Art Journal Challenge || Week 1 Update

If you recall from this post, I gave myself a challenge of working in my art journal every day while I'm on summer break.  So now that I've completely my first full week of summer break, here is my update!

I did work on my journal every day, but I did not complete a whole page each day.  A couple of days were spent trying to figure out what to do with the cover.  I messed with it and messed with it until this is what I ended up with:

I don't really like it, so I'm going to work on it some more this next week.

And here are the pages that I did complete:

Testing out my white paint pen

Trying out lettering styles

Trying out flowery designs

What have you been up to this week?

Linking up with http://balzerdesigns.typepad.com/ and http://www.katerobertsonstudios.com/2015/05/28/express-your-creativity-week-22/

Things you can send

If you (or your children) are interested in sending me a letter, I believe postage is fairly cheap.  Letters (or cards) are the best bet at actually arriving, whereas packages may get detained in customs.

If you are feeling generous, here is a list of things you can fit in a normal letter that shouldn't cost too much:

- Hair ties
- Bobbi pins
- Photos
- Postcards
- Stickers for my music students
- Small scrapbooking items (for my art journals)
- Sticks of gum
- Comic strips
- Jokes
- Small drawings or paintings
- Post-it notes
- Individual packets of CALM (Whole Foods, Sprouts, Amazon)
- Individual packets of Justin's almond butter (Whole Foods, Sprouts, Amazon)
- Individual packets of tea (I like Earl Grey and English Breakfast; both are difficult to find here)

I'm sure I will continue to think of things to add to this list, so keep checking back!

P.S.
Julie and Peter's Honeymoon
Breakfast in Brazil
Simple Makeup
I am officially in my "late 20s"
Details about living in Barra

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Crafty Correspondence

This is a letter I sent to my friend from APU, Erin.  I made the envelope out of a map of Chicago that I've been saving since March of 2011... I hope she liked it!

I encourage you that next time you send a letter, make it a crafty one! :)

xo,

Julie

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Crafty Correspondence

I love real mail!  I made this envelope with an old grocery store paper bag.  I hope she likes it!  

Sneak Peek

Coming soon - My contributions to The Elevated Envelope

Triangle Collage

I was inspired by a geometric collage I saw on the blog A Beautiful Mess.  So I made my own version of it.  I used pictures from when Peter was here and we visited the tide pools in San Diego.  I printed out pictures of really old postcards from the internet (on regular paper), and I used some fabric scraps I had lying around.  I also used some card stock as filler colors. 

Instructions:  Cut out an equilateral triangle (I googled a template), trace onto pictures, fabric, etc, cut out, line up and glue (I used mod podge) onto card stock or cardboard.  Cut to desired size.  Display.

I'm not satisfied with my result.  It just looks a little lopsided to me...  I'm also not extremely fond of the colors.  I do like how the ocean picture (top middle) looks in a triangle like that.  Kinda cool.