In the Sky or In the Air

That is the title of the challenge on Art Journal Journey set by the lovely Erika for this month.

I always seem to do my pain journal pages for the first thing in this challenge and so this morning I set to and thought about "birds", seeking out my bird stamps.  First of all I sprayed two sheets of cardstock because it was the quickest way I could think of to create a background and then I got stamping.

Spent a nice time sitting in my high backed chair with my Promarkers and my Derwent Inktense Pencils colouring in the images.  I always seem to do two images per page with them in opposite corners for my main images and then do some smaller bits scattered around the page which is going to be covered in squares for my journalling anyhow.

I went along with 'feathers' and had a lovely time using the pencils to colour them and create some nice blending - shame you can only see bits.  Perhaps I need to think out my strategy before next month.

So here it is - my "In the Sky" page for Erika at Art Journal Journey.

WOYWW 517 - the First Day of May

Another week closer to the Crop and the Anniversary.  Just need to get my thinking cap on and start making something.  Perhaps a Masterboard is in order and I can take it from there.  What on earth am I on about?  Well, go here and see all about it - Julia can explain it much better than I can.

Still not doing much crafting.  I am managing to keep up with my Journal challenge that I do with a friend of mine on a Thursday and doing prep for my workshop (fingers crossed I can get through it on the day) but that is about all.  I have lots of Dylusion figures all ready cut out and some are coloured so Thursdays is just a question of making a background and finding a figure or two to add to it.  This is the start of one of my backgrounds

To the left you can see my folder which contains most of my A4 stencils and then there is my flip journal which is the one I am using at the moment.  I used three Distress Inks direct to paper and then put a stencil on the top left and the whole of the opposite side in yet another shade of blue.

At the back you can see one of my "cubby holes" that houses the tall bottles of various things that aren't used that often.  It is as well I don't buy as much these days as I used to - I have bought things in the past that I no longer remember what to use them for.  Anyone else done that?

This is the blue card from last week - not a clue what year I did it but i do remember it was at CHA:

Well, I will leave it there, short for Julia and see you all next week for another WOYWW.