Jeudi Journal - Circles

Well, it was all change this week as I had begun doing some circles using a couple of my stencils but the paste I put through reacted with the black paint underneath.  It turned an ugly shade of yellowish brown!  Ugh!

I had intended doing some circles with Tracy Scott images on them and fully intended cutting them out by hand but then on Sunday I went to one of her workshops where we did a canvas (not posted yet) and the previous day she had done a journal page which was utterly gorgeous.  It gave me the idea of using a sheet of card that I had already coloured in and stamped in readiness to make a card for someone special.  Card not done yet!

Anyway I then die-cut some circles and stamped some of Tracy's images on some of them and voila, the page was born, in my head.  It then evolved into two pages as I decided to use a big stamp I had not used since buying it.  A bit of paint on the small circles I had already put on through a stencil, the larger circles stencilled on were covered with the new ones along with some small circles.

So here you have it - my page for Wendy to see using circles but calling them "Bubbles".

Sorry I chopped a bit of the "B" off in the scan

Not at all like the ones Tracy taught - wonder if she will repeat that page - I would love to do hers. Now what is the topic for next week?

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First of all a big welcome to Andrea C - my latest follower.  it is so good to get new followers, especially when you have been blogging for quite a while.  Hope you enjoy what I have to show Andrea.

Here we are again and what have I to show you?  Well, this card should have arrived by now so I can show it to you all

I thought I would try doing the Dancer stamp in a line up so had to do a bit of masking here.  I used Kraft card so the Promarker colours were a little more muted than they would have been on white.  I rather liked the sentiment, which was stamped in black and then clear embossing powder over, as it was for someone who had been poorly and was recovering.  You can see once again I have used a white crayon but this time just on the ground around their shoes.

As for my desk, well, once again it is in the throes of Journalling.  I am contemplating using this huge stamp which I bought ages ago and have never used.  I saw it used on a clock and I bought the clock ready to do it but then I chickened out as I don't really know if they used the stamp directly on the clock or on paper and cut it out. Hmmmm needs some thinking about.

Why on earth am I showing you my desk?  Some of you may wonder but the majority of visitors here will know it is WOYWW day when we all bare our souls desks to one another.  Join in by visiting our Julia and reading all about it at the top of her page.  In the meantime a quick view (or two) of my birthday cards received last week:

Friends and family cards (cheeky Prosecco one from my son!!)

and below - handmade cards from friends who make cards

Sorry you can hardly see them, must scan and upload before long. Cheerio for now!

I am entering my card into these challenges:

Daisy Chain Challenge - Make it Feminine
Allsorts Challenge Blog - Ladies and Girls
Penny Black and More Challenge - Anything Goes

Gosh, it is such a long time since I entered any challenge I have struggled with connecting with the challenge sites.  Hope I have done them ok.

Jeudi Journal - Steampunk

Now, I found this one to be so difficult to incorporate a Dylusion Image into this theme.  All seemed to be going well in the planning stage even looked fine when I put it loosely on the page but then when it came to actually sticking it down I did not like what was happening.

Anyway, already a day late for Thursday's Journal Page I am running with it.  Apparently we got a bit muddled at what was for this week and what for next so Wendy did next week's and I did this week's or vice versa (ie she did this week's and I did next week's)

Anyway, here is my page

My figure is all dressed in purple, she has cogs for her glasses, a tiny fascinator like a top hat with feathers and clock face for on her head and there are some weird looking starving gents in the background. That is as well as some arrows pointing anywhere and everywhere and a couple of rusty cogs.

The background uses some torn pieces of paper (that I had ready for a page on doors which we are not doing) - doh, I got carried away and just used them, and some stencilling from an Andy Skinner Stencil.

Now to see what Wendy has done.

Friday's Smiles

with the lovely Annie.

What is there not to smile about today?  It is my birthday and I got lots of beautiful cards, amongst them some handmade ones from Switzerland and a card from my little Sis in Oz.

