WOYWW 508

Another spell of gorgeous weather - two hottest days in February ever recorded?  Climate Change!  Wonder how many of you have been crafting and how many have been enjoying the spring like weather.

I have my journal page for you to see, nothing else.  As you know I finished my square journal on Thursday last - totally full!  So a rummage around and I have started on this flip one which I began a while ago with Dyan at Art from the Heart.  The figure on the other page is one of those compilation figures from a magazine.

The page already had reds and oranges on it so I went over it with some yellow paint (red and yellow make orange, don't they?) and now I have to think up some figures to put on for my "Jeudi Journal" challenge with my friend, Wendy, tomorrow.

You can see my pot of Yellow Dylusion paint, with the foam circle on top that I use to paint my pages with.  Just beyond it is the Ranger tool that the foam sticks to for putting paint on the pages with.  There's also some green and orange paint on my glass mat waiting to be cleaned off from last week, ooer!

That's it for this week - see you at The Stamping Ground shortly.

Art Journal Journey

Another page in my Junk Journal which can be entered into Rike's challenge over on Art Journal Journey because, once more, I have a yellow background.  I need to use some of my scrapbook paper up in this colour and I must admit it makes me feel sunny when working with it.  I think it is a colour that should be used more often because it is such a happy colour.

Once again I used the Wildflower die to cut some flowers.  This time I wanted to make them with dark colours and I chose to use two burgundy ones and a moss green one.  I felt they worked very nicely against the yellow background.  As you can see I bunched them together and put a single word on - Hedgerow.

There's just a few days left to do another entry and I have plans for it, I just hope I get around to it. 

Jeudi Journal

"You're Not Yourself Today, I Noticed the Improvement Immediately" is the quote for today.  

Again I painted my page yellow so that I could enter it into the Art Journal Journey challenge set by Rike and, using the same paint I painted a stencil border down one side and across the bottom.  It hardly showed up so I did it again on the other side and used Orange as a contrast.  Later I decided to outline the squares on both sides.

I didn't really know how to portray the quote and so I put an Owl head on what could actually be a person's body and partnered him with a woman, using the cat body, but cutting the paws off.  There was a little of the two paws showing but I hope I made them look like bracelets by colouring them orange.  I felt that the cat body was the best one to portray an arrogant stance which I imagine the person saying the words would adopt.

This is the last page in my square journal so now I need to find another journal to carry on with next week.  Wonder which one, of the many I have, I will eventually choose.

WOYWW 507

Once again it is Wednesday and time for our weekly visit to Julia's WOYWW posting which leads us on to lots of other blogs from like minded folks who show us what they are up to craftwise.  Why not join in and become a WOYWW'er!  It's a great vehicle for making friends.

For the past few weeks there has been very little activity to show you on my desk but yesterday morning a parcel arrived from America, something I have been waiting for for a while.

A few years ago I did a class over there making flowers using the Heartfelt Creations dies and I had some sample sheets to go with the written instructions for the four dies I was using that my friend sold.  Last year when I was over I meant to ask if I could have the samples for a workshop I intended doing at our club, saving me repeating them.  

Anyway, to cut a long story short after my friend passed her cleaner said she would get them and send them to me.  Well, it has taken a long time, lots of reminders but at last they are here.  So I have kind of set my desk up to show them to you - makes a change from there being nothing on it.

Now I just need to refresh my memory on how I did all of these, make up some cards for samples and book a workshop.

Yellow for Art Journal Journey

In my Junk Journal I have done another yellow page so I can enter it into Art Journal Journey's challenge by Rike which is 'yellow'.

I did intend using one of Tim Holtz' Petite Dolls but cannot find them.  I have obviously put them somewhere safe and, as often happens when I do something like that, they are out of sight and no amount of searching has found them.  Luckily I had these portraits so I decided to use one of those. 

I felt sure I had a pad somewhere with yellow papers and lo and behold I found it so was able to rip several of them out and put them in my Junk Journal folder for future 'yellow' pages.  I tried several of them together and ended up using the floral one for the background and one with some script on to cover part of it.  A tiny bit of an advert and a piece of text (Spanish?) completed the background so with the addition of a bit of German Scrap and the portrait it was finished. 

Unfortunately the German Scrap was not quite long enough so I tried some flowers and a butterfly on as a kind of 'patch'. 

So there you are, my yellow page and another entry for Art Journal Journey.

Jeudi Journal

This time the quote is "Smile, it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart" and I thought that quite appropriate for Valentine's Day and I could use some hearts on it.  I had some left over from my February Diary so knew I could use them but what to do about the background colour.

Lightbulb moment!  The challenge over at Art Journal Journey is to use Yellow.  So what was the background colour going to be?  Yellow!  To be precise three Distress Ink Shades of Yellow with a fourth one through a stencil to make a border (and a couple of bits on the page too).  

Because the contrasting colour was going to be red (hearts) I thought I would dress her in greens and blues but then she could have a tweed coloured jacket.  She had to have a head on that would tilt slightly so the figure I was to use was determined.

So that it is - another page - only two more to go and then the journal is full.  Now what is it we are doing next week?

WOWW 506

Another week to point me to the desks of friends who like me, love to show you our desks.  Most have work on them that you can admire but mine has been a bit empty of late - still, will play catch up shortly.  In the meantime I am off to enjoy what others have on show so why not join me by visiting Julia and following the links that will appear on her page.

I need to do my journal page for tomorrow for Wendy's challenge so my square journal is out on the desk open at a couple of pages I did a while ago.  I left it open because at least that way you have a bit of something to look at - I was finding what empty pages I have left - only three and the journal is full.  Moving right is my daily diary for February, need to play catch up on the last two days but as I have also got something written down on the computer I know what the day was like.

Then we have my cutting station with my Vagabond and my tiny Misti sitting on top in readiness for some creating.  Not much else to talk about so I will leave it there - short and simple like Julia likes it.  See you over at J's!!