One Little Word September #OLW Blog Hop

Welcome to to my stop on the One Little Word blog hop for August. If you’ve come from Cheri's blog welcome! The full list of blogs is at the end of this post.

August’s prompt was to take a photo of yourself and add some affirming words. To simply take a breath.

I’ve taken an video of my book to date – it’s coming along well! You can see I used the picture above along with some patterned paper and affirming words.

My One Little Word Album so far.

Here's the latest slideshow of my One Little Word album:

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Did you know we have a OLW flickr group? Join us here

For more posts about my One Little Word adventure:

• One Little Word August Blog Hop
• One Little Word July Blog Hop
• One Little Word June OLW Blog Hop
• One Little Word April Self Portrait
• One Little Word–My album so far
• One Little Word 2011–Grow
• One Little Word 2011

Ali sends out monthly emails with a prompt for the month and you just complete it as you are inspired to throughout the month. Did you know that the One Little Word class is still open? You still have plenty of time to catch up or why not just jump in with this month’s prompt?

Want more? Check out Kathryn's blog

Here’s the rest of the stops:

• Margie  http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog
• Monica B http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/
• Julie Ann http://julieannshahin2.blogspot.com
• Jill http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
• Cheri http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com
• Melissa http://blog.mshanhun.com – that’s me!
• Kathryn http://www.katlodesigns.com
• Amanda http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com
• Sam http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/
• Chrissy http://getcraftywithchrissy.blogspot.com/
• Lynn http://www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com
• Lisa http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog
• Jen http://byjen.com
• Nikki http://www.inkyart.com.au/
• Cassie http://craftycassiescorner.blogspot.com/
• Jamie  http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com
• Cindy http://seriousplay.typepad.com

Thanks again to Margie for organising this hop!

Happy hopping!

Melissa

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One Little Word August #OLW Blog Hop

Welcome to to my stop on the One Little Word blog hop for August. If you’ve come from Lynn’s blog welcome! The full list of blogs is at the end of this post.

 

July’s prompt was music. I’ve heard lots of children’s music this month. Of course Emily loves it, and I don’t mind singing along to Bullfrogs and Butterflies. I guess they fit well with my word also! Growing and changing!

 

I also bought God is able from iTunes, but haven’t made it past the first few songs yet!

 

For my album I chose to highlight one song – Doin it Doin it – Emily’s favourite.

Lyrics

There’s a bumble bee, a honey bee
Gettin’ the honey for you and me

Doin’ it doin’ it – doin’ it doin’ it
Buzzing around – helping the garden grow

There’s a little worm diggin’ around
Eatin’ dirt from out of the ground

Doin’ it doin’ it – doin’ it doin’ it
Little worm – helping the garden grow

Up in the sky there’s a yellow sun Shining down on everyone

Doin’ it doin’ it – doin’ it doin’ it
Shine shine – making the garden grow

There’s a big fat cloud and a drop of rain
It’s falling down on the window pane

Doin’ it doin’ it – doin’ it doin’ it
Splish splosh – making the garden grow

Fly fly through the sky
Little bird drops a seed
The seed grows up into a tree
A green umbrella for you and me

Croaky frogs, cats and dogs
Creepy crawlies under a log

Doin’ it doin’ it – doin’ it doin’ it
All over the world – making the garden grow
Everybody – making the garden grow
You and me – making the garden grow

 

I just did a little bit of trick embossing – used card embossing folder on my 5x7 page and then lining it up as best I could and repeating it at 90 degrees to the first one. That way I got 80% of the page overed. I cut and embossed a scrap and added some lyrics. A very simpel take on this month’s prompt.

 

Supplies:

 

 Cosmo Cricket Honeypie Ella Paper

Cuttlebug A2 Embossing Folder, Stylized Flowers

5x7 Bind it all cream pages

Spellbinders Borderabilities

Spellbinders S4-239 Borderabilities Petite Classic Scalloped Border Die Template

 

I’m thrilled I’m keeping up with this – being accountable to sharing it in the hop really helps me keep my word front and centre.

 

Ali sends out monthly emails with a prompt for the month and you just complete it as you are inspired to throughout the month. Did you know that the One Little Word class is still open? You still have plenty of time to catch up or why not just jump in with this month’s prompt?

