get messy

It’s time for Get Messy! This week I based my two spreads that I somehow–quite magically in fact–managed to create on just one of the prompts. The one based on Baz Luhrmann’s “Everybody’s Free (To Wear Sunscreen).” I played around with two lyrics from the song that stood out to me. Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. This was the first lyric that…

It’s Get Messy Friday! Yay! I was pretty busy this week with work and my friend coming to visit from Chicago mid-week, but I surprisingly managed to produce two spreads. I wasn’t even sure I’d get one done. So yay again! This week’s spreads were created using bits and pieces from my Get Messy swap pack that I received last week from my fellow Get Messian, Zinia of Abstract Inspiration. I’m…

I honestly didn’t keep to my intention this week to journal a bit each day. Between doctor stuff and going back to work, it kind of got lost. But I was able to work and complete two spreads from this week’s prompts. I didn’t really feel any of the prompts like I did last week. I read them over a few times, but nothing really stood out to me except one…

Get Messy is back and I am so happy to be back home to participate in Get Messy 3.0! The first season just started on February 1st, and it’s the Season of Happy! While I’m nowhere near to being happy myself, this first weeks’ prompts have been such great therapy for me. Short backstory: in the third month of my 3-month backpacking trip to Southeast Asia, I got bit by…

The start of my Southeast Asia 2015 trip is fast approaching and as I play the waiting game, I find myself being busier than expected. I have a lot of things that I should and/or have to complete before I leave and well, that doesn’t leave much time for anything else. Before I go on a huge trip, I sort of like to become a vegetable, like a couch potato,…

Here are my second week art journal spreads for Get Messy Season of Words. I feel like my pages this week are pretty sparse, but that’s only because I was sick for most of the week and really didn’t have the energy to do anything. I’m surprised I still managed to get at least four spreads done, one for each of the prompts given to us. I didn’t really think…

It’s Get Messy Thursday! This is the day of the week where all the Get Messians share bits of their journals from the current season. These are just the pages that I’ve done so far in my Season of Words art journal. Most of the spreads were inspired by the journaling and art prompts from this week. I will say that journaling in this altered book is difficult. The pages…

So, I recently joined Get Messy, an art journaling challenge that’s also a community of amazing art journalers. I stumbled across it a couple of times in the past, but didn’t really look into it until this past week when I kept seeing it everywhere while searching for art journal inspiration. It’s a great community of ladies who come together and work through “seasons” of art journaling prompts surrounded by one theme.…