Busy journal

DLP released the new prompt on Saturday use gesso & the theme "the beginning is always today"

My pages were already gesso-ed so I smeared some acrylics that I had rediscovered onto them. I'm still not a great fan of this form of paint for some reason but one of my plans for this year was to try and use up some of the art supplies that have rarely seen daylight, these particular paints came from a friend who was clearing out some cupboards.

After the paint was dry I added some stencilling using sequin waste & distress ink, feeling far more comfortable all of a sudden :-) with products that I usually use.

I stamped a border and a journaling tag with some Paper Artsy stamps (swirls & curls 1&2) and added a little doodling with white gelly roll pen. The flowers are an assortment of stamps (chocolate baroque, ??) that have been stamped onto papers that I'd painted with silk paints.

The future comes one day at a time is also from Paper Artsy, One step.... Was inspired by something I saw on Pinterest.

And then I turned my thoughts to the new promp from POSITIV>>-+->JOURNAL

Release your creative inner child.

I had quite a lot of ideas for this one, as I lay in bed tossing & turning for a couple of hours whilst listening to someone snore rather loudly I managed to work out where I wanted to take the subject.

Eventually I moved to the spare bedroom and managed some sleep and the ideas had moved on a little further by the time I sat down to tackle them.

My page had already got the tissue wrap remnants glued down but for some reason I'd given the page a yellow wash! I must have been dreaming of sunshine at the time....

I did a diluted gesso wash, dried it and then added another, thicker, layer across the middle of the pages.

Once that was dry I stamped a row of children (craft Stamper freebie  may 2004) the sky got some Promarker & inktense, the same for the grass. The kids & crayons are coloured using Promarkers .

Under them I've added the names of friends from my childhood in Libya & France, there was a lot of sunshine around in my life growing up so the yellow tinge (!) mirrors the feelings I still have of those early days. My paper aeroplanes, well Dad was in the air traffic control tower & it was his job that led us to travel to all that sunshine. I could do with some right now.....it's snowing outside & I've got to go walk the dog :-(

Inch

Inch by inch we shall advance into 2015.... This week the prompt at EIM is giraffe 

I've used a scrap that has been lurking for a while now, I'd save the paper for something that was on the other side and this skinny necked fellow got rescued from the debris :-)

Happy Monday 

Just be....

Journal 52 challenge time....just be is the prompt.

I've used under paper for the 2 backgrounds, on the left hand page I have used different alphabet stamps to spell out in the chaos / &, keep calm is from a Hobbycraft stamp, BE are glittery stickers from my stash. I've used some washi tape (ruler, it was a freebie), the corner stamp & domestic goddess are stamps from the latest issue of Creative Stamping the chevron stamp...?.

The opposite page has some shorts that I cut from some wrapping paper, they are blowing in the breeze & firmly help to the line with wooden pegs (free stamp!) - the sundae & burger as well as the bottom corner stamp came with the goddess, part of the fabulous fifties set, this page also has some washi tape (stripes & bicycle) that came from Hobbycraft.

I wear an apron in the kitchen but I would never pretend that I look this glamorous! I do, however, have a lot of fun in there!

January tag

January tag time with Tim Holtz...

Well, I goofed! As I was finger painting the tag for this months tag I realised that I'd stuck my homemade tissue wrap on upside down!!!!

I figured that by the time the paint was on  with chitchat & numbers etc, there would not be too much visible so maybe I could get away with it....

Here is the painted tag: evergreen bough, broken china & picket fence  distress paint then I added some tarnished brass & vintage photo distress stain that I flicked on with a paintbrush & then spritzed & dried.

As I  wanted a little more gold so I've rubbed some Goldfinger sovereign gold wax onto all the crinkles...

I have chit chat but none of the other embellishments so, as usual, it was on with the thinking cap & out with the bits & bobs box to see what was useable....

I've followed the instructions this month apart from the Krylon pen for the remaining steps - I used Medici Mixed Media Aqua fortis in true gold, I sprayed & also dripped.

The letters are die cut using Alphabetical that I coloured with a gold Sharpie and the glitter 5 is a pinkpaislee glitter number from some winnings last winter.

I used a touch of walnut ink around the tag edges, added some knitted old gold yarn and I'm calling the job done...

I'll link up and go check out the other posts for this months tag now so see you all again soon.

Egg

It's the first Monday in 2015 and we have a whole new set of words to create with.... 

What could be more fun than starting with an EGG! It's the start of life & also a brilliant breakfast to start the day....

Here are mine....yes, more than 1, I went for 2 as the second reminds me of our next school break!

This one is stamped

Whilst this one is part of a rescued & recycled Easter card border.

Now go eat an egg for your breakfast like good kiddies!

Sunday

It's a cold one today! The first Sunday of 2015 has been bright & sunny but it's barely got above freezing so I spent some time in the craft room doing some sorting and prepping of the January tag on Tim Holtz's challenge.

Here's the results so far....

No postale tissue wrap or indeed any other for that matter so I googled some images and decided to make my own :-)

Tissue paper, archival ink, assorted mail related stamps from a variety of sources. It's been glue onto the tag & I'm waiting for it to dry.

Over at Moo-Mania it's time for a new theme...polka dots.

I've used some leftover card that has been swiped through Victorian velvet by the looks of things.

Stamped Paper Artsy mini 15 and filled in the dots with inktense pencil in a similar colour & doodled a border.

I missed the one for the past fortnight :-( 

See you all tomorrow with my first inchie of the year.....

DLP - Journal 52 & Positiv >>-+->Journal

Banish the fear of the Blank Page + Goals

 Strips of assorted book pages, gesso, distress stains & paints, stencil, sharpie (black) posca (white), glitter letters & numbers + a Happy Mail tag

Paths

Ordnance survey Landranger series, Balzer Bits stencil/DI.

New paths

More landranger map paper...stencilled with sequin waste

Distress paints, sequin waste/ distress ink,sharpie/posca pens