Done at last

UKS Art journey Step 5

2012-02-11T05:54:00.000-08:00

Oodles of Doodles was the theme for this weeks prompt from Claire Smillie. I think I might have got carried away with my doodling! I also tried few Zentangle patterns for first time too!

I did cheat a little and used a stencil to draw 5 circles just to get me started. I used Bristol board to doodle on and then glued the page into my journal.

Thanks for looking.

UKS Art journey Step 4

2012-02-11T04:53:00.001-08:00

Julie Kirk gave us some great information and tips for putting journalling onto our pages. I have used one of the book pages in my made journal. I was lucky that it had a picture of a girl on it that I could use. I put a thin layer of gesso all over the page and then masked off the face before playing with lots of paint/inks and sprays. The flowers were stamped images and seemed to go with the flowers in the girl's hair. The journalling was cut from various magazines.

Thanks for looking.

Journal your Art CJ

2012-02-06T07:41:00.000-08:00

This is my entry for Gill's ( UKS Wisher) Circle Journal. She asked us to use positivity as a theme and leave space for her own journalling. I thought this phrase I found on one of the Tim Holtz stamps I have was appropriate. The doodled flowers were also stamped using Felicity's Collection Ooodles of Doodles 1.
I hope she likes it!

Thanks for looking.

Second Book of Secrets

2012-02-06T07:14:00.000-08:00

The second Book of Secrets I made has now arrived in Canada, it was made for one of the most amazing crafters I know, so it was quite daunting making this for her. She is known as the "Queen of the mini book," you can see why by just looking on her blog HERE. I have used Tim Holtz grunge paper for the cover and Bristol board for the inner pages along with lots of paints/inks and sprays. The stamps I have used are from the Lynne Perrella collection available from Paper Artsy. I did enjoy making it and filling the drawers with all sorts of things that I hope Annette will find useful.
Get ready for an image heavy post!

Now for some close ups!

Thanks for looking.

Altered book

2012-02-06T07:04:00.000-08:00

I was lucky enough to receive this beautiful Altered book through the post at Christmas. I am blessed to have so many clever and artistic friends and this book was made by one of them.
Irene is a really amazing crafter turning her hands to many things, I think you will agree that in doing this altered book she excelled herself.

Art Journey page 2

2012-01-31T08:00:00.000-08:00

The prompt was to take inspiration from packaging. The packaging that influenced me for this page was a dried pasta package. Greens and yellows with a central logo.

January update

2012-01-30T06:32:00.000-08:00

My page for Leanie's Artistic License circle journal.
Leanie asked us to use the artist Vincent Gachaga as inspiration for her CJ.
Using a 7" x 5" watercolour paper board provided by Leanie I have interpreted Gachaga's 2011 work called 'Desired' using a drawn scanned image of a girl and plenty of gesso, paints, inks and stamps.

A small photo of the Gachaga's original artwork is on the back of the board.

This Book of Secrets is one of 2 that I have made for a swap on UK Scrappers. Netty gave us a link to this site and the names and subjects of 2 fellow swappees. One of my swappees, Karen, had chosen Sculpture as her topic! I really had no idea how I was going to do this book and then I remembered last year when I visited Irene we went to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park where I took a series of photos of an exhibition put on by the sculptor Jaum Plensa. I have used these photos to create Karen's book. The cover is made from Tim Holtz grunge paper, Golden moulding paste and painted with acrylic paints and inks.

In the centre of the book are 3 opening drawers made from swan vesta matchboxes and filled with little secrets. I tried to choose things that I hoped Karen would like.

The book is now in Karen's possession so I am not spoiling the surprise for her.

My other book of secrets is on its way to Canada and once it has arrived at its destination I will post some photos here on my blog.

Thanks for looking.

