Just a little reminder that there's still time to join in our challenge at Try it on Tuesday...
Thought I'd try another yellow journal page for Art Journal Journey, but it didn't really work out... I'd used Adirondack Sunshine yellow - with a couple of other colours - but disliked it so much, I had to cover most of it up 😟 - sorry, but as you'll see from my journal page...
The new challenge at Allsorts is Spring Flowers - a lovely thing to focus on - so I got out my spring flower stamps, well some of them, and messed about - it was fun 😀
These are a bit like (use your imagination) the gorgeous Irises I have in a container in my yard, which are now all out and blooming beautifully. It's a very old PB stamp, used with Neocolors, Tombows and Versafine inks.
This is how I was feeling yesterday... I knew what I wanted to journal, but couldn't bring myself to do it, so I did it today...
Yellow stencilling (Scattered Straw) and some Yellow writing, so I'm entering this into the Art Journal Journey Challenge for Rike's theme - Yellow. Yellow was definitely how I felt yesterday 😶
Three challenges today...
SSS Monday Challenge is Wheels
SSS Wednesday Challenge is Black, White and one other colour
Country View Challenges is also Black, White and one other colour
Welcome to a new challenge at Try it on Tuesday!
The challenge is 'Powder your...' and we'd love to see you play with your powders - embossing powders, mica powders, brusho powders, paint powder, even images of powders, it's up to you how you interpret the theme … just have fun!
Please remember to note on your post which 'powder' you use in your take on the theme..
This is a GREAT excuse to play and let your imagination roam wild... 😉
For my playtime, I simply sprinkled some of my favourite coloured Brushos on an A5 piece of card, activated with (lots of) water and left to dry... then used the background to make this card.
After stamping my (well loved and used) Paperartsy flowers, I did a bit of stencilling with Brilliance Moonlight White ink and added a bit of text and graphic style stamping in colours matching the Brushos. I then stamped the word 'bloom' in Distress Oxide, clear embossing, and finished it off by colouring the blooms with Posca pens for a strong contrast. The purple card just pulls it all together.
There's a new challenge over at Allsorts - In the Kitchen, Cooking or Baking - sounds like fun!
I had the Paperartsy chef image already coloured, cut out and edged in black, so I hunted in my backgrounds box and found this gorgeous colourful card. I'm almost sure it was made with Ecoline inks - a long time ago! So I found my 'cakey' words, stamped some of them in matching colours, then stamped and coloured the cake to go with it. This is the perfect birthday card for a close friend who loves to bake and has a birthday this week - though we celebrated last night because she's away on her birthday, as every year, because it's half term and she's a teacher.
There's a Mushroom challenge on over on Tag Tuesday Challenge Blog and I thought I'd play along, using one of my scraps from a previous background. I love shrooms and fungi - both eating them and hunting for them - and used to spend hours photographing them, delighting in their fascinating shapes and colours.
The one I've used isn't an exciting specimen, but it does have a cute little girl sitting on it. I dusted the cobwebs off one of my Art Journey stamps for this, after adding more colour (Distress Inks) to a scrap left over from an A4 watercolour paper background, which was already stamped with numbers and text.
There's a new challenge on the SSS Monday blog - Typography. I LOVE typography and was an avid collector of fonts until I tired of updating my laptop and software every time I had to reset my laptop, following a Windows 10 update - and that was a LOT of times! But they're all still here on my laptop, waiting until I need them. I just think there's something incredibly magical about letters and words. Even when I was a kid - much to my mum's horror - I used to doodle letters and words all over every book I could find. As a teenager, that turned into decorating all my inner album sleeves (remember those, lol?) with words from the songs and quotes and lots of other doodles. I still do it when I'm on the phone and most of my uni text books are filled with doodles and words 😞 but now I can do it with stamps and magazine or book scraps. I don't do it often enough, so I was chuffed to notice that the challenge at SSS Monday is Typography - yay! An excuse to play!
So here's my first offering... I thought this may be a card but I don't think it's quite the sort of thing anyone would like to receive, so... it will have to go into one of my journals. I've put it on black card to scan, but it's just a piece of card at the moment.
