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We can do no great things,
only small things
with GREAT love.
Mother Teresa.

Finally crossed the half way mark of the 365 challenge,

although be it with babysteps,

I will get there in time.

Wonder where my inspiration came for this series? 😉

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For this series I attached several index cards together 

and 

started with some random mark making,

detached them,

added some final touches

which make them all unique

(although they started out out of the same piece)

I love them all

they are bold and expressive

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INSPIRATION,

a funny little thing

sometimes my head spins with ideas and inspiration,

other days not so much.

What to do on such days?

well, browsing the internet sometimes work,

but be carefull,

because before you know it the whole day has passed with "just" looking at what others have created and you didn't do a thing.

That said, for the next cards I browsed pattern images in google

and the ones that spoke to me I put down in my way on paper.

why stick to only black&white?

so much more fun to be made with the colors of the rainbow:

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1 stamp...4 prints

techniques clockwise:

different stampinks

stamp colored with Marabu artcrayons and spritzed with some water

acrylic paint applied with a brayer

black acrylic paint on booktext

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The next 7 indexcards in the 365 series.

yes, this time I did manage to create a series of 7.

Why weren't these posted earlier then?

Well, my weird brain and his logic, that's why.

I found that I first needed to create 4 more cards in the butterfly series,  

post them and then and only then I could post these. 

Sounds perfectly sain, right? 

no??!?

These were made during printinktober,

gosh, that is 3 months ago 😲

I grabbed my handcarving tools and carved away.

Can you believe that the first 2 cards are in fact made with exactly the same stamp???

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Why didn't I post these earlier?

Because to tell you the truth I could if I wanted,

 they are finished already for weeks, maybe even months.

But in my head I needed to make series of 7 of everything,

so also 7 butterflies.

how stupid is that, right?

so now I realize it is ok to have created "only" 3 in the butterfly serie I am ready to share them with you: 

week 3 Kasia's adventcalendar

Hello and welcome,

here are my interpretations of the final prompts from Kasia's adventcalendar.

The prompt for day 16 was to remind ourselves of our chosen colour palette.

I went for bright colours to counter the dark and gloomy days:

as this is an adventcalendar so something Christmassy couldn't be forgotten,

day 17

Also at the end of the year it is tradition to stand still at your accomplishments 

as well as the things you are grateful for,

this was our prompt on day 18

I am grateful for my family, my health, my home, my passions, the possibilities I have, to be born here and my job.

on day 19 the prompt was presents that cannot be bought with money,

time immediately sprong to my mind

and with time the rabbit out Alice in Wonderland sprong to mind,

finished off with the appropriate quote

there is no time like the present

and no present like time.

As Christmas was approaching, Christmas baubles was our prompt on day 20

day 21 = home

home is where you paint your own reality

Altough I did miss a few prompts I really enjoyed it, 

there are also quite some pages left in this journal,

so I will be focussing on filling them in next😉

that way I will have a finished book.