat in the cafe with a lemon poppyseed muffin and earl grey tea. It was wonderful!
I am learning to be ok by myself in a situation like this, I don't have to have someone to talk to or eat with, just enjoying my own company is nice. Now, bookstores have always been a place for me to do this, so I was kind of "safe" with my location, but I know I could do it for a meal in a restaurant or elsewhere. Now that I think about it, I go to the movies alone, sit in the park alone and read, so I am definitely more comfortable with my own company than I used to be. Yay me!

The beginning

Well, here I am finally. I have needed an outlet for myself for a while, whether anyone else reads it or not. I am glad to have a place to question, vent, share....I am searching to find who I really am....and to love that person. I am on a journey...and am learning to embrace that...and let it be enough without worrying about the destination. I have been seeking creativity my entire life and am looking forward to letting this make me accountable...so I have a place to share my art...yes, my art. I am an artist....because God made me that way, and I am made in His image. So, I need to explore my world through things that touch my heart and through using images and words and my hands. I look forward to this journey...

This is my first page of my new art journal. I'm kind of in love with it!!