A colourful page and a Steampunk tag

Colour outside the lines

How quickly this month has passed,
not many more days of September to share with you
The ' Colours in my World'.......
which is my theme choice  as a Guest Hostess  for......

Art Journal Journey

On the left of this photo is some of the coloured napkins I have been using, [these were gifted by a non blogging friend]

one of the easiest papers to use  as long as I remember to glue  them to a  page that hasn't been water coloured.

 I wanted a colourful background today as I thought this scribbled digital image would  stand out on top of a white gesso patch.




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Now for a  digital tag so I can join the current challenge over at

Tag Tuesday

the theme  is................
 Steampunk

Thank you for  calling in to see me today , you are most welcome here
and I always appreciate the comments you leave for me.

Digital information can

be found in my sidebar.

Clocks / Time and a splash of colour.

We have a new challenge theme starting over at Try it on Tuesday's today.

The theme is, 'Time/Clocks.

This first photo is of a digital card I needed to send to a friend, but it didn't start off this way.......

It all began in my 8 x 8 inch journal.

On the left is the first layers of embossed stencil clocks and some colour.

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These two photos show the next stages, more colour  mainly vintage photo distress ink.

A die cut  clock  and a word stamp.

So I am able to send a card and have a journal page to keep for myself.

I hope you will join us this time at TioT's

 its  a theme you could interpret in many ways as the girls have shown.

Please pop over to see their  great examples.

Thank you for calling in to see me today, you are all most welcome here

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I am adding another version of this page, I think you all know I like to add digital images after I have taken my photos, so here it is with a
Splash of Colour....

Have a good day everyone.

Diary pages and Autumn

Where has September gone this year,
well wherever it went it has been a very colourful month for me
as I have been the guest hostess  at
Art Journal Journey

This is a page to celebrate
 Autumn Colours
I love the shades of dark orange- to deep reds-rusty browns as the trees shed their leaves .
Then the crunch of the drying leaves when you walk over them.

On the left is how the background of the page looks  while the paint is  drying.
Now why fuss about this, but I can tell you that its  taken nearly 2 days to get tacky dry. so I have given up, taken a photo and added some digital additions. At this rate we could be having winter before it gets dry.
 It was  the dregs in a couple of bottles of Pebeo Prisme Fantasy paint, left over from the days when I was on Sheena Douglas's design team.
It is a watercolour wash for the first layer on the page.

One day it will dry and then I will use the page in a proper crafty, hands on manner.

Now,   I am  going off  to join the folk at Bleubeard and Elizabeth  for

T stand for Tuesday

where we are all made welcome with a T related post

I have managed to keep my daily calendar up to date this year and here are  the photos of my July, August and September pages 

   During my T day visits  I saw that a number of the folk kept a daily diary/journal.,  that made me determined to give it a go.
So 9 months nearly over and 3 more months till the end of the year.

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On to my cuppa for today......tea as usual standing beside my spray box.

I had been spraying a few backgrounds using Brusho powder. I have learn't the hard messy way that Brusho  has a mind of its own and kind of  goes where it chooses. On the plus side, this product dries out quickly, not like the paint on my first page this post.

The  box is well used and over time it has had some amazing colour effects. I have been tempted to use it for another project, but it is so useful, a good size and  I may not be able to replace the box with another that works as well for me.



I hope you all have a Happy Tea day and thank you for calling in to see me today.

Colour your home for AJJ

Today the -- 'Colours in my World ' -- are green and orange.

for Art Journal Journey

I painted the base of my journal page with shades of green,  before adding pieces of the napkin. and some stencils.

 The napkin had lovely paler shades as you can see, but after sticking it  to the page,

 the colour changed  looking  much brighter, taking up the greens that I had used underneath.
 Note to self,  wet glues and water colour paints blend very easily with each other on tissue type papers.

This made me look around my home to see the colours , that because I see them every day, they get taken for granted.  Colours are not  always  what matter most, it the love and laughter shared with family and friends
 that colour my home.

Thank you for visiting with me today,
you are always welcome here.

True Colours for AJJ

I couldn't decide which  ''Colour in my World '' to choose today

for my Art Journal Journey page

So its a collage using  paler  colours  tones ,
 papers, some Jane Davenport snippets
washi tape. stencils,

with raised embossing.
Distress oxide was my colouring medium, with a highlight of gilding wax.
I had no plan in my head,  but  paper glue and a pair of scissors was a good starting point..
The page you see on  the right ended  up with a few digital additions after I had taken the photo.


Thank you for visiting me today and for all your support and fabulous entries to Art Journal Journey this month.

Don't feel blue....smile

I hope this duck running along will make you smile today.

He seems in such a hurry, I hope he finds what he is looking for.

This is a a blue day for my theme of......

Colour in my World

over at Art Journal Journey

The page began with a watercolour wash base and some napkins, I just loved the duck, his friends will be appearing  in the future in my journals.



 Thank you for stopping by to see me, I hope you all have
 a happy day today.

The colour red AJJ

A hybrid journal page to celebrate the colour Red.

This is  a colour that makes me happy, especially if it is red flowers

The page was  stenciled and I used paste to add texture.  A few wild flowers random stamped and shading added all from the same ink pad.
The water colour flower and quote  are digital additions.

We are back to dull days again, so autumn is well on its way and I have to resign myself that its sometimes hard to get a decent photo, even under a well placed daylight bulb. This is quite near the actual colour shades, so a happy result with the camera today..

So red is the 'Colour in my World ', today for Art Journal Journey.

Thank you for calling to see me, your visit is always appreciated.

Digital information can be

 found in my side bar.