Art Journey

2012-01-21T09:48:00.001-08:00

On UK Scrappers this year there are a lot of new challenges and classes. I have been following the 'Art Journey' thread and have downloaded all the prompts so far. I have put together my own art journal following Sarah's brilliant instructions. You can see them on UKS and on Sarah's blog, therefore I will not go into detail here. You will see my book isn't quite up to Sarah's standard but I did have fun making it!

Here are a selection of the papers I started out with, the leatherette is from a charity shop find jacket that I shared with my good friend Kay.

I used matt medium on some of the book pages I wanted to use to give them some strength.

The first page is ready to go! Normally I add completed pages into my journal. However, this time I am being brave and painting/inking/spraying and generally getting messy onto the page straight into the my journal.

I have placed a sheet of acetate under the page as I work to protect the lower pages. I wonder how long I will worry about that. LOL

Here is my first completed page for this 6 month Art Journey.

Thanks for looking.

The Erosion Bundle Project reveal!

2012-01-05T04:22:00.000-08:00

In October I place 2 bundles of bits and bobs in my garden as part of the Cloth Paper Scissors Erosion bundle project. You can see my previous post HERE. Yesterday I brought the bundles in doors after they had been tossed around in high winds the previous night! They had been moved into a more exposed site after a month as they seemed to be very sheltered where I first placed them. Maybe I was trying to protect them too much!!!
You can see the big reveal below:

Some of the items had hardly changed and others had but not in a good way!

One of the most interesting changes were to the pieces of photo paper offcuts that I placed in each bundle.

The bundles are now drying off in my conservatory whilst I ponder what magnificent piece of artwork I am going to produce with them. At the moment it is looking good in my head but I have a sneaky feeling that only a very carefully chosen few bits and bobs will be used in the future!

Watch this space. LOL

Circle Journal updates

2012-01-03T09:20:00.000-08:00

I have just started a new Journal your Art Circle Journal on UK scrappers.

There are 8 of us in the group and we have each chosen a theme for our CJ.

My theme is 'Serendipity'.

Serendipity means 'happy accident' or pleasant surprise, finding something good without looking for it! My art journalling is all about Happy accidents!!!

To make the journal I took out the pages form a Children's encyclopedia and replaced them with blank Bristol board pages. I have done an introduction page but forgot to take a photo!

I used lots of paints, inks, sprays and stamps for my inner lining pages then stitched the Bristol board in place.

My page for my journal.

Here is my latest page Artistic License Circle journal page.

It is for Frances's CJ. she gave us all art board to work on.

She chose a painting by Paul Klee, she divided into 9 sections and asked the group to do one section each using what ever medium we wished.

I have used Golden artist light moulding paste and shaped and scraped the design into it.

Then I used my acrylic paints and sprays to colour the surface.

All the other boards made so far are very different and fit together so well, I am sure the finished journal will look amazing.

A busy December!

2012-01-03T09:02:00.000-08:00

Just like everyone else my December was busy.
Not many craft projects were made but I did make some tags that I used instead of Christmas cards using Tim Holtz dies. I used the small easel die to support them and make them easier to display. I made quite a few but stuck with variations of the 2 tags below.

I also decided use hand stamped paper on all my crafty friends presents.

After stamping over 20 metres of paper I decided that next year I will buy gift tokens!

They did look good though once I had finished wrapping them.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas.

It seems a long time ago now!

Time to catch up.

2011-11-23T12:05:00.001-08:00

Last weekend I went to a class at the Stamp Attic with Hels Sheridan, I was really looking forward to learning lots of new techniques with the Tim Holtz Distress Stains and I was not disappointed. Hels showed us some great ideas and I came a away with a lovely tag book we made of all the examples we did.

These are two of my favourites.

A while back Alli gave us a link that was posted on ukscrappers to make some snowmen out of socks. I had great fun doing these. A word of warning they can be addictive. Click HERE to see the tutorial. I thought mine looked a little sad with no mouth so I got my beads and thread out and popped one on.

Two happy snowman. LOL

Finally I have been working on my Artistic License CJ page for Sarah, UKS Flo .

