CRUSADE No. 43 ~ Text Messaging

Whoop!  Eighty-nine links!  You guys rocked the last crusade!  I LOVED seeing how everyone interpreted the challenge.  We saw so much great stuff and we met alot of new friends.  I could feel your enthusiasm for how cool this simple experiment turned out, and how good it made you feel to accomplish making a fabulous page or two.  Some of you made even more than that.  Well done EVERYONE!!  Hooray for creativity and hooray for making connections!

Material requirement for this month:  found type, adhesive, scissors or utility knife, journal pages

Browse through magazines or newspapers and grab lines of text.  The found typography can be used to create messages, or just placed onto the page as an abstract background.  It's up to you whether you cut or rip, and whether you place onto your page in a linear format or attach randomly.

 

Easy!  Don't feel like you have to *finish* a page.  Sit on it a while.  Maybe you will never finish it.  You can leave as is and let it just be a lesson.  Or you can lightly cover with gesso and paint, or spray paint over part of it, or apply images....but don't feel like you have to show us a completed page.    

 

There are many lessons to be learned by taking on this assignment.  You will discover more than just those mentioned here.  Does there even HAVE to be a point?  No.  Duh.  It's just a fun experiment, and it's quick, and cheap, and easy!  Oh, and cool.

I will be away for a while in the middle of August.  I'm not sure if I will have internet access so the link list may not be updated if links come in during that time.  Please check the comments to visit participants while I am away.  And behave yourselves (as in don't forget to leave encouraging comments!)

 

EDIT:  Participating links have been moved from sidebar to here.  Visit them to learn more about how a great groups of artists interpreted the challenge.  Some links may no longer be active. 

Ariel Gill
Bev Baird
Brigitte
Carmen Nessman
Cath Sheard
Cath Wilson
Christy Sobolewski
Christy Sobolewski (more)
Daisy
Debra
Drycha
Elena Nosyreva
Elena Nosyreva (more)
Gail
Gez
Gez (more)
Gil Jussara
Hanna Andersson
Helen
Helena
Jackie
Jane Royal
Janet
Karen
Kari Desaulnier
Kate Robertson
Kimber
Kimber (more)
Krissie
Lee
Lena
Lenna Andrews
Lizbeth
Lizbeth (more)
MakeALife
Mandy McMahan
Mandy McMahan (more)
Marcia
Mary
Maureen
Melanie Philpott
Melanie Philpott (more)
Michelle Ward
Mona
Mona (more)
Pat
Paula Bogdan
Paula Bogdan (more)
Peggy Gatto
Quinn
Rachel
Regina Rooks
Rosemary Griffin
Rosie Rowe
Rosie Rowe (more)
Sarah
Sheila Jones
Sophie
Sue Roddis
Susan King
Suzanne Bouchard

TJ

Viki Banaszak

  

Comments

[Michelle Brown]

Thank goodness we can do some neat cutting on this one! That tearing stuff was too challenging ;)

[Makealife]

tp://makealifeandmore.blogspot.com/2010/08/make-your-own-glue.html
my page which i did with homemade glue
XO MAKEALIFE

[Chris]

Oh, you KNOW I'm ripping and tearing! And this is an awesome challenge! It's definitely the word on the Street! I never thought about using text as a background!?!!! Simply elegant.

[Michelle Ward]

@Michelle: you did a great job ripping. I thought you faced your fears and conquered them!

@Make: You are quick!!

@Chris: Thanks for your enthusiasm :)

[Joan]

I love text and different fonts!! Yay, this is right up my alley!! :)

[Christy]

I have a huge pile of text to just grab from so I made two random pages with video for this crusade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWndCCJVLyY&feature=youtube_gdata

I messed up big on the first one so in the middle of it, while the mess was drying, I made this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlC2cRfyEyY&feature=youtube_gdata

[peggy gatto]

Reminds me of the ransom messages sent with cut out words so the handwriting could not be identified!
HMMMM ...this will be fun!
( I am not making light of crime, just a similarity)

[Lisa Riseman]

Christy, I love your videos. Thanks for sharing them with us. It has given me some ideas. I really don't use text much as a design element and you make it look so easy.

[daisy]

I've made just one page background to be completed in a future crusade. I found some great phrases in just a couple of magazines (which is just as well as I only had two in the recycling box!).

http://distinctly-daisy.blogspot.com/2010/08/art-journal-text.html

daisy xx

[Rosie]

I had such fun making my page and found out I was doing what you challenged this month! Coinky-dink? Maybe... But I love your backgrounds and shall experiment further!!

