Glorious Sunny Saturday

Wow hasn't the weather today been glorious? Well it has in this part of Hertfordshire! Beautiful blue skies and warm Spring sunshine - lovely.

Well today I made a few cards. One of which I am entering as the Daring Cardmakers "draw a bird" challenge. Visit their blog for more information.
Well I haven't exactly drawn just any old bird - I have drawn a chicken, yes a chicken? I'm not sure why but she looks quite cheerful on this "carefree" card. The paper is by Fancy Pants. The bottom card has been coloured with Lime Pearl Mica Spray and Sky Blue Pearl Mica Spray from Dylusions and the chicken herself is also card painted with Dylusions Yellow acrylic paint. For the beak and feathers on the top of her head they are coloured using Neo color crayons.


The second card to share today is "dream" for which I used Fancy Pants and Scenic Route papers and a gem. A bit of doodling and finish!


The last card you might recognise, as it was laying on my desk on Wednesday, and it has now been finished. I stamped flowers onto some Scenic Route papers and cut them out then stuck a gem in the middle. These were then matted onto some paper printed from my Artylicious CD ROM Filigree Fusion (another thing I have found whilst looking for something else hahaha)

Well not a bad haul for the first day into my holidays. Thanks for dropping by.

WOYWD

Hi there blog guests

Today I realised it was Wednesday, after spending most of the day thinking it was Thursday haha, so I decided to show my "work desk". See Julia's blog as to the ins and outs!

Last night I got very inky as the desk can vouch for! I covered most of what was laying around on my desk and my fingers in Dylusion spray inks. I had so much fun! I was playing around with the "ghosting" technique which Dyan demos on her blog it is wonderful to see the results developing.


I created another card for Daring Cardmakers Challenge this week "to feature a daisy or sweetpea" and as I found this stamp in my stamp box whilst sorted them out I thought I would use it. The sun came out today and it was wonderful to be warm and wear my sunglasses for a change. Playground duty wasn't a chore for once! Only two more days until the Easter Holidays - yippee!

Daisy, daisy give me your answer do ......

Happy Mother's Day to all you Mums out there.

My children did me proud and I received a lovely handpainted spotty mug from Kris and Kat had these beautiful tulips delivered, aaaah not such bad kids after all.
Also to show today are three cards I made last night for the Daring Cardmakers Challenge this week which is to feature either daisies or sweetpeas.


So I hope these can loosely be included. I also tried to make some crinkle flowers that I saw on a tutorial on Such a Pretty Mess blog. I think they need refining though *cough* so I tried to disguise the wonkiness with ink and Stickles haha.

Have a great day!

Button Mum

A Mother's Day card to show you today. I used the prompt from Gorjuss challenge from two week's ago which was "buttons".




These buttons aren't real they are chipboard ones which I inked with Distress Inks. A little bit of stickles on the stamped flower in the bottom and "Bob's your uncle"!

I would like to wish all Mums a Happy Mothers Day for tomorrow.
x x x

Christmas in March

I have been really late with these challenges from Hazel's Christmas Challenge Blog so over the weekend I had a little play and a catch up.

I made these two cards. The first card is for challenge number 10 "Embossed" and I have used a Cuttlebug embossing folder with snowflakes on. Not a usual colour you would think for snowflakes - green - but I like them and with the dotty green paper I think it works.
The second card is for challenge number 9 "Sentiment" and I used this wood mounted stamp, (can't remember who it is by) but I have had it years and it is one of my favourites.
I've also made a few more cards but they are waiting for elements to dry and if I tried to photograph them I know I would smudge the glue - I'm not a handy as Net who usually photographs projects with wet glue and manages to do it perfectl hahaha.

Spring fever?

Hope you remembered to put your clocks forward (those of you in the UK that is) I didn't need to as my DAB Bug does it automatically, so I was up at 8.30 (really 7.30 but ssssh don't tell my brain or I will go to bed far too early :) )

Today I want to share another journal page with you. This one has been in progress for sometime as I doodle and wipe my waterbrush over several pages to clean it and if I have any "spare" paint left over after a project I just wipe it on a clean page. So this page did have flowers all over it and then I doodled some mountains and there it stayed for ages.


I found a "rubbish" dictionary that Kris had but the pages were falling out so I took charge of it (to recycle it of course) and made the house. Sorting through my desk I found this house that Gez made me so I decided to incorporate that too. Gez's house is hinged as it has a little message on the back.

The "creatures" on this page look rather weird because originally they all started out as flowers haha. After gessoing over the flowers some were very persistant and kept peeking through so hence the rather demented looking birds and fat bumblebee (see another one!) And just in case you were wondering what the brown things are on the hills ...... they are rabbits tee hee.

Well enjoy the rest of your Sunday. x

"bright and breezy ...

... free and easy" that is the line from the song isn't it? hahaha fair to young to remember that one! Well that is the title that came into my head first this fine sunny morning in Hertfordshire.

Today I would like to share with you two more art journal pages which are very bright - so get your sunglasses ready ......

I used a mixture of Caran D'Ache neocolor watersoluble crayons and Adirondack Inks applied using a waterbrush. Also used some gesso in places too. Then the trusty Pitt pen to doodle and write with - mmmmm need more crayons and a new fine Pitt pen me thinks.

Also is it me or do there seem to be (no pun intended) lots of bee images and motifs around at the moment? My sister was wearing a beautiful bee pendant the other day too.

Have a lovely day everyone. x

Love food?

Well I love food, but isn't it something when food loves you back? ......

This is the message my jacket potato left for me yesterday, hahaha.

Have a happy day. x

And not a Gene Kelly in sight!