Her chosen style was 'Wildstyle Graffiti' this was something completely new to me and led me down the road to some interesting websites.

Here is my completed page.

I hope you like it Sarah.

I found a Wildstyle Graffiti font and use the saying 'It never rains but it pours.' I printed the saying onto Safamat, which seemed to work really well. I had not used Safamat before!

I thought this saying went well with the stencil I made using the Tim Holtz Umbrella Man die and mylar. I then used another technique that I had not tried before, using and airbrush that I have had for a while I sprayed through the stencil with diluted Caudine Helmmuth black acrylic paint.

The raindrops were hand drawn and then filled with glossy accents.

Finally and for a limited time only Bongo has been out and about.

After his busy year last year he has been grabbed out of the cupboard again and will be having a busy lead up to Christmas.

You can see him on his own blog HERE.

I hope you have enjoyed catching on here.

Thanks for looking.

Order out of chaos.

2011-11-15T09:46:00.000-08:00

Over the past few days I have been very busy changing the layout of my craft room. Last Wednesday I ordered some new desks and on Friday morning they arrived!

I cleared everything that was stored on the floor of my craft room, which meant emptying out a few cupboards and sets of drawers. This was carefully stored in the spare bedroom which is often called Irene's room. LOL

The old desk looked the clearest it had been in years.

It was dismantled and I built the new desk in its place.

Now I have 5 metres of desk to play on and can craft in a good light gazing out of the window for inspiration.

I wonder how long it will stay this tidy!

Handmade Journals

2011-11-13T23:40:00.000-08:00

On the 1st of November UK Scrappers held a bloghop and I spent a lovely few hours visiting all the sponsors who took part. I bookmarked a lot of the lovely projects so that I could revisit them and make some of them in the future. The first project I have had fun with was on "A Sprinkle of Imagination" blog where Vicki made a really gorgeous journal. I will not go into all the details of how to make it as you can see it at first hand if you click HERE.

Below you can see I have made two journals. One I have made for this years Christmas journal, this year it will be all handwritten journalling from me up until Boxing Day. Other years I have always done a scrapbook style journal.

I hope you have enjoyed looking at what I have produced.
Vicki, thank you so much for a really great project and inspiring me to do these journals. I am sure I will be making many more.

The home coming.

2011-11-02T09:28:00.001-07:00

A little while ago I showed you my contribution to an Alice in Wonderland jigsaw swap.

You can see the previous post HERE.

Yesterday I received the completed swapped puzzle and it is stunning.

I cut a 12" x 12" piece of mount board and using a hot glue gun stuck all the pieces together creating a lovely piece of wall art for my craft room.

The walls are getting rather full now!

A big thank you to Netty for giving us all a jigsaw to play with and organising the swap.

Also for making sure we did all the pieces facing the correct way.

Not forgetting all my lovely swapee's for their beautiful creations.
From top left to right:
Annette ...... Voodoo Vixen .... Alice/drink me.
Irene ...... irboo .... Mad hatters tea party.
Jeanette ...... nettyb .... Queen of Hearts.
Middle left to right:
Karen .... KJJC .... White Rabbit.
My Mad Hatter.
Louise .... Lou@papermaker .... Eat me.
Bottom left to right:
Francis .... new2this .... Pack of cards.
Lyn .... honeypip .... Flower faces.
Dotty .... dorothyanne .... Alice/off with her head.
I think you will agree this has turned out really great.

A week of catching up!

2011-10-31T06:14:00.000-07:00

I have had a bit of a catch up this week and completing some projects for UK scrappers.
Here are a few photos to show you just what I have been up to.

I have been using the Tim Holtz sewing room die again to create a Christmas fairy.

I needed some wings of course, I found a really useful Sizzix Angel wings die and with a little bit of trimming it worked perfectly.

I have used a Spellbinders cut and emboss stencil to cut and emboss a layered Poinsettias.

From this selection of stash I went on to make 9 Christmas Fairies.

