Journalling on an ATB

Today I was suppose to do other things... but I took the day off... and I did what I WANTED to do..... and that was to make another Artist Trading Block... better know as an ATB...  Love these things... and Anne (Redanne)  you are so very right.. they are habit forming and ADDICTIVE..... very addictive...  so before you make one... know that they are addictive... I love the ones I have made though... and really enjoy them... 

My other one is here... Dream a Little Dream    and it really was a very fun project also... so many people have written and asked how long it took me to create this Dream A Little Dream... and it took me about three days... but not full days...  about 10 hours of hard labor... LOL.. a LABOR of LOVE... love of art and paper .... 

Okay... so today I wanted to create another type of ATB... one that I could do quick journaling into... so my block is going to hold 3.75 x 3.75 cardstock to journal on it... a quick little thought for the day... when I have a need, I will grab a regular journal for technique, etc... but these will be little journaling papers... how neat is that going to be??? 

So if it is going to be for JOURNALING... it had better have journal pages on the outside too... right???? 

Side one... 

Don't Let ANYONE ever Dull your SPARKLE!!!

with a little bird on a branch and stars added with texture paste...  I used water color pencils on this box... 100%...  and the edges were done in Distress inks... 

 

a little bit closer 

Side Two

 

Living in my own little World... 

 

A little butterfly really does live in their own world.. and at times I do too.. .like today... I played and did my own thing... all day long...  loved it... 

 

 

 

A little closer 

 

Side three

This time of year... I love pods of all kinds... and these just had to get onto this box... 

 

LIFE is a school

where you learn to REMEMBER

what your soul already KNOWS... 

 

WOW... so very true... 

on each one of these 4x4 journaling pages...

I drew,

put a saying...

stamped,

and also used texture paste... 

 and I colored the texture paste too...

what fun is all that... OMG... love it all... 

 

a little closer 

 

Side four... 

Faces...

The faces we wear when

we create,

journal,

dream,

grow,

and imagine... 

 

LIVE IN LOVE

 

A little closer 

 

Side five the top... 

Just Love...

Why try so hard to fit in

when you are born to

STAND OUT....

AWESOME!!!

 

WOW... we all need to do that a lot more... 

LOVE it all.. 

 

 

 

A little closer

 

I just wanted to say, prior to showing you the next box... that I can see myself really getting absorbed into making these boxes for all kinds of reasons and needs... they are fun and I love making them...  I love this journal one... and have it filled with papers for journaling near the phone, and also will have some extra papers at places I find myself sitting and drawing... 

I love to doodle and also do Zentangling... but love to put my thoughts down with it all too... so very important ... shows where I am on this EARTH WALK... 

 

 

 

This next box... I love GRAPHIC 45 papers... so very pretty, bright colors... great themes. etc etc... you know all the reasons if you like them... 

 

So I had the pad French Country... and it was yelling to be used... so I did... but I wanted this box to be interactive...

So I made each side panel lift up... 

 

 

 

 

The top of the box... French Country... 

 

Side one... Rooster... had to use this... we have over 100 chickens... and some of them need to go into the freezer NOW...as they start to crow at 3:AM... not a fun thing...

 

 

Lifting up the panel... you see this.. 

 

Pears on the TREE...

We have all kinds of fruit trees... plum, pear, apple, peach, blueberries, persimmon, and a few others... that I can't remember right now...

 

 

Lift up the panel... 

 

FLOWERS....  WE dont' have as many flowers as we would like... but we do grow a lot of sunflowers and assorted others...  Jerusalem artichokes and others... we do have a BUTTERFLY GARDEN... and that has a lot of wild flowers and also some that we have introduced here as well..

 

next year we are going to be adding an herb garden.. .so we will have a lot more flowers...   

 

Under the panel.. 

 

Sunflowers... 

 

under the panel 

 

 

So this is my third ATB.... and it is not going to stop here... I can feel a lot of these coming on...  just need to plan them out... and also find a place to create a new wall.. LOL.. 

 

Thanks so very much for stopping by today... and hope that you have a lovely happy creative day yourself... 

Thanks also for all the lovely comments you have been leaving here... I love them all and read them all.....

 

I also had some really nice feelings today, as I won a challenge for my altered bottles... the challenge was with Craft Hoarders Anonymous...  and here is my blog page..

 

 

 

this is one of the bottles...

 

and there are three others...  so please take a look and see them... I really love to alter things... Rice vinegar came in these bottles... and the little jars, were other foods... 

 

Thank You again Craft Hoarders Anonymous Design Team...  I have fun on your challenges and my studio is starting to really look so much better...  thanks a million for helping.. 

 

 

Now I am putting these two boxes also into the CHALLENGE THAT GOT ME ADDICTED .... 

Frilly and Funkie...

Why not join in on the fun... these boxes are so very much fun to make...  love them...  try to make a few... you will find that you are addicted to them too.. .LOL.. 

 

Thanks for reading this long entry... but I am a wordy person...

Love, Light and Peace...Bonnie