A crafty day and a tea bag.

Its the second week of the Vintage Photo challenge at Try it on Tuesdays

I have two journal pieces to share with you,

The first spread is mixed media, lots of paint, random stamping , texture,  spread on with a bit of plastic and some scraps and bits and pieces from my saved box.

A lovely messy play.

Next a layered  digital collage page.
A much cleaner way to be creative. 

The main images were all found from Google searches.

other additions were from Mischief Circus and my own stored ones.

Now playing and getting messy in the craftroom is a great way to pass  the day,
but we all need to take time out for a cuppa..... my choice....
You guessed it,   '' Tea''

As its Tuesday, I will stop by and say hello to the folk
at Bleubeard and Elizabeth
and share my  cuppa with them.

Isn't she a gem.


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Go discover

The folk at Art Journal Journey announced the theme for May this morning......

 ''Journeys''.

I had already started a few  pages  in my journal, to try out some new Tim Holtz stamps, when I read the new theme.

We love the country side as a destination, especially when we go away in the caravan. We are also lucky not to live in a town,.  So . I found a few snippets I'd saved, a piece of an old map and some animals. Stencils to add a bit of interest and extra colour.

I am trying to keep my pages a little less crowded, but don't think this resolution will last very long.

Thank you for stopping by to see me today.

Your comments are always appreciated.

Madness

Madness

This page sure looks mad to me. I think I should have stopped myself adding images,

and layers after the quirky houses

 but the Song   'Our House', sung by Madness,
 just wanted me to add this odd, mad collection of images.
 Can you just picture  this bunch walking around  where you live.

 it would make the day interesting to say the least.

This is my last page for

  Art Journal Journey.... For the Record.

I have had fun this month remembering old songs and reading about the songs

 the folks at AJJ

 like to listen too as well.

The Cheeky Challenge over at

  Dezinaworld

this week is Town or Country.

This mad lot will be visiting over there as well

This page was created in my Craft Studio, using layers of my own,  also 

 images from Mischief Circus and Dezinaworld 

Thank you for stopping by to see me today, your comments are always appreciated.

Sisters in Silhouette.

A journal spread for Art journal Journey. where the theme is ' For the record '.

My song today is Sisters sung by the Beverley sisters, my mother used to love them back in the day.

You may have seen a glimpse of the pages in my last post, beside my cup of tea.

The background was sprayed  and mopped up and I used  a stencil  mask for the  the silhouette face..

I  added more shading, took a photo and then added some digital images and the wording. in my Craft Studio.

The main word 'sister's' was assembled  with some stick on letters I have had for years and not used.

Above is  my hands on  version.

with added random stamping and quote.

Sometimes pages work out, but these ones  I am not quite happy with-- too green

These pages I will share over at The Take a Word Challenge where the theme is  'Silhouette'

Thank you for calling in to see me, the comments you leave for me are always appreciated.

Tea anyone?

A second post from me, not often I have two on the same day,
if you called to see what I made for TioT's  its here,

This page I made using   my new set of Wild Flower die cuts that I managed to get when we were away in the caravan. So washing and ironing done, I just had to have a play.

For the cups die cut  I used a pretty paper.

There were a variety of stencils used for the background , with distress inks for shading.
I even used up some scraps of cut out parchment work I'd had saved in the bits box.
The flowers on the saucer were added digitally after I took the photos.

So pretty afternoon tea cups aside this is the more usual state of  my work desk.

I
Yes , I have cropped the photo a bit, but I wanted to share my cup of tea with the folk at
Bleubeard and Elizabeth

who all made me feel so welcome when I joined them last week.
 I may not get to visit every week, but I will certainly try.

Thank you for calling in to see me, the comments you leave for me are always appreciated.

Every photo tells a story

'Vintage Photo' is the new theme over at Try it on Tuesdays.

The girls have made some fantastic pieces, please pop over to see what they made.

This is how my journal page started off, it is a kraft card journal and soaks up the paint, I had no gesso so used watered down acrylics, which eventually worked.

The first stage was to add  a texture using paste and a stencil.

This is how it looked after added some book print and spray paint.  It slushed up so much ink on the print that  I ended up covering part  with some material and got out the trusty distress ink. Problem solved..

Back to  inky fingers, so sorry no photos of these stages.

It was finished off with touches of gilding wax.

Found relatives photos and a number of bits and pieces.

I don't often have a plan when I create a journal page but this time, I did.

My thinking  was. that we all grow older,

 yet,  friendships  that  span  those years, 

 become stronger as the years go by.

Thank you for calling to see me today and I  hope you will join us at TioT's.

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They pass in the night.

A page for Art Journal Journey where the theme for this month is..

For the Record .....chosen by Linda.

The song in my head for this page was 'Ship's ',   by Barry Manilow,

the lyrics are here,

Yes, I only have a ship in a bottle but I did enjoy assembling this digital page, and if you don't know the song have a quick look at the lyrics and it may explain why my page looks like this.

The page started with one of my own journal pages,

  created in my Craft Studio, using Mischief Circus kits.  When scheduling this post  I hadn't  been reunited with my stash.

Thank you for calling in to see me today, the comments you leave for me are always appreciated.