I hope that my swappee's like their Fairy.

I am looking forward to getting my 8 different Fairies already to take their place in my home for Christmas.

The next project on my list was for a Take one stamp Maze book using the free crafty notions stamp that was on the front cover of the November Craft Stamper.

I was not sure how I would do this but decided to use the stamp on a mini art journal page.

Using Tim Holtz Distress ink and crafty notions gold creative colours spray I created a background onto water colour paper. I then used a small plastic tube dipped into white Paper Artsy acrylic paint to make some small circles.

I stamped the free stamp onto the background and then using a mask of the free stamp I stamped a background using a selection of my favourite little stamps.

Finally I finished the little pages using Copic markers, Pan pastels, Paper Artsy metallic glaze, distress stickles and Glossy accents to give the lips and eyelid dimension.

My maze book is very simple and ready for all the swapped images to go in.

I have made an elastic closer with Tim Holtz hitch fastner to allow expansion!

My weekly challenge for October week 4 on UK scrappers.

The Challenge was set by Sarah and we had to use 10 embellishments, a freebie and something we had printed ourselves excluding the photos.

All the papers are Basic grey, the printed and freebie element on my layout are form Mary Anne Walters who provided the little circles as a free download for a class I did with Shimelle a while ago.

At the beginning of the week Colin and I went to an International Antique and collectors fair in Newbury. I wanted to find some bits and bobs to use in my altered sewing book. (see previous post) This is a selection of those goodies. Mind you I think the spool might be a bit on the big side. I have another idea planned to use that.

I also kept my eyes open for some things I would be able to use in a Large Tim Holtz configuration box that I have to play with. I was really pleased with all the lovely little things I found and luckily none of it cost me a fortune. I did have fun looking through lots of boxes and finding treasures no one else seemed to want!
Hopefully you have not too bored trawling through this rather long post.

Just about to start another busy week now!

UK Scrappers Swaps

2011-10-22T10:11:00.001-07:00

Over the past two months I have taken part in a few swaps on UK Scrappers, here are some photos from them.

I have an Alice in Wonderland book that I plan to alter and I am going to use my Alice Tip in Pages and tags inside of it along with lots of inky painty art. You can find more information about the Tip in pages on an earlier post HERE

I found this book in the specialist children's book shop in Hay on Wye a book collector's dream town to visit.

I did not like to tell the seller what plans I had in store for it!

Six completed Tip in pages.

My page.

Lou@papermakers page.

Netty's page.

Leanie's page.

Irene's page.

Honey Pip's page.

My selection of Alice tags from Roxy52, Vass, Irene, Weaselwise, Scrapnanny, mine, Fatmonica and Cynthia.

Another book on my list to be altered is this Vogue sewing book.

I have two Tip in Pages to help me with this project.

This one is from Irene.

This page is from Karen.....uks Kitty Crafts.

My next swap was for the Affirmation Postcards.

I did an earlier post with my postcards HERE

This postcard was made by Sarah.....uks Smelly

This one was made by Nerlly.

This one was by Cynthia......uks Mistyrat.

The latest swap I have been in is the Halloween home Decoration.

Starting with the H From Susan.

A from Kate T.

L form Topsy.

L from Meg Baby.

O from Irene.

W from Culpepper.

E from Bramble Pie.

E from Linda B

Finally an N from me.

This is the completed banner.

Isn't it great?

Clicking on the banner will give you a better view if you would like to see the banner close up. This has been a mammoth update but I really wanted to show you the fantastic work that the crafters on UK Scrappers do. There are some really talented people there and I would like to thank everyone for the lovely work that I now have to enjoy and draw inspiration from.

These swaps are organised by the wonderful Netty alongside quite a few different people who give up their time to make sure the swaps run smoothly and on time.

A big thank you to them from me.

If you get chance to take part in any of the swaps please do they are great fun and you learn a lot.

Artistic License Circle Journal Irene's page.

