i can make them faster than i can photo and post them

art journal pages, i mean; specifically the ones based on the fabulous daily paper prompts on the daisy yellow art blog all this month. i am loving doing them, and have even done well keeping up; but there's always a lag with the posts. ah well. i expect it's pretty boring to be perfect, right?! 

DPP#8: faded

for this one i tried a bunch of different variations (i don't have neocolor crayons, so i tried DI's, watercolors, mists, and then combinations of them all... it was fun to experiment and i definitely now know a lot more about what fades most, what gets gooshiest, etc!) none of mine faded nearly as impressively as the cool one tammy showed, but i sort of like them, anyway. this is probably my fave at the moment, but you might see others, eventually! (apparently, hawaii is gonna be a "theme" for a bit longer, lol!)

 DPP#9: games
if you made me pick one prompt from this entire summer to represent the most fun, and the most nostalgia of anything i made, THIS would be it! when we were little, my brother and i used to make up our own board games; we'd spend ages coloring the squares in, making little decks of cards with instructions, inventing rules... i don't remember ever actually PLAYING any of them, we were much more into the "development phase"! exactly like the prototypes of my youth, this one is made from "a nice piece of shirt cardboard", the brightest magic markers i own, and my very silly imagination. want to play??! ♥♥♥

DPP#10: stitch paper

tammy's exact words were "Stitch a little paper collage that makes absolutely no sense!" so i did. in this case, since i use the sewing machine quite a bit anyway, i switched it up with a little bit of handstitching. to insure maxium interestingness (and minimum "sensibility") i chose half a dozen ingredients by grabbing bits and pieces from the "leftover crafty bits" drawer in my filing cabinet and making myself stick to only those things i randomly chose. one small drawback came when i realized i had no cardstock-weight paper... luckily that off-cut of transparency was just a tiny bit bigger than 5x7. this was 100% fun to make, i will definitely use the "lucky dip" method again!

so what's ♥YOUR♥ favorite thing you made this summer? tell me in the comments! (if you haven't yet made a favorite thing, you are excused from work today, just tell the boss i said it was FINE!!!) 

♥ happy monday, darlings!!! ♥