Made By Janet

I'm over at StencilGirl Talk today

showing some of what I've made this month! 

Come on over and take a look!

2017 Planner Pages for January

Hi Friends. 

We are half way through January 2017 already.

I wanted to try to blog just a little bit more this year...

so this is me showing up for the occasion!

Here I am in my 2017 Planner.

I'm not sure how I should refer to it other than my planner.

For the last 3 years it has been my DLP... Documented Life Project.

This year we are on our own ...therefore it's just my planner.

But it is no ordinary planner.

I fully treasure my last 3 books and am treating this in the same way

and doing it in the same style.

I picked my word for the year....NURTURE.

It was hard to narrow down to one focus word.

I want to nurture my relationships with God, family and friends.

Week two's PP (planner prompt) was arrow. 

I love the January 2017 StencilClub stencil set. I used the 6" stencil below.

Included in both of these week's planner pages is Mary Beth Shaw's new planner stencils.

Here, Here, Here and Here. As well as this alphabet.

I am often asked what supplies I use on these pages. 

This year I took a regular lined inexpensive journal from Staples 

and gessoed every page front and back, as well as the covers.

This was my summer project after rotator cuff surgery on my dominant arm.

I figured it was an easy, slow project that did not take any precision from me.

I just slapped on the gesso, let it dry and turned the page to do it again.

I started from the back page with the last week of the year and set up the calendar format.

That left me with the front half of the book with pages for lists 

and other art work and experimentation. Fun!

I use all kinds of markers and paint pens and sharpies and watercolors and spray inks 

and crayons and gelatos.....

Pretty much anything goes on these pages.

I use stencils and stamps and papers....

On one of my front extra pages

I was practicing with a small gelli plate someone gave me using 

some of Maria McGuire's Be Brave stencil line.

The Breathe and Spread Your Wings stencils.

And Look! There's a RubberMoon sticker from a recent package!

My cover will have many layers before this new year has ended.

Here is how it is starting......

with some of my favorite color as a base paint 

and some PaperArtsy stamps I used in a recent StencilGirl Blog Hop.

Here we go into a new year and a new adventure!

I hope you are joining me!

Happy Arting!

StencilGirl Meets Earth Day

Hello Stencil Lovers!

Happy Earth Day to you all!

I was so happy to be able to use these Earth Safe Finishes 

and their line of Iridescents Paints by Ann Butler.

Seriously.... Love!

I have been layering the cover of  my Binder with doodles and paint swipes

for awhile now... and finally decided to use these paints on it.

That Lagoon color is heavenly!

I love the two sizes of the damask stencil 

And look at that creamy shine!

I still may add words or a title....but I love it so far.

I also tried some layering on some other unfinished covers....

I love the Lagoon and the Limelight together!

I layered some on pretty thick.

I love the looks of these two future art journals.

And just because I had time to play...I was wondering how 

it would look to heavily weegie the paints

 through some stencils with my scraping tool.

The creamy shine these paints give is beautiful.

Here is a list of the stencils used throughout my projects....

Michelle Ward's Damask Stencil

Michelle Ward's Damask Medium Stencil

Jessica Sporn's Lacy Lotus Repeat Stencil

Maria McGuire's Doodle It Bigger Stencil

Carolyn Dube's Union Stencil

Carolyn Dube's Wall of Words Stencil

And of course there is a giveaway for this Earth Day Hop.

Leave comments on all the blogs to win!

StencilGirlTalk 

Mary Beth Shaw

~~Janet Joehlin~~

Mary C. Nasser

Carol Baxter

Gwen Lafleur

Chana Malkah Harris

Irit Shalom

Steph Ackerman

Martha Lucia Gomez

Larissa Pittman

Vishu Reberholt

Jeanne Streiff

Thanks for stopping by.

See you next time!

Hello Stencil Guts!

Hi Stencil Lovers!

Are you starting to get the feel of all that StencilGuts can do for you?

When I opened up my package I was in my element.

I enjoy all the little details and shapes and possibilities they offered.

I immediately went to sorting them in many piles.

The flourishes are some of my favorites

I moved them around on black paper to see what I liked.

Kind of like a kaleidoscope...twists and turns...

I never knew what was going to pop up next!

I call this auditioning.

I took some of the geometric shapes

 and used stamps on them with a permanent ink.

Some phrases and words as well as shapes and designs.

There are a lot of possibilities here for making cards and scrapbook layouts.

With the flourish guts I made a Daily cover...

The steps loosely went like this.... 

 Well, That was Fun!

I had experimented with adhering the shapes to my book cover with these circles.

I used tacky glue, super glue, E-6000, crystal effects and my Xyron

and let them all dry.

(that's my first row of 5 circles across)

Every one of those adhesives worked great.

The only differences were mess and drying time.

So I continued adhering them with my Xyron Sticker Maker machine.

It was by far the easiest.

I played a LOT with gluing shapes into fun designs.

I made several into divider covers for my 3 ring planner

including this vase of flowers and the little  abstract piece.
I LOVE them added into my planner!

I like this one alot. The little squiggle shapes are fascinating!

How about the sunshine and the stone wall?

Seriously! So much fun to create with! 

Here is a list of the stencils I used along with the StencilGuts....

Rae Missigman's Repetition Stencil

Pam Carriker's Journal Texture #2

August 2014 SC little crosshatch stencil

MB Shaw's Classic Stencil Font Alphabet

GIVEAWAY

StencilGirl Products will be giving away StencilGuts from EACH category
(Geometric Shapes, Birds, Cats & Rabbits, Flourishes, Hands and Dirty Random Guts)
to one lucky winner!

Visit all the blogs on today’s hop and comment to win!

The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
(One comment per blog please.)

You will have until Saturday, March 26th at 11:59PM Central Time to leave your comments.

Winners will be announced on
StencilGirl's Facebook page on Sunday, March 2

Here is your line up!

Have fun hopping with us!

StencilGirl Talk
Mary Beth Shaw
Mary Nasser
Janet Joehlin
Carol Baxter
Gwen Lafleur