Summer Advice: Be a Pineapple

I love to blog, I love to write, I love to teach, I love to share and I can not believe it has been almost a month since I posted something here in my blog. But the truth is that my computer died, the hard drive crushed and now I have to do everything iether from my phone which is not fun to type from or from my tablet, which makes it really hard for me to blog from also. Anyways, thank goodness I have alternatives :)

Today I have an art journal page inspired by (and to participate in their challenge too) Cupcake Inspirations their theme is Tropical

So this morning I mess around with my art journal for a few minutes

drew a pineapple. wrote a little something and colored it using watercolors 

and this is what I got :)

I am pretty happy with my art journal page.

I love writing something inspirational, helpful or educational here and there :)

I hope you like it and follow the good advice :)

Clemencia

Thank God for Art Therapy :)

Making my #expressitmonth art today

I came to a realization

but I am going to keep it a secret

for a little while...

Anyways, I started this page

by putting down my feeling

writing them down all over the page with

plain kids markers and since these markers

are water based I took a brush with water

and smeared it all around

pretty much the writing is not legible

and it gave the page a base color, a background.

Then I grabbed some acrylic paints

I browsed through whatever colors I have

and see what I felt like using

what I felt attracted to

what called me (if you want to put it that way)

I spread a few drops of each color 

here and there and then

spread it around the page as my feelings come out

I started with the brown/gold color

feeling the stress and anxiety 

then as I spread the green on the bottom

I was thinking I just want peace in my life

then the pink on the side says

I just want love, to feel love, to receive love

then the yellow means

I just want the sun to come out for me

Then I felt like smacking the page!

so I put some dark blue paint on my hand

to symbolize the darkness

saying: ENOUGH!!!

Enough is enough!

and smacked the page!!!

I feel so much better now :)

Took a deep breath

and thank God for

Art Therapy :)

Love,

Clemencia

This Is How It Feels

This is what I woke up to do this morning

I don't know how I came up with this collage

especially today

last night it was really bad

couldn't sleep much

I was thinking and thinking about all our problems

my mind wouldn't quiet down

I took my headphones and cellphone

and put some meditation 

to help me sleep until I finally did

but even with that I kept on waking up on and off

all through the night

I woke up with a migraine

my husband gave me some medicine

and went back to sleep for a little bit

then I got ready for work

but before heading to work I saw I had 20 min

so I ran to get my collage tray

and started working on it

Any word that liked 

that showed up in the magazine

I cut and pasted it to my art journal

All I thought about while looking for words was:

ART
MEDITATION

and YOGA

That's the result :)

that's what those three things

feels like to me :)

Thank you for stopping by

and reading my

#expressitmonth

post of today :)

Love and Peace,

Clemencia

Peaceful Meditation Art Journal Page

I made this art journal page a couple of days ago

after meditating for 15 minutes.

Life gets so stessful sometimes that

you need a little time away from everything

and I found that meditation helps me a lot

It didn't use to be like that for me at all

I used to sit there and try to meditate

and start thinking that it was really stupid 

but the more I read and heard about the benefits of

meditation the more I had to try sticking with it.

I remember I started by doing it only 2 minutes

then when I felt ready I increased to 5 minutes

then 8 then 10 now I can meditate up to half hour

it's an incredible feeling

as you can see in my picture

I am sure that if I make art after meditating more often

I will come up with different peaceful scenarios

which I might try by the way :)

I love #expressitmonth

I am tying to do it most days for a month

is just hard to find a quiet time

to come and post it on my blog

Again, thank you so much for being here

Much Love,

Clemencia

Thank You

I hope this post comes out good

I am writing it from my tablet :)

I made a page for my "Express It Month" 

challenge, it's not really a cover since I am using

an art journal that was already started.

I am very excited to continue with this challenge

your comments are making a world of difference to me

all you support means a lot to me, thank you.

I'll contimue to work on them

and post them as soon as possible

Thank you so much

for all your support and friendship offered :)

Clemencia

Day 2: Overwhelmed #expressitmonth

Yes, that's exactly how I feel right now

At the moment I have a lot of pressure from work

get ready for father's day (week) presentation,

lesson plans, continuing education hours to do,

buy materials and supplies for classroom 

and all this is before the month ends.

