[Challenge win: Top rocker at 613 Avenue Create challenge]
Well well well! Looks like my sis and I got to working on our Inspiration Station projects quite early this time. It was my turn to come up with a theme, and I made a tic tac toe board of options. I realized that it’s pretty difficult to come up with a board that works for most strikes! 🙂 So my board isn’t ideal, but it still offers a few okay-ish combinations.

I chose Acrylics-Red-Stencils, and it resulted from a series of coincidences. I wasn’t feeling my best that day – I was angry and irritated, and the thought of art journaling in red to ‘express it and let go’ popped up in my head. My playlist had the song Don’t Look Back in Anger by Oasis on then, and it felt fitting to incorporate it in my session. That led to me referring to a course from Creative Jumpstart 2020 by Marieke Blokland, who incorporates raw and quirky characters in her journals. And I realized that if I just use a stencil, it would fit our Inspiration Station theme!
So I started with the background in red acrylics, added white using a stencil, and continued to incorporate elements from the course. I used new acrylic paints from multiple brands that I’d bought recently, and I’m happy with their quality. I used them in a recent gel printing session too, so they work well for most creative techniques that I work on currently! Yay!
As for the art journal page – thanks to Marieke Blokland for her instructional video on Creative Jumpstart 2020! I discovered that I love the freedom involved in creating these kind of quirky characters – it’s so much more liberating knowing that you can bring in some kind of focal element when your mind cannot focus too much on drawing, but you still want to draw. (I suppose everyone has such conflicting feelings… 😀 )
And now, would you like to head on over to my sister’s to see her graceful, textured card?
With this project, I’m also joining these challenges:






FABulous page..great colours and design..
Thank you so much for joining in with us at 613 Avenue Create..hope you will play along again..
Luv CHRISSYxx
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Thank you very much, Chrissy! 🙂
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Great journal page -Thank you for joining us at 613 Avenue Create
Carol DT x
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Thanks, Carol! 🙂
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… I heard you say :)! Last year I met Marieke Blokland as an instructor for Wanderlust 2019. Her characters are really fun and I think you did great creating your own character! Somehow, I feel that there is a bit of Picasso in your journal too.
As for drawing, Picasso said that it is a lot more transpiration than inspiration. I guess he was right, perseverance is the word.
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She does indeed have the most wonderful characters, Cris, and she is very inspiring! It’s true, our creative outputs are definitely the result of all the stuff that we imagine, absorb and practice.
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Great colors and design..
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Thank you!
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Fab project thanks for sharing at crafty catz this week and good luck in the draw
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Thanks a lot, Susan! 🙂
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Great page! I love the sentiment! Thanks so much for sharing with us at 613 Avenue Create!
Hugz,
Chana Malkah, Owner
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Thank you very much, Chana!
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Congratulations! You have been selected as a Top Rocker for the week February 9th- 15th at 613 Avenue Create! . Please stop by our blog and grab your TOP ROCKER BADGE! https://avenue613.blogspot.com/p/top-rockers_15.html
The Resident Designers
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Wow, thank you very much for selecting this project of mine, Chana! ❤
Always looking forward to sharing in the creative energy at 613 Avenue Create.
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I love that funny character you’ve made for this journal page, Anita! The message is also an excellent piece of advice.
I admire the creative energy that you have and the number of challenges that you’re in. Wow! Have a beautiful and blissful day!
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Thank you, Mihaela! I never imagined how much I’d like creating such characters. 🙂
I feel I’m more creative now than earlier – I found it helps me remain sane 🙂 so as much as possible, I’d want to be creative every day.
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Great journal page, Anita. Isn’t it interesting how our different moods produce different results? Glad you didn’t give up.
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Our mood totally affects our creation, just as creating affects our mood, Ginny! (How complicated are we…)
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Thank you for sharing with us over here at “A Perfect Time To Craft” and best of
luck with your entry.
Robin DT for http://aperfecttimetocraft.blogs
pot.com.au/
I Love your journal page! So fresh and out of the book!
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Thank you very much for the fun challenge, Robin! 🙂
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