See the top card with the pattern on - well that is one of the cards from Switzerland, must try to decorate some of my envelopes, it is always nice to receive one like that.  At the back are two presents from my son and his partner and in front the brown mailer with the postage stamps on is from my dear friend in America.  The orange box is from a friend who lives not too far away and although it is not sealed I have been good and not peeked despite it being in sight for just over a week now.

Right, will go and start to open my cards and presents, but before that will link up with Annie across at her blog.  Yesterday was a good day (planning a new bathroom with my son and the company who are going to fit it) and guess what?  I did not have back ache, just a stiff neck at the end of the day.,  If it keeps up this morning I will be going out to lunch, otherwise staying at home.  Fingers crossed.

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Almost forgot to do this so it is short and sweet this week, just the way Julia likes it.  Who is Julia - why she is the Queen of Deskers and can be found here.

My desk this week is looking a bit neglected and I am pondering over what to do for my Jeudi Journal with Wendy tomorrow.  Hopefully I can sort something later today.

We have a new list as the old one ran out and heading it this week is Steampunk.  I tried to do my page using the Dylusion figures but am not having much success so I might just have to do something else. These are the various bits and pieces and I have just been rusting some cogs DecoArt style or should I say Andy Skinner style.  Will I use these?  Or just refer back to my Steampunk Gents that I love?

Hopefully tomorrow I will have it sorted, that is if my back lasts out as it is troubling me big style.

See you over at Julia's - please remember to put your number when commenting on other blogs, it does make it easier to return the compliment.  Thanks!

ps my dil liked her birthday card last week!  Hooray!

Friday Smiles on Saturday

My little sis sent me some photos from Oz that we had taken on a spree in a large retail place (which shall be nameless - we might get banned) but yesterday (Friday) I was on the bed most of the day as my back was really bad which is why I am not posting until today, Saturday.  Fingers crossed, I am ok today.

Well, I have a penchant for trying hats on and luckily Karen liked it too so we had a rare old time trying on some fascinators (which I have not liked up to now but am slowly coming around to them). We laughed until we cried when we were selecting hats from the huge display and certainly when we had them on.  Not being in to fascinators I never knew if I had them on right or not - so much fun!

Karen chose white

Whilst I chose a blue one

It looks so tiny, have I got a big head or is this intended for a child?  Didn't think it looked so small when we had the photos taken.

Karen liked my blue one so she went for silver grey

Whilst I chose black - is it a frisbee? 

I really like big hats, in fact I had one for a friend's wedding and Chas could not stand close or he tilted my hat.  Anyway, after that little aside I will show you some Big Hats that we tried on.  We were giggling like two schoolgirls and the shop assistants were looking at us so we invented a wedding we were going to (??) and loudly asked one another if our other halves would like the various ones or not. As we were taking photos it was feasible that they were for husband's benefit. Wasn't it?

Karen made me smile in this one as it almost drowned her.

They say women who wear glasses shouldn't wear hats so I took mine off - I think I needed some make up, especially on the eyes.  Not a good look!

Not sure if Karen is waving "bye" or adjusting her hat

My coat has a huge collar which stands up behind my neck.  Fine when the weather is bad and it is raining or snowing but it kept tilting my hat so I had to hold it down.  Not got my hand on my heart.

Well, that is it, we had to stop as we were due to meet Chas and had done no shopping.   We certainly had a laugh and I would love to do it all over again.  Maybe in Spring or Summer when I am not muffled up against the biting winds of January/February this year.  Sadly Karen is now back home so I need a friend to try hats on with - any offers?

Jeudi Journal

Anything Goes was my suggestion for a last minute topic as Wendy and I had not got together to think up any new topics - having reached the end of our exhaustive list.  This was done via email and as I did not hear back from Wendy, I can only presume her email is floating in cyber space somewhere, I did not do a page.

Then this morning I discover Wendy has done a page and is awaiting my rendition of Anything Goes. Ooer!

A quick look through my blog pages and I discover I have an already done page which has not been shown to anyone, which was my attempt at using a perfume bottle for a body, so here it is - not what I intended at all for my Anything Goes, maybe we will have to have another one: