This year for our Book of Me at the Awesome Ladies Project, we’re creating pages each month inspired by a female artist. During the lessons we’re learning about their creative themes and translating them into our own storytelling styles thanks to video tutorials, creative prompts, and project inspiration.
For my Book, I’m doing digital in Canva that I’ll print out when finished and add to my previous 6×8 Book of Me album. I’ve decided to go with the co titles of “A Year of amazing female artist inspiration” and “A year of self portraits”. Each month my page will include a photo of the featured artist, a quote by the artist, some of their art as well as using some of the creative prompts for the month. Then I’m adding a selfie.
I’m thinking of making it more interactive by making my selfie a tip-in so I can add some info about me unerneath. Not 100% sure as yet.
I’ve used some of the Planners Anonymous Creative Kits for elements on my pages as well as elements from Canva. Images of the artists and their work was sourced from a Google search
Are you passionate about telling your stories with pretty paper and creative supplies? Do you love cheering on fellow creatives and want a bigger role in the Awesome Ladies Project community? We’re looking for a few enthusiastic, inclusive folks to join our next Creative Team—and we’d love to have you apply.
I’ve been watching videos by Hither & Yon and Ink & Page, following along with their April projects. Hither & Yon is a grungy acordian album. Ink and Page‘s project is The Star Catcher’s Journal. Photos coming as soon as I’ve finished them.
Been prepping for Messy May
Been playing with digital journals in Noteful on my iPad
What’s in store for May?
Messy May
Creative Warrior Bootcamp
Cricut Crafting Adventures
Mastering Mixed Media
Art of Expression summit
local crafternon doing eco-printing
Over at the Awesome Ladies we continuing to work on our Book of Me albums using a monthly artist inspiration – May’s artist is Georgia O’Keeffe. There’s also a continuation of the work we began last month with our Creative Seeds, looking at our Creative Roots. And book in June 1–7 for the laid-back Organization Week. We’ll tackle one bite-size step each day: peek at the chaos, sketch a game plan, ditch what’s not serving us, and put the good stuff back where it actually makes sense.
So many exciting things happening this year over at the ALP (Awesome Ladies Project)
Book of me is back again this year and sounds like it is going to be an artistic journey
This year’s Book of Me project is all about drawing inspiration from powerful female artists—women who have used their creativity to tell their own stories, push boundaries, and leave a lasting impact.
We’ll explore a new artist each month, learning from their techniques, styles, and creative philosophies, and then use that inspiration to tell our own stories. No art skills required—just a willingness to experiment, play, and tell your story.
You can sign up over here. OR join the Feminist Scrapbook School and get the Book of Me project as part of your membership.
You can join the Feminist Scrapbook School and learn more by checking out this page.
For more about Book of Me, check Kristin’s following posts:
Over the last week a bunch of ladies at the Awesome Ladies Project have been taking part in an intensive organisation of our craft areas.
We each picked an area to organise during the week. I picked my craft desk/bureau & raskog carts that live in our bedroom. My main goal was to have a clean space with the things I use frequently in easy reach. I plan to use this space for working in my planner, doing memory planning, junk journaling and working on my ALP projects like me Book of Me.
So this is my space before the intensive
I started by looking at what boxes I had and what was in the boxes, then sorted all that by the following areas – paper, tools, adhesives, inks, stamps, dies and embellishments.
To start my papers, I decided to put all the paper I could find in the area into one box, that ended up being two boxes. I then sorted my papers into “purpose” – junk journaling, memory planner, planner and scrapbooking. As I was going through I also started creating a box of paper to use during workshops. One only needs a certain amount of old book pages.
Next day was tools and adhesives. I decided I wanted to create a ‘frequent use’ tool and adhesive caddy that I could keep out and was easily accessible. All my other adhesives is going to go in a small lidded box and be stored under the bed. After I worked out what tools I use nearly every time, I sorted the rest into ‘tools I use a lot but not every time’ and ‘tools that can go to my main craft room’. Some of these will get stored on my pegboard when I get it up on the wall and the rest will go in another small box under the bed. Smaller stencils will live in an A5 binder in my bureau.
Day 4 was stamps, inks and dies. Dies were easy, my die cutting machines are all out in the craft room so they will live out there. I’ve put the inks I use all the time, my stamp blocks and my stamping tool in the bureau drawer. The rest of my inks will go in my stamping raskog in the craft room. Stamps I have sorted into: Heidi Swapp Stop the Blur stamps. These will stay in my Memory Planner raskog. Planners Anonymous kit stamps. These are going to the craft room stamping raskog. Stamps for art journaling. These are staying inside but I’m not sure where they will live as yet.
Day 5 was embellishments. I really struggled with this one and I am nowhere near finished it. I have managed to sort my Stop the Blur kits though. Stickers and alphas are stored in an A5 binder, washi in my washi drawers and everything else is in a couple of sets of drawers that will live on my memory planner raskog. I’ve started setting up storage for my Junk Journal supplies. I bought some 4 drawer and 5 drawer storage for papers and ephemera. My washi is in drawers sorted by width, except for my Planners Anonymous washi which have their own containers.
Overall I am super happy with what I got done, even though there is still a bit to do but I’m working though it a little each day. I have also learned that I need to measure the space I have before buying storage supplies.
Onto the next 10 days of my 100 Day Project. For this block I finished the ALP Spring Orientation, took a side quest of doing some art with the oldest and started on Women’s History Month Daily pages.
I’m guessing the next few blocks will be lots of the daily pages but I’ll share them all together when they are done.
I love my Books of Me. I get to tell my stories not just my stories as part of a family, as a mum etc etc.
This year I’m trying a different format – it’s a bound mini book I bought as part of a journaling set (I only wanted the washi and all the goodies, the book was a bonus).
After taking part in the Book of Me Bootcamp I’ve managed to get my theme picked, cover and name pages done, as well as a couple of extra bits from bootcamp.
The theme I’m going with for this book is vintage and steam-punk. I’m a bit of a vintage style bender at the moment and I’m loving it.
Days 1 to 10, I’ve worked on my Book of Me boot camp pages, finished the Storyteller’s Almanac, The Artist’s Compass and started the last bit of the Spring Orientations for the ALP Feminist Scrapbook School.
There’s been a bit of talk in the craft world this week about The 100 Day Project. That’s probably because it starts on the 18th February, so this coming weekend.
I have tried numerous times to complete this but never finished it but recently during a discussion over at the Awesome Ladies, someone suggested working through the amazing classes and challenges on the site. Now I’m known for starting classes and usually not finishing them, so my 100 Day Project is…… working through all the classes and challenges I’ve signed up for at the Awesome Ladies and getting them finished.
I think I’ll post my creations here every 10 days and on my Insta but we’ll see how I go.
#The100DayProject is a free, global art project that takes place online. Every year, thousands of people all around the world commit to 100 days of creating. Anyone can participate (yes, that means you!).
Save the date: the next round of the project starts February 18, 2024!
Let me know if you’re taking part and where you’re sharing so I can come cheer you along
