WOYWW 751

Another week has flown by and still the "C" cards remain a mystery to me but I am hoping to get started on them in a big way when I go on a workshop with Jo Rice early November.  I wonder how many will be showing "C" cards on WOYWW today.

In the meantime here is a card I made last week for my friend's daughter's 16th birthday.  I normally do 'horsey' ones for her but this time I wanted to do something and include pumpkins so I chose to use 'Bijou' again on his branch.  I was going to put Bijou on a broomstick but decided that that might make it a bit too Halloweeny for her and not suitable really for a birthday card.

The card looks a bit wonky but I must have put it in the scanner like that as I did mount the image part carefully.  I used Elements Della Blue for the background and Inktense pencils (watercolour) for the remainder.  You can hardly see on here but I grounded the pumpkins with a grey pastel pencil.  The window frames on the pumpkins were highlighted with sparkly gel pens as were the vines on the tree.

I've been doing some small things too but I'm leaving them until next week to show as I might change one or two of them but in the meantime here is my desk/desks.

This is my desk on the counter which runs along two sides of my craftroom.  It just shows my journal page for tomorrow which is a mish mash of Distress Oxides and some gears in the corners.  The page is now decorated and ready for tomorrow's post.

The one below just has one of my small pieces on top of some scrap papers that I am working on at the moment.  The best white inkpad I can find at the moment is my Brilliance,  Brilliant White one but I am wondering if the Hero Arts one is a better white.  That is just a strip I cut off a card I had made to the right and then a pencil and my towel.  The dirty white one above is what I used on my stamps (hence the colour) and a pad of kitchen roll with loads of colour on.

That's it for this week.  Hopefully see you next week with some new stash and some of those small pieces I have been making.

Art Journal Journey - Ruby Slippers

 No it is not the Wizard of Oz or Judy Garland that is dominating the page in my journal today but there are a pair of Ruby Slippers for Art Journal Journey where my theme is 'In Gear' and maybe ruby slippers are classed as 'gear' for the fashionable young lady about town.

Or what about a pair of 'green high heeled boots'?  Great gear again for the discerning steampunker.

I found these two images already stamped on a sheet of white cardstock in my box of stamps and thought how lucky I was as they were perfect for my theme "In Gear" at Art Journal Journey.

As my Promarkers are nearing the end of their life I decided that today I would use my Inktense watercolour pencils and so I sat and thoroughly enjoyed an hour or so of pencil colouring.  Of course the real joy comes when you have coloured everything in and you get the brush and water out to start bringing the colours more to life.  At least that is how I feel.

With the Ruby Slippers I decided that the toe caps and heel parts would be metal so I coloured them in two shades of grey, adding some brown and orange to the gears to represent rust.  I chose a different shade with the green boots for the metal parts and used a light mustard colour for the leather straps plus some Glossy Accents on the screw heads and the watch face.

The gears I had cut out ready to use were all white ones and so I decided to use a black page and rather than paint one and risk it becoming patchy I used black card which will then be stuck into my square journal.  I simply played about with the gears deciding where to put them and settled on three areas as you can see.