Get Messy Art Journal Season of Magic 2

The second week of Season of Magic for Get Messy Art Journal has found me with a lot more time on my hands for working in my journal and for creating Magic.

Get Messy Art Journal Season of Magic - 1

Here we are with a new Season, the Season of Magic! I have been really looking forward to this new season starting its a very exciting theme and so many possibilities in store for it.

Throwback Thursday Art Journal Pages

As we're between Seasons for the next two weeks Julia suggested that we all do a Throwback Thurday edition for Get Messy Thursdays this week looking back at our past past art journal pages from all of the Get Messy Seasons we've gone through so far.

Get Messy Art Journal Season of Words Six

This week's Get Messy has been bittersweet as it's the last one from this Season and I will really miss this and I will most certainly be continuing to use my altered book for long after.

Get Messy Art Journal Season Of Words 5

Lots of lovely words this week in my altered book for Get Messy this week. Words which we hold dear, words which have more meaning attached because we let them.

Get Messy Art Journal Season Of Words Prompt Four

This week's Get Messy Art Journal pages are a little slower going up this week. I had major issues with the second page in my altered book which meant it went into emergency art journal surgery late on Wednesday night. See not all my pages turn out as wonderful as the seem in my head when you try to get them down on paper!

Get Messy Season of Words Prompt Three

 

We're continuing on with our altered book for this season of words and I have been really enjoying playing with making found poems in the book. Of course I had to sneak in some triangulation!

Get Messy Season of Words Prompt Two

We're getting stuck into our altered books this week with the Get Messy Prompts as it's been very exciting to actually get started into this project for real. It's been very hard to wait until the Season began as I was lucky enough to be able to put forward a couple of prompts to use in this season and Caylee and Lauren were kind enough to include some.

Get Messy Season of Serenity Prompt Six

This week was all about the Get Messy Swap we organised within the group.

I was lucky enough to swap with the brilliantly talented Caylee Grey and Julia for an extra mini swap as well as receive a lovely package from the lovely Zina

From Caylee

Get Messy Season of Serenity Prompts Five

This weeks Get messy prompts were all about looking for inspiration for serenity. I looked to a Buddah quote for this week's page and I even made the page live on periscope! You can watch it live for the next 24 hours if you like my user name is c_bunni_crafts you can find me there!

Get Messy Season of Serenity Prompt 3

This week's Get Messy was all about inspiring and trying new techniques.The Get Messy community is cool and amazing for very many reasons but one of the main ones is that there is just so much inspiring work out there for all of us to draw on. I know you can feel "guilty" about "copying" someone else's work but I think it's great way to try out a new style or a new technique. Besides, it's rarely going to look exactly the same and your own style will most certainly creep in there.

Get Messy Season of Serenity Prompt 2

We're back with Serenity again this week for the second set of prompts about what Serenity means to us.

For this page I printed onto tea bag paper for the dictionary definition. There was much swearing involved, not appropriate for the season of serenity that's for sure! It worked eventually though and I was pleased with the results.

The second page has a tissue paper background and acrylics painted over the top. I used a card I bought from a shop when we were visiting Westport this summer and it's of the West Coast of Ireland. It's perfect for this page and theme. I like how this page turned out with the poetry covering most of the page.

Get Messy Season Serenity Prompt 1

So here we are at the start of a brand new season from Get Messy. This season is "Serenity" and it will be very nice to have this theme after "Adventure" and "Brave".

This weeks prompts were based around the divine within us and how we are all spiritual in our own ways. now I am not one for organised religion at all but there is something very spiritual and calming about being outside and amongst nature for me. My parents live in the middle of the Irish countryside and there is something about the comfort of being there that is good for my soul.

I kept this page simple (well for me anyway!) and didn't over do it with embellishments. The vellum flowers I've had forever and I thought they went very well with the page.

I love my little sequins and my stamped images in the background.

The next prompt was all about our Goddess within us. After taking the Goddess quiz I was matched with Athena, Goddess of Wisdom and Civilization. Whilst I didn't identify with all of the characteristics of Athena some of them are especially true.

