Sketched out my girl with charcoal on charcoal paper. Blended a little with a stump. Then I decided I wanted color. So I went over it with chalk pastels, blending with either the stump or my finger.

Awhile back I bought an embossing kit on clearance. It came with 6 powders and inks in different colors, a heat gun, and a little tray all in a pretty and fairly sturdy box. After playing with the kit for a little while it occurred to me that the plastic box it came in would make a good gelli plate substitute. When I got around to experimenting I only had about 15 min so I just grabbed some printer paper and a couple of bottles of craft paint and got to playing.

Nothing special, but I had fun and discovered that yes in fact a smooth plastic surface does make for good monoprinting. I totally need to pull it out and have another go, but in the meantime I think I'm going to make copies of my prints and see how many ways I can use them and how many different looks I can get out of the same sheet. Maybe I'll make stickers  with my new sticker maker.

   I started my afternoon prepping my planner. A little late I know, but I figure better late then never. First, I searched online for a free calendar template. I downloaded and printed the first one I saw. If I spent too much time searching for the perfect one I would never have gotten it done at all. After, I printed the pages I marked my holes and punched them with adjustable three hole punch. I decided rather than make half sheets for my little binder I would make full sized sheets and simply fold them in half. This way I have a whole sheet to make extra notes on the back if I need to. So far I just have the monthly calender pages. But, I plan to add weekly and daily to do lists and a section for blog ideas and planning, I haven't decided what else to add yet, but as you can see in the photo below I have plenty of sections to fill out. I figure I will fill in the planner as I go. Better to create what I need then guess.