Welcome to the 2013 Susan K Weckesser Inc Design Team Back 2 School Blog Hop.  Our Design Team and Guest Designers have created a week’s worth of great projects to bring you inspiration and fun -- all themed around Back 2 School. We encourage you to visit each member’s blog, leave a comment and maybe find a new blog to follow. After you have visited all participating team member’s blogs, go back to THE STARTING POST at Susan K Weckesser’s My Sweet Earth Blog and leave a comment letting us know which project either inspired you or touched your heart. Don’t worry, you have all week to take your time and go through the blogs. We’ll feature a few each day at Susan K Weckesser Inc, but will draw names from comments left on THE STARTING POST for our grand prize.

Here is the list for ALL team members, but again don’t panic, we will highlight a few each day so you can come back and visit a few at a time if you want because we know how busy you Moms – and Dads – are! You have until Saturday night 11:55 PM CST to leave a comment at Susan K Weckesser’s My Sweet Earth.

Here is the entire blog hop list:

Susan K Weckesser
Rita Barakat – Design Team Member
Lynne Mizera – Design Team Member
Jeanie Dickinson – Guest Designer * this is me and my project is at Moments along the journey
Tracy Easson – Design Team Member
Tatiana Allen  - Guest Designer
Einat Kessler – Design Team Member
Jaine Drake – Guest Designer
Julie Short – Design Team Member
JJ Sobey - Design Team Member
Allie Gower – Guest Designer
Keri Sallee – Guest Designer

Art journal class -- click to go to it....$25.00 and until Aug 30 receive an additional 10% off with coupon code summerfun. learn to make 5 different books from hard back books...turn discarded books into your art journals and/or scrapbooks....5 ways....some are quick and easy and some are a little more involved but all are affordable and doable and can be repeated and given as gifts. i find books free or for $2.00 or less at thrift stores and garage sales.....join the class anytime and it is available for a year....
honestly these little books have so many uses and potential. the subtle reminder to always share OUR stories through art journaling, pictures and words....our stories are just as important as the novels/books we read. and sometimes i worry that none of us believe in our selves enough to make books that tell (in art and words) who we are.  
  
Join me and tell your story through art, words and or pictures. 

jeanie

celebrate you

Hey it is summer and i am finally getting some things together and done-- like new cuffs 
(i have 5 in and another 6 almost done) in my Etsy shop and soon i will be adding some digital downloads of my art and papers. so how about a little celebrate summer and you 10% off your purchase!!!! 
the code you need is summerfun and my Etsy shop is jeaniesdesigns code expires on August 30, 2013. 

hoping you are having a creative fun summer.
jeanie =0) 

art journal supply video 2

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art journals video 1

click here to open in separate window art journals video 1 

this first video is an over view of the projects we will be creating in the art journal class. you can purchase the class here in my etsy shop jeaniesdesigns.

this does not show everything but will help you understand the projects. You will need 4 books get them from garage sales, thrift stores or your own all ready read hardback books. we will learn 4 different ways to use them and make them into our stories and art journals. you do NOT have to do all 4 styles....the book with binder mechanism costs more so if that is not in the budget make more of the other styles....be flexible and be frugal and use what you have in your stash.

so must have items to start with:
old books
cardstock--  white, cream, black or kraft....you can also use scrapbook paper (but cardstock weight not                       the thin unless using for decoration)
modge podge type adhesive MATTE if possible

to get you started on the insides:
gesso
card stock, watercolor paper, scrapbook paper
embellishments
pages cut from the books
paint-3 of your favorite colors plus white and/or cream
if you don't have paint but you do have water color crayons you can use these!!!
paper doileys

we WILL build on the insides and decorating the outsides as we go.
i will provide some printables of my art to help with the creating parts.

more supply videos to come....

Unity stamp Co.

I am so excited that my daisy art made it into Unity's kit of the month for July.  what a great deal these sets are. wow. I work with such a great group of artists and workers at Unity. a great opportunity and blessing in my life. I just want to play and make samples to post!

dreams

dreaming a dream does not make it happen....getting out of your comfort zone and working for it might just make the dream come true. I have decided to get brave and out of my comfort zone and work on my dreams. no more letting life run over my dreams i am letting my dreams run all over my life instead.

exciting things are happening...(one of them has to wait just a bit to be reveled)

so first of all i took fabric design with Carina Gardner and created a nursery line--just a couple of changes to make then i will upload to spoonflower.com  and decorate Luke and Evan's nursery with

second i get to add this badge to my blog 

Susan has been so kind a person to me and when she announced a guest designer call i finally ordered some of her stamps from Unity and got to work (ideas posted in previous post)....then i got brave and actually sent pictures of the ideas to her! the announce is on her blog mysweetearth

and now i am working hard to build my portfolio and am taking the class make art that sells at

why all the doing? because dreaming a dream does not make it happen but working hard towards a dream can make it a reality. 

"if you want something you've never had you've got to do something you've never done..."

one more announcement coming soon....