 

 

Here's the latest slideshow of my One Little Word album:

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

 

Did you know we have a OLW flickr group? Join us here

 

For more posts about my One Little Word adventure:

• One Little Word July Blog Hop
• One Little Word June OLW Blog Hop
• One Little Word April Self Portrait
• One Little Word–My album so far
• One Little Word 2011–Grow
• One Little Word 2011

Want more? Check out Sam’s blog

Here’s the rest of the stops:

• Margie       http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog
• Nikki        http://www.inkyart.com.au/
• Monica B    http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/
• Cheri         http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com
• Jamie        http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com
• Jill          http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
• Monica B1    http://Scraplifters.blogspot.com
• Lynn        www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com
• Melissa    http://blog.mshanhun.com
• Sam        http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/
• Jenn        www.studiojenn.blogspot.com
• Maureen    http://cookingmylife.blogspot.com
• Chrissy    http://getcraftywithchrissy.blogspot.com/
• Jan        http://mysimplelittlelife.typepad.com
• Kimberly    http://foreverdaisies.blogspot.com/
• Kathryn    http://www.katlodesigns.com
• Lisa        http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog
• Amanda    http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com
• Cassie    http://craftycassiescorner.blogspot.com/

Thanks again to Margie for Organising this hop!

Happy hopping!

Melissa

*Thank your for using affiliate links to support my blog*

One Little Word July OLW blog hop

Welcome to to my stop on the One Little Word blog hop. If you’ve come from Amanda’s blog welcome! The full list of blogs is at the end of this post.

Ali sends out monthly emails with a prompt for the month and you just complete it as you are inspired to throughout the month. Did you know that the One Little Word class is still open? You still have plenty of time to catch up or why not just jump in with this month’s prompt?

This month I finished off my April pages, worked on May and June. I don't feel behind, but rather that the whole album is evolving over time.

My April note to self is now in a cute little folder. We now have a printer so the May pages are getting added to the album. As for June – I did one larger canvas rather than the smaller ones. I worked on it over the past 5 days (Some of which was done in the car!Sneaking some art in on the way to church!). I’m just going to have to work out how to get it into my album now! You’ll have to see that next month!

Masking the design	Initial pencil work	Adding water
Adding water	More pencil work	Complete!

For the tools I used see this post about my art journalling.     

You can see bigger versions by clicking on the thumbnails or viewing the slideshow below.

Emily came along to help!

While working on my art journalling page Emily wanted to help!

Here's the latest slideshow of my One Little Word album:

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

Did you know we have a OLW flickr group? Join us here

For more posts about my One Little Word adventure:

• One Little Word June OLW Blog Hop
• One Little Word April Self Portrait
• One Little Word–My album so far
• One Little Word 2011–Grow
• One Little Word 2011

Want more? Check out Monica B’s blog
Here’s the rest of the stops:- they should be up from 8am PST on the 1st of July.

• Margie  http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog
• Rebekah http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/
• Kelly http://kellyxenos.typepad.com/
• Julie Ann http://julieannshahin.blogspot.com
• Jill   http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
• Jamie  http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/
• Cherie  http://cheriandrews.blogspot.com
• Nikki http://www.inkyart.com.au/
• Amanda http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com
• Melissa S  http://blog.mshanhun.com – That’s me!
• Monica B http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/
• Lisa A   http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog/
• Sam http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/
• Karen womenontractors.blogspot.com
• Lynn www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com
• Jenn www.studiojenn.blogspot.com
• Kathryn http://www.katlodesigns.com
• Cindy http://seriousplay.typepad.com

Thanks again to Margie for organising this hop!

Happy hopping!

Melissa

*Thank your for using affiliate links to support my blog*

Art Journalling: June One Little Word Sneak Peek

After hearing Julie Fei-Fan Balzar on the Paperclipping Roundtable I’ve been thinking about getting back into some fine art. Then Ali Edwards prompt for One Little Word in June was all about colour, texture and art – so I had to try.

Here’s a sneak peek of my partially finished work using Derwent Metallic Pencils and Art Masking Fluid. I’m completing the rest of it today and will be posting more for the One Little Word Blog Hop on the 1st of July.

If you want to share your latest creations, link me up in the comments!

Melissa

One Little Word June OLW Blog Hop

Welcome to to my stop on the One Little Word blog hop. If you’ve come from Rebekah’s blog welcome! The full list of blogs is at the end of this post.
For our April prompt, I took a photo of myself and I wrote a letter to my self, which is still sitting in the binder where I keep my class materials for all my Big Picture classes. I’ve just shared a snapshot of it a left.
In May we have been writing our to do list:

This is still in digital form as we just moved house and have no printer! I’ll printed add it to the album later. I’ve gone fairly deep with the journalling this time – but I can share that growing a garden is on my list. We used to have such a lovely garden and now in our new home we are back to sand again!
Want to see my album? I’ve put together a few photos of my One Little Word album so far.

