Jennifer Inspired

Win a free ecourse "Prosperity Blooms"!

Michele Bergh is giving away a free pass into her ecourse “Prosperity Blooms!” (click here to check it out!) I took this class from her this Fall, and it has changed the course of my life — my artwork — my creativity — and yes indeedy I have been prospering!

I am thrilled to spread the word and host a giveaway.

So, HOW DO YOU JUMP IN TO GET A CHANCE at PROSPERITY?

• Leave me a comment on this post,
• join my mailing list,
• follow me on Twitter (jennyinspired) or
• or ‘Like’ my Facebook page!

I will draw a winner randomly Friday December 16th at 5:00 pm using random.org. Good luck!!!

Welcome! Follow me to www.jenniferinspired.com

Hello! Thanks for stopping by — I have moved to a new website at http://www.jenniferinspired.com

Feel free to CLICK HERE on over, leave a comment, with a number from 1 to 365 -- you will be entered to win one of my journals! I do a new drawing every two weeks, every other Friday a winner is picked at random, so stop by often, and thanks!

 

ANYONE LOOKING FOR THE FREE COLORING OR JOURNALING TEMPLATE PAGES?

Please double click the file/link below to download or launch the pdf into Adobe Acrobat.

Download JMCOLORING1

If you have any issues, feel free to email me at jenniferinspired@me.com and I can email you the pdf.

 

 

 

 

New Journal Giveaway & News....

Good morning!

Here is the picture of the newest journal for the journal giveaway! This is one of my favorite Cavallini papers, and so here is a Jenny Journal made with it -- and it could be yours!

Also, do you like to art journal? Do you like to participate in collaborative art projets? Come visit my table in the Handmade Marketplace,during the Creative Connection, September 16-17 at the Crowne Plaza, St. Paul! I will have my handmade journals, prints and artwork, and--- an enormouse art journaling 'page' ready for people to contribute too! When it is FULL, I will scan it in and provide all who participated with a color 8x10 print of the final piece. I'll have art supplies and some collage materials, but feel free to bring anything you want. The theme is "What Inspires You?".

Click Here for Information on Creative Connection!

Enter to have a chance to win this journal! The drawing will be September 9th.

Leave a comment with a number from 1 to 365, or email me your name, email, number from 1 to 365 at jenniferinspired@me.com

Updates, Freebies, Giveaways and more....

The drawing for Journal #6 is tomorrow, FRIDAY JULY 29th! I'll extend the drawing 'time' until 5:00 pm central time. Then, I will go out to random.org and have the generator 'choose' a winning number between 1 and 365. The winning number wins the journal! If no one has guessed the number that the generator picks, then it goes to the person with the closest number.

HOW DO YOU ENTER? Leave a comment with your number, or email me at jenniferinspired@me.com.

And, the winner can decide if they want the journal as is - lovely and blank on the covers, or if they'd like, I can do my 'SwirlyDoodles', similar to ....

or, like this,

you just never know, they NEVER turn out the same way!

Summer Camp, Bonus art for you, Journal Giveaway Reminder!

Here is a little bonus art for you! Download and color it any way you'd like.

Good morning Campers! :-) It feels like a day at summer camp this morning! It is so nice and cool outside this morning, we have the doors and windows open to let the nice fresh air through our little home. This is the part of Summer I LOVE.  And, I really do miss summer camp! Hmmmmm, might have to plan a summer camp of my own!

Thank you to everyone who has been following the Daily Creative Journey! I am in the process of catch-up -- funny how LIFE seems to interrupt our plans!

For those who would like to start at the beginning, attached below is a PDF of the first 30 templates. I call these April, because that is when I started them. I'll be adding May, June and catching you all up to July 15. These files will also be posted on the Daily Creative Journey Page (click on that tab at the top of this page).

Download April DCJ Pages

:-) And if you'd like to see others artwork and share your own, feel free to send me scans or pictures of your completed DCJs and I'll post them in a gallery right here on my website!

And, if you haven't been indulging in the fruit of the seasons, get out there! The peaches and cherries are wonderful, and I just had my first nectarine in months -- YUM!!