2011-10-17T13:02:00.000-07:00

Irene chose the artist Andy Goldsworthy for her artist for this Circle Journal. Irene encouraged us to use found and recycled items for her page. Here is my page in all it stages of development.

My little box of bits and pieces.

Broken jewellery and other odds and ends!

Old magazines cut up to produce the paper rolls to be placed on Irene's base page.

The first round of paper rolls.

Gradual build up!

Finished circle.

Back view showing the plastic remains of a rawplug package and beads from a broken necklace to make a hanging chain.

Finished page.
I have covered the page in matte-medium to strengthen it and make it more robust.

I am already for the next months page now!

The Erosion Bundle Project

2011-10-05T07:37:00.000-07:00

I have recently joined the a Flickr group of like minded people who are readers of an American Magazine called Cloth Paper Scissors and who all live in the UK. One of projects that was in the May/June 2010 issue of the magazine was called disco (disintegration collaboration). Essentially it’s all about placing some bio-degradable items somewhere outside to weather and deteriorate as Mother Natures see fit – then bring it back inside to reveal and dry and make some form of creative art with the results. The group was encouraged to hang their bundles out to be exposed to the elements on 21st June 2011 and leave the bundles at the mercy of British weather for 6 months and bring them back inside for the big reveal on the shortest day of the year - 22nd December 2011. Well I have come to this project a little late so I have put together my bundles and hung them out on the 4th October 2011. I will still bring my bundles in on the 22nd December 2011 and see what Mother Nature has done to them.

My First bundle is what I call my Romantic selection of papers, fabrics, ribbons and other found objects!

The second bundle is a Rustic collection of papers, fabric, metal objects and even a used teabag!

They were wrapped and tied in Calico for the Romantic bundle and Hessian for the rustic bundle.

Both bundles are now hanging from the Bay tree in my garden.

You can see more about this project on The Erosion Bundle blog.

Colin says that it is now confirmed that I have finally lost the plot.

However, I am quite excited to see what the British weather can do to these bundles.

Halloween Home Decoration

2011-10-03T02:02:00.000-07:00

I have just spent the last few days making my contribution for the Halloween Home Decoration swap on UK Scrappers. For this swap we worked in groups of 9 with each person choosing a letter to make up the word HALLOWEEN. I was last in my group and had the letter N to do! I chose a spooky theme which I had fun creating but I got a bit carried away with doing it and as you can imagine there was rather a lot of cutting, embossing, painting and gluing involved!!!!

Thanks for looking and I hope if you are the recipient of one of these you enjoy displaying it along with the other 8.

Tip in Trail pages.

2011-09-26T13:46:00.000-07:00

These are the Tip in pages for the Tip in Trail on UK scrappers.

Irene's Nature Studies page.
Kitty Crafts Punky/Gothic/Stampotique

Thanks for looking.

Artistic License Circle Journal

2011-09-23T09:24:00.001-07:00

This is the canvas that I made for Tigs over on UK Scrappers.

Interpreting her chosen artist Vincent Van Gogh, the picture is called 'The Harvest' and was painted by Van Gogh in 1888.

I have used Claudine Hellmuth's Sticky-back Canvas.

First printing and mounting the main picture and adding a framed smaller section of another printout. I have framed the smaller picture using Gold metal which I embossed first. To finish off I added 3 small silk sunflowers as another small homage to Van Gogh.

I hope Tigs like it!

Thanks for looking.

Affirmation Postcards

2011-09-18T22:30:00.000-07:00

Another fun challenge completed.
Over on UK Scrappers Lou has organised you can see details HERE. For inspiration Lou gave us a link to Kelly Rae Roberts. I really enjoyed making these postcards and can see myself making a lot more!

Thanks for looking.

Alice in Wonderland Jigsaw swap

2011-09-17T14:29:00.000-07:00

I am really enjoying all the swaps I am involved at the moment and the latest one is a Jigsaw puzzle swap. 9 of us have been sent a 9 piece chipboard puzzle and we have each chosen a different theme/character from Alice in Wonderland to decorate our puzzle pieces. My chosen character is The Mad Hatter. Rather than bore you with a long explanation of how I have decorated my pieces I have taken photgraphs of the process.