On top of that I have house work,

which I know they can wait 

but I don't like to wear dirty clothes lol

I have to get new tires for my car

is raining a lot and it's really slippery

(not safe)

I have to get my car detailed,

that's my husband pressuring for that one

he insist that if I do that once a year (at least)

it will keep my car in better condition (paint wise)

for longer time. I hate paying so much for a car detail

but he says it's an investment that pays off on the long run

that way we don't have to get a new car any time soon

Which I don't want to since I love my silly old car :)

Also I have to call the credit report

and make sure everything is fine, since my daughter

had her ss# stolen a couple of years ago,

talking about stress right there

So now we have to freeze our credit

which is another thing on my list

Besides that I have to cook everyday

since my health condition is not that great

and we can save some money like that

O.k. can I cry now....

NO!!! thank you so much @TaraLeaver for this idea

I love expressing my feeling through art

even though when I am doing this 

my heart beat goes faster than normal

I know, I can feel that is helping me a lot

I feel relief immediately

such a good therapy

Thanks for reading all this

and visiting me :)

Much love

Clemencia

Turning Feelings Into Art #expressitmonth

Here again trying one more thing

I know I might be overwhelming myself 

with all this art challenges and classes

I am taking but I really want to do this one

"Express It Month" by Tara Leaver

I really don't remember if I got an invitation

through her newsletter lately

or how did it show up in my inbox

Anyways...

I was there at the right time :)

This is my first page

(pray for me that I can stay with it)

I tend to bier off and wonder around

to do other things art related lol

As you can see this page has some anger in it 

that's why the red is there and the dark blue

I usually don't use strong colors like that

and thanks to this page

I feel better now.

Does anybody feel brave to join me?

I would love to if you let me know :)

Love,

Clemencia

#Spectrum week 5

I'm a little behind with Spectrum 2016

this is the result I got from week 5

the theme is Self-Forgiveness 

I love the texture of the background

and the cut out letters

I kept it simple since less is more :)

Thanks for visiting :)

Clemencia

Simple Watercolor Art Technique :)

Hello there!

I couldn't help it, today I was making a collage

and saw that cute little girl that 

Happy Print Club has on her site

then while browsing a little more

I found this beautiful colorful heart

being the perfect addition to my collage :)

the background is made with regular children's markers

and sprayed water on them to get that watercolor effect.

I love finding simple art techniques

that make a big difference.

Do you have any to share?

Thanks so much :)

Sharing Little Nuggets of Knowledge (Art Related). New to Art Journaling?

Today I am doing something different here on my blog
I am going to start sharing
art related
little nuggets of knowledge
you will benefit from them especially if you are new at art journaling or mixed media.

I thought it would be fun to share little things here and there
I know along the way I'll find something new for me too
and we'll learn together :)

We are going to start with art journaling.

What is art journaling?
Art Journaling to me is self expression,

is making art in a notebook or a sketchbook,
is a combination (if you desire so) of art and words.

An art journal can be as private or as public as you wish.
Is a place where you express your feelings or

simply practice your art,
here you can experiment with art techniques,

or you can put your ideas down on paper in any desire way,
you can write or draw about your life,

you don't have to have any special skills,
you don't have to know how to draw or paint

Simply put an art journal is a notebook where you do art and express yourself.

Now is your turn, please let me know if this post was helpful,
what questions do you have about art journaling or mixed media.
I would love to help you by answering any questions you have.
Please note I am not an expert, I just love art journaling and mixed media :)
and I love to teach :)

with love,

Mixed Media Flower Girl Collage

Hello there :)

Today I have a collage made with a digital image
provided by Digital Delights
through Craft your passion challenges blog
the image is called Flower Power Basket of Daisies

The background is made with spray paints and a stencil

then I added the grass on the bottom which I cut out from a magazine

I glued the girl which I colored using a waterbrush and watercolors

and then added some flower die cuts using some patterned scrap paper.

