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Crusade #47

An abstract drawing of oval shapes and patterns on a white page in a spiral-bound notebook.

A scrapbook page with penguin drawings, a photo of penguin decorations, and short handwritten notes.

A colorful journal page features red and green peppermint candy drawings with the words "under the tree," and "Christmas 2010.

Overall, for an experiment I am fine with how they turned out.  I would like to have been able to glue down the wrapping paper without it wrinkling.  Plus, the wrapping paper on the bottom two are kind of cutesy, but that’s all we had left!  🙂   On the first one, I tried to replicate the swirly patterns from the wrapping paper using watercolor.


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About Marcia Beckett

Marcia is an elementary art teacher and loves painting, drawing, sculpture, art journaling and clay. Her blog, Art is Basic, features many exciting art projects for kids.

12 Responses to Crusade #47

  1. michelleward says:

    Marcia – thanks for sharing your evidence pages with the team. I like how you interpreted the challenge, making use of the remnant wrapping paper in different ways – by playing off the patterns, and by adding in some storytelling. Bravo!

  2. Jackie says:

    Three wonderful pages, Marcia. The second two are such fun and the first so strikingly beautiful. Great work!

  3. fabricfan says:

    I enjoyed looking at your pages. All the pages are great.

  4. love your wrapping papers, fun pages your created.

  5. lena says:

    Very nice pages! You must have had a lot of fun doing them!

  6. Melanie says:

    I really like your first page where you've incorporated the pattern of the paper into a pattern of the paper! I'm not sure I actually just made sense there! Great pages!

  7. missy k says:

    Great pages and happy memories 🙂

    Karen

  8. goudenregen says:

    Love what you did with your remnants of wrapping paper combining it with drawing. Nice blog by the way.

  9. *jean* says:

    o your pages are so fun! i love the colors in the top one…

  10. Michelle says:

    Great layouts…. I see that penguin has made another appearance!

  11. linda says:

    Visiting all the crusaders and love how you mixed in the wrapping paper so seemlessly to create something brand new, very cool!

  12. TJ says:

    I love the peppermint page the best! Beautiful!! Best wishes from germany, tj

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