Exciting Journal Art Project; Free png Flowers for you

Good Saturday morning,

In browsing the internet yesterday, I found pictures about art journaling.

I am hoping to journal each day with old pictures I have of me and my family.  I hope I can keep it up, because I'd love to put the journal on a dvd for my kids ... maybe as a Christmas present next year.

But this idea was unique.  There are NO RULES.  Nothing is wrong.  Nothing is right.  You create whatever you want ... and it's just for yourself.

You can use any journaling ideas you want!  A quote, a story, a word, a feeling ... it's your creation ... for YOU!

I like to combine digital with physical.  In the picture above, my creation is totally digitial.  But I liked it so much, I wanted a physical creation with it.

I kept Bethesda (the strange little character) separated out from the rest of the picture.  I didn't have photo paper at the moment (hope to buy some today),   I printed the base picture on 8 x 11.5 card stock, and then Bethesda on a separate card stock.  I cut her out, and glued her to another piece of card stock to make her stiff.  I then mounted her on the base ... the shadow was left ON the base, with quilling circles.

It is beautiful.

This is a very poor quality picture of the finished project.  Believe me when I say, the actual finished project looks sooooo much better.  The color just doesn't come through.  I slipped the item into a protective cover sleeve, and she's all ready to go into my book that I keep.  I still will probably do another, but smaller, as I'm making a smaller frame (about 5 x 7"), and would love to put this one in it.

This picture has been turned slightly, in hopes that you can see the dimension she has from the base.

Here are some png flowers for you to snag today.

A great site for journal prompts, and where I found my quote for my project is here:
http://www.createwritenow.com/journal-prompts

She has some excellent journal prompts, and I hope you check it out!  Great stuff!

Tomorrow, I'm posting pictures of a small journal book I made.  I've done a few art journal pages in it already, and they are dimensional.  The book won't close, but when it's finished, I'll add a ribbon that attaches to the front and back to hold it slightly closed.

I will need to try the journal on a larger scale also, as the little book I made is very small.  But, it's pretty, I think.

I have my items ready for the 31st, too.  New Year's Eve.

Until then, enjoy.

P.S.  I am really enjoying making more of my creations into physical items.

I will post the one I worked on last night.

Cj

Back with Three Brightly Colored Flower Pngs

Good afternoon,

I am back, as promised, with 3 pngs.  They are all together, but opened in a graphics program, there is no white background.  To separate them, simply do a circular selection around each one separately, cut, and then paste to a new layer.  In this way, you will have three layers in your program with each flower on its own layer.

Aren't these pretty flowers?  So bright and colorful!

I was reading through my AARP newspaper, and learned a delightful tip to help thieves from stealing your pin.

Your birthday, your house number, and silly combinations such as 1234 or 1111 are awful choices.

A much better choice is something that happened on a particular DAY in your life.  A day that will live in YOUR memory, but is not open information to anyone, except maybe close family members.  And yet, it might be a choice, even they would not think of.

I already put my hand over the keyboard when I type in my pin ... so if you don't; consider adding this to your time at the machine.

There's always new things to learn ... and I thought this was a delightful one.

Enjoy your day.

Cj
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Fun, Free Graphics For the Frugal Scrapper--Get Digital

Good morning,

My weekly post for all you frugal scrappers out there that want fun, free graphics-- digitally! Whoa! That's a real mouth-ful.

Scrapping digital is easy. Everything is on your computer, and right at hand. You can use items over and over; they never run out! And it's just plain FUN! You can see each title of the kit. Some are NOT named, but the date tells you which kit it is.

This was the last of the series on the Butterfly kit which ran several day. Each day had it's own name.

Another butterfly motivated kit, with lots to use all together.

And I threw a lacey heart, I know, I know ... it's black, but it has some red in it. And it's pretty!

When you look at each of most of the kits I've talked about today, you can see you have quite a lot to choose from.

Easy As Pie Daily Graphics will probably start publishing 2 to 3 times a week instead of daily. But when it's published, you will find at least 3 free graphics in each kit. If you're downloading the kits, you can pick them all at one time.

Back in a minute ... with today's kit!

Cj

http://www.easyaspiedailygraphics.com/

3 new free graphics each day; new postings -- 2 to 3x a week, but all there

free png graphics, and psp tube graphics each day