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.
Did you know we have a OLW flickr group? Join us here
See more about my One Little Word adventure:

• One Little Word April Self Portrait
• One Little Word–My album so far
• One Little Word 2011–Grow
• One Little Word 2011

Ali sends out monthly emails with a prompt for the month, and I’m working on my June one now. Did you know that the One Little Word class is still open? You still have plenty of time to catch up or why not just jump in with this month’s prompt?
The next blog in the list is Lisa A http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog/
Thanks to Margie for organising this blog hop! Want to see the other blogs? (We are all in different time zones but the posts will be up from 8am PST June 1)
Margie http://xnomads.typepad.com/blog
Jamie http://jmpgirl.blogspot.com/
Jill http://jillconyers.typepad.com/
Amanda http://scrappnbee.blogspot.com
Lynn W www.crafty-creativity.blogspot.com
Rebekah http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/
Melissa S http://blog.mshanhun.com – That’s me!
Lisa A http://backtoallen.com/writers_blog/
Sam http://learncreatedo.wordpress.com/
Jenn www.studiojenn.blogspot.com
Junelle http://yesandamenblog.blogspot.com/
Jen S www.byjen.com
Monica B2 http://questtoperfectimperfection.blogspot.com/
Cindy http://seriousplay.typepad.com
Nikki www.inkyart.com.au
Karen D http://womenontractors.blogspot.com

Happy hopping!
Melissa

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One Little Word April Self Portrait

April Self Portrait, a photo by mshanhun on Flickr.

So I tried a slightly more coppery based tone in my foils this time (and dyed the underneath), just to give me a little change, but without having to cut my slow growing hair much. Thanks Carlie for the great job you did - I love having my hair all done for my birthday!

Ali sends out monthly emails with a prompt for the month, and I’m working on my April one now. Did you know that the One Little Word class is still open? There are over 2000 people in the class and we’ve got heaps of good stuff going on in the forums! There’s even a specific forum for Growth related OLWs!

If you decide to register at Big Picture using my link and purchase Ali’s One Little Word class (or any of the others!), we'll both receive a code for 10% off** our next order. Of course you can always just sign up and select from one of the free classes.

I am blogging about my progress in the classes I’m working on over at Big Picture Classes – so stay tuned!

Are you working on any year long projects? Maybe this Paperclipping Roundtable Episode – Long Projects Chroncicled will give you some inspiration!

Melissa

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One Little Word–My album so far

I’ve just put together a few photos of my album so far.

I’ve been working on my One Little Word album – here’s my progress so far.

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

I am having so much fun doing ‘real’ paper scrapbooking, I’ve been inspired to make a few cards! I’ve been printing most things at actual size and then reshuffling the items to fit in my mini album.

For the embellishing, I’ve been keeping my album simple - I’ve been using Basic grey porcelain rubons and a couple of random flowers and brads I’ve found for this album. My little album is 7.5”x5” and created using my Bind-it-all – but for the time being I’ve just got two jump rings holding it together while I work on it.

Ali sends out monthly emails with a prompt for the month, and I’m working on my April one now. Did you know that the One Little Word class is still open? You still have plenty of time to catch up or why not just jump in with this month’s prompt?

If you decide to register at Big Picture using my link and purchase Ali’s One Little Word class (or any of the others!), we'll both receive a code for 10% off** our next order. Of course you can always just sign up and select from one of the free classes.

I am blogging about my progress in the classes I’m working on over at Big Picture. Are you taking any classes at the moment or perhaps you are playing along with Katie and creating your own curriculum?

Melissa

**Disclaimer: For each new account created with your Registration Code as a "friend", a 10% off code will be issued once the new account has purchased one class. Code will be available under "My Rewards". 10% off code can be used towards Self-Paced classes and Workshops. Code cannot be used towards gift certificate purchases. Melissa’s registration code is D952F179 - or click on http://www.bigpictureclasses.com/register.php?refer=D952F179

One Little Word 2011–Grow

After much thought about my One Little Word I’ve settled on grow.
The prompts in Ali Edwards’ One Little Word class for this month are focusing my thoughts on what this word means to me. By chosing this word I am inviting into my life change, maturity, wisdom, health and joy. I want to grow on the good foundations I’ve built into my life and change for the better this year.
I loved the thesaurus entry and I’m focusing on these aspects: flourish, abound. rise, develop, thrive, mature, sprout, take root, ripen, mellow, increase, gain strength, change.
My little album is 7.5”x5” and created using my new Bind-it-all.
I used:

• Bind-it-all tabbed acrylic cover
• Bind It All Inner Pages 7.5"X5" Sheets 10/Pkg Cream
• chipboard letters
• Prima flowers - I used Camelot Roses - Vanessa
• Martha Stewart Copper Ink - on the letters
• Basic grey porcelain rubons

Most of the items I'm using are from my stash, so I've linked you up to similar items.
Are you documenting your resolutions or word for the year?
Melissa

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