Out with the old.

Happy New Year

Wishing my friends and followers a very Happy, Healthy,  New Year.

To end my crafting year I have made this digital Journal page collage, 

including some of my favourite crafting  techniques.

A photo of a  tag made using stencils, distress inks and stamps.

Loads of Pebeo fantasy range  paints.

Also some digital elements from My Craft Studio.

This is the last day of the collage theme over at Art Journal Journey, 

I have so enjoyed joining you all.
So onward to a New Year
Happy Crafting to you all

Thank you all for your visits , the comments you leave are always appreciated.

Sparkle and Shine

Sparkle and shine  was the prompt for week 50 at Journal 52

This is how the page started out.

Faces from a stencil and some texture  embossing using Glass Bead Golden Gel medium. It was  sitting around waiting  for a bit of inspiration to happen. That sounds better than the fact  I forgot about it.

I added a little random stamping to the background and chose a couple of colours to spray the page with Summer sky ,Storm Cloud [Prima Bloom sprays] and white gesso

The Lamp post is an Alterations  die cut.

next the fun bit with the glitter.

It goes with out saying that the glitter covered me, the desk, carpet , no where is safe when the top comes off this pot.

I hope you all have made your wish , as I'm sure my lady in the shadows  must have done, especially when the glitter pot appeared.

I am also going off to visit with  friends at Art Journal Journey and wish them all a Happy New Year. Thank you all for this fantastic blog site, it  is so inspirational, I realy enjoy taking out my journal these days, as a way to relax and try out new ideas.

Thank you for calling by, the comments you leave for me are always appreciated.

Happy Christmas

Happy Christmas Everyone.

To all my friends and followers,

  I hope you  and yours,  all have a Wonderful  Christmas

and a Happy New Year.

Sing Along for Journal 52

Week 51's prompt at Journal 52 was Sing Along.

This is a quick page using a Vintage image, I think from The Graphics  Fairy.

Music page background, a couple of verses from one of my favourite Christmas Carols

'In the bleak mid winter'.

I used the heart stencil  especially because the  very last line is.......
If  I were a Wise Man I would do my part,

yet what I can I give him., give my heart'.

The year  with Journal 52 is coming to an end , I have another page scheduled to show you next week.

I may not have shown you them all on my blog,  but I will complete  the year,

the photos are all posted on the group site.

We will find out what week 52 brings next Saturday.

The good news is that this inspirational group is going to continue next year

and I will  hopefully continue my journey .

My little choir is going off to Art Journal Journey as well- the December challenge theme  is Collage

Thank you for stopping by, I realy appreciate your comments.

Journal 52 pages

In the cold of winter I am thinking of warmer summer days.

Well we can all dream.

This is another Journal 52 prompt 'Napkins'.

back in week 46.

This page is made using a couple of napkins, torn and glued to the page to create a French Village scene.

In week 39 the prompt was  'In the City'.

So I made this page using some favourite stencils for the skyline  and as

you can see I was  in France, when I did this page a few weeks ago. 

Well I have almost caught up with this years journal prompts,

I will be   up to week 50 when I finish my next one.

Thank you for calling to see me, I realy appreciate the comments you leave.

Lets build a snowman

Week 48 over at Journal 52 and our   prompt was

'Lets Build a Snowman'.

I couldn't put this cheeky snowman image away till next year without using him for this theme.

Some nice thick white embossing powder for the snow highlights and a couple of die cut tress.

Hope the weather is being kind to you  where you live,

here in the UK, it 's very cold outside.

Thanks for the nudge Valerie  the snow men will head off to
Art Journal Journey as well.

Thank you for stopping by the comments you leave for me are always appreciated.

Christmas Doodles

This is my Journal page for Week 49, the prompt we had was  'Doodles'.

This is another brusho background, spritzed with water and a stencil of some roof tops [Clarity]

Then is was left and forgotten about while other priorities took over.

So,  as  I am tidying away the Christmas stamps etc, I came across this Lindsey Mason doodle angel,

a stamp of one of my all time favourite Christmas poems--

Twas the night before Christmas.................

I stamped a reindeer, then last night I sat and doodled  a  free cut tree.

This is the doodled Christmas collage I ended up with,

 goodness know what that angel could be saying to the reindeer as they fly around the night sky.

