Journal 52 & twinchies

Week 37 came out yesterday....NEWSPAPER is the theme!

Here in Scotland it's all about the referendum which is now only days away so I had to go with some of today's headlines. I've already voted thanks to the postal system and this is no reflection of my political tendencies ( Salmond/Daily Telegraph )  Ian Paisley died yesterday & has therefore made in into the papers again, the 2 items on the right hand side of the page tickled me ( camera & aliens!!!) and who can resist puppies? The tip in page is the paper title cut and stuck onto a piece of happy mail.

Then we have 2 twinchies SAFARI from last week

And this week's BOOKS

DLP

Oops! I did make a page for the latest challenge"use a white pen prominently" would I would appear not to have posted it yet! 

Well, actually, I made 2 as I felt the white pen didn't show up too well on the first page...

This is a mop-up piece of card that got some stencilling over the top, I used some Paper Artsy stamps and then got to work with my Sakura gelly roll. I tried to use my Sharpie paint pen for the bunting but it was not playing ball & so I resorted to using a corrector pen :-)

Feeling that this was a bit too light I went to the other extreme....

The only dark card I could find that my pen seemed happy to write on was black. I used the same stencil as in the other page but this time I outlined all the shapes, filled some in completely & doodled in some of the other sections. Shame it's another B&W post.....

Happy mail

Keep putting off the latest DLP page (prominently use white pen) but I had myself some fun anyway...

Using mop-ups & under papers & stamping off/brush wipes I have been using TH "tiny tags & tabs"

Added some stamping, paper flower cutouts...had a fun time :-))

Red

Monday is here again! Where did last week go????

It's time for a new theme across at EVERY INCHIE MONDAY - RED. So I've got a bit of a fruit salad thing going on here...

Cherry Red

Strawberry red

Happy Monday!

September

Another Tims tag challenge has rolled around and this time I am not waiting until the last minute!

This is the tag that Tim has made....check his blog for details!

My efforts at "ghosting" with alcohol ink were crap! OK, I was improvising on the glossy card front and all my inks were fairly bright but...

The green was as close to the right effect as I could get :-(

So after a main image stamped in archival, some ru-ons and some butterflies....

I tried another image on the blue, a girls face free stamp, some more rub-ons & butterflies.....

Hmmmm! Time to try a different route!

A Bundled sage mop-up, a stencil with some versamark & clear EP, swiped over with DS crushed olive, EP ironed off. Skill stamped, assorted small Halloween images stamped, a tiny strip of rub-ons then a punched spider and more die-cut butterflies. I've added white pen to his teeth to make them gleam!!!

Journal 52 texture

 A night of little sleep....lots of thinking....a new journal page using plenty of stash that's been lying around for a while!

This weeks challenge is to use texture. I just happened to have a sheet of card that had been paste embossed, stencilled, inked & stamped - that gave me my background. I had some washed metal food dishes  that had been double sided with sticky tape onto thin card & run through a couple of different TH embossing folders, I cut these into banners. Also, in the flowers/foliage drawer where some fabric flowers (Paper Artsy stamp) that have been hanging around just waiting to see daylight :-) so there is a mustard one (cotton) with a button brad centre, a raw silk shocking pink with glitter brad, turquoise machined one, pale pink multi layered paper one, dyed linen with a metallic sequin centre & a mauve (synthetic) with large sequin & metallic brad. A little strip of nylon lace begged to be added at the last minute

Next stop DLP with using a white pen prominently

Renaissance

I wanted to find a colour image for my inchie this week but failed....for me, Renaissance is going back to my history lessons at a French schooling Libya and the French king of the time Francois 1er!  So here he is in all his b&w glory....

I've even managed to make those copper edges look ever so slightly distressed :-)