Meanwhile, here's a page:

http://alteredartandstuff.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/connected/

[Elena Nosyreva]

Type is really cool!

Thanks Michelle. Your pages are awesome!

Here is mine:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elka-igolka/4861591539/

[Jackie]

I didn't get this until I did it ... now I'm sure there will be more to follow!
Here are my first pages:
http://jestercrafts.blogspot.com/2010/08/text.html

[Elena Nosyreva]

I made a second one.

When I was done with gluing I realized that there is no space for journaling, so I added a small folio ( on the right).

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elka-igolka/4864402201/

xo

Elena

[Winterwood]

I LOVED this crusade as much as the other one, and dont feel like stopping after making two pages. Hoping to make some more on the weekend! Thanks for the challenge!

Here's my wall of words

http://bowerwood.blogspot.com/2010/08/word-wall.html

cheers krissie

[Ariel Gill]

I'm so glad to be back on the Street Time. It's been too many months away.

[Bev Baird]

I've had such fun with this challenge. I can see such possibilities!
here's my post:
http://bunnysgirl.blogspot.com/2010/08/creative-colour-challenge-and-gpp-43.html

[lee]

I had fun doing this, thanks Michelle
http://leekre.blogspot.com/2010/08/challenge-of-words-street-team.html

[Marcia]

I haven't played for a while; I couldn't resist this one!
http://mcirillo.com/2010/08/07/handcrafted-cattails-backroads-myths/

[Karen]

Hi! It's my first time here..... and I feel at home already :)

I had great fun with this and I am already planning to do more.... and also some of the old Crusades too!

So glad I found you (through Daisy).......

Karen

You can find mine here http://littlecraftingmiss.blogspot.com/2010/08/my-first-crusade.html

[Rachel]

Hi Michelle. This is my first time here and...a BIG step for me to put myself out there! Showing my playing and messes is always very intimidating for me, but here goes...

Rachel

http://rachel27b.wordpress.com/2010/08/08/just-a-bit-of-fun/

[Mandy McMahan]

Participating in my 2nd challenge here at GPP Street http://www.flickr.com/photos/macchick1/4873007631/

Mandy

[Lizbeth]

Here is my entry in Text Messaging Crusade:
[IMG]http://pic20.picturetrail.com/VOL1241/4327648/22861713/390640964.jpg[/IMG]

[michelle ward]

ok folks, i leave on vacation tomorrow (tuesday). i will try to update link list (depending on my internet connection) otherwise i will attend to it as soon as get back in town. happy texting!

[Melanie Philpott]

Hallo! I now see text in a completely new light! I did my first crusade-43 attempts on Saturday and they can be seen here:

http://messbymelanie.blogspot.com/2010/08/gpp-street-team-crusade-no43-strip-ease.html

And then on Sunday I did some more - only this time they were on the fly in a hotel room on a train timetable!:

http://messbymelanie.blogspot.com/2010/08/made-mess-in-my-hotel-room.html

This was my 2nd crusade and I learnt so many things! Thank you!

[Sue]

http://sroddis.blogspot.com/2010/08/text-and-graffiti.html

I had great fun with this......even though I thought I had ruined the larger one several times!! It came out OK in the end though!!

[Kimber]

Here's what I came up with so far. I have a couple more pages started so may be back with more. Thanks Michelle!
http://kimberiginals.blogspot.com/2010/08/text-messaging-gpp-street-team-crusade.html

[MissKoolAid]

My collage is up: http://misskoolaid.blogspot.com/2010/08/crusade-43-text-messaging.html

[Janet]

Here's my entry: http://jkbees.blogspot.com/2010/08/text-messaging-crusade-43.html

This was tougher than I thought! Thanks for always making me think.

[Drycha]

I'm in!
http://drycha.blogspot.com/2010/08/texting.html

[Sarah]

Hi Michelle. This is my first time participating. I don't have a a blog, just a flicker account for posting my images. Here's a link to my Crusade No. 43 submission! Thanks!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/37392620@N03/4890943056/

[Susan King (aka passionforpaper)]

Thanks, Michelle, for another fun challenge! Here's my page: http://passionforpaper-passionforpaper.blogspot.com/2010/08/text-messaging.html

[Kate Robertson]

I used the challenge to get back to art after having surgery, thanks for the inspiration....

http://thequeenofcreativity.blogspot.com/2010/08/gpp-street-team-43-text-messaging.html

[regina]

Here's my post. http://rgrdesigns.blogspot.com/2010/08/gpp-crusade-no-43-text-messaging.html
I used an envelope of text I had saved from the office. Thanks for the prompt!