What surprised me most was the information about Athena Goddess Types attitude towards motherhood. It really struck a chord with me;

"As a mother, if she chooses this path, Athena would be less keen on the baby / child years. She will enjoy an older child's ability to speak intelligently so that she could engage with her/him in an adult manner regarding learning, goals, projects and accomplishments"

Not that's not all true, I adored my daughter as a baby but I am enjoying her now she is older and able to relate with me on a much more in depth level. I really enjoy encouraging her and nurturing her creativity so she can share this with me.

Here is my double page spread. I really like how my Goddess turned out. As she is the Goddess of wisdom I used book pages for her flowing hair and purple for the color of Wisdom.

I recently bought a Copic Marker to add to my arsenal and can I just say I am totally in love and they are so worth the investment.

Athena is often pictured with an Owl for wisdom. I've had this guy sitting around for a while so I used him as a tape transfer and I love him!

I also bought an old vintage pattern from Oxfam for €1. Half the pattern is ripped and it's not in my size so I feel no sorrow for ripping it up and using it in my background. It's so soft and the colour is beautiful.

Thanks for stopping by and if you are interested I joining the Get Messy Community I can HIGHLY recommend it!!

Get Messy Season of Adventure Prompts 6

This week's Get Messy prompts were extra super exciting for me because I actually wrote two of them!! And I had to keep it a secret!!! Ok so I told my husband who was suitably unimpressed but I was itching to see when they would go up. I had posted on facebook after the new season was announced as "Adventure" that we had better have some prompts based around the movie "Up" I mean come on?? ADVENTURE IS OUT THERE!! I love that movie. Anyway the very lovely Caylee said "Why don't you write some?" After peeing my pants  After careful thought and consideration I sent her on my two prompts from the movie.

I actually made my "Up" page ages ago so I had a little head start on this week but I couldn't share it as that would ruin the surprise!! So here's my "Up" page all about where is my Paradise Falls location which is of course Japan!!

My challenge to everyone was to do some hand stitching on their pages so I stitched in the ropes for my balloons.

Ah Tokyo, one day I will get to you I promise!!

Here's my second page. I challenged everyone to name their travel companion for their big paradise falls adventure. Mine is, of course, my Daughter, Maya. Travelling the world with a child is not without it's challenges but she has really taught me how to appreciate the joy and wonder around me.

I used some of my Gossamer Blue Project life kit for this page. It was very heavily influenced by the talented Caylee Grey if you haven't checked out her work you totally should. This page was thrown together very quickly and I love the "white" space on it and the muted pastel colors. Of course, I had to put a bird on it! This one was from my Mum using a die she was trying out. Hurrah for crafting mums!

And the final page was back to my usual layers, layers and more layers and loads of color.

I just kept painting layer after layer after layer. I was going to use some texture with my modelling paste but I called it good as it was .

I added some little embellishments that Vanessa included very generously in her package she sent me with the art journal I bought.

I cannot wait to see what everyone made with the prompts I put up this week. It's one of the things I love so much about the Get Messy community seeing how everyone takes the same prompts each week and yet produces something completely different.

Get Messy Season of Adventure prompt 5

This week has been way too nice weather wise and it's been very hard to find the enthusiasm to sit down and work on my art journal when there's so much sunshine outside! And feeling icky, sticky and tired doesn't help either.  The art mono has been slow to come this week and only finished the spread below just today!

We had to make a bucket list this week and I decided to write down all the things I'd love to do but can't because of the job I do. I work in hospitality and it's important to be smart and presentable when I'm in work. Sadly that means I can't have a mad hair colour or loads of visible tattoos.

I also don't have a very creative job and it's really quite corporate so I'd love to have one where I can be creative and make art all the time.

Here's a closer look at my dolly stamped me. Note the turquoise hair 😉 dreamy! The doll stamp is from Prima and I stamped it again on the cherry paper and layered it.I love the little cross stitch on the heart for a bit of texture.

I decided to make a set of ATC's for the other prompt to describe our perfect day if money was no object. I know mine might not seem very exciting but it's my idea of heaven and better still doesn't cost much money!

Below is some close ups of the cards.  One of the art prompts was to use abstract painting to make a background so I did this first before cutting them up

I ordered some really cool washi and a beautiful journal from
The lovely Vanessaand they were perfect for these cards!

