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artistically designed diversions skip to main skip to sidebar tuesday december 27 2011 happy holly daze i hope you are all having a fabulous holiday enjoying traditions with your family and friends i thought i d share a few snapshots of my christmas eve celebration at our house this is a snowman i made out of the crayola model magic and martha stewart glitter my son claimed it so he ll be taking it home with him the second photo shows the scale the base is made from a glass candle lid i d saved and it made a perfect stand my sister melanie in front of my 4 foot pink tree i decorated it with cupcake ornaments and have my friend beth to thank for buying it for me thank you beth you rock my nephew kyle is peeking through the decorations on my kitchen island my mom and kyle s wife mimi are in front of the white tree in the great room melanie my cousin tina and i are posing in front of the biggest tree in the front room here we are again we were enjoying the key lime pie martinis i made for the party posted by jennifer r d at 2 03 pm 4 comments monday december 19 2011 fun holiday project i found a cool project to do with my art students in the book adventures in mixed media by jane davies first i made scribble painted paper and after it dried i made these cute bird ornaments my art club kids made the paper in one afternoon and the next meeting we made the birds my friend sherrill had her 3rd graders make them out of scrapbook patterned papers she made sure the wings contrasted with the bodies and they turned out adorable the kids thought my face on the bird looked a little creepy but given the choice to add their face many of them decided to go for it you can make the bird s eye on one side and add a face on the other and hang it either way posted by jennifer r d at 3 09 pm 2 comments labels bird ornaments christmas creations 2011 happy holidays to everyone i have not posted in a loooong time but i m back and i hope i can be a better blogger here are some of the christmas card designs i came up with this year i had my annual card party for my friends at work this year the theme was semi homemade cards i used cards that i got on clearance last year and we embellished them sometimes i covered the entire front of the card but the sentiment inside and the envelopes were already done posted by jennifer r d at 2 45 pm 1 comment labels christmas card designs thursday september 29 2011 giveaway coming soon i am so excited about the newest publication from stampington it s called mingle and it features all kinds of artistic gatherings since i started on the mixed media art journey in 2006 some of my most cherished times have been getting together with my artist friends and creating together keep on the look out for a giveaway coming in october i will send out a copy of the new magazine to a lucky winner who comments on a future post i have been pretty consumed with starting a new school year and dealing with a class size of thirty 6 and 7 year olds i have started my after school art group and they are as enthusiastic as ever i will be posting new art very soon make sure to click on the mingle badge on the right side of my blog and check out the preview pages posted by jennifer r d at 8 01 pm 4 comments labels giveaway coming for stampington s mingle magazine friday august 12 2011 goodbye samson yesterday we had to make the decision to say goodbye to our beautiful lab samson after trying desperately to save him he spent 5 nights at the vets and didn t get any better he had stopped eating and didn t even respond after the first time we visited him we found him 5 years ago and he had been a street dog for awhile he was so skinny and was used to begging for food we took him to our vet and he had a microchip they contacted the previous owners and they said that dog ran away months ago you can keep him he was housebroken and had been fixed he walked on the leash much better than our pedigreed trained lab maggie may he was so pretty but we all learned that maggie was the brains of the operation we called samson our male model he still thought of himself as a cute little puppy and would try to actually climb up on people s laps all 95 pounds of him our family and friends will miss him but i am glad we had him for 5 years and he had a nice life with us posted by jennifer r d at 9 53 pm 8 comments labels goodbye samson losing a beloved pet sunday august 7 2011 new journal pages from old paintings in one of my artist yahoo groups we were exchanging 8 x 8 journal pages i was behind the deadline and i needed to get on the ball i had recently dug out my portfolio from the one and only college art class i had taken it was filled with large watercolor and acrylic paintings they were done on quality paper but the results were not frame worthy so i stole someone else s idea of cutting up old artwork to make journal pages they made great backgrounds to get started i used stencils and spray inks and added collage elements and words i also made 26 tags to send out and they actually got sent before the due date miracles never cease i will share more of the tags in another post i tried to leave plenty of room on the pages for the artist s to add their own journaling if you can t read the tiny collage phrases click on the photos to enlarge them posted by jennifer r d at 10 43 am 2 comments labels new journal pages from old paintings recycle artwork tags tuesday july 19 2011 july journaling i have been journaling like crazy in my short time off of work jumping off the crazy carousel of year round teaching left me drained and exhausted i am trying to slow down enjoy my family and just breathe my journal becomes a happy place where i illustrate positive messages to myself i recently sent off 5 finished journals to be considered for the art journaling publication they were completed in the past three years i could definitely see a huge learning curve i had to cringe a little over my first visual journal but hey baby steps right i loved a few of those pages and hopefully won t be judged too harshly on my first awkward attempts i am now working on 5 different journals that differ in size and paper type it s fun to skip around and work in whatever journal i feel like grabbing or that fits into my purse beach bag etc i am hoping to start a journaling group with my friends at work as a stress management tool i know it works for me and i am totally hooked on this form of self expression posted by jennifer r d at 7 02 pm 1 comment labels art journaling new journal pages visual journaling older posts home subscribe to comments atom check out my article in create with me magazine mixed media art by jennifer r d slideshow click here to view slideshow blog background and header designed by two dresses studio followers blog archive 2011 31 december 3 happy holly daze fun holiday project christmas creations 2011 september 1 august 2 july 3 june 2 may 2 april 3 march 7 february 2 january 6 2010 38 december 6 november 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