Daily Journaling Going Strong

Daily journaling is taking me places I never expected to be. And one of those places is The 100 Day Project. Each year I swear I won't do the project again, yet each year I have a new idea. This year's idea is to combine it with my daily journaling. Two birds/one stone, so to speak. And so far it is working! Of course we are only 5 days in on the 100 days. Hahahaha! The first thing I did to prepare was get a whole bunch of tiles ready. These tiles were cut from Bristol Illustration paper from Hahnemühle. My favorite! For color I used Ecoline Brush Pens and Brea Reese Liquid Watercolors. 

January 30, 2021. Currently trying to work on some Zetti art in another book so I figured I would add some here, too. That is a gelli print in the background. I make all my prints with gel printing plates from Gelli Arts. I probably have at least 10 different sizes and shapes and they are all Gelli Arts plates. Note on this page - it was 1º F when we woke up. Eek!

January 31, 2021. Day 1 of The 100 Day Project. Can I just point out I don't think I have ever kept up with a daily journal for a full month before. Yes, I did miss a day or two, but I jumped right back in and kept going. A lot of the images I am using came from Pinterest - digital images that I printed out and colored with Copics. This little blue guy is one of Chris Ryniak's from the series Morning Scribbles. No gelli prints on this page. The tile is Bristol from Hahnemühle, colored with Ecoline Brush Pens. You can spot it in that first photo. 

February 1, 2021. Day 2 of The 100 Day Project. Gelli print in the background was made using a texture plate. I walked you through the making of the page in this post. 

February 2, 2021. Day 3 of The 100 Day Project. Yes, I know the page says it was the 1st of February. Chalk that up to late night working. Gel print strips and another tile from that first photo. I really like the bottom sentiment! Hahahaha!

February 3, 2021. Day 4 of The 100 Day Project. This page came out a little different. I actually wrote on the gel print because I didn't leave space to write. An after thought. Oops! The angel tag was made by my friend Kimberly McGuiness. You meet people online through art and become friends. Kimberly is one of those. Our families have some similarities and our love for color is what got me looking at her art to start with. The double layer butterfly is one that Kali made for me many years ago when we scrapbooked on a regular basis. It is nice to have a place to 'save' my treasures. 

February 4, 2021. Day 5 of The 100 Day Project. My least favorite page so far in this journal. And I am just realizing why as I stare at this on my computer screen. The scrapbook paper underneath - I chose that because it had pink and yellow to go with the colors in the tile. Now I see that I actually covered most of those colors up with the tile placement. It was a good idea, I just forgot. In the snowstorm, we picked up about 18" at our house. And our heater died in the middle of it. At night - of course - but we have it fixed now and are good again. I think my brain must have been frozen when I put this page together. 

I mentioned in an earlier post that I was working on my color. Reorganizing, rearranging. These DVD towers hide behind the door into my room. Someone walking into my studio would never see these unless they closed the door. This way I have things in reach but out of sight. I work in a small room and every single inch counts. 

Speaking of snow . . . Mark spent a couple hours over the past two days pushing snow here and there. Making stacks, clearing ground. We have a huge yard. He clears both front yard and back yard. Mike taught us the first year here to push the snow as far as you can, because we typically get so much and each time you plow you lose more ground. 

Rocket enjoyed watching Mark go back and forth. Hahahaha! Shot taken from the kitchen window - inside the house. 

Rocket even had a friend over. Aren't they cute? Christine named the extra Rollet. So we could call them Rocket and Rollet. Clever, yes? Don't worry about that stuff that looks like blood on the smoker. It is actually fragments of our ice scraper frozen into the mix. At least that is what Mark tells me. Hmmmmmm.

You can purchase Bristol Illustration paper from Hahnemühle by clicking here. 

You can purchase gel printing plates from Gelli Arts by clicking here.