I am slowly getting back to my blog and I'm loving it!!
If you are a long follower of mine, then you know I love to journal.
Let it be art journaling, writing in my journal or even making lists...I love paper!
So I again am doing a fauxbonichi this year.
A fauxbonichi is most like a daily journal or diary.
It is a fake Hobonichi....hence the name "faux-bonichi"
Here is my inside cover pages to this years book.
I first adhered this really pretty woodgrain paper to both pages.
Then I used a wall art sticker transparent flower to the left page. I trimmed the over hang of the flower and added the leaves separately from another part of this sticker.
The sticker words were being very difficult to place as they kept wanting to cling staticly to the page.
The stickers came with a transparent tape...but I discarded it when I used the negative part of the stencil on a t-shirt.
Lastly the butterfly was from anther Dollar Store wall art sticker sheet.
Isn't this such a beautiful image!
It is one from Angie Blom, she is such an amazing artist :)
I love when Crop & Create comes to my city and I get to chat with Angie.
I am still working in my journal or my Fauxbonichi.
When I get behind, I usually work from the most current date back.
I am almost caught up :)
Both of these gorgeous images are from Angie.
I started with some distress inks for my backgrounds and then stamped on my images.
I knew I didn't have much to journal about, so wanted to add some colour to my pages.
Even though my stamping wasn't perfect, I have learned to let it go....but only in this journal, lol.
I seem to always be working backwards instead of forward.
Some may think I have to much on my plate and that is why I feel like I am behind...but nope.
I just seem to be a big time waster...yup, I waste my time.
Today Wayne took the day off of work.
We did a few errands, went out for an early lunch, this was not a waste of time
then watched movies the rest of the day.
I worked on some pages in my journal while we watched tv, but also spent a lot of time on the computer checking out Pinterest.
I was going to edit and upload some of my videos to YouTube, but sadly I can't find them.
Wayne updated my laptop as my iPhoto wasn't working.
He fixed my iPhoto, but now with the updated version of iMovie, I have lost all of my movies..edited and non-edited.
I had over 25 videos that needed editing and to be uploaded to YouTube.
See what my procrastination brings me...sadness, lol.
We will keep trying to figure out my iMovie troubles.
And I will keep working on my procrastination as well :)
I really don't like change...especially technical change.
I have been missing for a while on here.
I was uploading some videos and they take forever to do.
When I edit them, then finalize them to my laptop and lastly upload them to YouTube, it takes me all day.
Plus I can't use my laptop to check out the internet during this process.
What were the videos I made about, you ask?
They were on my Fauxbonichi.
One was a flip, the other a Fauxbonichi top 10 supplies
Felecia, from our Fauxbonichi Journalers Facebook group, challenged us to share our Top 10 Supplies that we use in our Fauxbonichi Journals.
Here are my Top 10 supplies.
1. Washi Tape…..were you surprised with that one, teehee.
2. Templates….I have templates for my Header and my Sun :)
3. Ruler…I use a small clear plastic ruler to keep my lines straight.
4.Pens…I have a few favourite pens and markers for writing with.
5. Stamps…this includes the Date stamps I use as well as images and words.
I also snuck in my rub-on numbers in there as well ;)
6. Inks….inks I use for stamping and how I store them.
7. Sticky Notes & stickers….I like lined post it notes to keep track of my day or when I am behind, as well as the many stickers I hoard ;)
8. Colouring Mediums….I love to colour and love colouring, so I have many different mediums to use in my journal. Copics, coloured pencils, inexpensive markers, Stampin Up markers etc.
9. My iPhone…I use my phone for the dictionary app. I am always doubting myself on how to spell something, I love this app!!
I also use it for checking out my blog for what I have been up to when I am behind on my journaling days.
10. Focus….Most importantly are my cheater glasses..I really am needing them more and more.
Also a tiny task lamp. so I can journal without disturbing my family as I am usually watching tv with them as I journal :)
Here is the video with these supplies and how I use them in more detail.
If you would rather watch this on my YouTube channel Tracy's Treasures, just click on the link :)
This video took forever.
After video taping, transferring the video from my camera to my laptop, then editing…I then have to finalize the edited video to my laptop, which takes about 3 - 4 hours.
Then I had to upload it to Youtube, which took 9+ hours.
Well…not only did I do this once, but I had to do it 3 times.
