Tuesday 7 February 2012

Art Calendar - February

My february pages for Kate Cranes art calendar challenge


I created the background with lots of layers of text pieces, all adhered to the page with Matt Medium. Once dry I scribbled randomly over the page in pinks, reds and apricot with my neocolours, which were then blended with water, I dabbed off some of the colour as I went along to give a random shabby look to the background.


February holds many birthdays for our family and of course Valentines day so I could not resist masses of hearts and one of the most famous love quotes, cribbed shamelessly from The Beatles.


And the pages from January all filled in with my daily journalling, I tried really hard not to write the boring stuff, ie did the ironing, cleaned the cooker ( although maybe one of two did slip in - oops) Those sort of things go without saying and happen on a daily basis, so, I am going to try and be a little more descriptive and include events and descriptions that are a little more revealing as to the way my day/week etc is going - well as much as the little space will allow ! 
Hopefully this will make the book a little more interesting to read back in years to come, although I have already caught AJ on several occasions reading through it, I love the way the family all take an interest in my art, this one especially as it is a little insight into our family times.


I will be back tomorrow with sneek peeks of my post for IACW, tomorrow is my next day for DT and I have a cute little something to share.

16 comments:

  1. Love your February calendar page, pink and lush.
    Well done for filling in January. I agree about trying not to put in mundane days, but hard not to put them in on mundane days!
    xxx

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  2. I love your feb pages Tracey. I especially love that song it was the song mark chose for our first dance at our wedding :0), it brought back a few great memories while looking at your pages.
    It was lovely to see you yesterday.

    Nicki.xxx

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  3. Love your Feb page, great background!!

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  4. Lovely pages Tracey - I like the way you organised the hearts on your Feb page with some turned the other way round :D x

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  5. OoOoOo I love this!!! How awesome!

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  6. another great page. love how all your colours blend together..Have a good February..xx

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  7. Tracey-
    So happy to make your acquaintance!!! I LOVE your work..the calendars are great; such attitude that January babe has! And the colors are beautiful. The rest of your work is amazing; I could spend hours here....can't wait to see more!

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  8. Thanks for the sweet comments you left on my blog :) Your page is just gorgeous!!Love the scalloped hearts and all the pinks and reds and glitter. Totally evokes the feel of the month of love :) Can't wait to see what you create for March!

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  9. Wow, beautiful pages, both of them! Love the soft colors and that they are so creative! Thanks for your sweet words in my blog... :-)

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  10. What adorable pages and well thought out. I have a film strip die and don't use it so maybe I ought to dig it out, Your attention to detail is fabulous. Looking forward to seeing March pages.

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  11. Lovely page. My February page is STILL not done! And loads of my January entries are boring - think I need to think a bit more about how I'm feeling on the days rather than what I actually did! x

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  12. Tracey you are so talented. I love the film strip sayiny febuary. I been looking at all febuary blogs and i love all of them.

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  13. Love your Feb pages - what a superb detailed background, wonderful soft colour. Great idea to have some upside down hearts.

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  14. hey, love this calendar page! dreamy!!

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  15. Beautiful and beautiful! Especially love your hearts!

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  16. Gorgeous pages. Great idea for creating a background, thanks for sharing. Love the hearts with some upside down. Sorry it took me a while to get round to visiting but there were so many entries this month! Well done for keeping up so far this year. Kate x

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