Art with Teen

I just now am realising that I am actually starting what I had considered when I first thought of doing the weekly journal. My plan was if I had enough to make a "story or layout" I would do one picture for the week and then make a separate book with the more intensive date pictures. Of course, I don't expect too many, but this one certainly pertains. Only my youngest would decide to figure alternatives when she can't find something she needs immediately. She got picked on after by the oldest because "did everyone forget the semester I was an art major?" and didn't check if he had what she needed. That was his only semester where he was not a computer major. He does want to keep doing it as a hobby once he has room. Currently, his room is taken over by computer and tech stuff. My room doubles as her and my craft room. It is also the SMALLEST room in the house. I am including the bathroom. Oh joys of single wide mobile home.
But, it took a while for us to get him to take us to the store to get the pizza stuff. By then, she was done with her painting for the weekend. Instead of just washing the acrylics off of her hand, she decides that this is the perfect time to make her hand look frostbitten AND burnt. It came out pretty good. She got some looks at the store but she was proud of it until she got the paint to crack too much at her knuckles.

Here is the layout I made of the day. On the left, her hand is the final look. On the right, her hand was being the palette. There is a small photo in the middle of her doing the painting. I also got her to make the "doilies" behind the photos. I chose blue and red in the background because of her hand. I was trying to get contrast with the blue in the photo, not noticing that the red then blended into the scrapbook album. I remembered to date the layout surprisingly! I did writing both by hand and over the computer. You can't tell, but there are white triangles along the top and left bottom of the red rectangle. I added them while I was cutting the red and blue chevrons. Made those by cutting the outer border of the arrows on the dollar tree sticker sheet. So, I had leftover triangles and decided to use them instead of scrap them.

Sketches in Thyme 405

So, I'm submitting this to Sketches in Thyme. I saw it and thought of her hand. I started with one idea with the pictures, but trying to fit as many pictures on one sheet of paper changed it. Especially when I said it would be one size and the final print was larger. So, I ended up this way. Upside, I figured how to glue over the gold! Use a napkin doily. Mwahahaha. But, I also used a bit of paper from a 2019 calendar by Amy Brown I have. I didn't do as much of the embellishing because it felt so busy already with the arrows and chevrons. Add in the pattern of the one side and my mind was saying this is enough. The title is just as playful using Dollar General stickers. I have most of the book left, yet don't really find much to use them in. 

Hope everyone is doing well. I still have a couple layouts to finish for challenges and to post the another with no challenges that I made. I enjoy getting these up and done.

Weekly Journal

Rule one for manga in this house: Read the last page first! Just kidding. But, as you will see below, I added the list of topics for a reading challenge. I have a reading partner for this. My youngest discovered it and saw it as a reason to finish more books. She handed me her one manga for the series prompt. Approximately one book a week should be manageable.

So, I thought when I first was looking at forms of scrapbooking that the whole Project Life format looked interesting. But, that rabbit hole started to panic me when I saw how people were going about how much work it was and how quickly they were falling behind on it. That made me decide not to go that route. But, I really liked the idea of documenting overviews of every week with scrapbooking. So, I wasn't sure how to go about it. In the end, I realised that I am really liking making different layouts and can use them to do the documenting. So, with a basic binder and sheet protectors, I'm off. Now, I get to make layouts in two different sizes! At least this one is completely for my use. I will use it at times for challenges, but more just to get the good things from each day in the specific week.

In the layout, I used part of a patterned paper from one of the pads from Michael's. I lined the bottom with part of a planner banner sticker from Dollar General. The week was printed out on my computer with a free font I picked up. Yes, I love finding fonts to use that are not the basic ones from the respective programs/OS. The main paper was the remainder of the watercolor paper I used to make the background on the previous layout. I liked how it looked and fit with the snowflakes. The white on the gray background for the images is actually from when I cut out a page of hexagons. I still have a couple more sections of it I have plans to use on larger layouts. The art in the background of the bottom picture was done by my oldest. All three are artistic.

Atlantic Hearts Sketch

I'm submitting the layout to the Atlantic Hearts Sketch Challenge because it gave me the inspiration to start. It was funny my mind was arguing about how to start as in should I just go Day 1-7 or add in the end of the previous year. Honestly, I wanted to have this as just this year. Seeing the sketch, my mind immediately said this would make it work. Three rows for pictures means a full week wouldn't work. But, I could do it for a partial week to document. If not for them, I don't think I would have started. So, thank you ladies.

I thought I'd show the entire week. This is the sketch layout with a companion page just having some extra documentation of things about the week. I put a picture of the book I'm working on first along with the list. I also put the goals I have that I see are achievable. I tied the pages together by using a scrap of the snowflake paper in the corner and the rest of the banner strip on top. Just for why I used that paper. We had snow New Year's Day and no way would I take a picture of that. So, what type of journaling do you do, if any?