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Documented Life Project 2015 – Week 19

6/24/2015

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Today I'm sharing what I created for Week 19 of
The Original Documented Life Project™ The Journal!

May Theme
Touchy Feely (Texture)

May 9 Challenge & Prompt

Art Challenge:  Stitching
Journal Prompt:  "All that I'm after is life full of laughter."

Documented Life
I began by spreading Dylusions Acrylic Paint onto my art journal pages. It was fun incorporating my new stencil designs next: It’s A Small World Latitude and It’s A Small World Longitude to create the two globes. I stenciled these on underpaper with more acrylic, cut and collaged them onto the journal pages, then traced around them with my black Stabilo. I added some lettering and arrows from Carolyn Dube's Are We There Yet Stencil. A Fiskars Airplane Squeeze Punch cut airplane shapes from vintage atlas pages. I used my Xyron® 150 to make these planes into stickers to put on the pages. To balance out the composition, I incorporated a few Simple Stories DIY Burlap star stickers I'd painted with acrylic and rows of vintage map star stickers.
map art
Inspired by the challenge, I adhered Airmail Bakers Twine to my pages with gel medium to replicate stitching (and the path of one of the planes).
map stencil
And inspired by the journal prompt, I wrote: “All that I’m after is a life full of laughter” over and over again with my white pen along the bakers twine.

This has been my first year participating in The Original Documented Life Project™, and it has brought me such great joy!

Thanks so much for visiting my blog!

I hope you're having a wonderful week!
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1 Comment
Cecilia link
6/24/2015 11:43:25 pm

For some reason I can't explain, this use of Longitude and Latitude shows me how these stencils work, better than any of the earlier artwork I had seen... and I really like them!

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