November Calendar complete and December written in, plus Collage Lab's Treasure Trovember

    

This is the completed left side of November, 2021.

This is the right side of my November calendar.  My calendar is far more colorful than my life.  I would like to say how pleased I was with Art Every Day Month, or AEDM this year.  I was so glad so many of my friends joined me because I am NOT on Facebook or Instagram, where most participants probably shared their work.

This is my December calendar ready to be written in.  For some reason, I thought the Arc de Triomphe looked like an open door when I stamped it.  I had planned to share it with Valerie's theme at Art Journal Journey, but I'm not sure even Valerie would think this would qualify now that I have it on my blog.  Note I dropped part of my ink pad on the page and it left a mark before I could retrieve it.

I also participated in Treasure Trovember at Collage Lab.  Each day there was a different item we had to incorporate on a sheet of card stock or watercolor paper.

 

Treasure Trovember completed.

I have written out the daily prompts and what I created.

1.  Add background squares.  I used book pages torn into six squares.

2.  Add something vintage.  I added a vintage hot air balloon (upside down).

3.  Add something related to water.  I stamped a small beach scene twice.

4.  Add three circles.  Mine had R in the center.

5.  Add something you would take to a desert island.  I added sunglasses.

6.  Add a dotted line. Mine went from the left side of the page to the vintage hot air balloon. 

7.  Add something large scale. I used another hot air balloon, this time much larger.

8.  Add food.  I added two Bundt cakes.

9.  Add a bunch of polka dots.  I used gold paint on my paintbrush handle and an eraser, along with black dots around the R circles.

10. Make marks on something from nature.  I used lavender ink on grasses and a stick from my yard.

11. Use your least favorite color.  I added pink dye ink through a brick stencil.

12. Add something playful. I stamped two rocking horses.

13. Add handwriting or asemic writing. I wrote around the large hot air balloon.

14. Add a song.  I added vintage sheet music.

15. Add texture. I added black corrugated cardboard.

16. Draw a bold shape. I painted around a saucer using green acrylic.

17. Add a sea creature.  I added some microbes from Under the Sea.

18. Add a number.  I added the numbers '14' and 'fifteen.'

19. Cover something with paint.  I scraped gold paint onto the sea creatures.

20. Add something metallic.  I added gold stripes around the bold green shape.

21. Add a building.  I added Roman Emperor Diocletian's Palace in Split, Croatia. 

22. Add 5 diagonal lines.  I added three gel pen lines, one blue, and one purple marker.

23. Stamp with something unique.  I stamped 2 circles from tape dispensers and a piece of cut red rubber. 

24. Add a face.  I cut a woman's face from a magazine.

25. Add typography.  I computer generated various fonts.

26. Add a plant or tree. I added washi tape trees.

27. Add some drips. I added pink below the brick stencil and blue with glitter along the right side of the page.

28. Add contour drawing with non-dominant hand.  I drew a snowman with a top hat.

29. Add a pattern. I added two stickers with the same pattern, one pattern a bit larger than the other.

30. Add a celebration.  I added paint chip samples from a circle punch and three small paper punches representing confetti.

I inverted it so you could see the images I added that were upside down.  I had fun doing this challenge and will do it again next year, too.  I understand the prompts will be left for six months in case you want to create a page using them.

Thanks again for laughing at viewing my November calendar and seeing my Treasure Trovember creation.  I'm not sure I'll be able to have the same calendar next year.  My friend Sally said she ordered me one, but hers, which has far more pages and options, and mine have not come yet.  According to Sally, the Day Timer web site cautioned the calendars wouldn't be in until late December this year.