Very easy, simple and cute :)

I hope you like it and inspire you to make some art :)

Clemencia

Hi There!

Hi There! Everybody :)

Today I have a collage hand made card

that you can easily make

using Say It With Emoticons Printables

and Hi There Girl Notecards Printables

that you can find at Happy Print Club

Having these printables makes your work a lot easier

and let me say, very fun too :)

Hope to see you around

having fun making art :)

Relax and Play

This is my newest play with collage

some yellow watercolor on my gratitude journal

some pink circles made with acrylic paint and a paper towel roll tube

and a whole bunch of relaxing pictures from a catalog.

Relax and Play,

Clemencia

WOYWW 356

Oh my! I am a day behind lol

but

Finally organized!

My art table below was driving me crazy

so I took advantage of my Wednesday off

and clean up my table :)

Take care,

Clemencia

Happy and Comfortable

This is day 13 of my 90 day collage challenge

 hosted by Shelley Klammer

As I am working on my collages 

I keep on noticing that I can't stick to one thing when it comes to art,

is being a real challenge for me 

since I want to wonder around and do other kinds of art :)

but that's o.k. the reason why I am sticking to it

is because I really want to take advantage of her offer

if I finish the 90 collages I get to take her course for free

is a win win situation for me

I get to practice one of the arts I like: collage

and I get to take her course for free after I am done :)

But this being a real challenge is o.k.

you never know what you'll discover along the way

To make my collages more interesting for myself

I am adding acrylic paints

stamping, tissue paper, doodles, you name it,

which is called mixed media.

How funny everything I do keeps on taking me back to what I love:

Mixed Media :)

Love and peace,

Happy Easter #MixedMedia #Collage #ArtJournal Page :)

Happy Easter!

Yesterday I worked on this collage

using Chrip Tweet Peep Printables from Happy Print Club

which came up perfect for Easter

after cutting out all the pieces

I collaged some yellow gift wrapping paper

used some watercolor to fill in the blank areas

and wrote Happy Easter on the journaling lines

which helps a lot to make a neat #handwriting

Have a Happy Easter :)

Coffee is Always a Good Idea :)

Handwriting, Printables, Collage, 

Painting, Mixed Media, Doodling, Art Journaling,

everything you can imagine fits in this page :)

I am so excited and happy to show you this page

I really didn't know how it was going to come out.

The steps to make it is pretty simple, like most art journal pages :)

If you are a beginner please don't be intimidated by anything you see out there

I started this page by using a written composition notebook

in this case my gratitude journal

then I took this printable from Happy Print Club

and cut it up in order to make a collage

then I took some acrylic paint and went around the page

at this point it looked a little empty so I decided to take some

white paper and write "Coffee is always a good idea" :)

at least it is to me lol

then I took another color and put some dots

all over the page, but since it was hard to see the color

I went ahead and circle them with a black pen making some doodles :)

and that's it!!!

Easy Peasy :)

Hope you give it a try :)

I feel so happy now that I made some art :)

Clemencia

It's All Good :)

Just playing around 

practicing my handwriting

together with watercolor pencils

I think I need to invest in watercolor paper lol

Keep creating

Mixed Media and Some News :)

Hi everybody, I have some exiting news for you today...

I am part of the Happy Printing Club Design Team :)

Which brings me to show you an art journal page 

I made using one of Happy Printing Club printables

I got so exited when I saw the Retro Typewriter Printable

I had to use it right away :)

I just love it!

I added a 3 x 4 Retro Typewriter journaling card

to my art journal background

then I wrote things that I love to do and brings me peace :)

write, draw, doodle, paint, sketch, create everyday :)

and decorated the edges of the page with paint and stencils.

I hope this inspires you to do what you love everyday

at least 10 minutes a day :)

Take care,

Clemencia

Believe In Yourself

Here I decided to do combine colored line drawing

with bubble letters

I drew the words first

then I started working on the lines (circles) around the letters

after that I filled the letters with gold permanent marker.

Here is an up close for more detail :)

Believe in yourself and take care,

Clemencia