July 2013 Creative Dare - Mixed Media Mondays Mean To Me...

Mixed Media Mondays has been a great find for me.  I've found lots of inspiration from Tracy and everyone else who watches and belongs to her facebook page.  My favorite Monday was the "Express Yourself" page.  I really liked that page.  Daisy's are on of my favorite flowers, they remind me of my mom.  She loved daisys.  Also blue is my favorite color.  It's just my favorite page and holds a lot of meaning for me. 

I was watching the video and looking through my left over journal (a journal where I put left over paint, clean my brayer and stencils, anything I don't want to go to waste goes in there for later).  A page with blue and yellow paint caught  my eye.  Similar colors to what Tracy was using.  Hmmm, that would look good with the daisy on it.  So I started following along.  I filled out the boarders with some blue and green alcohol ink and things progressed from there. My page started to tare away so I reinforced it with washi tape.  I added some daisy stickers because I'm always trying to use up supplies that have been sitting for awhile (lol, years)  I decided to write the title in my own handwriting because I am trying to do that more too.  And the best thing I got out of the video was to use a charcoal pencil.  I had never really used a charcoal pencil much and now I love using them.

This was also good for me because I have been hesitant to work along with someone else and use there ideas.  When I started art journaling for some reason I felt that everything I did should be unique and I needed to be creative and think up my own style.  Well unless you learn new things and try them out you hit a brick wall with your creativity.  So these Mondays have inspired me to try new things and find my own creativity!