Painted base with cut out hats.

Painted hats and fine detail painted onto the base.

The basic kit I made up for a hat embellishment.

The puzzle pieces are being posted. One completed puzzle is going to Canada so I thought I had better give the hat a bit of reinforcement!

I did worry a bit about the size of the prototype hat, thankfully I was able to scale it down.

All the hats drying off from the Claudine Hellmuth matt medium, which will hopefully help protect it from the rigours of the post office.

All the hats and other embellishment now glued in place.

Ending up with a Jigsaw puzzle that still fits together after all that paint/spray and glue!

You may notice that the pieces dot match up at the joins but because there will be 9 different themes it does not matter and I am not that Mad as to try and get all my pieces to match!

I hope that they work well with all the other lovely pieces and that my 8 swapees like them. I am really looking forward to seeing the completed project. I will share it here when it arrives home to me. I do know that Annette has just popped her puzzle onto her blog and it is really gorgeous. You can see it HERE

Thanks for looking.

Tim Holtz Sewing Room Die

2011-09-05T12:13:00.000-07:00

I have been busy with the Tim Holtz Sewing die! I have used it for a project that I put together for our Funcrops third birthday crop and a chipboard swap that I am in on UK Scrappers. I combined the project and the challenge and I have used the 10 samples I made for the UKS swap. Hopefully my swapee's will enjoy receiving them as much as I enjoyed doing them!

Here is the finished project I made for the Funcrop.

This is the kit I put together for everyone to play with. I must thank my really lovely friend Irene who helped me design this little box. We had a fun afternoon in my craft room!

A table to play on

Some of the lovely finished little boxes.

Thanks for looking.

Artistic License Circle Journal

2011-08-27T13:15:00.000-07:00

I have joined an Artistic License Circle Journal on UK Scrappers.
I am just about to post it on its way so I thought I would share my efforts with you. The completed journal should be back home again in about 9 months.
Each month I will be completing a page or shape for everyone taking part.
Details of the circle journal can be found HERE.

I will post all the pages that I do here on my blog once the completed journals have been sent home to my fellow jounallers.

I will also post my completed journal here for everyone to share then you can see what a talented group of people have worked on it.

The Maya Road calendar display stand I am using for my Circle journal when it arrives home.

My front cover using the design on the front cover of the book I have on my chosen artist

Victor Vasarely.

My interpretation of Vasarely's 'Kiruna'

Thanks for looking.

Tip in Pages

2011-08-10T13:15:00.000-07:00

On UK Scrappers I am involved in a Tip in Page swap.
More info and information on Tip in Pages can be found HERE

The pages I have done are:
1. WORDS TO LIVE BY
2. ALICE IN WONDERLAND
3. VENICE
4. THE LIFE AND LOVE OF TREES
5. FAERIES
6. THE SEASIDE and an extra page on BUTTERFLIES to say thank you to Netty for hosting the swap.

WORDS TO LIVE BY

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

VENICE

THE LIFE AND LOVES OF TREES

FAERIES

THE SEASIDE

BUTTERFLIES

Thanks for looking.

Alice in Wonderland tag.

2011-06-23T12:11:00.001-07:00

Today I have been making a tag for a swap I am in on UK Scrappers
I have another 7 to make but thought I would share this one with you.

Hopefully my swappee's will like it.
I have used a Ranger, Tim Holtz tag and Clear Art stamps.

Sneak peak.

2011-05-30T12:33:00.001-07:00

Here is a sneak peak at a project I am working on at the moment. It is a labour of love and yes that is me wearing my Easter bonnet on the front cover!

More updates coming soon. (I hope)

Sal's barn layout.

