Printemps

Jo from Lets art Journal  has chosen the new theme for March over at

Art Journal Journey

it is.......Hello Springtime.

On the left is a photo of the base layers to my page. Torn music paper,  a stencil that I had no idea how it would dry out. I'd picked up gesso instead of modelling paste and it seemed to spread with a will of its own.

 I used ink pads for shading, swiping them over the page at random.

The other additions were from the scraps box,  some die cut flowers stems,  a few seed beads for the center of one of the flowers. 

The quote was computer generated.

'Nature always wears the colours of the spirit'.

After the sunny but cold days recently in the UK where I live we are back to cold and  strong nearly gale type winds, so I think the spring flowers that are blooming already here will  need to be strong  to survive the  weather , in the coming days.

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

Tea time chats.

Hello to everyone who calls in to see me today.

Its Tuesday and its T day over at

 Bleubeard and Elizabeths

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

I think I am going to enjoy using these

Prima ... Words you need pieces.

 this one  I can relate to,  as  each week a friend and myself sit and drink tea, putting to world to rights and enjoying a  good chatter.

 Our husbands often ask what we find to talk about , but we say that after  50 or so years of friendship, does it really matter. We are the family we chose for ourselves.

This page features a lot of yellow,  for the base layer, some random stamping

torn scraps of material and some flower die cuts. This gives me the opportunity to join the folk over at

 Art Journal Journey

and Rike's theme ... The Colour Yellow


So what else have I been up to this week
I decided I needed to make a couple of all purpose cards
and as the current Try it on Tuesdays theme is...... Powder your....
 this was where I found my cue for inspiration

Mr Fox was presiding over the  session which began like this....

A couple of the finished cards...

We also  took advantage of the brighter days we have been enjoying recently .

taking a trip to the coast where a few brave  folk were also out taking the sea air.

 It was bright even when the clouds were rolling in from the sea  but, it was still very cold.

Our destination was  see  a little of the  coast beside St Mary's Lighthouse.

Another area about  20 miles from where we live

Looking North

Getting Closer to the Island, the tide was coming in.

This last photo  from the north of the lighthouse

 shows how the weather was changing later  in the morning.

The tide had  come in , cutting the island from the mainland.

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

I seem to be having problems leaving comments on some of my blog friends blogs ,

 some of the words I have typed  are missing from my  comment.

Apologies , I haven't a clue how this is happening  or what to do.

Any ideas would be welcome.

Forget Yesterday

A  play day page to share with you today.

You can tell it had a mopped up area where I sprayed water on the flower stencil, there was to much ink to waste. 

 Next I stamped the girl in the bottle [AALL&create image], using watercolours and oxide inks for shading..

 Most folk will know I am not happy leaving white areas so I added more stencils, using yellow as my colour choice so I could join the folk at

Art Journal Journey

for Rike's theme of... The Colour Yellow.

There was a couple of hours between taking the photos , and you can see the difference the light made to the colours.

In case you wonder  I was having a coffee[tea for me] with a friend in the time gap, not being good and tackling the household chores.

Thank you for stopping by and I hope

 you have a good weekend.

Time to Bloom

I am hoping the yellow stencil and wax crayon  background on this page
 will be okay for me to join the folk over at

 Art Journal Journey

and Rike's theme of .... The colour yellow
I used a variety of stamps from  AAll&Create and Carabelle..
We are still getting some sunshine during the day here, not at all like we are used to in February, however, step out the door into the garden and the cooler temperature doesn't seem to be as high as our weather forecast predicts. May be it will be another crafty play day for me today.

Thank you for calling in you are always welcome here.

Powder your.... at TioT's.

Powder  your .....

is the new theme over at Try it on Tuesdays

Please pop over to our blog where you will find  all the information

  and see how we interpreted the theme
Bleubeard and Elizabeth are our Guest Designer for this theme and have shared a fantastic tutorial you will find it here.

This is how my page started off.... as you can see I used my Kraft paper journal .... sprinkled it with some Paper Artsy Infusions powder, then sprayed on some water and waited for the colours to evolve.

The next stage was to add some random stamping.

The main image I used is a TH stamp

On this piece I used embossing power round the edges and yes you will be able to see a bit of blue as well as the gold.. They are both very old powders, the blue  was difficult to heat emboss, so I grabbed the gold and it worked.

The layers and additions came from my stash.

Thank you for calling in today,

I hope you will join us at TioT's.

Breakfast musings

Gardens......  weeds or flowers.

Well,  I say  gardens are to be enjoyed so plant what you enjoy seeing grow there.

The base of my page is quite messy and was  a lot of fun in its creating.

Brusho powders, napkins and random stamping for the base.

Next some scraps of Graphic 45 papers, die cut flowers, and yes..... more stamps

I will share this with the folk at

 Art Journal Journey

where Rike's theme is,,,

The colour yellow

I  am calling in to see friends over at
 Bleubeard and Elizabeths
where each Tuesday we are always made very welcome with a drinks related post

My drinks  related reference today is these two photos  ...

My new apron advertising tea, a gift from my OH.

The early morning pot of tea  waiting to be enjoyed and the toaster  ready for the bread  when I put the camera down and get round to putting  it in.






The weather has been kind recently here with some sunny days, so at the weekend we decided to visit one of the National Trust Houses  not to far from us...
Seaton Delaval Hall
that is having a lot of restoration work done on it.
 This costs  a lot of money , but we can see much progress from  last year.. It reopened to the public on Saturday and it was good to see that many visitors went to see how things had progressed'

Maybe you can I guess I like old buildings , bricks and stonework.

This willow in its bare state  made  me think of Harry Potters Whomping willow tree,
fancy having one of those outside your home.

Thank you for calling in to see me , I hope you have a lovely day.

You have permission.....

I gave myself permission to play yesterday.

There are a number of mopped up pages in my journals,

 so no  excuse was needed  to have a play day.

I used one of these Prima  ' words you need'  stickers, I  think I will enjoy using these items

There was a number of stencils in the background and some raised embossed areas, obviously using left over paste at some point in time.   I also used some material scraps.

So the page evolved and I had fun.

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I also made a digital tag for the challenge  over at

Tag Tuesday

where the new theme is...

Mushroom/fungi

Thank you for calling in to see me today, I hope you have a good weekend.