REVolution

#52promisestome #5 BE GRATEFUL

a new week, a new promise! and this week is all about BEING GRATEFUL. because, seriously, THINK about it, and you'll find so freaking much to be grateful for, even in the darkest of days and shittiest of times you can find the good in the ugly.

this is the art journal page I made:

journaling is in Dutch. here's what i had to say about it:

BE GRATEFUL. be grateful for all i already have. i am such an expert in looking up at others, see how much success they have, ambitious woman (and i don't even want to be them, or be ambitious), or how they are 'doing' on social media, way more followers than i have, more likes or comments. and mostly better and more beautiful pieces of art. but i truly truly need to promise myself and allow myself to be super grateful for all i have now, and mostly all i had dreamed of! i live the life that only a few years ago i had invisioned. i can almost work fulltime from home. i can be at home all the time when the kids are out of school or are on holidays. i only have to be 2 mornings a week at the company. ar and i rebuild our dream home, and we have the most amazing beautiful wild garden which is heaven for the kids, and my own freaking studio next to our living room is simply heaven and a dream come true. i can create as much and as often as i want. so jesus freaking frig, BE GRATEFUL for once! you already have it all. kids doing great, are very social and have lots of empathy. Arjan and i have build a warm & loving family of our own and if i would only look and notice how beautiful every day is (yes, with all the shitty parts too), i can only BE GRATEFUL.

here are some detail shots:

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
title is made on watercolor paper and glued onJane Davenport watercolors
white molotow acrylic marker
black micron pen 1.0
Ecoline White
lots and lots of small alphabet letters. don't know the manufacturer, they are old and came in a tube. i'm guessin KI Memories.
gel medium
fabric and felt for the hearts
tombow markers to add lines to the fabric hearts

show me what you've made for this week on Instagram, and use the hashtag #52promisestome. i promise to find you! happy creating everybody!
love

Easy watercolor in your art journal #5

i LOVE to combine watercolors with doodling in my art journal. a bit handlettering with a brush and watercolors and i'm totally happy.

to see how i made this cute art journal page, go watch my video. oh. and i messed up. big time. but that's how i roll and i just keep going. i'm not perfect, FAR FROM, and i feel 'perfectly fine' by being me with all the stuff i mess up or forget. so, GO and watch happy stuff being made: 

 

 

and of course some close up shots so you can see it a bit better :) 

don't you love that quote from Maya Angelou? "the real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself". how true is that?!

love,

#52promisestome #4 OFFLINE

52promisestome #4 OFFLINE

it is actually kinda absurd how much we (i :) are online. check email. check business email. check webshop mail. check Etsy messages. go to facebook. instagram.youtube. twitter. pinterest. news sites. and back to instagram it is. watching a few stories and before you know it, 1 or maybe 2 hours have passed by. the book you wanted to read still lies untouched. 4 Flow Magazines, on a pile, not read. "had no time yet" is what i tell myself. 

or that crochet project i started months ago and wanted to finish it months ago too. and it's just such a shame. you are not getting anywhere by keep going online. sure, sometimes it's nice to see what your friends are up to, what fellow-entrepeneurs (hello :) are doing. but more times than most i feel empty and feel so much better when i put down my phone. go artjournal, read, crochet, draw. play games. build a barbie dollhouse with Sanne. thinking up plans and ideas together how we can make it beautiful. so this is such a nice promise to myself: BE AND DO MORE OFFLINE. put that thing down, pancake! be conscious of what you are doing. don't pick up my smartphone without thinking. put a timer on. FREE MYSELF.

and are you ready to join in? here's the list for January, this week i'll show you the words for February too! it's easy, just follow me on Instagram, and let me know that you are joining. use the hashtags #52promisestome and i'll watch your every move. that sounded more creepy than i meant. haha.

 

 

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
title is made on watercolor paper and glued on
winsor & newton watercolors
white molotow acrylic marker
black micron pen 1.0
stickles from Ranger to add the glitterzzzzzz

happy creating everybody!
love

 

memory keeping in my creative planner

this week in my creative planner (last week of september 2017):
daddy mcGyver made them a pulley for their treehouse! well. it's not really a treehouse, but they sit on that tree and imagine the treehouse <3. we had this flagpole lying around (yup. we have the strangest stuff just hanging around), and he used it. i think he secretly wants to sit up there.

i asked them to go find me some chestnuts because i wanted to paint them. they came home. proudly! and handed me a bag of empty sleeves. GO kids :P

i did my daily walk (winning!) and we FINALLY found a couch we all 4 loved. or was it, that we were sick of looking and bought the first one we saw at IKEA. that might be a true story. who knows :P

and that's why keeping memory like this is so much fun. when i read this, it comes to mind directly, while otherwise i would have never ever remembered this. and i'm all about remembering it ALL. <3

Love,

scrapbook or art supplies haul + video

oh yes! FINALLY. finally i have been to a real scrapbooking (and mixed media) store! it has been years, seriously! which was not bad for the money department actually, but man did i needed to spendddddd. haha.

so i went to Scrapdelight (no, no affiliate or anything), and was happy to see there large collection of products. i was especially curious about all the Jane Davenport products!

