Autumn & Rain 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 hope you all have a very Creative Day :)

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 :)