Life Documented

 The art journal group has been going a while now and is the only one that I can still participate in as the other ones have folded. 

It’s now a twice monthly rather than weekly prompt. 

April: theme is MY BLUE HEAVY - use only blue 

May: BLOOM

 

part 2 add zentangles

June SONG LYRICS 

Pt1 printing 

Pt 2 collage 

July STORYBOARD, a place or event that you have recently visited 

Part 2 something new. In this case we have a new post for the terrace railings as the old one was rotted. Railings were then repainted and some stones placed on the edge to avoid mud splashing 

August ADD A BUILDING 

Draw or use a photo of a partial building and add to it 

September WILDFLOWER RIOT 

No straight lines 

October MAKE IT UP AS YOU GO 

Divide the page into sections and paint as you go. Use 5 colours + mark making or doodles 

Use stencils and stamps 

I’m here!

 Yes I am still alive!

I can’t believe that it is so long since I was on my blog….

I apologise for the photo dump in advance but it is the best way to get the pictures out there.

I will post the life documented ones later.

Full Deck Challenge 

Cat Rains

 This was the first of the free online classes recently, Catherine Rains has been doing collage work for years. 

Seems like I don’t have many dark papers!

I’m just going to apologise…

 I’m sorry to say that I have been absent, time has once more been slipping through my fingers in the most rapid fashion!

Not too much been going on in the craft world other than that I have been having a huge clear out, mostly of the clear stamps - there was a lot that I had never used but they were from a magazine subscription so I thought that maybe one day… yes, well, that one day is probably not going to happen so I have a box of them to donate!  

I have been doing the Full Deck challenge #4 but not on cards but rather in a small journal 

Napkin, book page, coral colour, zigzag, tree

Flowers, napkin, tab, metallic, purple 

Purple, spots, text, weaving, flowers, pink 

Pink, postage stamps, green, circles, words 

Red, coffee, hearts, B&W, 1 bright colour, stencil 

Text, yellow, buttons, 

Botanicals, fabric, label, black mark making 

And then I decided that I needed to do some birthday cards as quite a few people are hitting a big 0 this year so I have 50 for a friend who’s birthday is the day after mine, 60 for a girlfriend who we are going to Malta with, 70 for another friend and 80 for Bill’s ex wife- yes, we’re friends!

I have also been doing a “scrap a day “ of 1” squares or circles from random magazines and papers 

Otherwise I have been busy in the garden lifting plants that I want to keep before the professionals come in and remove 2 flowerbeds that are full of couch grass. Membrane is going down and some gravel ( known as chuckies locally!) I shall be putting some pots in there to make my life easier rather than spending all my time weeding.