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    Art Journal | Get Messy Season 8: Messy Lists Part 4

    June 4, 2016 / 2 Comments

    Sharing my pages for the GetMessy Messy List part 4. Somehow this set of prompts got me quite inspired to do quickly (unfortunately it took me a while to get this post out). I think it is also to do with having a smaller area to play with and getting most background done before putting on the finishing touches on each spread. Here are my spreads: Since I wrote this list for the prompt, new trips have suddenly come up which I am excited about. One of this is to Tokyo and another to Wuxi, China. Thank you for looking.

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    Art Journal | Get Messy Season 8: Messy Lists Part 3

    June 3, 2016 / No Comments

    This blogpost is way way way overdue. My pages for the Get Messy Messy Lists #3 and #4 were done some time ago but somehow time went in a blur and kept forgetting to take photos of them for this post. So finally, I’m sharing my Messy List #3 here below. Thank you for looking.

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    Art Journal | Get Messy Season 8: Messy Lists Part 2

    April 26, 2016 / No Comments

    So far so good with keeping up with the Get Messy art journal Messy Lists challenge. I’m enjoying the time spent in the evenings to make my pages. One thing I have noticed though is that I realised I spent more time than needed on these pages… I seem to have reverted back into “over thinking” things. But that is changing on the 3rd round, for sure! So here is what I made for the second set of prompts: Thank you for looking.

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    #foxandwatercolour Watercolour Challenge: April (Part 1)

    April 25, 2016 / No Comments

    When I saw this challenge on Instagram, I immediately jumped at the chance to get my watercolours out and try the challenge. I was also quite ecstatic to hear the positive ‘yes!’ I got from my colleagues when I brought up the subject with them joining this challenge. All hands on deck! Just amazing and I am very inspired. I decided on making an MTN insert format out of some watercolour paper so I can carry this around with me. We are halfway into the challenge, and I wanted to share what I’ve done so far… We went out to the nearby park on Day 11 to do some painting outdoors. It was an impromptu…

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    Art Journal | Get Messy Season 8: Messy Lists Part 1

    April 20, 2016 / No Comments

    It’s Season 8 of the Get Messy art journal challenge. Last year I ended up only getting up to Season 2 and 3 because my full-time work got too hectic. And I also realise that I seem to overthink my pages and spent too much time visualising how it will look which in the end, well, got me sidetracked into other stuff. When the collab between Get Messy and 30 Days of List came up, I knew I didn’t want to pass up on this one. And this time around, I am changing things around by: Destashing – I am using a handmade MTN insert using various papers from my…

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    2016 Analogue System

    March 4, 2016 / 2 Comments

    Pretty much before 2015 ended, a lot of people would already have clear idea on what choices they have made for their analogue system – planning and documenting. To be honest, I actually had a clear idea back in December. I started with this Stalogy for journaling… (#lifecapturedproject is not continuing in 2016 which is a real pity) But with life taking over most of my waking time, in between, not finding “the’  journal prompts I was inspired to use, this notebook sat empty…up until now… And then in January, I designed a quarterly insert for my regular size fauxdori when my 2015 passport size insert was used up. Still, I was…

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