2011-05-30T12:26:00.001-07:00

Here is a Lay out I did for one of my Document 2010 pages. It is of a massive building project that Sal and Rich embarked on in in 2010 and now in May 2011, they have nearly completed it. to say it is amazing is an understatement. A layout of the completed project will be on here in the future.

Postcards by my own fair hand!

2011-05-30T11:47:00.000-07:00

Back in March Colin and I went to Tobago, unfortunately Colin was unwell which meant that out planned trips could not go ahead. However, we did relax on the wonderful beach and Colin even set up a bird feeding station on our balcony. I had also packed my mobile Art journalling kit, I had some water colour postcards to paint on, travel brochures and magazines that I could cut up alongside some glue.

Bongo came too!

Some of the postcards are very similar as I did some to give to my friends when I returned. Much quicker than posting them

Vintage Cottage Swap

2011-05-30T08:20:00.000-07:00

Here is another UKS swap that I too part in:
My contrbution.

The final collection all put together
on display.

It was a great swap to be in.

'Here Come the Girls'.... Bunting swap UKS

2011-04-11T09:18:00.000-07:00

Over on UK Scrappers I have joined a Bunting swap.
Here are my efforts. This group are the second group I made as the Post Office seem to have lost my first efforts!!! As I was having an eye operation I did not have the time or inspiration to come up with a new design. Therefore I made a second group in a different colour and with some slight tweeking. I hope everyone like them and that they reach their destination this time!

This set of Bunting is still in the postal system, they were posted nearly 2 weeks ago!

Maybe they will turn up one day..........

Advent Calendar

2010-12-01T09:14:00.000-08:00

This year I was totally inspired by the 'Junk drawer Advent Calendar' over on 2gypsy girls blog.
I can thank Irene for the link and some of her junk drawer stash too!
This Calendar has given me the opportunity to use lots of broken jewellery bits that I have had tucked away for years.
I have had a lot of fun doing this project and even though I originally planned to add a tag a day to the board over the next 25 days I have decided to put them all on in one go and enjoy them for the whole of Advent!

Thanks for looking at my efforts.
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My first Art Journal.

2010-11-06T10:19:00.000-07:00

I have ventured into Art Journalling for the first time.
Irene a really lovely friend gave me a Pink pig sketch book.
She had hand embroidered a gorgeous cover for it so I really had to use it for something special.
Some of the pages are still waiting to be journalled on.

I have used paints/stamps and collaged elements.

Having filled up my first journal I have decided to explore what ideas are out in cyberspace. The first course that I signed up for is on Willowing and friends. Here is my effort, using water colour and acrylic paints for the first lesson:

Artsycrafts weekend.

2010-11-06T10:09:00.000-07:00

Here are the three projects that I had fun making at the Artsycrafts weekend in Newport Pagnell.

Mini Album Multi-pocket Envelope Page

2010-01-27T08:16:00.000-08:00

I have been busy today after Irene put a link to a video on You Tube on my team thread of UK Scrappers:

All it needs now is a few photos and a little bit of jounalling!

LSNED 2009

2009-11-17T22:58:00.000-08:00

Using a Making Memories {note}worthy journalling pad I have recorded the adventures of Hedgie during the month of Septmember.
The Font I have used for the journalling strips is LD Artsy.

Journal Your Christmas

2009-01-15T09:29:00.000-08:00

These pages were made using the prompts from Shimelle’s Journal your Christmas Class.
I have used:
A Bazzill an album in a box 8X8
Papers from:
Blonde Moments Minasie Moo.
DCWV Christmas multi stack.
Craft House Winter wonderland.
Soft Expressions ... Judy Melvin.
Fancy Pants Happy Holidays.
Bazzill cardstock.
American Craft thickers.
Assortment of stamps and embellishments

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Definately done at last!

2008-10-11T13:14:00.000-07:00

Learn Something New Days 16-30

2008-09-30T23:42:00.001-07:00

Learn Something New Days 1-15

2008-09-06T00:30:00.000-07:00