December Daily-ish : Week 2

Time for my Sunday share of my current December Daily-ish project. Luckily I've had no expectations on myself about whether you'll see seven pages or one! This past week was especially challenging and exhausting, and I thought I wouldn't be sharing a Week 2 post at all! But I really needed a break this weekend, and yesterday I made some birthday cards (I'll share the details in my next post) so today had a bit of time to be able to respond to 2 more prompts from #ArtJournalAdvent.

AJA 4 : Femininity. I wasn't sure what to do about this prompt when I was thinking about it during the week, but today it was easy, because of the birthday cards I made yesterday. You'll have to wait for next post to see them, but this page is directly inspired by them and came together very quickly. 

This accordian style has a few tag inserts. 

AJA 5 : Rituals. Again, my mind had to be relaxed for me to discover that this prompt had an obvious response. 

In my previous post I shared that I have been making bookmarks for my librarians for the last 6 years. I always make a few extra so that I was able to pop one onto my spread. It's also important to me that my home of gorgeous New Zealand is obvious in my pages - the star fish symbolises summer and our beach trips that are part of our December holiday rituals. 

I am so happy that this journal is evolving, although slowly. I only have another week at work so will enjoy the prompts as time permits. One of the changes is that I have decided to keep this journal for Michelle and Tamara's  #ArtJournalAdvent challenge prompts. I have thought of another idea for Kasia Avery's #caredecember which I'll share when this book is done. So my inside cover has changed from that shared last time

to this. I just put water on the top line of stamping and was able to scrape it off and place a serviette layer on top which now relates to Prompt 4 above.

Hoping you are finding some creative joy and moments of rest this December. Never underestimate the importance of self-care.

Bookmarks

I work at a private school in Palmerston North, part-time librarian and part-time administration support. As part of my library role we have student librarians who help throughout the year. Since 2015 I've been making bookmarks for them all as a thank you. Every year it's VERY busy at this time, and every year I think it's important enough to create for my special helpers. I actually made these a few weeks ago. This time I was inspired by an old project on the StencilGirl blog by Suanne Summers. I played with acrylic paint and stencils for the first layer

I was going to add pen doodles, but once I cut them and curved the top corners I saw that some didn't need any such additions

Here they are with fibres added ready to gift - one batch with nothing more

The other ones with doodles added

Gifted yesterday. See my previous posts about this annual project HERE.

52 Tags : Week 49

Time for my take on Anne Brooke's weekly Tag challenge. Week 49 : A memory. Discovered this sample of a transfer on lutradur. I think this was from a session almost 10 years ago when I was extending my love affair with Klimt's art to start using his work as inspiration for my own work.

This link will take you to all of my posts about this challenge. You can view Anne's weekly demo on Youtube #52tagshannemade. I really loved Anne's tag this week and her process is fun to watch