SO A BIG DEAL?...YES, IT WAS!!!

One big patterns journal cover cut, pieced, sewn!!!  It is only the cover so far at 11x17 one side. I am using it right now just as a folder to hold all the painted patterns.  Ok, so it is not my usual detailed water colors with lots of preparations and drawing first but let me tell you how fun painting the patterns was!  No thinking or planning.  Just putting on color like a child would. You know just playing, praying and having fun!!  Well, I wonder what the next surprise project will be for our patterns!!? Enjoy and blessings to you!

SEWING. SEW. SEWN!!

Too fun I say!!! Too fun!! It's funny, I couldn't CUT my patterns!!! Sooo the first pattern journal I made with printed papers (below)and wrapping from the 70's was for my sister!! Since  Mary Ann makes journals for her sis....  That is what I did!!  Then I made a boy , Lucas, who went to camp for the first time a journal(above and upside down), sewn of course!!! THEN I FINALLY got brave and started to cut my patterns that I painted myself!!!  I have five piles of patterns that I think work together. Starting (it is at the top, laid out) with the least favorite and will insert a little drawing I had of our donkey....loved him so!  He is now at a children's camp since we downsized. This journal is BIG. Just the front page cover is laid out.  So far....  Still thinking how to sew that big baby since I already cut all those patterns!!! Maybe I'll finish it tomorrow.  Yawn.....sorry, they are in reverse order and Luca's is upside down!  Well, you get the idea!!  I KNOW MARY DOES!!

ASK AND YE SHALL RECEIVE.....

GLORIOUS FUN WITH BRUSH, PAINT,INKS, CRAYONS....WATER....CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WHAT WE DO WITH ALL THIS IN THE SEWN CLASS  WITH MARY ANN MOSS!!!  Not sure why there is a big space here!!! Anyway, the first attempt to do the link up came up blank, but there are more patterns in JUNE if you would like to look!!  The butterfly one with words is for a youth in our church...or a copy of it.....these were truly relaxing and fun to do and I think I will never ever stop!!! THANK YOU MARY ANN!!!!  The 12th design down (lots of black and grey lines with orange, red, oval shapes connected) is actually the design of another on Pinterest...can't find who, but I tried a similar look here....so it is not my original thought....but do love the black lines!

Here are patterns painted,drawn, created for the class I am taking from Mary Ann Moss.  SEWN. What a delightful name for a class. It leaves your mind thinking of all the possibilities. And tomorrow we will find out what to do with these!!!  I just know that no doodling ever done again will be neglected or lay unused!  That is just how a friend of mine operates ... All things are possible thru Him!  Enjoy!!

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DOODLING MY HEART OUT!!

Crayon resist....fun...above

I've joined a class called SEWN by the super creative Mary Ann Moss. She is at www.dispatchfromla.typepad.com if you want to join the class. I have loved taking her journal book building classes and cannot wait til this class starts.  We have a few hints, which is all I can give you....to paint patterns, lots of patterns, then get your scissors out!!! I'll show the end result at the end of summer, but you could be painting mindless ends and ends of patterns to cut up in joining her class that starts July 5th....with a bang!! I haven't done SERIOUS ART for a while, but have delighted myself with painting mindless colors, designs and shapes in bliss .... a friend talked about how she prays when she paints .... and WELL it is so true for me too, as it is a very intimate time with Him, thinking, discussing, solving and giving over! I guess that is why I am so desperate to paint with color!  I need the constant conversations with the Lord, like a garden chat with your DAD as you water the thirsty plants! I had those moments so often on my beautiful porch and in my garden in Round Top and am creating my wonderful spot here in my new smaller yard! AND in my cluttered full of stuff that delights my heart studio loft!! I think it will never be straightened .... not for long anyway!!  SOOOO .... here are some of the patterns I have been slapping onto paper to be cut up when class starts ... let your heart and imagination go with what Mary Ann Moss is going to share with us to do!! Have a BLESSED WEEK ....enjoy the color!

I LOVE these water soluable crayons above.....I'll add water to the color to make it look like watercolor....ONE THING....When you use watercolors, use GOOD watercolor paper or it ends up blotchy like these....but these will be cut up and I didn't want to waste my good paper....maybe I should have!!

The above picture was a stack of dvd movies, lean your head to the right to see it correctly!.....and what movies I like!

These are cheap paints, but when you use good brands you get prettier colors!!