A bad hair day

I'm having a 'bad hair day'  today.

I never had the courage to have all my hair dyed. Highlights yes.

Bright colours never.

I can just about imagine the words my family would have had to say .

 When my friend dyed her hair pink in her late 50's we all thought good for her.

Me..... I'll stick to my fantasy

The page is in my mixed media journal and the face is a JD tissue.

I found a box of coloured feathers at the back of the shelf and they came in very handy to create the hair. It was easier to add the stencils later for this page as I could tuck the edges under the feathers.

These fabric pages curl up quite a bit when glue and colours are used, so I used a few clips when I took the photos to try and keep the material flat.

Thank you for stopping by to see what I have been creating

I am adding my page to

  Art Journal Journey

 where I am enjoying my time as host this month and seeing all the fabulous inspiration and entries you are sharing there.

Meet Alice, Mary and Marigold

This page  has given me all kinds of fun  stories to  think about.

Are Alice and Mary the  sheep hoping to find a beau?

Have Tweedledum and Tweedledee got lost in the field?

Has  Marigold the highland cow declared herself Queen for the day?

Maybe the cake and flowers are gifts for the boys.?

Such is the world of fantasies.

On the right is the starting point of my page.

A watercolour background, stamped and coloured images. Of course distress oxides to colour and some stencils.

The words were computer generated.

I will be adding this page to 

Art Journal Journey

where I am hosting this months theme of....

A world of Fantasy

Thank you for calling in to see me today, you are awlays very welcome here.

Diary Day week 37... Paris

Dairy  Day......... and I am  taking a trip to Paris.

Pure Fantasy  and dreams on my part, 

but this is a  city I have visited in the past and the memories   are still with me now.

Again stencils feature on my pages and I reach for my favourite Distress ink pads for colouring. 

The stamps are mainly AA&Create, but I am unsure where the cyclist  came from

The original base page colour was grey

I think dreams and fantasy collide in many of us so, I will be popping over to 

Art Journal Journey

 to add this journal diary spread there.

I am so thrilled that folk are enjoying the theme..A world of Fantasy.. I chose for the month.

The inspiration  from  everyone is awesome.

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

Who is in your head?

I think you can maybe guess this is my next daily page for

 Art Journal Journey

where I am hosting this months theme....

A world of Fantasy

I think all fantasies begin with  an idea buzzing in your head, you may have time to indulge yourself and dream of what may happen if you followed the path.

Or, think hang on, this is a silly idea and turn off that trend of thought.

So where did  I get to today, another right messy  and inky  one to begin with.

A painted base to the page, lots of stencils and random stamping.  The  face on the  right , is I think is a Stencil Girl product. 

 I had been gifted in the past with some Dylusions canvas toppers, this one one, had just the words that I wanted to use. However they didn't show up so well, nor did the wording on the  stamp with the hands. 

 Cue help from the computer after I had finished the page, I also added a bit of faux stitching.

 So  what was in my head, I have no idea..... today  was about having crafting fun and going where my fantasy wanted to take me.

Thank you for stopping by, I hope you all have a good day today.

Mount Fuji

Today  my fantasy is taking me to Japan to see....... Mount  Fuji

A dream destination of mine as well as New York  that I can only visit in ......

A World of Fantasy......my theme for this month at

Art Journal Journey

The page began using one of my own background pages  from my journal.

A  picture of my dream destination

 and cut out Japanese ladies. 

The other additions were added in the digital programs I use [notes in my sidebar].

 So tea close by as usual  I was was about to begin this next AJJ adventure.

I wonder where your fantasy

 destinations would be?

Thank you for calling in to see me today, your visit and comments are always very much appreciated.

I'm learning to Fly.......

Hello everyone who calls in to see me today

My Journal pages  have been made  with  my theme...... A  world of Fantasy...... at

  Art Journal Journey in mind

I am not good with travelling in air planes, it is many years since I did

 and I have no intention of repeating the experience,

 but I  often think that the birds must get a wonderful view as the fly over the land

Even birds, though born to fly,  have to learn the skills when they leave the nest.

I have added a couple of photos to show how this first page   began. I had a think where I wanted to add some paper snippets, grabbed a couple of stencils, some paint

and the messy fun could begin. I didn't use a brush for the paint, just some dried out wipes and kitchen roll.

The papers and washi tape were added next and finally  I stamped the birds and birdhouse. I am not good at hand writing so this was computer generated.

Mrs Henny Penny kept me company and I did actually get to drink my cup of tea  while the paint was drying.

So as its Tuesday

 and its T Day over at Bleubeard and Elizabeths

where we are always made very welcome with a drinks related post

Just for fun and fantasy

 I have  created a digital page

with this cute bird celebrating with a fruity drink. She has earned her wings, she believed she could fly  and she did.

Her fantasy came true

Thank you for calling in and however you spend today I hope it is a good one for you.

Logic and Imagination

An experiment journal spread for the theme I am hosting this month at

Art Journal Journey.

'A world of Fantasy'.

The photo on the left was the starting point. For a while I have wanted to try a technique/experiment  I had seen out there in blogland.

  Ink a piece of string, place it on  to one side of a folded piece of paper

 [ I did this directly into my journal].

Close the paper, remember to leave a little string dangling.

Press down firmly, I remembered my wrist and used a heavy book on top of the journal.

Then pull out the string.

Let your imagination go wild.... what can you see.

I saw two people talking to each other and added the faces in the digital program I use.

I was tempted to try drawing the faces myself, but took the easy option.

I added a stamped quote and some random stamping   in the white spaces.

The more I look at the pages, I now see  the two women wearing witches hats.

I hope you may try this way of making art, it really is good fun.

Thank you for calling in, I hope you have a great day.