Journal pages

DLP - not inspired by this one at all! Make a custom element / ride the energy of your own spirit ' Geraldine Roth'

Stencils/distress inks, some scraps, handwritten words.....the ink spidered due to the gesso & the pencil lines were a devil to erase :-(

POSITIV>>-+->>JOURNAL....meditation.....yep the French nor is still going all "deep & meaningful" on us & even suggested that we meditate before starting our page! I chose to sleep on it & now I'm just wondering whether or not to add 'to be or not to be'

I've used some paper that I remember buying from the student union shop at the Heriot Watt textile college in Galashiels -it's 6 years since I was there & I know I did not buy it the last year I was there!

I promised myself that I was going to use stuff for these journals & I occasionally manage to pull it off using all stash items....it sure feels good when I do.

The image is a download that I've coloured with watercolour pencils, just the circle behind the head is done with gold metallic paint.

OK, I'm off to contemplate my navel in front of the TV now.....see you all again soon :-)

Eggs

It's halfway through the current moo mania challenge so I thought I'd better share my eggs. 

This one is a free stamp on paper scraps that I've cut out & stuck onto a stencilled scrap...

Here I've used a stamp (Hobby Art) & coloured with felt tips, neon gel pens & the background is sparkly green topcoat nail varnish!

The third & final is done with another free stamp(black ink on gold wrapping paper) an inked & embossed scrap + a happy Easter  greeting 

Time to link this to www.moo-mania.blogspot.com   

Oak

Last Monday of the quarter! I'm at a loss as to where the year has gone....I have not even been in France where it always seems to fly by.

Enough on that, it's time for our new inchie theme oak

And I've gone from little acorns to mighty oak leaves

And for my ATC 

Spring

....cleaning is our theme for Journal 52:

I've been trying to clear some paper from my scrap boxes and thus meant I was all set to go on this one.

Snippets, small snippets & a stamped daffodil image that just needed colouring on one page, more snippets & some die-cut letters on the other.....

Hope the time change doesn't deprive us all of too much sleep tonight!

Remember

There has been a terrible tragedy this week that has happened just a few miles from where I usually spend my winters in France. Yes, I'm talking about the airbus that has crashed with no survivors.

And the latest news would seem to mean that the copilot deliberately crashed the aircraft with all passengers on board straight into the mountainside. I feel so terribly saddened for the families of all concerned.

I am participating in POSITIV>>-+>>JOURNAL which is a French site so I thought I would use that journal to mark this awful event.

It just so happens that Brenda Brown of http://www.bumblebeesandbutterflies.com  fame has done a post today about stamping on brown parcel tape. I hate the stuff, it always sticks to the wrong things!

I did like the idea though so I decided to try stamping on some kraft paper tape I have that is normally used in picture framing.

Here are a few photos of the steps, I got involved & forgot to keep taking them!

Some smears of gesso, stamped paper tape strips, finger smeared white acrylic.

Some over stamping (snakeskin stamps) & some paper scraps.

I added some stencilling, gauze bandage that got dipped in vintage photo stain, paper ribbon, paper scraps, some pictures of old New Zealand postcards, the mountain one seemed right somehow, looks suitably remote! The postcard link would be the fact that it is a ski resort - I've used a date stamp that also has a window & I've hand written airbus. There's also a few strips of washi tape dotted around.

Thank you Brenda for the inspiration. Let's spare a thought & a prayer for the families.....

Rudolph day

Can you believe that it's the 25th again! Fortunately March so only the third of the year but even so...

Last month I was the randomly selected winner over at Scrappy Mo's Rudolph day and received a snowflake die & an offer of a guest spot this month....wow! You could have knocked me over with a feather LOl.

I have made 3 cards this month using the same stamp which came with Craft Stamper last October - it's by Maria Sabina. It's the first time I've used it.

So here are best photos that I have managed to take, it's been a challenge owing to cloudy skies or too much sunshine!

As you can see here, it's very sunny! A spellbinders Persian motifs gold doily, some dark green hammered card & tiny red pearl gems o go with the gold embossing.

This is the same die but I've used red metallic paper....

And on this one it's 2 die cuts in the same red that I've overlapped, this die is from Persian accents & I've added little tiny red gems.

Do take a look over at http://scrapsoflifebyscrappymo.blogspot.co.uk/ maybe even join in the fun, you have until the end of the month (I think!) & if not this month then maybe next. It's a great way to get a head start on those Christmas cards saving a last minute panic!

Little fish

......in a pond full of sharks!

A new week at POSITIV>>-+->>JOURNAL RELATIVITY is our theme!

So I'm choosing to be a little fish in a big sea that right now just happens to be full of rather large sharks!

Acrylic artists ink (FW), distress inks, paints & stains in various blues + some water sprayed to help blend.

The fish are Chocolate Baroque stamps (steampunk funky fish) that I stamped onto watercolour paper. I've used distress stain on the sharks + watercolour pencils & just the pencils on the little spiny fish - his spines are coloured with a silver pen.