i made a cute little video of all the stuff i bought, so if you are very very curious, go check it out here:

i tried to find all the links to the supplies i bought. it has been a few months already, so some stuff I couldn't even find already :O, but here's where you could find some of it:

Inkredible pen Jane Davenport
sequins SDL, not on their site at the moment

puffy stickers Pink Paislee
puffy stickers Pebbles
puffy stickers Crate Paper
twin tone markers Tombow

watercolors bright Jane Davenport 

prima watercolor nap 45 Paradise
zipper pouch
sticker book Shimelle for American Crafts
butterfly book Jane Davenport (different cover:)
inner pages SDL gouden dot, not on their site at the moment

watercolor inner pages Jane Davenport
tattoos Jane Davenport (rubons)
Shimelle Glitter Girl Holographic Ephemera 30/PKG

so, let's get going and buy alll ze goodiiezzzzz (really, no affiliate, i just can't help my self setting others up to buy more stuff haha!).

love,

#52promisestome #3 LETTING GO.

the next promise to me is up, and this week it's LETTING GO. and man, that is a hard one for me. and i'm guessing for so many people! the journaling is in Dutch, but you can read the English translation if you scroll down a bit.

curious what this "52promisestome" is all about? check out this post. you can join whenever you want & make the weeks i have already made, or just jump in and start where you are. you are doing this for you, and nobody else, so make up your own rules :).

 

 

journaling is in Dutch:
LETTING GO. oh, my head can keep spinning in circles and circles around and around. especially after nasty conversations or events. and mostly with dominant and manipulative people. i notice that the conversation keeps on in my head like a long-playing record. and ofcourse i focus on what i have not said. what i did not do. what i should have said. and grind and worry. and everytime i think "STOP. it's enough Rev, now GO and think happy thoughts!". and seriously, after 10 seconds i notice i'm thinking of the horrible conversation again. and than i get mad at myself. stop it already. maybe it's a form of dealing with emotions? a form of processing? that i need to replay those converstaions a hundred times, feel it & go through the emotions again. before i can "give it a place" in my head. what is that really? my brain seem to be one big pond where stuff is just randomly floating in it and everything is constantly moving & changing. a little duck who swims through it, changes everything again. and so on. and so on. SO LET IT GO. nice promise. but HOW. not really clear for me yet. writing stuff down seems to help, but sometimes i just don't feel like writing everything down. WASTE OF MY TIME. but yeah, grinding & worrying is also a WASTE OF TIME. so, here we are: LET IT GO <3.

supplies i've used to make this art journal page:
of course my own art journal :)
winsor & newton watercolors
white molotow acrylic marker
pencil
stickles from Ranger to add the glitterzzzzzz

 

so show me your pages in Instagram and let's play together! 

courage dear heart.

 

courage dear heart. me loving green & aqua. purple is winning ground though!

and there is something about this girl. she looks strong but also vulnerable. she looks happy but i can see sadness in her eyes too. maybe it is how i feel lately. and i need to keep those thoughts to myself. 

love,

 

are you a great believer of luck?

 

"i am a great believer in LUCK & i find the harder i work, the more i have of it". not sure if this is very true. sometimes when you work too hard for something, it seems to get out of your reach more and more. sometimes you just have to let go to make it happen. don't force it.

Love,

memory keeping to remember it all.

another week covered in my creative planner. journal. thingie. and i just journal about my random stuff in the week. like not heaving a dish washer (for a few months, kids jumped in to help with the dishes, and they were so happy to do so. NOT)

but also me being extremely happy with a table in my empty studio, but i was able to create there!! and a spinach-oven recipe from Judith, which was gone in 60 seconds :). 

there is something magical about journaling your life. now it's seems mundane. in a few years, it's special.

love!

Easy watercolor in your art journal #4

 

ohhhh my next video "easy watercolor with Revlie" is up on my youtube and i have to tell ya, it's the cutest! i've made my cute little up-side-down galaxy girl for you! this time it's a LONG video, almost an hour! but don't worry! for those of you who are always in a hurry (slow down by the way!), can also check out my quick version of it! maybe you get a little bit dizzy by my amazing speed, but hey, that's what you asked for!

SO FOR THE NORMAL (LONG) VERSION (speed up time 2x) check out this one:

 

 

AND FOR THE SHORT VERSION (speed up time 6x) check out this one:

 

 

 and because i'm thinking you need to seeeeeeee it all more closely, here are some cute pics:

and because this smarty pants wasn't paying attention, i got some pics while she was standing up. duh. ofcourse she needed to be hanging down. but you'll get the idea <3.

SERIOUSLY, how cute is she?! one day i'm hoping to get my hair exactly like her!

so, you were wondering, supplies used hey?!

SUPPLIES USED:
strath more visual journal
watercolors (Jane Davenport and Winsor & Newton)
black pen (micron)
white acrylic marker (Molotow)
Tombow markers
brush
and of course a pot of water

 

so, let me know what you think, get your art journal out there, stop scrolling the internetzzzzz people and start CREATING!!