BOPA #2 Thank you for the gift you are.

Goodday to you creative one!

Here's another page from my Book Of Positive Aspects. 

This one is made from the love I feel for my sweetheart.... <3 <3 <3

I am so grateful he has come into my life.

I had a pretty good life all by myself for a long time but it is so much more fun 

now that I can share it with my lover!

Here's the video.

The colors are much more vibrant in 'the real', 

a bit like the way words cannot do my love real justice as well. :-D

Enjoy!

Want to know more about my B.O.P.A. and what is means?

http://www.lifestruecolours.blogspot.nl/p/book-of-positive-aspects.html 

If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask.

Happy Creating!

~Monique

BOPA #1 Myrah

Hey beautiful one!

Today I want to share with you a page from my Book of Positive Aspects.

As many artjournalers do, I also work in more than one journal. This book is one of them.

If you are asking yourself:"what is a book of positive aspects"?

Here's more information about it: http://lifestruecolours.blogspot.nl/p/book-of-positive-aspects.html

You can also click the tab above...

The page was inspired by our lovely cat. No matter how low I feel, she is always able to bring a smile to my face. I am very, very happy she is in my life and I love her to pieces! :-D

 Now for the video! Whoooot, I had so much fun making this page! Thanks Myrah!

(me thinks more pages about her will be included in this book, hihi)

Enjoy!

Hey mooi mens!

Vandaag deel ik graag een pagina uit mijn Book of Positive Aspects met jou.

Zoals veel visueel dagboek/levensboek makers werk ook ik in meerdere boeken tegelijk, 

dit is er 1 van.

Mocht je jezelf afvragen wat een Book of Positive Aspects eigenlijk is, hier vind je meer info: http://lifestruecolours.blogspot.nl/p/book-of-positive-aspects.html.

Of klik op de desbetreffende tab boven aan de pagina...

Inspiratie voor deze pagina kwam van onze lieve, leuke en gekke kat. Hoe @!#$%! ik me op dat moment ook voel, zij weet altijd een glimlach op mijn gezicht te toveren. Ik ben heel erg blij dat zij in mijn leven is gekomen! Hou zoveel van haar! :-D

Dan nu de video. Wheeeeee, ik heb zoveel lol gehad tijdens het maken van deze pagina! 

Dankje Myrah!

(heb zo'n donkerbruin vermoeden dat er wel meer pagina's over haar in het boek zullen komen, hihi)

Veel plezier!

Book of Positive Aspects

A day in my Art Journal #1

Today I post my fist Vid!!! :-D

Come and join me in my journal.
In this video I take you with me through the process of making a page.
I'm still working out how the camera works and learning about editting but I'm very happy with my first video.
My inspiration was a quote by Pablo Picasso:"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary;"
And let me know what you think, I would appreciate your feedback so I can learn from it.
This vid does not have background music yet.... I'll try that next time! :-)
Enjoy!

Ode to womenhood, Artjournal page

It's Mondaynight again so time for a new blogpost.
This time some photo's of the process of the 'Woman of the World' journal page.
With this page I wanted to remember myself and all women who want to be remembered of the powers and gifts we bring to the world although they may sometimes go unnoticed.
No disregard to the powers and gifts of men by the way.... :-) Maybe I'll do a page on that to someday although it would be a feminine vision of the male powers and gifts. hihi
Here's to us beautiful women!!!

It all began with scrap papers and a thin coat of gesso. 

 Then the fun of layering.....and layering..... :-D

And some journaling....

More layers...

At this point the theme came into the picture.

The pieces of paper are 'recipes'  for connecting with your female powers.

Healing, Strength, Abundance, Fertility, Protection, Love and Creativity.

I traced pictures from a magazine...

Cut them out....

Placed them on the pages and made a new layer with lots of colour to create these silhouettes.

A little more here and there and the text and this page is done!

Text detail...

I really enjoyed making this page, although it had to go through it's 'ugly-state' as many pages do. 

In the end I'm very happy with this reminder!

Let me know what you think...

Happy Creating,

xoxo

Monique

A few finished Art Journal pages to share

Hey Art journalers! :-)

This Monday I'd like to share some of my finished art journal pages.
Although I only started art journalling 2 months ago I have made a lot of pages. I was hooked immediately and still am...
I am finding my way with it and with working with mixed media. So far, so good, I'm loving it! I just can't stop, haha :-D
Let me know what you think!

Love,
Monique

This is my first page ever... (translation: Grateful)

Hmmmm, doodling.....fun!

 Translation: Life is remembering that everything is in constant motion.

Translation: Happiness is... freedom, 

Herman (the love of my life), Champaign, laughter, sex (with Herman off course!), BFF's, music, sunshine, spinach (yummie!), butterflies in my stomach, dancing, flowers, Myrah.

This is Myrah, our very, very, VERY, hugable cat...who is also into computers.... :-D

I hope you liked the pics! Next week I will post a process again. Who knows, maybe even a video...

Happy Creating!

The ABC....

Hi Mixed Media lovers, Stampers and Creatively Inspired Creators!

It is Monday night and as promised another post from me, so far so good hey? :-)

This time I'd like to share with you how I made my Alphabet Stamps and show some projects I did with them.
However, first things first....I discovered the previous name of this blog was already in use, in English aswel as in Dutch so I changed it into Life's true Colours.
Now,  I realize this name fits me and my plans for this blog much better! Sometimes things seem to be working against you when in fact it's a sign that tells you there is a better way!
Don't you just love when that happens? <3
It teaches me to keep the faith and just move on. Not to slow, not to fast but keep in motion and your muse will find you!

Here's the process of making my alphabet stamps that will last forever!
I found this alphabet in a book and I loved it!

I decided I wanted stamps to last a while.
I do make stencils/stamps out of paper or card stock as well and like the fact they don't last forever. It keeps me awake. Creating a new stencil for a new project keeps me on my journey as an original person and artist. But, every now and then I buy a stencil or stamp or make one that can travel with me for a bit longer....

I decided on linoleum. In the meanwhile realizing it wouldn't be a quicky. :-)
First I traced the letters on tracingpaper.

I then traced it again with charcoal, flipped it over and put it on a piece of linoleum.

Give it a rub and the letter is transferred onto the linoleum.

Then the fun part! Cutting away the linoleum you don't want to show.
Although I had to rediscover that to be honest. I remembered when I was a young girl (a long, long time ago, hihi) I 'had to' do this in school and I hated it! So I was a bit worried if I could get through the 26 letters..
But, I enjoyed it! Al 26 letter were done in one sitting!
Here's a pic of the cutting tools and the result.
Remember to you make alphabet stamps in reverse! (I know that now..hahahahaha)

Time to throw some paint on and stamp!

All done!

These are two journal pages I used then on.

Hope you enjoyed this post.
I'll be back next Monday, until then: Go and be creative in whatever way you feel is right!
Love,
Monique