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winter/spring scrapbook for 2015, part one | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Sunday 31st May 2015. TOTALLY forgot to publish this from early May- Woops! A few weeks ago I finally finished putting all the images/stories from winter/spring into my scrapbook (I just have a bit of journaling left…), and I thought I would share a few pages. A page documenting some of the things that Gracie did with her school in February. When I do these pages, I get her to journal about these photos – in her handwriting- so we have a document of her experiences. A page about Gracie’s first seas...
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coloring with Irojiten color pencils – June, 2015 | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Friday 19th June 2015. My first project using Tombow Irojiten Color Pencils. In my last post, I mentioned that I got a set of Tombow Irojiten Colored Pencils for Mother’s Day. I used colored pencils quite a bit in school, but haven’t really used them in the last twenty years. I don’t know why, they just seem sort of … formal. Here are some photos of the pencils from the manufacturer’s site:. Tombow Irojiten Color Pencils. Tombow Irojiten Color Pencils. Tombow Irojiten Color Pencils. After making a color ...
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Universal Studios Mini Book | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Tuesday 14th July 2015. I mentioned a few posts back that I was working on a little mini-scrapbook to document our day trips to Universal Studios this spring, and I finally finished the project. Here’s what’s in it so far:. Our second Day trip in May:. Universal Mini Scrapbook (Second Trip). The book I used was a 6×6 Kona field journal- it comes with the brown kraft pages. I have an extra 9×9″ Big Black Bee brown kraft journal here that I could use. I currently use the same journal for my ...108;i&#...
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the 100 day project | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Thursday 9th April 2015. My first 100 days project. I wrote this Tuesday and totally forgot to publish it.]. For several weeks, I have been thinking about a new creative project- something to do with watercolors and some of the water-based art supplies I have in my studio but I don’t have a chance to use that often since I’m so focused on larger-scale painting on canvas. So: watercolor/watercolor-esque supplies, small-scale. That’s all I really came up with. Then yesterday I saw this:. The 100 day project.
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around here… late March, 2015 | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Thursday 26th March 2015. Milo headed into Gracie’s new room. What’s going on around here:. In my head…. I’m a little in shock that March is almost over. Where did it all go? How is it almost April? I know I said this *last* month, but the weeks are sort of flying by. As far as the home improvement project, Gracie is now moved up into her new bedroom, so we can cross that off the list. *phew* She’s thrilled. I need to post some pictures. I’ve found it really helpful to devote entire afternoons to g...
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around here… mid-May 2015 | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Tuesday 12th May 2015. A beautifully decorated ceiling in a shop at Diagon Alley (at Universal Studios)- I want this in my house! What’s going on around here:. In my head…. Okay, the truth: Spring kicked my butt. It wasn’t any one thing in particular, it was just a whole lot of everything happening at once. I can’t believe I’m saying this, and people who know me will be surprised to hear me say this, but. I am totally looking forward to summer. I’m trying not to make any sort of grand plans or atta...
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the 100 day project – week one | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Monday 13th April 2015. My project is about making small pieces of art (small enough to fit in an 8″x8″ Kona sketchbook) out of water-based media. The only issue is this: after creating two-three pieces of art the first three days, I now feel like I have to create at least three ATC sized pieces of art per day so that the journal page doesn’t look so barren. Anyway, here’s my first week (copied from my Instagram feed. The 100 day project – day 1. First day of #the100dayproject – playing with waterc...
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Universal Studios Day Trip – May 1, 2015 (trip report) | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Thursday 14th May 2015. I thought I’d go ahead and journal about this since I want to remember it.). Back in January we started talking about day trips to the parks up in Orlando for spring. We have annual passes to Universal this year, so we knew we wanted to go there. Plus, we haven’t seen the newest Harry Potter addition (there’s two of them now), and Gracie is an obsessive Harry Potter fan (Hufflepuff! Anyway, stuff came up all spring. Finally, around Easter, I set my mind to us finding a time to...
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watercolor mandala with Tombow markers | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Sunday 19th July 2015. Mandala with Tombow markers and Irojiten pencils. Last week I did a little watercoloring with my Tombow markers- it’s a mandala I printed from the book “Color Me Calm”. I actually just colored direct to paper, and then blended and washed out the color with a waterbrush, and then went over the edges with a little Irojiten colored pencil. Here’s a color chart I made a few weeks ago:. Tombow markers color swatches. Thanks for checking in! I hope you are having a great weekend. A Cherr...
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watercoloring with Spectrum Aqua markers | [ gingerblue dot com ]
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Friday 10th July 2015. Watercoloring with Spectrum Aqua Markers. Last week I played around with the Spectrum Aqua markers I got a few weeks back. There was a big sale on them so I grabbed them for a really great price. Anyway, I got the Spectrum Aqua markers because the reviews I read said that they were really vibrant and full of ink, and played well with water. And the reviews were exactly right. Anyway, the Spectrum Aquas are great. They are so juicy, they just glide over paper. When I finished colori...
