My Mondrian Mondays Journal Page #34 on 6 April 2026

 Welcome to Becca's Heart for Creativity, a personal crafting theme blog!

who: I'm Becca S, who is a 60+ year artsy-craftsy mish-mesh style of maker most of the time. Sometimes I restrain my impulses to do 'more is more'!!! Ha-ha! It is so hard for me to Clean and Simple style! For this next Mondrian-influenced geometric design, I had a difficult time deciding what to do. How much of his compositions do I try to bring in? And how do I go about it? My last entry that I loved, had my brain cells urging me to do something very similar. But I did resist. Read on for more insights....

where: This is a non- design team related project so there is not a specific 'where' that this journal page design is tied. If you go back in my previous posts, maybe 3 or 4 entries ago, I did share a few cropped pics of Mondrian's geometric paintings and several of mine scattered during the past year.

when: Monday, April 6, 2026

why: In late August, it will be 2 years since my mom passed. My husband and I had been her caregivers/helpers for 5-6 years before she died up until her last 3 months when she needed skilled nursing care. Her needs changed over time as different falling injuries intensified her needs and started altering how often she needed assistance. I didn't realize until about her last 8 months that I developed caregivers fatigue. My crafting and blogging were my stress relievers but even that precious time was being affected. So I decided to pick a day of the week to alliterate and have a creative muse. Mondrian Mondays grew out of a mental need to do something different. 

what: My Mondrian Mondays #34

how: using black straight lines and white spaces with the design for Mondrian's takeaways; the color palette, circles and dots were my tweaks.

1. an index card and decorative cardboard spool were my tracing templates

2. the colored pencils (8) = Marvy Uchida

3. a fine tip & extra fine tip black markers = Sharpies

4. journaling notebook with 80 peach tone graph paper sheets = bought at Dollar General

5. mechanical pencil was used first to create the grid layout

6, note: I did messed up on my rotation of the colors and even wanting to reverse the direction go from left to right and then right to left. So the color placements ended up being unpredictable...which I guess is a good thing. 

LINK-UPs:

a. Kleuren met Potloden; still open until ; theme is usage of colored pencils; all my applied colors for the design spaces is with colored pencils; markers were applied to my pencil-traced lines and curves.

link = https://kleurenmetpotloden.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-maart-alles-mag.html

b. Allsorts Challenge; new on Apr 4th/open; theme is 'it's springtime' or anything goes; My chosen color palette is springy how because it's a journal page, I'll indicate it as A.G.

link = https://allsortschallenge.blogspot.com/2026/03/challenge-846.html

c. A Place to Start; Monday April 6; anything goes or option of ombre; My color palette is analogous tones but not applied in a ombre approach...so A.G.

link = https://hereisaplacetostart.blogspot.com/2026/04/challenge-202604-april-2026-anything.html

d. Creative Aunts Challenge; new on Mon April 6; theme of circles

link = https://kreativtanten-challenge.blogspot.com/2026/04/112-kreise-circles.html

e. 613 Avenue Create; new on Sunday Apr 5; theme of anything goes or opt of April showers; MY journal page is A.G.

link = https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/04/april-2026-anything-goes-w-optional.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

** this is a non-design team related creation

* owner/DT = ConBC; CCC; AA; plus HQCB, HQFCB, HQCOLCB, HQLQCB, and HQFSCAT; also FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHCB and FQGGCB.

* DT member only = CIP; PRS and Pin-spirational