Saturday, August 27, 2011

Faith

The last of the prompts was Faith. The challenge- textiles. This was a bit of a challenge, as I had no idea how I wanted to incorporate fabrics into the art journal page. One night as I was laying awake unable to sleep, it occurred to me that I could make a little quilt for the page, so I did just that. With some scraps of material left over from projects I had done in the past, I cut out some squares and sewed them together to make a little quilt top and then adhered it to my page. I found a coordinating tag and wrote my little message on there and then added a piece of broken jewelry as an accent. It turned out pretty cool I think!



Knowledge

Well, I have to admit I have been neglecting my blog again. I guess I have been so busy with my girls' summer activities, and going back to school, that a all-together forgot to post my last two art journal pages.
This one was knowledge, and the challenge was to use marbled paper somewhere in the composition. As you can see I used it as the background paper for this page. I am not exactly sure it turned out as I had hoped, but I am not sure what to do to change it up a bit yet, so it is staying like this for now.
Here is how I played: