My Mondrian Mondays Journal Page #1 on 17 March 2025

Welcome to Becca's Quest for Love and Country Creativity!

post purpose: My plan is to do 2-3 Mondrian Monday Journal Pages each month which will be dependent on how some of my challenge blogs land. Because most of mine start on a specific # date and 2 are Friday/alternating and 1 other on first Saturday of each month. A certain artisan blogger has been doing Mandala Mondays for several years that I'm aware of so I didn't want to copy her but I liked the idea of alliterating. So Piet Mondrian, famous Dutch painter and art theorist from late 1800s - early 1900s became my inspiration. I tried to do this with as much randomness that I could. I didn't want the color tones all being used 2x each nor the sizes of the 'boxes' to be the same. 

when: blog post will be published on Monday, March 17, 2025; this is a non-design team project; no commitment to any of my challenge blogs or to ones I manage or am just a DT member for someone else's blogs.

what: Mondrian-inspired Journal Page #1 =

notes:

1. "Be You" notched journal notebook; elastic band closure; made in Indonesia; distributed by Dollar General; has peach tone grid/graph paper sheets

2. gray and black gel marker pens (also tan and dark brown); set of 4 = Zebra Clickart

3. colored pencils from 3 sources = Crayola, Crazy Art and Marvy Uchida

4. pencil, eraser, ruler, and also scissors used to trim page 1 and 2 on the right side...will be skipping every other page to avoid any bleeding through = stash

where/main link-ups for color inspiration:

A. AAA Colourful #14; started March 15; theme colors of greens-yellows; see badges

link= https://aaacolourfulchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/colourboard-14.html

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B. Color Hues; new/started March 16; theme colors of lemons & limes; see badge

link= https://colorhuesthecolorchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/color-hues-106-lemon-and-lime.html

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other share/links are:

C. Pin-spirational; current for March 2025; theme of Spring Greens; see badge

link = https://pinspirationalchallenges.blogspot.com/2025/03/pinspirational-challenge-323-march.html

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D. Kleuren met Ploden; started March 10th; theme is anything goes using colored pencils; MY journal pages' colored pencil usage is the 3 yellow tones and the 5 green tones/shades

link = https://kleurenmetpotloden.blogspot.com/2025/03/challenge-maart-alles-mag.html

E. Crafter's Cafe Challenges; started March 15th; theme is anything goes with option of clean and simple; MY journaling page is just geometric lines with colored pencil usage to fill boxes, gray marker pen to do my labeling and black marker pen to fill the section lines; no embellishments; no layers = CAS...plus there are some white area/unused spaces

link = https://crafterscafeblogchallenge.blogspot.com/2025/03/317-march-anything-goes-optional-clean.html

F. The Outlawz Anything Goes in a Card-Free Zone; started March 1; no cards allowed theme; MY entry is a journal notebook page = Mondrian Mondays #1

link = https://theoutlawzchallenges-saturday.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-outlawz-anything-goes-in-card-free.html

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Crafting in the USA heartland,

Becca S

~~this is a non-DT work

challenge blogs' where I have commitments are:

*Owner/DT = FQCB, FQGS, FQCCCB, FQHSKCB, FQGGCB; HQCB, HQFCB (old TFATU), HQCOLCB, HQFSCAT; AA (this project would work for Ally's Angels' anything goes theme); ConBC; CCC

*Manager/DT = MTTC and MTTCChristmas

*DT member only = HAOOCAYR and P-R-S (this project would work for Paper-Rocks-Scissors since it is paper sheets and I used scissors to trim off almost a 1/2" on the right edge...removing the notched area)