Next week is the last week and I'll be sorry to see this season go but will be looking forward to the next!

Get Messy Season of Adventure 4

This weeks Get messy prompts were a whole lot of fun to make and I really enjoyed making them. Some weeks it flows better than others and this was definitely one of those!

We had to use a photo from a magazine to create a sketch and I picked a nice sassy gal for mine. I used my Gelli Plate to create different colour backgrounds and make a ombre style colour combination.

Here's a close up of the sketches and I used some wrapping paper I bought from paper chase at the start of the season knowing I'd find a good use for it 😉

We had a write a poem this week. Not my favourite task so I figured Haiku was the way to go! No rhyming needed! I painted over the spread with gesso and wrote my haiku in colored sharpie.

Next up was an exotic experience we'd had. Well for me it was the first time I was introduced to sushi by my husband many years ago now.  That first taste of Salmon Sashimi.... nothing was better than that!

I raidid my paper stash and torn them up for this week's art prompt.

I used my gelatos for the background here and a small heart stamp I've had lying around forever.

I really like these pages a made this week and I feel much more in my groove after last week's rough time.

Get Messy Season of Adventure - Prompt 3

I have to say that I have not been feeling much like doing anything of anything this past week as I have been struggling with some very sad news here and I have found it very hard to want to focus on anything but my family.

I work in a hotel and for the past three years we have had a very lovely man stay with us every week. Every Friday he would fly home to be with his family and after such a long time staying with us he had become like part of the family for all the staff here. Sadly he collapsed here in front of the hotel last Thursday and he died from a brain hemorrhage on Saturday morning. He has young children and a wife who had to fly over from Poland to give permission for the hospital to turn off life support.

I'm not posting this here for sympathy. I don't need "virtual hugs", I've done my crying for this wonderful, gentle man and his wife and children. Any sympathy you have should be directed to his wife, god knows she needs it more than me.

I'm posting this to show that art journaling helped me this week. It helped a lot and I know we all read about the "healing" part of this process but I always took it with a pinch of salt, I'm not a great one for "writing" about my feelings I'd rather talk about them with my family.

One of our journalling points was "something we would never do" and I really felt that after the events of this week there is nothing and no one who would make me be away from my family. They are my greatest adventure and there is nothing to compare to that. We don't always realise how short and unfair life can be and we take things for granted. I know this tragedy has made me see that my family is the most important thing in my life and it is so important for me to cherish them and to make sure that they know how much I love them.

I kept my page very simple and used some black and white photos from a magazine. This was not a colorful week for me so I did not feel right reflecting this in my journal for this week.

The quote was added using a dymo label maker. I read this a few weeks ago and I thought it was a really beautiful sentiment. It seemed to ring very true this week to me.

I just journalled over the top of the photo I stuck on here and kept it simple and heartfelt this week.

I'm happy with this page because it's not happy. It's raw and I know I will look back and remember this time when I look at this page. I want to remember. To remember him and and his family and the lesson I feel like he had taught me about what is important.

Get Messy -Season of Adventure Prompt 2

This week was a little different on Get Messy.  Normally the prompts are put on the Monday and it's all systems go until next week. This we we had the get messy art journal game and we had a prompt a day to make up the whole prompt for the week. It's was HARD. I'm so used to just going for it in one sitting or sometimes two sittings if I've to wait for something to dry.

This week we had to take it easy though and slow and just allow the page to flow one step at a time. It was so interesting to see how everyone went off in different directions from the same prompts.

The first step shown above was to cover half the page in paper with lots of words on it. I used an old book I had to hand.

Next we had to add paint to a third of the page.  I was feeling in an orange mood on this day.

Next came the misting. Not a big fan of misting so this is a departure for me but still quite happy with the result.

Next we had to use stamps.  I used some number stamps I've had forever and this little doll stamp. God knows where I got this from I've had it forever but I've always loved it and never used it. Why do we do that?! What are we waiting for? ?

Here's a close up.....

Love it!!!!!!!!!

The final stage was to add in some journalling and pintrest to the rescue once again. The page has a lot less layers than I would normally use and there are a lot less bells and whistles but I really like it even so and I really enjoyed playing along with everyone else