Friday, February 6, 2015

DLP February 7th Challenge

Hi there! Welcome! I am the guest artist for this weeks Documented Life Project 2015. I am thrilled that you stopped by to see what I have created for this weeks challenge.


 February Theme  
Layers You will Love 
Feb 7
Art challenge
When Not to Stop 
Journal prompt
 Don’t Stop ’Til You Get Enough  

When Sandi gave me the prompt for this week I thought this might be a good week to report myself missing. This isn't a journal prompt, it's an annoying 80's song. (Sorry Michael) But I decided to pull up my big girl bloomers and give it a shot.
The first thing I did was study everything Roben-Marie Smith has done since birth. She has to be the queen of layers, right? I re-watched all the workshops I had taken from her. I even practiced on my baby Dylusions Journal.
Practice in my baby Dylusions Journal

Now I was ready to start on the real thing in my Large Dylusions Journal. I started by collaging the page with old papers.Then went over that lightly with gesso. I used some dylusions spray inks and stencils, then added more gesso. I did some more collaging, added some stamps from Rae's new line of stamps Natural Elements, and some tried and true stamps from Roben-Marie's stamps Mixed Media Essentials #1 and some of my own hand carved ones. Added some acrylic paints, more stamping, some doodling with my Uniball Signo white gel pen and my Uniball Signo Black 207 gel pen.




I used red acrylic paint inside a hand made heart stencil. I went around the heart with a black oil pastel to make it pop.


I had found this quote about never getting enough love and never giving enough love. I knew when I saw it what I wanted to do with my page. 

On the left hand page I wrote out our journal prompt. But after I found my quote I had one change to make.


After that I added some finishing touches. I thought it needed more black on the page so I added some scallop borders. I also added a few more doodles and splattered some black and white paint all over. I have no idea exactly how many layers there are on this page. I just kept adding and adding until I liked it. 

 
I hope you enjoyed my pages for this weeks DLP challenge. I sure did enjoyed making them.

I would like to say a special thank you to Miranda Banks for helping me with my blog. It is still a baby but she took the time to help me give it a little boost. You can find Miranda's blog Clare Plantation here. Hers is awesome!!
And of course, a big thank you to the Art to the 5th gang for inviting me to be a guest artist!! You all are the best!!! Thanks for everything!!

loislane



37 comments:

  1. What a wonderful post! Your page is beautiful AND you are funny!! Love that big bold heart and your revision of the prompt is so meaningful! I am so glad that you took this challenge on. And how sweet of Miranda to help you! That is awesome teamwork! Hope you have enjoyed this experience completely!

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  2. What lovely journal spreads!! Love the combination of layers and colors, shapes and text!!

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  3. Love your page!! Thank you for sharing your process!

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  4. Great Lois!!!!!! I loved everything on it!!!!!!
    Congrats for the blog, its beautiful and so easy to navigate!!!!! <3

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  5. LOVE IT! The colors are just perfect-wow lots of techniques! Both the "Baby" and the "Mama" Dylusions are just so inspiring!

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  6. Excellent changing of words. So true, the more we GIVE, the more we get. Blessings, Janet

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  7. Lois, I Love your pages!! Bravo!!!

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  8. Sure enjoyed seeing how you worked through this process. I really like how you put the sentiment on one side of the heart which really highlights the give/get! Having a heart that shreds into many parts is the inspiration I got from this page and I can't wait to play with that idea. THANKS!

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  9. Wonderful spread, Lois. I love your baby journal. I should try that! Your page has so many wonderful layers, I can't stop looking at it.

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  10. Very beautiful, Lois! Love EVERYTHING! Love your humor!

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  11. well, I must say, you are fabulous. This layout is so meaningful and bright and well done. Thank you for taking on the challenge and allowing us to see your process, it's awesome.

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  12. Thank you for sharing! What a great page! you have inspired me to go create....I should be doing housework, but that's overrated....this is so much more fun! Enjoyed your post :)

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  13. Loved reading this. Loved your art in both journals. CONGRATULATIONS - you did a SUPER job in every way.

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  14. Love this so much Lois! You are so funny and very creative! So happy you have joined us again this year! xx

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  15. Love both your pages. Gorgeous colours and I love how you changed up the quote. Look forward to seeing more of your work :-)

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  16. So great to "meet" you, and see your beautiful artwork!

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  17. Love your pages! Laughed at your reference to the song; I thought of it immediately when I read the prompt and haven't been able to get it out of my head! Hope to see more of your pages :)

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  18. Love your pages and enjoyed seeing your process. Very beautiful, clever, and fun to look at! what a great quote by H. Miller! thanks for sharing your beautiful pages with us.

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  20. Beautifully layered spread..love the baby dylusion, too!

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  21. Love your pages!! They are WONDERFUL !!

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  22. Awesome spreads - I love both the small and large ones. Tfs your technique with us.

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  23. Beautiful spread and you're right, that quote is perfect!

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  24. Beautiful colors and the quote .... So True!!!

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  25. love this....the quote...the art....the changes...the colors......everything.

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  26. loved checking out your process. Do you know your Pinterest button does not work.

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  27. Oh Lois! Not only is your artwork stunning, but your statement embodies everything I believe you to be! Thank you for being our featured artist this week and especially thanks for all you do behind the scenes! Much love, Lorraine

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  28. Oh, Lois Lane, you are super girl!!! Love what you have created here, so full of depth and meaning and color and patterns and layers! Now to try some of your ideas and make them my own as I slowly inch through this new process in my art world!! TFS!

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  29. Love all of these layers and colors..they are just deelicious..I was singing the Michael Jackson song the whole time..Thanks for that..!!!!:)

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  30. Hello! I love your page. It looks fun with the heart and flowers in the background. Since I am intimidated by doing my own lettering or adding words/quotes at all would you mind helping me out? What techniques and supplies did you use to write the quotes/words?

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    1. Hi Beka, Thank you. I am happy that you like it. As far as my technique I just have different lettering on pinterest and I copied them. I just used a sharpie. The small quote on the right hand page i wrote on a separate piece of paper and then cut out. I think i used a uni ball pen or perma ball. Sorry I cant remember. But any black pen that is permanent. what i like to do rather than write it out though is find a cute font and type it up on the computer and print it out. I just think it looks neater than my hand writing. I hope this helps. Pinterest is a good resource for lettering ideas though.

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    2. Thank you! This actually helps a lot. It looks like you wrote it right on the page which you did for one side and then did it on a separate page for the other? Thank you for the tip. I won't feel so bad to print it out now.

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