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Workflow Wednesday: The Power of 3s Design Concept

talking about the power of threes or odd numbers as a design concept when creating planner pages, Bible journaling, and scrapbooking.

Did you know that THREE is my favorite number? Did you know that using odd numbers is a design concept? It's true, a lot of home decorators use odd numbers when clustering items together. It's why candle sets usually come in sets of three.

Three is the most popular number to use and it's the number I use most often when I'm looking at the design of my projects from planner decorating to Bible journaling to scrapbooking.

It really is my favorite number, I even have three kiddos and it's the perfect size family for me and my hubby.

So, I wanted to show you what I mean by using 3s in my designs, by pointing out the threes in a planner page. I like to repeat the same concept three times around a page.

I used the woodgrain and peach washi tapes three times
I used woodgrain elements/stickers three times - the clipboard, "scheduled" arrow & "don't forget" arrow
The three circle elements/stickers all have the same blue shade for the upper half of the sticker - "Don't Forget" sticker, the layering sticker that says "chiro 3:50pm", & the gumball sticker with the gray leaf

When I think in threes it makes it really easy to design a page as I grab three similar stickers and layer them around the page... usually in a visual triangle like I talked about last week.

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Workflow Wednesday: Planner Visual Triangle

planner decorating tutorial tip for using a visual triangle when decorating your planner and decorating a week's worth of daily planner pages at once

Hello friends, it feels so good to be back to blogging tips and tutorials for you again. Earlier this week I had posted a photo on Instagram and mentioned working decorating in a visual triangle and a friends had asked me to tell them more about what a visual triangle is and I thought it would be perfect for the blog to share some design concepts and how I use them when creating my planner pages or Bible journaling pages.

My favorite design concept is the visual triangle. To do this I simply make my layered clusters form a triangle on the page. This is really easy to do with The Day Designer set up. First, I cover up the upper right section with washi and a cluster of stickers, then I move on to the schedule and with our busy schedule it makes another cluster of layered stickers. Lastly, I add another sticker cluster in the bottom right corner for "daily gratitude". As you can see, this forms a triangle of design which makes your eyes flow through the whole page nicely.

Now that I have a general design set up, it makes it easy for me to work through a whole week's worth of daily planner pages in a quick creative time session. Here are the pages for this week. You can see that my to-do list remains the same every day and then each morning first thing after I've completed my "lifeSAVERS" routine, I fill out my top three for the day.

Monday, uses the Free Spirit collection from The Reset Girl...

Tuesday was the start of a new month so I decided to switch to the Graceful collection from The Reset Girl for the month of March... the colors are so spring like as well as the birds, flowers and pretty feathers.

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Mixed Media Tutorial: Using texture to create a storm

step by step tutorial using DecoArt Media fluid acrylics and modeling paste to create a hurricane storm with texture

It's been a rough month for me. Despite being rough, it's been a month of heart healing for me. My back "blew a fuse" a few weeks ago and I haven't been able to do the things that are "therapy" to me, which is art journaling and exercise. What I've found is that a lot of my issues with my back are heart and emotional issues. My mind just said "enough, I need some rest" and despite the physical pain, the mental and emotional healing has been amazing!

This past week my chiropractor said something to me that I just knew instantly I needed to journal about. I swear he's like the best therapist/counselor I've ever had. He could tell I had a storm brewing in my heart/life. So he had me think of a hurricane. He then had me think about how the center of the hurricane is calm and peaceful. He then said that I had a choice, I could fight the storm and likely drown or never heal, or I can ride the storm in the center where it's calm.

WHOA! Seriously, the weight of everything just dropped off my shoulders, I literally could feel my tensed up shoulders drop. The storms are still around me and there is nothing I can do about them, but choose to ride it out in the calm center. My back has been feeling a ton better and I was able to actually do a little art journaling this weekend, YAY!

STEP BY STEP PROCESS TUTORIAL

I'm excited to take you though the process of creating this page all about reminding myself to choose to ride in the calm center of the storms. I am really excited to share with you that DecoArt Media products are now available at JoAnn.com and select JoAnn Fabric stores.

I love the DecoArt Media line because compared to other fine art fluid acrylics, they are much less expensive with comparable quality. Having them available at my local stores makes it so much easier to go pick up a bottle when I run out in the middle of a project too, so I was super excited about them being available at JoAnns now.

STEP ONE: Gesso the pages, I'm using DecoArt Media Gesso... I had a lot of other paint from other pages on it so this gave it a nice coverage and helped prime the pages to use less paint in the next steps.

STEP TWO: Using a permanent pen, journal in messy handwriting that only you know what's written. Even though it will be covered with paint, you'll still be able to see it which is part of the fun textures in these kinds of journal pages.

STEP THREE: drop a few drops of fluid acrylic paints in different shades of blues, teals and grays. I'm using DecoArt Media Fluid Acrylic Paints in Cobalt Teal Hue, Primary Cyan, Cerulean Blue, Phitalo Turquoise, and Paynes Grey.

STEP FOUR: using a brush or your fingers spread the paint over your journaling and blend the colors together.