Day 1…Friday
After doing all of the above, I watched it on YouTube and noticed pieces of my video were missing.
My laptop wouldn't finalize my edited video as it indicated I didn't have enough room.
So I deleted my unused portions….little did I know it also deleted some of my used portions.
I emptied my trash folder and I formatted my camera…so I couldn't retrieve any of my files.
Plus, It was too late to do anything as it was after 3:00am
Second day:
I re-taped (1 hour) the parts of the video that were deleted.
Edited it (1.5 hours), finalized (3+ hours) and uploaded (9+hours).
When it was up on YouTube, I noticed that my music was in the wrong spot.
This was about 1:00 am.
Today:
Fixed the music.
Had to finalize it yet again (3+ hours).
Upload to YouTube at 4:00am….went to bed, lol.
I had to stop the upload every once in awhile today, to had to let my family use the internet for a bit today, lol.
This time upload time was over 10 hours
It was finally up on YouTube after 4:00pm.
Man I am one determined lady, lol
I hope you all had a creative Day :)
I did, since I had all of the down time (as I couldn't use my laptop during finalizing, and the family couldn't use the internet when I was uploading to YouTube) I spend most of the weekend with my daughters.
We were all around my large craft table chatting, while Ashley and I were working on our planners :)
So besides all the frustrations of this video, I had an awesome weekend with my girls.
It has been pouring the last couple of days….great days to stay inside and do a bit of journaling :)
Here are my pages (before adding my journaling) for today and yesterday.
I am trying my hand at drawing faces (again) and adding different looks to these girls.
For yesterday's girl "Autumn Girl" I stamped her hair to look like fall leaves.
I used my Blick's coloured pencils to colour in their faces.
I can't find a great flesh tone in these pencil crayons….this is more of a yellow tone :(
Because it has been raining here so much, my second girl "Rain Girl" has hair to represent rain.
I first added some Tim Holtz faded jeans distress ink for the colour of her hair, then drew in the rain drops with the same colour in Tim Holtz distress markers.
The girls eye colour is opposite of each other…meaning, Autumn has Rain's hair colour for her eyes and Rain has Autumn's.
I am really happy with how my girls turned out….even with the skin tone not being the colour I intended.
Onto My Day:
Even though it was a rainy, stay in bed kind of day….I was thinking of putting my PJ's on and watching YouTube in bed all day…but, I had to bring the red jeep to the shop.
Ashley has had the use of it for 5 yrs and now it is Heather and Kristy's time to have it.
I brought it in the shop to make sure it is up to safety standards.
I did have to get the wheel bearings replaced on the one wheel…..so got the mechanic to do the other one as well.
He said the one didn't need to be changed right away. Then asked me "It is just driven in town right?"
I thought to myself, if it was to be driven on the highway, is it not as safe ?!?
So told him to change them both….better safe than sorry when my babies are driving.
I wanted to share these 2 pages in my Fauxbonichi journal as I really like how they turned out…even though I am almost a month behind in sharing them.
I used a large oval shape stencil and drew the oval.
I had this small flower stamp, but I wanted to stamp many of them and wanted them to over lap.
So I had to make a mask.
I stamped one flower on a post it note…but made sure to stamp it where the sticky part of the post it note was….then the fun part, fussy cutting it out.
As I stamped, I would move my mask on top of the flower I had just stamped.
Lastly I drew the sprigs along the oval.
I repeated this for the second page :)
Then added some colour to the flowers with my markers.
You all know how much I love my washi tape…but I decided to stamp my borders on these pages.
I did this for 2 reasons
1, I have a few (a lot) of border stamps I have yet to use.
2, I want to lessen the bulk that washi tape makes to the borders.
I really like these fall colours.
If you look closely, I added a couple of colours to the leave border stamp before stamping.
The writing took me forever to come up with on these pages.
I wanted to do different fonts for each word or sentence….but as you can see, I ended up just doing my own handwriting.
Second page.
I added colour to some of the words, the reason being, if you only read the words with colour it says "Being Creative is a Way of Life"
Onto My Day:
I didn't post last night as I was at Emergency with my husband Wayne.
He banged his hand on the cupboard when putting his razor away.
He tried to hide if from me…but when he did show Heather and I we made him go to the Hospital.
It looked like his knuckle was out of place and sticking up.
Good thing I told him to take off his wedding ring before it swelled up too much.
