Yes, I skipped over a few there. What can I say? It’s much easier to remember the date than it is to remember how many posts I’ve made so far this month.

My Sunday project:

Flower Child’s Sunday project:

I took some other pictures but I wasn’t paying attention and that fancy new Mod Podge caused funny reflections. I’ll fix that next time.

My Flower Child (age 10 years 10 months and 29 days) helped me got into the groove today. She is my artist in residence and general all-around creative kid. She loves to create using whatever she can find. She has lots of cool art supplies, but the key word there is ‘whatever she can find’. What can be found is directly related to how deep the clutter is on the floor of her bedroom!

Today, she made several pieces using finger paint, cardstock, tissue paper, acrylic paint, watercolor markers, red plastic wrap, glue, glitter, and our experimental stuff of the day: Mod Podge. Evidently she has no more red acrylic paint (although she could produce neither the empty tube nor any other tube from her own stash), so she was very excited to see my new (cheap) set. Watching her wheels spin when she’s working does wonders for letting go of my inhibitions.

Here’s a picture of her hard at work:

Want to experiment with color? Collage? Texture? Text? Be challenged & inspired? Take a moment and check out Hidden Art and Salt.

Hidden Art is one of my favorite blogs to read. (No, I have no malice in my heart, she picked the name first!) She doesn’t do the kinds of things that I do to express myself and her pieces are always so inspiring. In fact, this is one of the blogs that have inspired me to try new areas of Hidden Art. I am intrigued by the Altered Books she creates! Here is a step-by-step description, complete with pictures, showing how she completes a page. She credits her inspiration to Salt, the second blog mentioned above… a blog that is filled with mind-b(l)oggling beauty. Who are they and what do they do?

We are a diverse group of card makers, scrappers and altered art fans from across the world who have been brought together through our love of Jesus Christ and our desire to express our faith in creative ways.Once every two weeks we will produce work based on a challenge which we hope will inspire you to produce work of your own – and we would love to see it.So that we can all know Jesus more clearly; love him more dearly; and follow him more nearly, each and every day.

Get a book! Grab some paints! See what you can create!