Eloge a la lenteur

POSITIV>>+>>JOURNAL has a new theme for us...I've gone super simple as far as "slowness" goes!

Ink splashes, washi tape, a rescued image of a snail & a Tim Holtz stamp.....

Now I'm off to enjoy today's sunshine! It's all about seizing the moment & when I walk the dog I shall hand deliver a birthday card to a neighbour....

Free digital image coloured LAST winter mounted on a piece of Joules carrier bag (that would be before they started charging for them!)

See you all again soon :-)

Tutankhamen

It's Monday again and we have a new inchie theme....you might have guessed from the title that it's Egyptian.

So here is my inchie, a stamp from a set of 9 ethnic stamps, the make is unknown!

And for my ATC  I used a gelli print scrap, an image that's been lurking in my bits 'n bobs 

As a keen history student it's a country I wish I had visited when it was still safe to do so!

Weekend pages

Journal 52 was all about colouring books so I downloaded a couple of images from Pinterest

and using watercolour pencils I set to work. On the page on the right with all the rings I have used metallic Sharpies to colour in the smaller rings and connectors. It's hard to get a decent picture of the metallic effect!

DLP pages new theme for the month: making your mark (doodles and Mark making) the challenge use it as a layer element &  prompt: surviving the elements.

I had started a spread because I wanted to be able to compare my various watercolour pencils 

I've got Derwent, Faber Castell, Conté,Start metallics, Daler Rowney and Derwent Inktense. 

I've written the number/colour on the relevant square and calling it done!

Pearls

There's a new challenge over at www.tryitontuesday.com where the theme is pearls. 

Some time ago I made this box for a friends birthday.... Fabric with pearls! So I thought I'd share it & link it to the challenge.

I've looked to see if its on my blog... I wiped my pictures by accident last year, so I cannot truly establish if this item has been seen on my blog or not- I've a funny feeling that it was only Facebook.

Here's a closer look at the lid

So my apologies if it has been seen before!

Clear space

I couldn't make up my mind if POSITIV>>+>>JOURNAL wanted minimalist or if I should clear my desk!

I went minimal-ish!

Gesso on the kraft paper, some versamark then some Pan Pastels, I won a starter kit of 5 colours a couple of years back & they've rarely seen the sight of paper!  I tried stamping the snowdrops & colouring with the pastels but wasn't very happy with the results so rubbed them out.

I went with stamping in a combination of evergreen bough/iced spruce for the snowdrops, iced spruce for the flourishes & swiped evergreen bough direct to some paper before die-cutting some letters to spell spring.

A little shading with Dark Wash, some tiny dots for the flourishes with a sharpie.

March

I never had time to do anything about the new tag across at Tim Holtz on Sunday, the time difference just meant that it was too late in the day :-(

Yesterday, however, I reread the instructions, pulled a face, pull out my bits & started to plan. I followed his instructions as closely as possible but without the new ink colours. I used some decoart paints as substitutes and mixed a coral & a green. I then made two backgrounds and selected 2 stamps,used masking paper before applying the texture paste. The left one is a Paper Artsy stamp + copper EP whilst the right hand is Papermania  + gold EP.

I didn't like the dragonfly one though as there was just not enough black! I continued with the shell lady and this is how she ended up...

The only TH products I used are DP in picked raspberry,spiced marmalade, salty ocean & the mini numeral, everything else came from my stash.

I decided to do something else with the other tag, a friend had traded some of my TH layered leaves for some layered butterflies.

I watercoloured one of the butterflies with felt paints then added black to the wings, a few gems & some ribbon.

I think this one may well end up on a card front!

Love

A new month, a new week, a new theme at every inchie Monday and thus week is all about love

For this one I've used a mop up base & a stamp

Whilst my ATC ..... Is a free Craft Stamper definition stamp with some paper scraps :-)

I keep trying to reduce the stash of scraps but I'm not sure I'm winning!

Happy month of March to you all.