Timely Reminders!!

I came across this journal page today - its one of the earliest ones I did, and I still really like it! Very different from what I do now but I think the quote is something I should keep in mind at the moment!!!  Maybe I will make the time this week to do a new page re using the quote and see what I end up with!!!!  Hopefully watch this space!  Have a good week!!!

Mini Grunge Journal

This week I was lucky enough to get to a workshop at Art From The Heart which was taught by the lovely  Sandra Hall and she designed and showed us how to make this wonderful little grunge book - its ATC size.  We had a wonderful relaxing, crafty day!! Thanks so much Sandra - hugs!!!

We used some Tim Holtz papers, some tags which we decorated and some on which we created our own unique resist pages and coloured with blended distress ink pads.  Totally loved it and can see myself doing more of them as they are a fabulous way of using up some of the massive store of small pieces of paper I seem to collect!!! No surprise to those who know me, I cant throw anything away no matter how small!! LOL xx

Just a quick post!

I have been trying to do some work for several challenges that have been going on this month and have struggled to find the energy and time, but I finally did this quick tag using Tim Holtz seasonal distress pads!! I was hoping to get 3 done - oh well maybe I will manage more later today!!!  The bags under her eyes look just like mine LOL!!!

August Calendar Journal Page

Ok here we are - another month nearly over - wow time goes too quickly!! I have been doing the Calendar journal pages since the beginning of the year thanks to Kate Crane, but I struggled a little with this page this month, and I have never spent this much time on a page before  - though I have to say a lot of that is because of the cutting out of the main elements!!

I had a basic idea of what I wanted to do as far as the background went (but that's always the easy bit! Dylusions spray inks and some stencils and your off lol), but had no idea what I was going to put on as the focal point.  

Fortunately on the morning I was going to do some more to the page I saw a new release by the very creative Lily Chilvers - The Octopode Factory (on etsy) - 'Clockwork Sun' - which I instantly fell in love with and bought to download - already knowing that it would work wonderfully on this page.  So thanks Lily!!!!  Then after a little computer manipulation, lots of cutting and some colouring with inktense blocks and a water brush I was well on the way and happy with the results.

I struggled with a quote as I have seen so many good ones lately, but this one has been in my head a lot as that's how I seem to feel about half the days this month!!  As the image is not that clear, the quote says 'Lets go to bed, I'm tired of this day I need a new one!!!!'  Lol, so that was the decision made for me.  

Hope you all have a great August!! x

Mistakes

Well finally yesterday I had some spare time and energy - at the same time is a miracle - so I headed straight to the craft table, and this is what I came up with.  

As always the background is done with Dylusions inks, stencils & stamp (one of these days I will shock you and use something else!!!)  The wings are a free download from The graphics fairy, and the others are from a steampunk book and I used Tim Holtz Rusted enamel technique on the wings. 

Green ideas

Life has been fairly full on recently and my energy levels have been low so I haven't had much chance to do some new work.  A few backgrounds and keeping up with my calendar journal page are all that I have managed.  So I thought I would show you another page out of my 'Thoughts to ponder' journal.

As always the ever present Dylusions inks and stamps but I also added in some of Lavinia stamps beautiful vines.  The little green man was cut out of a magazine.

Hope you all find time to be creative in the coming week!! Have fun xxx

Believe in Something!

Hi just thought I would take a minute to show you an early collage type page I did - still want the coat!!

Background done in dylusions inks and stamp - though I think the word stamp at the side might be one of Tim Holtz!?!? not sure it was a while ago.  Then the works and images out of a magazine.