Monday

Its the first Monday of the year and I have a whole new collection of inchies to share that are animal related for 2017 so without further ado here's this week's RABBIT 

I have also done my scavenger page for Art Prompts Galore where the theme is the following: HOPE // SCAVENGER: white, green, a label from a bottle or something similar, a piece of holiday ephemera, a sticky note, a coin or impression of a coin, a symbol of luck,3 words that symbolize what you want from 2017, an image of your choice, something shiny

The sticky note is my only omission in this one:

 done in a brand new journal with a GREEN border, can't get the LABELs off the bottles so I've used an advert for Moët as we were celebrating the New Year & Birthday of the man in the photo (my RANDOM IMAGE) my SHINY & HOLIDAY ephemera is the gold squares out of the indoor firework we set off for the occasion. I have done COIN RUBBINGS of euros, a Chinese GOOD LUCK coin & my 3 words CELEBRATE, ART, PLAY

I also managed to do the final Journal 52 page: fare well 2016 / hello 2017

I hope that you all have had a good start to this new year and continue to share the wonders of art through Blogland....I'll be over to visit you soon!

Favourites

Some favourite pages from my 2016 Art Prompts Galore & Journal 52 book

31st December

New Year's Eve !

I don't even know how we got to this point in time when I feel like it should still be about October!

A final Colour Me Positive page :53 Fridays in 2016!

A late birthday card for a girlfriend 

And another for another friend who's birthday is today 

We will all be celebrating together tonight!

A healthy & Happy New Year to you all.....

December

Christmas & Boxing Days have ended....Blogger is still playing silly beggars despite me powering my iPad down then on again so I guess it's delete and reinstall next but in the meantime I'm doing the old cut and paste....

Art prompts galore the final scavenge!

Red, green, wrapping paper (flourish in the top right), gift or clothing tag(label from the new jumper I wore Christmas Day), snowman, glitter or something glittery( snowman stamped with versamark & glitter EP), 3 words associated with Christmas (ho ho ho, merry & bright), food wrapper or label (honeycomb), 1-3 stickers  ( ski-ing santa, parcel mouse, dancing mouse and also 2 sticky labels off the boots I bought whilst in the USA that I'd not yet worn)&  napkin ....there was no room left!

I also completed the cover/ spine of the APG & Journal 52 book. Im amazed at how clean the white leather cover has stayed!

Colour me positive the final prompt: it is Christmas in the heart that puts Christmas in the air .

I chose to do all the things that make me think of Christmas, the background is wrapping paper from around the present from my stepson & daughter in law.

In this one you can see the glitter paper!

See again soon....I'm off to work in the kitchen now!

Week 52

The big day is done & dusted and we can now all relax....I was lucky enough to be able to speak to my 3 grandchildren thanks to the magic technology of the internet and they all seem to have had a wonderful Christmas across the pond, the eldest in California with her dad & the other 2 in Maine - happy days! 

We were the warmest place in the UK yesterday with temperatures of 15.5 C (mid 50's) and this morning....we wake to snow and also the sad news of the loss of another sweet voice George Michael, what a year!

Our final inchie of 2016 is letter and I toyed with various options in my stamp collection but eventually decided that I just had to go with Z!

I can't believe that this time next week will be a new year- here's hoping it's a good one for all....thanks for all the visits & comments this year, keep them coming as I love to read your messages and I be coming to see you all too. 

Journal 52

Celebrate the winter holiday is our theme...

I started off with scraped paint - 2 shades of green & some pewter. Stamped some holly (Bo Bunny) tinsel, tree, candle foliage arrangement, restamped the candle which I coloured & fussy cut, stamped a string of baubles to which I added some bling (its quite flat which is great) and added a message.

Trying to catch the shimmer....

On the opposite page I added the snowmen on a sledge, this is from the packaging of a banner that I hang up outside the chalet in the winter.

Bill & I drove out to Ballater for lunch today....we encountered sleet on the way whereas in was blue skies coming home...typical Scottish 4 seasons in a day on this, the shortest day! Things can only get better :-)

Merry Christmas to all my visitors here in blogland and I'll see you after the big event.....

Colour

I made 3 cards yesterday and another today...