Falcon Travelers

Dutch Design Leather, Est 2013

Recently I updated my Midori TN free inserts page with the link to the location where you can download them. I also added my new logo and the link to my Etsy shop. In case you would like me to make you a Traveler’s Notebook or inserts for Traveler’s Notebooks.

Among the inserts are some templates with quotes I collected overt the past year and used with my art journals. An insert with random quotes and an insert with Hitchhikers Guide quotes by Douglas Adams, since this is one of my all time favorite books. I’ve shared these free templates already on my facebook page and in several Facebook groups, but thought I’d share them here as well.
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It seems I haven’t been blogging much lately, nor have I been doing much art journaling. At first I felt really bad about this and kept feeling pressure to do something, anything…. but somehow this self imposed pressure only made things worse… And I lost my mojo completely.

Still I tried to finish the art journal round robin journal for Susan. Did bits an pieces here and there, Played with ink and paint, but somehow felt it just wasn’t good enough. 
So I put it away and forgot about it…well almost…
This week I finally got up the nerve to try and finish what I started. 
Susan’s book is beautiful and the work done in it already, was gorgeous. It’s theme was trees and leaves and/or anything related. I’m not good with trees, or leaves for that matter…but I gave it a shot.
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It’been a while since I made my previous blogpost and to be honest, I feel slightly out of touch with it. I have missed writing here and I haven’t done much art either. Between my day-job and making the Traveler’s Notebooks, I don’t have a lot of time left. I even had to make a waiting list for the Traveler’s Notebooks, I just can’t make them as fast as they are being requested.

It’s a good thing people are so kind and patient and it’s great meeting people from all over the world.

Mostly I tend to sneek a peek at facebook and post some pictures there when I made a Traveler’s Notebook or insert that I like, but sitting down and writing a blogpost, just wasn’t something I could wrap my head around.

With making the waiting list I feel I have finally got everything back under control and I even started doing some art again. 
So today I finally shipped the next art journal from the Round Robin on it’s way to Tracy. It’s Lee’s journal, a beautiful bound book with a canvas cover and gorgeous painted papers inside. A joy to work in.
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The second and last spread in Jessica’s Art Journal was started in january, right after I did the first one. However with my hand getting worse I wasn’t able to finish it until this week.

I still have to be rather carefull with my hand so I gathered I would do something completely different from what I’m used to doing and go with aquarel paints. Up till now I have only ever done small doodles and sketches with aquarel paints, but I really like how it turned out.

I do have “some” (as in, a lot) pictures with progress and detail shots.
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As promised, the first of the journal pages in Jessica’s Round Robin Journal. The second one is in a seperate post.

This first spread I did in Jessica’s wonderful journal somewhere in the beginning of january. I’m not sure if I can remember everything properly but I will give it a go.

First I would love to show you the envelope the journal came in, sent by Gayle from Canada.
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Finally I was able to work on Jessica’s Art Journal for the Round Robin, hosted by Tracy and finish the last spread.

January and the start of february have not been very good for doing any kind of creative and/or crafty stuff. Somewhere in november I started getting pains in my left hand. More specifically my thumb. By mid january I wasn’t able to use my hand in a normal way anymore without feeling like someone was driving a knife through my thumb. According to my docter this could only be resolved by surgery and luckily this could be scheduled fairly quickly, at the beginning of february.

I’m glad to say that surgery went well and my thumb is healing nicely and I am able to use it again.
The first thing I did, after I felt I was able to use it again (and the stitches were removed), was to finish some backorders of Traveler’s Notebooks and inserts for my shop. I am very grateful for everybody being so very patient with me.

The next thing I did was finish the second spread in Jessica’s journal and make photo’s of the spread I did before. Honestly, it’s much easier making photo’s with two hands in stead of one =)… also, I found, typing is a lot easier with my usual “two finger” system. The one finger (one hand) system wasn’t really working for me.

Since this post would otherwise be far to long and picture heavy, I will do a seperate post for each of the two spreads.

As you can see both spreads are quite different. The first one is made with my goto medium, acrylic paints. For the second one I chose to do something different and I went with aquarel paints.

I’ve been having a lot of fun working in Jessica’s beautiful journal. I love working in all these different journals and, I think, I am almost over my fear of doing something wrong in someone else’s book.
It’s like they say, there’s no right or wrong in art journalling =)

Thank you for watching and I wish you all a wonderful weekend.

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Sometime in december last year I ran accross the documented Life Project. I was immediately intrigued. A combination of planner and art journal, executed any which way you would like. My favorite things combined. So I started looking into it and joined the facebook group, where lot’s af people were already busy making the most fabulous planners and journals. Sharing all that they did generously.

So I decided to join in the fun as soon as the two art journals were safely on their way. Last week I finally got those travelling again and I started thinking about how I wanted to participate in this project.

I had a planner and that was working just fine for me. I did a video about that last monday. This is part one.

And part 2.

I really didn’t want to change that, so I gathered I would do it a bit differently and just do the weekly prompts in a seperate booklet. I had some wonderful and colourful painted papers, just waiting to be made into a booklet. They had been living underneath my artsy endeavors for almost half a year now and were definitely ready for other use =)
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I got Tracy’s journal in the beginning of December, just a week before I got Lee’s journal and all came to a halt. It’s a wonderful journal, in a format I never saw before.

I loved working in it, though I did clamp the sides down for easier transport while open =). But then, I have to that anyhow, since I like to muck around with paints, Which means I have to use protective sheets to keep the other pages clean.
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You might ask… , but first, before I answer, I would like to wish you all a happy new year and all the best for 2014.

About the round robin, well, I’m afraid I fell a little behind. Between taking my class in december, getting my shop up and running, the way I like it and the holidays, I didn’t do much else. I had nearly finished one journal page in Gayle’s book by the end of november, when Tracy’s book arrived. I still felt I was on track though, so I just continued on, slowly. But then, out of the blue another book arrived, this time it was Lee’s book and with all the other things going on in december, that brought me to a full stop.

Now with the december day’s gone and to-do’s finished for that month, I picked up where I left off and have been working on the journal for Gayle and Tracy for the last few days. I’ve been doing two pages at a time, each in a different book and I confess, that was a lot of fun. When waiting for one to dry I could just move on to the other. How come I never thought of that before? =)

Here are a few photo’s of them.

Funny thing is that the pages done together do get sortof the same color and tone. I will do a seperate post on each book, with some progress pics of the pages I did in them, as I feel doing them all in one post would lead to a very lengthy (and overly picture heavy) post.

Till then, I have another video to share, with a flip through of my december journal made in my “FaeDori” Traveler’s Notebook for the Christmas chronicles class from Rhomany

Thank you for watching and hope to see you soon =)

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