This is my first time!

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Here is my June 2013 Dare - Your Powerful Truths

This comes from Mixed Media Mondays with Tracy Weinzepfel on  Ustream.  I found Tracy's ustream channel last February when looking for videos about art journaling.  I have been art journaling for a couple of years and Iove it.  But I have been wanting to push myself to explore more as an artist.  And that is a whole blogpost in itself which I'm sure I will write about later.  Today I just want to get my dare posted and my first blog done.

I was watching the show last Monday half listening to the hockey game when those circle things caught my attention.  I had recently done a background (one of thousands) and I thought those might look good on my page.  So I got out some flower stamps and added those to the background, made the circles and then went to look for some ink.  The only colors I had were  copper, some mustard yellow and white. Should I wait until tomorrow and go buy some black ink or some other fun color.  I didn't want to wait.  Plus I need to use my supplies. I got out another journal that I only use for cleaning my brayer, stencils, stamps and any other left over stuff.  I bought a gelli plate a couple of months ago so this empty journal is about full with yummy leftovers as you can imagine.  The gelli plate is so addicting.  But again, probably another blogpost for later.  The journal was opened to a page that I had used to clean one of my flower stamps off that I used for the background.  I started practicing drawing the circles with the ink on that page.  I had never done this with ink before.  I did three and they turned out pretty good.  I then did them on my journal page.  They turned out ok.  I then typed out the quotes that Tracy used because I really liked them.  I got those down, outlined, played around with the circles adding charcoal pencil.  I had a light bulb moment.  Wouldn't it be cool if the circles were shiney.  I looked through my cabinet and found some Golden clear tar gel that came in a sample box of six different products.  I had never used this one so I pulled it out and tried it and it was just what I was looking for.  I added the ribbon and inked the edges and my page was done.  Yea!!! another page done to add to my handful of actually done pages.

So now I'm looking over at my leftover journal and am really liking the colors with the copper circles.  I make another page.  And now I can't decide which one I like better.  The one I planned or the one that just came about from practicing and left overs. 

I'm finding that I'm completing pages in this leftover journal.  I will watch videos and look through this journal and a page will jump out at me that goes along with what I have just watched.  And that inspires me to complete a page.  I have been so happy lately that I have been finishing journal pages and now I have a blog.  Woo hoo!

Here are my June 2013 Dares - I've posted both because I can't decide which one I like better.