[Rosie]

Had to go again Michelle!! I found some of the others' collages triggered a need to play again... I came over all inspired!

http://alteredartandstuff.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/gpp-crusade43-revisited-text-messaging/

[Helen]

Here are my pages, loved this relaxing crusade. Hope to use these pages as backgrounds, I see lots of possebilities!

[Helena]

Hello to all! I just finished my pages:

http://ehelena.wordpress.com/2010/08/15/japanese-cherry-tree-crusade-no-43/

It was great project!

[Lizbeth]

Here's my second try!!!

[Lizbeth]

OOps..I meant to direct you to my new blog: http://Lizbethem.Blogspot.com

[peggy gatto]

I love words!!!! I am cheating a little because my "text" is from an old project. I thought it fit in perfectly with the challenge.
Hope you don't mind that my example is not a journal page!
thanks!

[peggy gatto]

Here is the link for the previous post!!!!
http://wwwpeggysamusement.blogspot.com/2010/08/text.html

helps!

[Jane]

Had a blast as always! My post is up.
paintedheartstudio.blogspot.com/

Thank you Michelle!

[Mona]

Finally I made it! Here is my link http://alcorart.blogspot.com/2010/08/crusade-nr-43-text-messaging.html
Thanks, Mona

[Debra]

It's finished - but I want to do more.
http://very-debra.blogspot.com/2010/08/type-and-texting.html

[Debra]

Here's another go at last months crusade - strip ease.
http://very-debra.blogspot.com/2010/08/paper-tearing-background-take-two.html
Thanks Michelle, looking forward to the next one.

[QuinnCreative]

This was a great challenge, and like many of the others, I started out with one idea and morphed into a completely different direction. The background, made from the inside of security envelopes, was a completely random idea.
Thanks, Michelle!
http://wp.me/p2H1i-1g1

[Gez]

Hi Michelle Fab pages.
Here is my entry for your challenge. http://gezzybscraftybits.blogspot.com/2010/08/anything-goes_17.html
I had so much fun making an Atc too! http://gezzybscraftybits.blogspot.com/2010/08/oriental-atc.html
It's my first time playing along. I had so much fun with this challenge. Thank you.. it was really relaxing.. just what I needed! I can see it being adictive too! Happy crafting, Gez.xx

[Cynthea]

I just found your blog :) happy day. I starting searching again on the web after first hearing of art journaling a couple months ago. I have been mostly watching youtube videos, there is quite a community and now they have branched out to ustream doing shows! Not many, about one person per day doing art journaling, two on tuesday none on sunday. Anyway, I was hoping you would do a video for youtube and more people would find out about your blog! love your challenges so far, I have to go back and read them all! My first link was to your video challenge # 17 about making a supply kit. Love that idea and that is something that a video would be very good to see. I think all your challenges will be good in video format also. thx. Just hoping to get the two communities connected, there really aren't that many of us out there yet:)
some of the art journalers with ustreams/youtube are Journal Artista,samanthakira( journalgirl), scrapacat( just started but great show) the artistic biker, Leslie Herger ( comfortableshoessudio), the junque studio by ikerrilove. they are all listed on artjournaling.ning.com.

I am just a beginner, so love the shows. Seeing versus just reading is very helpful:) thanks again, I am so happy to have just discovered your blog! hope to join the challenges, Havent finished one page yet, just received gesso and starting playing last week lol. Also busy collecting magazines, images, text etc

[Kari]

Very fun challenge! Thanks Michelle. Here's my link:
http://embracinggraceeveryday.blogspot.com

[Carmen Nessman]

thank you once again Michelle for everything
here it is my link:
http://heartandsoulgardening.blogspot.com/2010/08/text-messaging.html

[Lenna Andrews]

hi again, michelle!
thank you for the great challenges, I am happy to find you again! Here's my response:
http://creativelenna.blogspot.com/2010/08/found-typography-in-my-sketchbook.html

I hope you are having a wonderful time away this month.
: ) lenna