Supposedly it isn't broken…..but that is what they told him about his wrist when he hurt it last year, which was broken and still hasn't healed.
I made Wayne take the day off of work today.
So my day was spent watching movies with my Honey :)
More pages in my fauxbonichi journal…I will get caught up on my photos on here :)
If you remember from yesterdays pages…I coloured those beautiful sunflowers with my Chameleon markers.
But I forgot to add a blotter in between on one page…so got some bleed through.
One of the drawing challenges on the Fauxbonichi Journalers FB page was to draw a pumpkin.
So I used this prompt to clover up the bleed through :)
Once I coloured it in…you could hardly tell that there was any bleed through at all :)
As you can see, it was a Walking Dead viewing day :)
I was quite happy to see that the city came and filled in the lake at the end of my driveway….I had only phoned them 3 times, starting in April.
Sadly it is now a muddy mess….but I guess that is better than a water hole.
I am also catching up posting my YouTube videos.
Here is a flip of my June Fauxbonichi journal.
If you would like to watch it on my channel…just click the link Tracy's Treasures24
I hope you all have a very creative day :)
I dug out these stamps I purchased 4 yrs ago and this is the first time I have used them.
I know for a fact I bought them 4 yrs ago, as I purchased them when we went to Montana Aug 22, 2011…oh my.
This looks like a black and white photo…but its not ;)
I used my Chameleon markers to colour these images.
I have been asked my opinion on these markers…and will do a review of them soon…I want to get a better feel for them first.
Here are the semi completed pages :)
I didn't get a photo with my journaling, but believe me, it wasn't all that exciting, lol.
As I had mentioned yesterday, November is my month to catch up.
So with that in mind….here is my Fauxbonichi Flip for May :)
If you would rather watch it on my YouTube channel…just click the link Tracy's Treasures24
I hope you all have a very creative day :)
Do you ever feel like you are always behind .
I do.
There were so many things I wanted to do this year…both creatively and around the house.
So what I am going to work on in this month is catching up.
So my first order of business is to catch up and share my pages in my Fauxbonichi journal.
I loved these photos that Ashley took of us all, so I printed them up on copy paper and adhered them into my journal :)
Also this sweet photo of Kristy and Blake :)
I love that rust coloured washi tape with the birds..as well as the sparkly washi at the bottom.
There was a challenge on the Fauxbonichi Journalers FB page to do some bubble letters.
I remember my friend Linda showing me how to do these in grade school.
I drew circles and then removed parts of the circle to make the letter :)
I didn't mean to do this, but don't the letters look like candy corn.
I didn't turn on my computer until this evening when I edited a video I had made.
I think one way for me to catch up on my "todo's" is to not turn on the computer until the evening.
Waking up earlier would help as well….but lets not be ridiculous ;)
Imagine the time I will have, by not getting sucked into the time sucking computer during the day :)
Facebook will sure miss me, lol.
More Fauxbonichi journal pages :)
I like to tie in my 2 pages together….it has something to do with me being a double page scrapbooker.
Because it was the new season of the Walking Dead, I thought the drippy goo punch was perfect for this page instead of using washi tape.
But didn't think it was perfect for the second page…mind you Wayne did get his deer…soooooo.
See how detailed that drippy goo punch is :)
And of course how perfect is Daryl Dixon ;)
The 12th was our Thanksgiving, so found some stickers for that.
And blood splatter along the bottom of the pages. Which were left over from my zombie scrapbooking pages.
Onto My Day:
My day consisted of staying awake by tidying up my craft supplies.
I put away all of my purchases and organized an area downstairs for a gift wrapping centre.
I just need to put a peg board wall up and actually organize my wrapping supplies.
Tomorrow I am going to (hopefully) tackle my craft room.
Here are some more pages in my Fauxbonichi journal :)
I will eventually be up to date with my pages on here, lol.
I don't want to bombard my blog posts with all of my pages, so I am going to post 2 pages everyday, until I am caught up, then only post every second day :)
I went with a gold sparkle and deer theme for these days
Isn't this washi tape so fun!!
I love that it has so much sparkle to it.
It is more of a copper colour than a gold, but it goes well even so :)
If you are wondering what FNS stand for it is Friday Night Scrapbooking.
Every Friday Night (during the colder months) I invite my friend over so we can all create together.
I love these nights and look so forward to them :)
Another reason I used the deer theme, is it was opening weekend for deer hunting and my Honey is a hunter.
