My Mondays Mixed Media Journal Page #5 on 20 July 2026

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

who: Hello! I'm Becca S, a 60+ year old artsy-craftsy blogger, who loves mish-meshing ages of products plus different companies' products! For me that's part of the creative fun...like solving a jigsaw puzzle!

where: This is a non-design team related project. When my blogging schedule allows, I enjoy doing something creative that I want to take some time to do. 

when: Monday, July 20, 2026

why: About two months ago or so, I started 'My Mondays Mixed Media Journal' and this is #5 page.

what: MMMMJP #5 = weather theme journal page

how: mediums used are: colored pencil, colored ink pen, stamp pad ink, alcohol marker, washable marker, highlighter marker, soft waxy/paint, gold glitter finish acrylic paint & permanent marker. 

processes include: cursive handwriting, stenciling/tracing, dotting, smearing, coloring... 

1. 9 inch x 6 inch spiral bound sketchbook; 30 sheets of medium surface = Tree House Pad and Paper, Inc.

2. yellow (for large circle/sun) and blue (pool of water) Paint Sticks = sold in a 4-color set by Art Skills = in my stash box for over 2 years; and blue was softer, waxier than the yellow and went on thick so I used a tissue to help smear the blue to give the look of splashed out water...this also helped it to dry quicker

3. teal/aqua blue (for clouds with rain) highlighter marker = Bic; I've had these for 2-3 years

4. hot pink and red ink pens (+ navy blue for 1 set of waves) = Paper Mate

5. gray, black colored pencils (for the quarter moon) = Marvy Uchida; I've had these for 3-4+ years

6. Pea Green alcohol marker (borderline) = Arteza; I've had a few colors of Arteza alcohol markers given to me 3-4+ years ago

7. yellow washable marker (for 3 little suns that were stenciled & 1 stenciled star) = Jot

8. gold glitter finish acrylic paint (dots) = Folk Art/Plaid; I've had this small paint bottle for 2 years or more 

9. Narwhal/gray mini stamp pad (dots/dabs) = Lawn Fawn

10. children's/folk/country song "You Are My Sunshine" = written by Paul Rice and then he sold the rights for $35 to Jimmie Davis who along with Charles Mitchell, played/sung/recorded the song. 1939-1940. 

11. many suns stencil sheet = Simple Stories

12. large circles were created with a homemade stencil (punched hole in an index card)

13. star, irregular border line(s), cloud with rain lines, set of 2 wave lines = very old stencils and stencil ruler found at my mom's house in the past 2 years; I think these are about 40-50 years old!!!! 

LINK-UPs:

1A. The Neglected Stuff; started July 5/still open; theme/usage = old or neglected items of 1 year or more; My journal page has stencil rulers that my mom kept for the past 40-50 years. Some stash supplies have been indicated above for either a 2-3 years range or 3-4+ years range.

link = https://neglectedstuff.blogspot.com/2026/07/neglected-july-2026-challenge.html 

1B. Crea Ladies; still open; theme = splash/splatters; My journal page has dabs of gold glitter paint on the left half and gray ink dots on the right half. Also the blue 'pool of water' has smeared streaks of the waxy paint that give a look of splashed water (read how-to notes #2, 8, 9)

link = https://crealadies-challengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/06/challenge-7-spetter-pieter-pater.html

1C. We Love 2 Create; still open; theme is anything mixed media crafting goes; My journal page has 4 different types of markers plus ink pens and stamp pad ink along with colored pencils, glitter acrylic paint and a soft waxy 'paint' 

link = https://welove2create.blogspot.com/2026/07/challenge-7-craft-card-making.html

1D. Wednesday's Creative Inspiration; started on July 1st & still open; theme is summer sunshine; On my weather themed mixed media art journal page I have a large yellow sun and then 3 small stenciled suns w/ rays for sunshine

link = https://cinspirations.blogspot.com/2026/07/july-challenge-summer-sunshine.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

**this is a non-DT project; for personal creative fun

*DT member only = PRS and Pin-spirational owned by Deanne; CIP owned by Marlene

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

 [HQLQCB is Heart's Quest Lovable Quotables Challenges Blog with the theme of 'anything goes quotes'. On the blog and each session post, I have categories of quote ideas that you can use in your creative projects such as song lyric quoting as seen in this journal page. Other ideas are: poetry, books, Bible and other religious documents, meal time or bedtime prayers, Chinese proverbs, philosophers, movie character lines, dictionary definition and more.]

 

My Mondays Mixed Media Journal Page #3 on 22 June 2026 Cocoa Cups for Two

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

who: Hello! I'm Becca S; a 60+ year old living with my 70+ year old husband and our 15-16 year old doggy, Mister Bennett, in north central Illinois. We met while both being in the St. Louis/St. Charles counties/metro areas of Missouri; being introduced by his oldest sister about 3 months after he was widowed. Dated, engaged and wedded within 7 months + 1 week!!!!!!! 

where: this is just for fun; not connected to any of my challenge blogs or others' challenges design team(s)

when: MMMMJP #3 was made on Monday June 22, 2026; blogged on 06/23/2026

why: I did about 13-14 months of a Piet Mondrian influenced geometric design pages on Mondays and then I filled the notebook. About 5 weeks ago I started a less page notebook (30 sheets; probably will have 14 or 15 mixed media pages) to be my experiments with mixed media. 

what: Cocoa Cups for Two mixed media page (MMMMJP #3)

how: 

1. colored pencils: 2 tones of peach, 1 yellow, 1 orange, 1 pink, 1 red = stash box/some are by Marvy Uchida + 2 shades of brown for a wood table sketch + 1 black for the space under and next to the wood table

2. stamp pad ink: Lawn Fawn's Fish Tank (blue) mini stamp pad

3. clear stamp: "Happy Day" is part of Bo Bunny's Willow and Sage stamp set

4. texture rubbing: I placed a small sheet of pearl gems under the paper and did a texture rubbing then the stamping was placed over it

5. markers: yellow for the sun, brown for cocoa steam from Jot

6. gold glitter paint: used for moisture/steam look for above the cups = Folk Art/Plaid

7. stickers = cocoa 'whipped cream' dollops (not as poop!); puffy mixed icon shape stickers package by American Greetings, LLC.  

