Life Book

I forgot to update my Life Book lessons. Here are some of my favorites. First one is from Tamara Laporte, then Jane Davenport and the last one from Juliette Crane, all awesome teachers!!!

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Life Book 2015

This is my week 1 lesson by Tamara Laporte, Beacon of Light, carrying my word of the year. Such an awesome teacher <3

This year I will do the Life Book lessons on a smaller size paper and put them in my (Midori) journal. I loved the Documented Life Project last year and I'm combining their format with Life Book. So the tip-ins are the Life Book lessons and inside I will put photos and ephemera of that week.

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Life Book has come to an end... can't wait for next year :-) I'm not going to finish this years lessons, but I recently did these two from Tamara (love her lessons). The first is an altered self portrait, made with a photo transfer.

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Life Book

I made some time to do a few Life Book lessons. I'm so behind, but that's okay :-) This is week 19 from Danielle Daniel and week 31 from Mika Diaz. Both have collage work in them, the first page with papers from a magazine and book, the second with Gelli Plate prints. The girl on the first page was a challenge, to do a different pose, she is not perfect but she is good enough ;-) The second is a stamp from Prima on tracing paper.

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Finished another lesson from Life Book :-) This lesson is from Micki Wilde, also a teacher that I love. I sooo like how she does the shading of her girls.

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Did another lesson... YEAY!! I really love Tam's lessons, so did this Sacred Inner Eye. Very cool lesson again, she is such a great teacher.

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Oh my... I'm so far behind on Life Book :-/ But still loving it!!! Best purchase of 2014.
Last week it was my super talented friend Marieke who gave her BONUS lesson, so I had to do this. I had sooo much fun. All the background papers are handmade. I have to say that I did a clean version of Marieke her class example, but I really love how it turned out :-)
By the way... Marieke has a new online workshop up at her Bloknote Academy. I already signed up, cause I'm not busy enough already LOL ;-)

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Life Book

I'm a bit behind on Life Book. But I just finished up two lessons from week 11 and 15. Both lessons are given by Tamara Laporte, I love her style and she is an amazing teacher.

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Life Book

As I promised a little update on my projects. Today I want to share with you week 8 and 10 of Life Book (week 9 was an artist interview). Week 8 lesson was from Alena Hennessy, it turned out completely different than her work. How much I liked what she did, it didn't resonate with me or something. She did abstract work and that was what I tried for myself. I think abstract is really difficult, but I did it anyway ;-)

Week 10 lesson was from Tamara herself, always a lot of fun. She taught us about paint over collage. I started with an image out of a magazine, painted over it and altered her to my liking (for example in the original she had short hair). The shading is still not perfect, but I really like her.

Later this week an update of my Documented Life Project.

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Last week we had the gorgeous Jane Davenport as a teacher at Life Book. She had a real challenge for us, to make a pop-up page. The real problem for me was, what to draw? I don't feel comfortable with drawing yet, so I made the leaping girl like Jane showed us in the lesson. The moon was pretty simple. And the books are a Stampotique stamp, it was getting late ;-) For the cover I first glued some book text and stamped the air-balloon. Further I used Neo Colors II and a layer of white acrylics. The flowers are a Donna Downey stencil and the birds a Donna Downey foam stamp. I only have to add some words, but so far I'm pretty pleased with it :-)

Cover

Inside pop-up

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Life Book

We had some very fun lessons these weeks at Life Book. Last week we had a delicious lesson from Marieke Blokland, with her Sugar Diva. I love her faces, they are so much fun to do. It's so awesome to learn so many styles and techniques of different teachers/artists.

This weeks lesson was from Tam and it was right up my alley. I already loved her inky creations and was really excited that she would teach us. And I think that you peeps know how much I love my ink sprays, so I was in my happy place :-)
The small pictures are the warm up page and the outside page of the girls face.

And Yes... you can still sign up!!! If you do, please use the link (Life Book Button) on my right side bar to support a crafty friend of mine (the lovely and super talented Marieke), who is one of the teachers. And use her link to get to the Life Book page. That's how the teachers get a piece of the cake.

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Little update of my Life Book adventures ;-)
These pages were made from bonus lessons, just short exercises from the Life Book teachers. Oh...We had to pick a word of the year and also a color palette. So that's why I use this word and colors a lot ;-) I also picked a symbol with it, and that's a feather.
First page was an affirmation page with Micki Wilde. She made us play with a grey background. At first I didn't like the idea, but after doing it, I really liked it :-) Dylusions is releasing new colors spray and definitely going to get the grey one :-) And the second page was more of a collage page with Kelly Hoernig.
You can still sign up!!! If you do, please use the link (Life Book Button) on my right side bar to support a crafty friend of mine, who is one of the teachers. And use her link to get to the Life Book page. That's how the teachers get a piece of the cake.

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Time for something different on my blog :-) This year I'm following Life Book. I'm soooo excited what this journey will bring me. There are some great teachers this year. And you can still sign up!!! If you do, please use the link (Life Book Button) on my right side bar to support a crafty friend of mine, who is one of the teachers. And use her link to get to the Life Book page. That's how the teachers get a piece of the cake.
I posted this already on Facebook, but maybe not everybody here is following me there ;-) The first page was a warm up page. And the second, don't be scared, I had to draw a FACE. I know ;-) It's not perfect, but for a first try I'm really proud of myself. I used a piece from Tamare Laporte as inspiration.

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