Fauxbonichi Journal..Day 19 & 20 and my Honey's Booboo

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 :)

I hope you all have a very creative day :)

Tracy :)

Fauxbonichi Journal …Oct 13 & 14th

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.

I hope you all have a very creative day :)

Tracy :)

Fauxbonichi Journal..days 11 & 12

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.

I hope you all had a very Creative Day :)

Tracy :)

Fauxbonichi journal days 9 &10

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.

I hope you all have a very Creative Day today :)

Tracy :)

Fauxbonichi journal pages and a gifted card :)

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!!!

I am off to go and pack for our trip :)

Hope you all had a very Creative Day today :)

Tracy :)

House Dangles and Doodles in my Fauxbonichi Journal

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 :)

Tracy :)

Journal pages..Last weekend at the cottage.

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 hope you all had a very creative day today :)

Tracy :)

The Perfect House

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 :)

Tracy :)

October Fauxbonichi's monthly pages

Ok, Ok, I know I said I was caught up…but in my procrastinating life, I was ;)
I am now finally into October in my Fauxbonichi :)
Here is my monthly page :)
I love the colour combination I used here, and had fun playing with my washi tape :)
I just have to write my goals on the left hand side of the page and I'm good to start living in October, teehee.

Here are my 1st couple of days :)
Don't you just love the look and feel of a crisp clean page :)
I added my header, dates and washi tape to all of this month's pages.
I added sticker numbers, instead of my stamps, and I really like the boldness to them :)
Now to decorate and journal.

One of my goals this year was to try not to be such a procrastinator…..as you can see, totally failed at that goal, lol.

When I did Book-keeping, I was always working in the month that just passed, so that is what I am blaming my being behind on….at least thats my story and I'm stickin' to it, lol.

I hope you all had a very creative day :)

Tracy :)