Moving Mayhem

So despite packing up our whole apartment and moving everything into a new place, AND the fact that I'm getting ready to pop, I HAVEN'T missed a day yet! Yay!
I will admit, some of the cards are pretty lame. But the fact that I've kept it up is more important to me. 
Here are my latest creations:

Day 144 - Drawing with your feet is SOOO hard! I totally admire people who have no hands/use of their hands and use their legs and feet for everything.

Day 145 - Hot glue gun flowers

Day 146 - "Skein". I love yarn.

Day 147 - Beauty and the Beast has always been one of my favorites.

Day 148 - Purple is one of those colors that has SO many different shades. 

Day 149 - All my utensils were packed up so I had to draw some instead. This was suppose to be a sort of mandala.

Day 150 - Definitely not my best pencil drawing. Oh well.

Day 151 - Working with basic materials like crayons is super liberating. 

Day 152 - I actually REALLY wanted to make a Rube Goldberg machine for this project, but it was our move day AND my baby shower day so...I had to just imagine one. 

Day 153 - I was feeling super frustrated this day because I couldn't find my book to tell me what the "challenge" was! So I had to scour the web to figure it out. Then by the time I figured it out, I was too tired to make anything cool. So paper dumb bells is what you get! 

Day 154 - It's so hard to do this project when your house is a disaster! But I found some cardboard and some crayons, so I was at least able to complete today's card. I actually totally love my game. How it works is there are 4 different paths and you choose one to start on. Some paths are shorter, but have more "risks" like more wild cards or back-2-spots. Other paths are longer but have less risks and more "fun" things like activity cards. So it's up to you which path you think is smartest to take!

Day 155 - Finally found all my craft supplies and can make a cute card!

Day 156 - Busted out my acrylics 

Day 157 - "Make something that's strong enough to support your own weight and stand on it". I was SO stumped for this one, so I totally cheated and just stood on a painting I did back in high school. haha. 

Day 158 - Work with homonyms today (bear/bare, night/knight, sail, sale). **Wrong Mr. Scalin! These are homophones, not homonyms...but whatever...I know what you mean.

Presenting: my FLOUR FLOWER!

Day 159 - I hate this card. 

Day 160 - Jordan said this one is gross. haha. You're not actually suppose to use it. It's just for fun. 

Day 161 - I've got babies on my mind, so I had to make a baby card! 

Day 162 - This is a fairy trap...haha

Day 163 - "Work with only the items you find in your refrigerator or freezer"

My advice for creating things while in the middle of a life transition - KEEP AT IT! It's nice to take a few minutes for a mental break. 

I hope this was good practice for when baby comes. I've been really worried I won't be able to keep it up when the baby gets here, but I'm sure I can fit it in. (Less than 3 weeks until she is here!!)

Art While Traveling

Creating art while on the go can be tricky, but with a bit of pre-planning (just realized that word is totally redundant...isn't all planning, "pre"...) it's totally doable. 
Before Jordan and I headed off to Las Vegas, I looked ahead in my book and made 8 little ziplocs with the art supplies I needed to make each card and wrote on the front what the challenge was for that day. 

Day 112 - Paint swatch samples are a great crafting item. Just don't be a jerk and take tons of them. 

Day 113 - Red magazine paper flower 

Day 114 - First card in Vegas. A collage sandwich! 

Day 115 - I used a mini first aid kit for this one.

Day 116 - Vegas is crazy! We had so much fun here. 

Day 117 - "Go out of your way. Travel somewhere you wouldn't normally go today specifically to create something inspired by that location." A perfect travel challenge!! This was taken at the Wynn. 

Day 118 - I like how this one turned out.

Day 119 - It's a bear/squirrel thing with a pocket for gummy bears...Yes, I am crazy. I think I made this one at like 2 in the morning after consuming way too many candies from the candy store. 

Day 120 - This one required me to prep the box ahead of time. It's a matchbox but it was too thick, so I had to do some surgery on it. 

Day 121 - I made this one on the plane ride home to Calgary. Tin foil is great for etching. I just used my nail. 

Day 122 - It's suppose to be like a harp or something...so dumb. haha

Day 123 - a shout out to my Ukrainian heritage!

Day 124 - This card gives me the creeps. The girl is cut out from my 1920 magazine and I cut a slit in the wood patterned paper so it looks like she's walking through it. I added some transfers I made and a piece of a sewing pattern then stamped a bit over the surface. 

Day 125 - I love colors and shapes. 

Day 126 - I kind of broke the rules on the ATC dimensions on this one...But it still fits into the pocket.

Day 127 - "Mail art! Take an existing postcard and alter it, then send it to a random address (or anonymously to a friend), after documenting it of course."

I hit two birds with one stone on this one. I needed to send something to a friend due a facebook challenge I participated in called "crafty pay it forward 2013" where you made a homemade thing for 5 people who replied to your post. Then they had to post the same thing and make things for 5 of their friends. 

This friend lives out of the city so I mailed her this envelope I fancied up along with a note inside and a homemade hair pin.

(I photographed what I made and printed the photo onto a 2.5" by 3.5" card)

Day 128 - I don't know how you're suppose to sum up your life in ten words...(photo courtesy of my sister Megan of Stoneman Photography)

What are you going to make today? Be creative!