Happiness is a Butterfly

"Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may light upon you." are the words chosen for my entry to Art Journal Journey today.  I did say, in my entry of the 21st, that I would try to squeeze another one in and I made it with this page which is a continuation of the previous entry here.

Another green page done with my Distress Inks but this time no Oxides which caused the paper to rub a little so it is just a shade darker but I continued with a few of the hollyhocks and masked some of them between a Dylusion rubber stamp of ferns and such.  This time I used watercolour pens to colour in the ferns and hollyhocks because Promarkers bleed through to the other side.  It didn't matter on the earlier page but this one backed onto a yellow background which I did not want to spoil.  If you look closely you can see the cross hatching stamp from paperArtsy has again been used in the background.  

I chose one of the larger figures for this page and cut the dog off her hat replacing it with a butterfly (PaperArtsy again).  It must be a slightly cooler day because she is more wrapped up than the reclining figure of the previous entry.

Four more days to go before the end of the month.  No shortage of 'Words to Live By' which is Halle's choice for this month but have I time to do another complete page?  I'd like to - will I make it?

WOYWW 525

Another Wednesday, another week - gosh, time is flying by.  No wonder some of the bloggers have christened it Whizzday.  What am I talking about, go visit here and find out all about it from our glorious head desker, Ms Julia.

If you look through my blog you will see I have been busy journalling with an extra one thrown in last week for a challenge on Art Journal Journey.  I have also made two birthday cards but forgot to put them on my blog, and am in the throes of making another two from a journal page that went wrong.  It had so many layers of paint on it that when I heated something on the reverse page it all bubbled up.  So it got ripped out of the journal and sliced up on my super duper cutter and is now half-way there to being two cards.  Whether they make it or not we will have to see, could end up in the bin.

So my desk today

is all about journalling.  The chest on the left is what contains my Dylusion stamps.  Then there is my journal with the start of a green page opposite a page that was blogged last week.  Surrounding the journal are my already cut out and partially coloured Dylusion figures.  I sit and cut them out and colour them when my back is hurting - just so I can have something to do.  Then on the far right is my drawer which holds all the polythene bags full of these figures.

My desk, as some of you know, is an L-shaped one and so as we journey around we arrive here

After the drawer that contains all the Dylusion figures we have a blue and white box that has my Distress Ink reinkers in, then there is the frame with one of my lace teabags inside, my heatgun (all the AI's have worn off over the years), a mug with bits of pens and things in and just sneaking in is the corner of another box of reinkers.  

Behind, back at the left is my carousel with lots of things in, my babywipes and behind there on the window sill we have my Distress Oxides in my container made from Felix cat food boxes.  Sitting on top are Katie Koala, Kat Koala, Monkey and Ricky Rabbit.  Then there are my Mini-Misters, my Distress Tools on my carousel.  The globe is one left over from the exploits of Flat Susan (see my other blog).

There are other bits and pieces but I think I need to show this area another day when I can go into full detail.  For now I need to leave this as it is getting a bit long to say the least.