I received this gold shiny deer cut out in a kit.
I honestly didn't think I would ever use it…surprise :)
That my friends is why I am a hoarder, lol.
Today was a no energy, computer kind of day.
I started to unpack and put away my craft supplies I had purchased on our weekend get away…but didn't get very far.
More pages in my Fauxbonichi journal :)
This one isn't as artsy as some of my others, but I have a sign on my Craft table that says "Not every page needs to be a Masterpiece"
I have to repeat this to myself over and over, lol.
I don't always follow the challenges that are posted on the Fauxbonichi Journalers group that I follow on Facebook, but this day I combined two of them.
We had to draw an umbrella.
Yup, that what that is, teehee….I added some stamped leaves falling as I thought it would look more fallish.
The other challenge was to write in faux calligraphy.
I actually do calligraphy, and found this challenge so much fun.
For the second page I did a journal challenge.
The question "Would you rather carry a 1kg of feathers or a 1kg of stones.
I noticed most of the journalers picked stones as the bag would be smaller…which makes sense.
But I had a different outlook on the question.
Plus I was able to stamp my TH wings on my page :)
I spent most of my day with my middle daughter Heather as I had a lot of errands and she only worked in the morning, so came along :)
I love spending the day with my girls….I even got to spend the evening with all of them tonight.
Wayne and I are heading across the border for the weekend, so Ashley wanted to come by to see us before we left :)
I received this adorable, sweet and beautifully coloured card from my friend Phillane.
If you are a YouTube watcher, you know her as Pea from Whimsical Endevors.
Isn't this the cutest card and image?!
She also wrote me a very sweet touching letter inside.
Look at these die cuts…aren't these leave so pretty!!!
These pages are on the top of my list for some of my favourite pages!!
Isn't this a fun one :)
I was inspired by Kim, from my one Fauxbonichi Journalers group I follow on FB.
I loved how she doodled around her page.
It took a bit for me to go free form, lol
I started with the straight lines..which I used a ruler for….even though I could have just followed the lines on the grid paper.
After that I told myself…just doodle lady!!!
So I did :)
I knew I was going to journal about a couple of more homes that I have lived in..plus it was zentangle/dangle Tuesday, so I drew some dangling houses….and hearts, as I love hearts :)
At first I was just going to colour in the houses and hearts, but then decided to colour in the doodle design as I like more colour to my pages :)
I used my Distress markers for all of the colouring.
Here are my pages complete….except, yet again, I took the photo before adding what made me smile on those 2 days :)
I had my friend Sharon and Lynne over this afternoon for a bit of a friendly creative time together, so I was creative today….I hope you all had a creative day today :)
Another couple of pages from my fauxbonichi journal :)
These pages were from our last weekend at the cottage.
Every weekend when we are at the cottage I usually added some type of trees to my pages.
We are surrounded by the forest and our lake out there.
I have also created a few pages on our weekends out there, with a lake scene :)
But enough about me missing our cottage….
I added wood grain washi to the top of my page and grass washi tape to the bottom….then the tree stickers on both pages.
I also stamped maple leaves for the background in different fall ink colours :)
Lastly I wrote about our weekend on some journal cards :)
I hadn't wrote about the things that made me smile for those days. I took the photo before I added them to my pages.
I thought I would share some of my pages in my journal for this month.
I stamped these house stamps, as I had decided that my journaling was going to be about homes.
I didn't have anything special happen on the 1st and 2nd of this month, so I decided to do a bit of journaling.
This page was about The Perfect House.
There are a few things everyone would like for their perfect house, here are mine :)
I am going to do a few pages on Places I've Lived.
This one is about the first house I remember living in.
I was chatting with my brother about what I remember about this house.
He and my SIL were shocked on how much I remembered, especially since I was about 2.
I really enjoy journaling about my memories…can you tell ;)
I hope you all had a very Creative Day :)
I am a SAHM (who never gets to stay at home) to 3 beautiful teenage daughters Ashley(born 1989) Heather(born 1991 and Kristy(born 1995).
Wife to my wonderful hubby Wayne. We have been married since 1988.
I am a bookkeeper for my husbands business.
I love to create. I dabble in all types of crafts. Jill of all trades expert in none. Right now I enjoy scrapbooking and paper crafts.
I decided to make this blog to share my creations and a bit of my crazy life.
Thanks for visiting.