My journal pages today show my take on Milliande's prompt "Singing in the Rain". I was a little stumped at first as to what to do and then lying around on the clutter on my desk was a Craft Robo cut umberella ella ella! So I used it as a mask and sprayed Dylusions ink over it and then whilst the template was still inky stamped it onto the opposite page. Much colouring, gessoing and doodling later I had the following pages.




Oh and those legs aren't mine. Do you think I could stand let alone walk in those heels? hahaha

Thanks for stopping by.

a trio of cards

Two birthday and one for Hazel's Christmas Challenge.

This is for Hazel's "Bling" theme Challenge number 4

Not very stylish (and others would have binned them) but I was running out of crafty time! :)

Seeing Red

Today I am showing you a journal page I completed which I have entitled,
Seeing Red.

I used various media including
Distress Inks applied with a baby wipe (I find this colour washes a page beautifully and very evenly)
Pitt Pens and
Neocolor Water Crayons.

Birthday Bus

Well the Birthday Bus has called again! ...... ding ding ...... move along right down the bus please. haha

Why is it that birthdays come along together? For today alone I had to make three birthday cards. Only photographed two out of the three.




More birthdays next week too so I guess I will be busy over the weekend getting those finished. mmmmmm tricky teenage boy cards ...... need to get my Thinking Cap on.

Not this time

On well it wasn't to be ......... no balloon trip for me this morning due to bad weather conditions. :(

Oh I will have to choose another date and then it will be fingers crossed again for a successful trip.

Will it happen this time???

Well another season of ballooning has just begun in Great Britain and I have everything crossed that my planned balloon trip happens this time. I've tried several times before to have my trip but the weather has always gotten in the way. Wrong type of wind or it has been raining. Oh the joys of living in the UK!

I have booked my trip for Saturday morning, so a telephone call to check that the flight is still on is to be made on Friday night and then it will (hopefully) be up up and away in my beautiful balloon hahaha.

I'll keep you posted and show you the photos if I have any. Sunj is taking the video camera and wants to get some film of me ascending to the clouds - while I will to taking photos of him and the kids getting smaller and smaller haha.

Recycled Super Hero

Here are two more journal pages I created yesterday. During the holiday I shopped in White Stuff as you do and was given my purchases in a comic book inspired carrier bag. I loved the image and the caption and decided I wanted to recycle it into a journal page. I thought she looked like a super hero and that is what started my mind cogs whirring.


Close up of the comicbook image which I stuck into my journal and then I used Distress Inks in Barn Door and Broken China applied with a baby wipe and doodled with Neocolor II wax pastels and a waterbrush to colour the background. Some on the finer doodling was done with a Pitt pen.
I wanted to write something on this page but didn't have enough space on the one page so decided to make it a double page spread! Again I used Distress Inks and a baby wipe to roughly make a Union Jack flag and the red central George Cross is made from the paper that went into making the carrier bag handles. The brown paper around the outside of the page is also the paper from the handles.
Thanks for stopping by. Please do leave a comment if you are able, I love to read them all.

On the large side

That is the Christmas card I made yesterday not me personally tee hee

My Mum mentioned about the Christmas card I gave her and my Dad last year as being rather small and" not worth the stamp"!!!! lol so I thought right ...... I will make a large one for this year. Still this is only A5 size but should be "worth the stamp!" :)

I have used Basic Grey papers which are very Christmasy I think and a beautiful reindeer from Tando. I haven't used any of their chipboard before but I must say it is very sturdy and very well cut, keeping it's shape when I applied the colour and decorations. I inked my Rudolf with Distress Ink in Vintage Walnut and have given him a Stickles nose and Glossy Accented eye.

I will be ticking off Hazel's Christmas Card Challenge Number 7 "Feature a Creature" for this card.

Thanks for stopping bye.

The White Stuff

That is what Hazel's challenge number 8 is all about this week and here is my card. I wanted to use this snowmen stamp which I coloured with lovely green Sakura pens on their hats and scarves so I decided to use lime green card instead of the white which I was originally going to use. Not very Christmasy but funky I thought.


I am a little behind with Hazel's challenges but hope to catch up during the week. Please visit Hazel's blog for some great Christmas prompts and wonderful work.

Steampunk

Wow Daring Cardmakers what have you started? The prompt for this week's challenge is ....

"steampunk"

Well I decided to join in and not being too sure what steampunk was or how I should go about it I "Googled it" oh boy, was I in for a shock!

Isn't this fabulous. I went onto Jake von Slatt's blog and found this all made by himself. I'd love for my pc to look like this. So being inspired I tried to make a birthday card for my daughter's boyfriend (I couldn't think who else would get this mix of Victoriana and technology hahaha)

I didn't have many metal objects so use a spinner, brad that I distressed, safety pins and watch cog. I did enjoy getting inky and think I might try to make another one of these, but not sure who will be the recipient of it! hahaha. I think this genre is a required taste. I think I might be a convert! lol

ooops

Been a bit absent updating my blog but now half term is here I should be able to blog frequently this week.


Today is my Mum's birthday and I thought some flowers on her card would be perfect. Coloured with waterbrush and Distress Inks.

Art Journal

Another page from my journal to share with you today this one I finished a couple of days ago but have only just got round to photographing and blogging about.

The prompt was Day 8 of Milliande Art Journal January The prompt was "Vertical Journalling Lines" never written like this before and I don't think I will do it again - haha - as I had to think too hard on what letters I had already written. :)

As you can tell from yesterday's post I am not doing these in numerical order, just the order I fancy doing them in.

Thanks for looking and do visit the Art Community website and Milliande's blog lots of great techniques and beautiful artwork.