8. stickers = puffy "Pop Tarts", muffin and cookie stickers = a food theme pack of little puffy shapes = American Greetings, LLC. 

9. stickers = chalkboard style cup stickers (pack comes with handles-- half with handles on the left and half with handles on the right) = Crafter's Square

10. stencil = repeating suns- filled sheet = Simple Stories

11. black gel pen = used to give some distinction for the sun and sun rays = Paper Mate's Ink Joy gel pen 4-color set

LINK-UPs:

1A. First Cup Challenges; new on June 2, 2026; anything drink/beverage related; My journal page has 2 cups with faux cocoa 'whipped cream' dollops

link = https://firstcupchallenges.blogspot.com/2026/06/first-cup-challenge-15-june.html

image prompt = 

2A. Dream Valley; new on June 15/week 2 of 2; anything goes

link = https://dreamvalleychallenge2.blogspot.com/2026/06/challenge-364-anything-goes.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

*** this is a non-design team commitment project; just for fun

*DT member only = PRS and Pin-spirational owned by Deanne; CIP owned by Marlene

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

**** FQGGCB is highlighted because it's FarmQuest Grocery Game Challenges Blog that has an anything food and/or drink goes theme. Current challenge #30 started on May 27, 2026 and has a new ending length/extended session time to July 15, 2026. The next challenge, #31, will start on July 27th. 

 

My Mondays Mixed Media Journal Page #1 on 18 May 2026

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

where: this is a non-design team related commitment; essentially just for fun!

when: created on Monday May 18 and blogged on Tuesday May 19, 2026

why: last Monday, May 11th was my last entry in My Mondrian Mondays Journal notebook that used famous Dutch artist Piet Mondrian's color blocking and black grid divider line compositions for my influence. This new sketchbook will be packed with mixed media experimentations. And it was just random ideas to start with the swirls and then go to a large floral shape using the gel-wax like highlighter....I did stick with a pink monochrome with gold metallic; there was supposed to be some silver glitter in a white acrylic paint but it not showing....

what: A Storm of Pink; art journal page #1

Pic 1 =

Pic 2 = flower on the left was made with pink gel type highlighter with red-purple glitter glue stamens; then a gold glitter acrylic paint flower shape; then a bright pink glitter glue flower shape w/ red-purple glitter glue stamens

Pic 3 = gold glitter acrylic paint streaks and also silver glitter acrylic (looking white ) paint streaks ; in the background, three pink tone colored pencils were held together and drawn in circular swirls across the page for the first/foundational layer

how:

1. sketchbook of 30 medium weight sheets = Tree House Pad & Paper, Inc.  

2. three pink tone colored pencils used for circular swirls = stash box

3. reddish-purple/magenta glitter glue = I Magine

4. bright lighter pink glitter glue = I Magine

5. pink gel highlighter (1 of 3 colors set) = I believe it was by Creative Devotion (pink, silver, gold)

6. gold glitter paint = Plaid's Folk Art Extreme Glitter Gold acrylic paint

7. silver glitter paint = Crafter's Closet Art Basics Acrylic Silver Glitter Paint (not showing as silver glitter but more white on the white paper)...hmm...

8. the glues and paints did cause the paper to dry a bit warped and that's affected the scanning; causing gray shadow 'rays' or streaks...sigh.....

LINK-UPs:

1A. Mix It Up Challenges; new on May 1 and open to June 15; mixed media anything goes; (option of stamped background; not doing)

link = https://mixitupchallenge.blogspot.com/2026/05/miucb-83-anything-goes-optional-stamp.html

1B. Crafting Happiness Challenges; new on May 12; anything goes

link = https://craftinghappinesschallenges.blogspot.com/2026/05/challenge-213.html

1C. Make My Monday; new on May 18; theme is 'say it with flowers'; my art journal page has large floral shapes in gel and glitter glue

link = https://mmmchallengeblog.blogspot.com/2026/05/278-say-it-with-flowers.html

1D. 613 Avenue Create; open for May; anything goes with opt/twist: May flowers; my art journal page has large floral shapes in gel and glitter glue

link = https://avenue613.blogspot.com/2026/05/may-2026-anything-goes-w-optional-twist.html 

1E. We Love 2 Create; started Tues May 5; anything goes mixed media/paper-crafting; my art journal page used 2 acrylic paints, 3 pink toned colored pencils, a pink gel-type highlighter, 2 colors of glitter glues, 

link = https://welove2create.blogspot.com/2026/05/challenge-3-craft-card-making.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

***this is a non-design team challenge blog commitment; just for fun***

*DT member only = PRS and Pin-spirational owned by Deanne; CIP owned by Marlene

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