 I will pop over to Art Journal Journey

as well , the theme for December is 'Collage'.

Thank you for taking time to stop by at this busy time of year.

The comments you leave are always appreciated.

Lets celebrate at the ATP Exchange

'Lets Celebrate' is the new challenge over at Artist Trading Post Exchange. There are many things that we celebrate during the year,  but for me,  at this time of the year my choice is Christmas. 

With fond memories of the the long gone days, when my children believed in Santa.

Sorry there are not many photos showing the stages in making this card. The light wasn't too friendly. I did manage to get one of the layers . I used pre- patterned papers music and floral from a  Prima  Marketing pad. 

To add some texture I used  Tim Holtz  Festive stencil and  Studio 490 Transluscent  paste. When dry I rubbed over this with Treasure Gold.
Other additions to this card were, a piece of die cut  trellis, and highlights to add even more textures using Frantage embossing powder  bits and pieces from my stash .

All  the extra shading was Vintage Photo distress ink. The Santa focal image is a Paper Artsy stamp, I love this traditional version of him.

We would love to to celebrate and share your mixed media pieces with us at ATP.Exchange, please pop over for all the details and see what we have been making.

There is a £10 store voucher for you to win offered by our Sponsor at the Artists Trading Post.

I have linked the products I used which are available from the store.

Thank you for stopping by, the comments you leave for me are always appreciated.

Sneak peek for Sheena -Day 3

Scary ? just a little, but we know all fairy tales have happy endings.

Just had to show you this card of Little Red Riding Hood walking through the woods.

A bit more of a peaceful card and another new stamp.

It has been hard for me to choose the peeks to show you.

Sheena's shows are on C & C tomorrow at 8 and 11 a.m. --2, 4 and 7 p.m.

When we will be able to watch Sheena and see all the super new stamps and stencils.

Day 2 ' sneak peek' for Sheena.

Another ' sneak peek',   for Sheena's One Day Wonder show, Thursday on Create and Craft.

As well as stamps Sheena is also launching some fantastic new stencils.

 This is a small canvas  I made  showing another new stamp and stencil.

Back tomorrow with another peek

Mr Frosty for TioT's

Winter Whites is the new challenge theme at Try it on Tuesdays

Another Christmas card from me this time, but I have to say that by the time this scheduled post gets published it will be on its way in the mail.

The base card was dry embossed as was one of the next layers, an easy way to add texture when time is short. The  Snowman image was gifted to me by a friend.

I have been thinking of the thickness of all my cards this Christmas 

as this relates to the cost of posting in the UK.

I hope you will pop over to TioT's for all the information and join us this time.

Thank you for taking time to stop by the comments you leave are always appreciated.

Sneak Peek for Sheena

On Thursday Sheena Douglas will be on Create and Craft with  some One Day Wonder shows.

 Here is a peek using the new stamps  being launched. 

Can you imagine the smile on a friends face if you sent them an invite like this.

Thanks for stopping by and watch out for more sneak peeks tomorrow.

December

The challenge this time over at Sugar Creek Hollow is...

'No Cards'.

Please pop over to get all the details.

I am sharing with you my December Page from the calendar that I have been adding

 to month by month this year.

The base is random stamped and shaded with my favourite distress ink---Vintage Photo.

The additions and images are mainly Graphics 45, with some scraps of material and  charms.

Thank you for stopping by to see me, I do so appreciate he comments you leave me.

Winds of change

 I have been trying for days to get a reasonable photo of this Journal page.

 Fate played its hand, so I can now share it in two places.

Its a collage piece using scraps of papers and materials, which always seem to remain on my desk. I may have a lot of imagination here, but I did think the pieces together [photo on left] look a bit like a church.

There is no step by step, or how I made it, the colours and layers were added over days, depending on what was to hand. You can see I used the same stamps that I used here  for my Speed Craft card last week 

I started this page originally for Journal 52 week 47, my prompt was 'wise words'.

Then today the very talented folk over at Art Journal Journey,

announced their  December theme -- Collage. 

AJJ has been inspirational for me, I am trying things I never imagined  I would and learning about so many Artists along the way.

Thank you for stopping by, the comments you leave for me

 are always appreciated.