STEP FIVE: using a palette knife and black modeling paste, I'm using DecoArt Media Black Modeling Paste, spread it over your page leaving an oval shape opening. Then take the tip of your palette knife and draw/scrap ovals around the opening to give it texture. Let dry completely before moving to the next step.

STEP SIX: using your finger lightly rub white gesso over the top of the texture in that same circular motion to mimic the motion of a hurricane. Then do the same thing with some of those teal colors to bring back in the colors of the water. I also did the same technique using some Titanium White DecoArt Media acrylic paint to really make the whites of the waves pop. Let dry completely before moving to the next step.

STEP SEVEN: You have completed your hurricane, now to finish it off with a title or phrase. I'm using the DecoArt Andy Skinner Serendipity Mixed Media Stencil and taped off the word "CALM". Be sure to use a low tack tape and that everything is completely dry so you don't ruin your project!

STEP EIGHT: using a palette knife, spread some modeling paste thickly over the stencil. Don't let it dry before moving to the next step!!!

STEP NINE: Quickly and carefully pull off the stencil and immediately put it in a bucket of water or wash off the modeling paste. You don't want it to dry on your stencils. Then let it dry completely before finishing.

NOTE: The modeling paste isn't very opaque when dry, so I took a tiny paint brush and painted over the letters again with the Titanium White fluid acrylic paint. Then to finish it off I used a white gel pen to right the rest of the note to myself.

I really love how this turned out. It's a really good reminder to me when I'm struggling or fighting the storms around me.

Disclosure: I am a part of the DecoArt Blogger Outreach Program, while I have received some of the products used in this tutorial to be used specifically for this promotion, I've also bought some of them on my own because I love the product and would use them anyways. While this is a sponsored post, all excitement and enthusiasm for the product are my own.

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Digital Papers ---> Planner Dashboard - Photoshop Template Tutorial

WOW!!! Two days in a row. I'm kind of shocked I've posted twice this week, especially during Holy Week. Since it's one of my favorite holidays, I've got more freebies coming later this week to my newsletter subscribers too, so be sure you're signed up so you don't miss it.

a Photoshop step by step tutorial showing how to convert digital scrapbook papers into planner dashboards using a freebie template by Heather Greenwood

I am totally addicted to decorating my planners and love that I can use digital papers to create my own planner dashboards. It's like hybrid happiness for me. I love hybrid so much that I wanted to make sure everyone knows how to use these templates. I am using Photoshop, but you can do this in Photoshop Elements too.

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Mixed Media Tutorial: Turning Silver Charms Into Gold

HI!!! It's been far too long since I've done a mixed media tutorial. I couldn't resist sharing with you a technique that I've been using a lot recently with my planners. I love adding charms to my planners but it seems like a lot of the charms I find are silver. I'm obsessed with the gold trend and wanted to find a way to change the cute charms into gold charms.

mixed media tutorial showing how to turn silver charms into gold using alcohol ink | planner charms, jewelry charms, suede tassels

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Mixed Media Tutorial: Pattern Stamps With Foam Stickers

Hey there, I'm so excited to be back to a regular schedule again after last week, that means a new mixed media tutorial today. Last week, with the grand opening of my Etsy shop and then working on a HUGE (literally) project at my church, and the kids all being sick with the sniffles, I just couldn't keep up with the blog. I'm hoping to be back to a regular schedule again this week.

mixed media tutorial using foam stickers to create stamps and creating a floral pattern in an art planner to be used for ideas and mark making practice or eventually as a FiloFax dashboard

I don't know about you, but I LOVE pattern. I have a closet full of fabric and a huge stack of pattern paper. I just love seeing the repeated pattern and I'm finding that I really like repeated pattern in my art journals too. While I was picking up a few things at Michaels this weekend, I picked up a container of foam stickers and instantly saw some fun stamp making materials for creating some fun patterns.

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Mixed Media Tutorial: Rose Gold Glimmer Modeling Paste

a simple mixed media art tutorial, creating trendy rose gold glimmer modeling paste to use with your stencils in your art journal | art worship Proverbs 31

Did you know that you can color your modeling paste? Just like you can color gel medium, you can color your modeling paste too. It's a softer color because the paste is opaque, but I've become obsessed with coloring my modeling paste lately. I've also become obsessed with the new trend of rose gold colors.

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Hot Mess to Pretty Background In 5 Minutes - Mixed Media Art Journal Background Tutorial

I turned the page on my art journal today and was like "WOAH, what am I going to do with this hot mess?" Wednesdays are generally really busy days of homeschooling and church activities and I knew I didn't have a lot of time to create anything... but I HAD to do something about that background!

Hot Mess To Pretty Mixed Media Art Journal Background In Less Than 5 Minutes

It was really super easy and took less than five minutes to do and I LOVE it so much, I'm not sure I want to do anything else LOL! I do have some ideas and think I'll do a little Pinterest browsing for some quotes!

Workflow Wednesday: The Power of 3s Design Concept

Workflow Wednesday: Planner Visual Triangle

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Mixed Media Tutorial: Using texture to create a storm

STEP BY STEP PROCESS TUTORIAL

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