A new grid design using watercolors and pen and ink... oh, and I dug out my rubber stamp letters. I feel good about using something that has been stashed in the back of my art supply closet for over a year now. :) 

I realized that even when I do normal journaling, I use a grid-like layout. I never noticed that before. I guess, I'm a geometric type visualizer. This is a watercolor and wax resist page. I had decorated it before doing the actual journal writing. 

These are some December sketches that I did during my day to day activities. They are approximately 2 inch square blocks. I used acrylic paint as a background after I finished working out each block. This size square felt small, even though I enjoy doing miniature work. I'd like to try doing more of these in the coming New Year--maybe try for at least one grid page each week. 

This is my first grid like journal entry done in November. I just created different sized squares and sketched images as I came across them. I think I like the different sized squares better than the uniform one I just finished. 

Website traffic overload

I just received an email from Earthlink that my free website has been receiving more than the allowed traffic flow. BLAH! I guess I will need to re-think my web hosting and find something with more bandwith. For now, I will use Blogger to post my current gluecards and art journal pages until I can find an alternative solution.

Increased traffic on my site is of course, good news. I'm happy that many people have come to visit--it's just not something I wanted to change during the first month of the new year. This could be a good challenge for me to learn even more about web design, so I will think of it as a new door opening up for personal growth. There, I feel better now. Ha ha!

Another miniature oil pastel depicting purple-blue lupines. 

My first attempt at oil pastels for a project on Wetcanvas. This was just a tiny little 2.5 x 3 inch canvas. It was a challenge to work so small with such fat oil crayons, but I loved the texture and feel of the pastels. Now I'm hooked on the medium. My darling husband bought me a lovely pastel book for Christmas, so I'm ready to experiment.

You never know what you are going to end up with... that is the fun part about making gluecards. 

Magazine images and found papers turned into trading cards... 

more gluecard images... 

I've got gluecard disease! 

More gluecards... 

Gluecards!!! They are fun little atc's using found papers, or anything else you can glue down. These are some that I have made for the gluecard project in the Gluebook Yahoo Group.