Also, the next journal giveaway will be Friday July 15th! 2 days away! All you have to do to enter this giveaway, is to leave a comment with a number from 1 to 365 - you can also send me an email at jenniferinspired@me.com or Facebook me!

This is the journal I'm giving away on Friday, one of my Paperista Artista Journals! 7" x 11" with 60 pages, glued spine with case bound covers (no holes or sewn signatures so pages can betaken out to a sheet size of 10"x11".) Inside Paper: Classic Cotton 88 lb Cover Bristol, Recycled Bright White -- my FAVORITE paper, you can use Sharpies, Copics, ANY permanent marker and it does not bleed through! Well - unless you hold a giant Sharpie on on spot and let it bleed for a minute on purpose. This journal is covered with lovely Florentine Italian paper. :-) Good luck!

If you'd like to see what else I have for sale, check out my Etsy shop!

Now, lather on the sunscreen and get out in that glorious summer day -- with your creative art journals of course -- and be inspired! The beauty around us is stunning!

XO & Peace,

Jennifer

I have a secret and I want to share...

Holy Cow.

Hang on to your hats folks!

First you all got an epiphany from me a couple of weeks ago, and now you get to find out another deep dark secret that I've never ever shared here.....it is all part of the e-course I'm taking from Liv Lane. She is challenging us to be brave and authentic and to share with our readers! She is inspiring and amazing and you ALL need to follow her blog, http://www.choosingbeauty.com, the beauty and wisdom that shines through is amazing!

I am scared to death of really being me. I know that doesn't sound that earth-shattering, but let me explain. All of my life I have acted in the 'role' of Jennifer "caretaker-codependent-fixer-Sally Sunshine-dependable-get it done-go to gal-oldest child-people pleaser-super woman". Being a short and chubby kid with glasses who was book smart and not so coordinated in sports, I was typecast as a 'brain' and a 'funny' girl. Then people saw I could draw and was creative, so add 'artsy-fartsy' to that list. I was never the cute or pretty girl, I was always expected to act like an adult from an early age, because I was 'mature' and the oldest and I had too --- my childhood was lived swimming in a deep pool of other people's addictions --- and part of my JOB was to keep it hidden and act like everything was okay. And I did.

Until now. For almost two years now, I have been working on finding ME (with a lot of awesome help from a lot of awesome people). What do I really like? Who am I? What are my REAL opinions and thoughts and feelings? There have been some dramatic changes ---physically, mentally and emotionally --- and I am embracing them all even as they scare me and surprise me!

The coolest part is that more and more often, I find myself experiencing little sparkly moments of authentic "Jenniness" and I smile. And THAT is what I need to hold onto, everyday, in everything I do.

 

May 17th Daily Creative Journey - And GIVEAWAYS!

So, here we are in the middle of May! Can you even believe how fast the last month has gone by?

I am working through my first experience of SARK's Dream Boogie Class and having a blast. If you find yourself in need of an online/teleclass/creative odyssey --- this is the class for you!

As you can probably tell, I have continued my Daily Creative Journey pages into May, and now I am going to add another fun thing to the land o' Jennifer Inspired — weekly journal giveaways!

Like this one that I made...

or, this one that I painted,

And we start now!

Simply leave a comment anytime this week, and pick a number from 1 to 74. On Fridays, I will use the random.org number generator, take a screen shot and the person with the winning number or the closest to it will be the lucky duck that receives a Jennifer Inspired Journal. And....you never know, you could end up winning one of the first Coloring Books. I'm still working on them...........

 

April 13th Daily Creative Journey: Happy Happy Joy Joy

I am featured today!

So....the lovely Chrissy emailed me to have me featured on the Pocket Change website/Be in Style/

Best of the Web: Style Blogs of the Week no. 34

http://pocketchange.become.com/2011/04/best-of-the-web-style-blogs-of-the-week-no-34.html#ixzz1JRIEv2ya

She had found my blog last week along with all my little Daily Creative Journey templates! I hope everyone is enjoying them, and I will post today's shortly. :-)  Happy Journaling!

April 11th: Your Daily Creative Journey

As much as I'd like to promise you will have templates in the morning, I just can't seem to be consistent at that! But I will try. This is a sketch from the quartet of pink asian lilies I got from my husband on Saturday. They just opened today and smell WONDERFUL!!!