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Life Book 2013 - Celebration & Courage
Hello again! Week 6 of Life Book 2013 is with the gorgeous, beautiful, radiant Tamara Laporte. Our challenge is to choose a totem animal, one that represents courage, and using masks and inks create...
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Life Book 2013 - Unstumpification
Greetings again! Week 8 of Life Book 2013 is done with the marvelously talented Jane Davenport. This is the most challenging lesson I have done to date, both emotionally and technically....
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Life Book 2013 - Painting Over a Printed Image
Week 9 of Life Book 2013 is with Danita, and she taught us a simple technique for painting over a printed image, such as an image out of a magazine. I chose an image of Drew Barrymore and was quite...
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High School Memories Begin Soon
Wow, New Years Eve already! I spent all of this year focused on my own studies and health. This month I am proud to say that I have completed my Diploma of Counselling and have applied to University...
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Life Book 2013 - A Series of Quirky Birds
Week 14 of Life Book 2013 is with Tamara Laporte, and she encouraged us to get a little quirky and create some funky little birds. I really loved this project, and it ended up being a portrait of...
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Life Book 2013 - Heart Sight
Week 32 of Life Book 2013 is with Effy Wild who taught us some fabulous layering and texturing techniques. This was a fabulously fast and fun page to create but very striking with a powerful message.
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Life Book 2014 - Inner Artist Guardian
This is the first project for Life Book 2014, the Inner Artist Guardian. She is the protector of my artistic freedom and is there to protect me from my inner critic. Through a guided meditation we...
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Cupcake Thief Birthday Card
With a month or two until University starts I'm taking advantage of the quiet time to restock my stash with some go to cards. This little cutie is called Cupcake Thief and she comes from Mo Manning....
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Life Book 2014 - A Happy Affirmation
The theme for Life Book 2014: Week 2 is "A Happy Affirmation" with Micki Wilde and is intended to be a quick, fun representation of the things we want more of this year. Painted on Strathmore mixed...
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A Little Bird Told Me
By Zeus' Beard it's hot! With temperatures forecast at over 44C (111F) everything here is a parched, with tones of pale cream to golden yellow. That was my inspiration for this card.The image comes...
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Trying To Read - Altered Book
I bought this fabulous digital stamp from Mo Manning titled "Trying to Read" just for the sheer joy of colouring it in, and it was after it was finished I wondered what on earth I was going to do with...
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Life Book 2014 - Creativity and Play
Week 3 of Life Book 2013 is with the fabulously talented Carla Sonheim. She gave us 7 exercises that are designed to switch off our technical, logical thinking and allow our creativity and spontaneity...
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Life Book 2014 - Be True To You
Week 4 of Life Book 2014 is with Kelly Hoernig. She tasked us with creating a mixed media piece incorporating three things that we love and if possible including our word and colour for the year....
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Life Book 2014 - Sugar Sugar
Week 5 of Life Book 2014 is with Marieke Blokland. Her theme was all things sweet! Candy, chocolate, cakes and lollipops with the thought being that these represent the sweet things in your life. I...
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Life Book 2014 - Spray Ink Love
Six weeks of 2014 have already flown by! I remember thinking how awesome it was that I had 6 whole weeks to do nothing but paint and play and now I have two more weeks and I am back to school!This...
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Life Book 2014 - Pop Up Positive
Week 7 of Life Book 2014 is with fellow Aussie, Jane Davenport. Using children's pop-up books as her inspiration she set out a lesson that asked us to find three positive qualities about ourselves and...
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Life Book 2014 - Joy Of Intention
Week 8 of Life Book 2014 is with Alena Hennessy. Through a guided meditation, journalling and conscious language practices we are asked to come up with an affirmation that will bring what we are...
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Life Book 2015 - Beacon Of Light
It is my favourite time of the year! Life Book 2015 has just begun and I still have eight weeks before semester starts so I get to relax and enjoy creating. This is my third year joining Tamara...
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Life Book 2015 - Joy Jar
Week 2 of Life Book introduces a fun project called the 'joy jar'. The idea is to keep the jar somewhere prominant and every time something joyous happens write it down on a slip of paper and pop it...
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Life Book 2015 - Playing Tag
Continuing with Week 2 of Life Book 2015 with guest artist Roben-Marie Smith. The focus of her lesson was to create a quick tag using pre-printed art. I had four altered playing cards lying around...
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