I started with a gelli print, using some of my favourite colours, then gradually added stamping of letters and words in various inks, Neocolors and whatever else I could get my hands on. There's a Carabelle Studio alphabet stamp in the background, too. I had to use these whimsical stamps - they were perfect for this and I really do like them. I love the way the colours turned out.
Just a little bit more inspiration for our 'Romance' theme over at Try it on Tuesday.
I bought this PB stamp a long time ago in a sale box at Port Sunny (Sunlight), on the Wirral. I don't use it a lot, but think it's really cute and perfect for a Love or Romance theme.
It's a very simple card; I stencilled the heart with Tumbled Glass (I think) Oxide onto a Kraft card, then stamped and embossed the bird, colouring with Prisma Pencils and stamping the words and hearts later, embossing with white EP. I even added a few gems, which I rarely use, lol. They just seemed to fit so well.
There's a Tag Challenge at Penny Black and More, so I thought I'd stamp a tag or two.
I scraped some Gesso onto a scrap of card, then various shades of green Distress ink, to see what happened. I quite liked the result but wanted to add some words, so I rooted out my old Flower words - the stamp actually perished (no idea why - it's an old rubber PSX stamp and I was pretty upset when I discovered the state it was in) in parts, but I quite like the faded effect, so I kept it for backgrounds. I used Pine Needles Oxide ink and stamped it repeatedly down one side, then added a few circles in Bundled Sage, one of the colours I'd previously used. I wasn't keen on that, so after stamping the silhouette flowers and embossing it all, I added a bit of stencilling in Brilliance Moonlight White. I mounted the whole tag onto black card because it wasn't very thick, then added a couple of cut off strips, punching one of them with a tiny hole punch, just for a bit of interest. Then I stamped my words, punched a hole and threaded some frayed ribbon through.
Yay! There’s a new challenge over at TIOT, starting today, and the theme is… Romance! Just in time for Valentine’s Day, if you send any cards on that day.
There are some fantastic samples from the TIOT team if you’d like to glean some inspiration…
Oops! I posted the wrong card... so sorry.
On this one, I went with an old image from Designs Ink'd, now I Brake for Stamps. It's such a cute image.
The loving couple are coloured with Prisma Pencils and the 'Love' is a die cut. I just had to add a heart, but the Brushos bakcground didn't really need much more, once I'd stencilled a few stars in silver and spattered a bit of paint.
Every now and again I like to challenge myself to make CAS cards - I do love them but they do require a totally different mindset. Mine is normally a 'slap on the colour and see what happens' mindset (well, not quite always)… When doing black and white, I need to change the way I think... almost as if I'm using the other side of my brain, if that makes sense? CAS isn't quite so challenging but it's still a challenge.
I noticed that the new challenge over at Addicted to CAS was birds, so I thought I'd have a go, so here's my CAS bird.
Yellow is the theme of this month's challenge at Art Journal Journey.
I have to confess that yellow it NOT one of my favourite colours, lol. I do use it a lot, but always with other colours - never on its own. I love seeing it on other people, but it makes me look seriously ill - or worse! Even when I've tried painting rooms yellow, I get headaches - or I did until I moved into this house. My living room is - as you probably guessed - yellow, though it's a very pale shade - banana, I think. I would never have chosen it, but I can live with it until I get around to redecorating!
So, when I sat down, determined to do something, I had absolutely no idea how I could bring myself to journal in yellows! My craft room was filled with wonderful, bright winter sunshine today, which made me think of sunshine...a good starting point.
Starting with a pale lemon (Lemonade) acrylic base in my 8x8 journal, I sponged some Sunshine Yellow through a roses stencil, added a contrasting back edge (an old Rollagraph made into a stamp) then added a strip of black card from my scraps stash. I spotted one of my smiling sheepz, already coloured in yellows, so I used him, then added the die cut words. He looked so bright I had to make him shine...and add a few hearts because it turned out to be a really positive page and made me think of Spring!
