Home Sweet Home

Images by Crowabout Studio B at deviantscrap.com

I just love the simplicity of this house image, and I am always drawn to imagery to do with homes and houses. (I think it is because I am a home-loving Cancerian!) So, this was another slap-it-on quick page in my junk journal, created on a recycled cereal box. It is liberating to be working on recyclable materials, and I am really enjoying the 'don't think, just do' approach :-) 

I forced myself to work a little out of my comfort zone here, and painted some brown as part of the background. You won't catch me doing that very often..! But then of course, I had to add a bit of pink to liven it up a bit!

On Saturday I taught my first ever junk journal workshop at The Craft Den. It was a bit of a push to do all of this in one day, but they all did a great job. Just look at this:

Nice work everyone!

(Sorry, not everyone is in the picture - I didn't quite manage to catch everyone before they went home)

Happy Monday everyone! Byee for now.....

More quickie journaling!

So, just a quick post from me to show you a quick page I did in my junk journal yesterday. It's really fun to slap the paint on quickly and create in a carefree way like this ;-) No more over-thinking for me!! (Er... maybe!)

And now I'll be off because I am too easily distracted by t'internet and I have promised myself I will have a productive day .... although yesterday my lovely hubby brought these home for me. Oooooh, now what do you think I could do with these?! I think they have a lot of possibilities ... I just haven't thought of any yet.

Byeeeeeee ...

Journaling the junk way!

 Bird stamp by Invoke Arts

Scallop border by CrowaboutStudioB at Deviant Scrap.com

Just another quickie page in my junk journal. I have discovered that journaling on junk is totally free-ing (is that even a word?!) I painted the background mostly with my fingers; I like that. Without wanting to sound too new-agey it gives me a real sense of connecting with my page. I came across the quote 'If they give you ruled paper, write the other way' in the book I am currently reading (The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold), and I thought, yup, that's me, just ever-so-slightly rebellious ;-)

I had a scrap of old text lying on my desk and I spotted this quote. If I go hunting for a quote I can never find one, but if I happen to glance at an old scrap something leaps out at me. Why is that? I had to look the word 'moithered' up as I had never heard of it. Apparently it means to harass or bother. Now I know what it means I must remember to include it in my daily wafflings. 

Here's how it looks with the other page in my journal. They just overlap each other. Don't forget though, these pages used to be a box that held cereal bars LOL.

May!

Ooh, I got a little behind myself with the calendar challenge, and I know from experience that if the month isn't ready to go, then a whole month can slip by and it's VERY hard to catch up! I added lots and lots of Dylusions inks in shades of green and blue to make a background, as I wanted a rich green to represent the turning of our countryside from the dull browns of winter to the bright greens of spring. I have actually filled the days in and now I'm up-to-date and feeling as smug as a smug thing ;-)

Check out the calendar challenge here, on Flickr here, and on facebook here.

Yesterday, we went on a little jaunt to a local beauty spot known as The Himalayan Gardens. It's crammed full of beautiful flowers, plants and trees, but inevitably it is the beautiful and unusual sculptures that catch my eye. I had a little play with the hipstamatic app on the i phone:

Is this the Loch Ness Monster?!

It was raining, and it looked like this little guy was shedding a tear :-(

Byeee for now.....

Ooh la la!!

Couture Collection - Night at the Opera - by Dylusions

I had fun playing with the Couture Collection by Dylusions the other day. I stamped the figure onto good quality paper, and then coloured with Distress Inks. I used Picked Raspberry (although for ages I thought it was called Pickled raspberry LOL!), and than added some shading with Aged Mahoganay and Vintage Photo. I doodled some white polka dots on the dress with a white Signo Uniball pen.

Background stamp: Papillon by Tim Holtz

I created the background using the Tim Holtz wrinkle-free Distress techniques and stamped the background with Distress Stain.

I don't often make neat and clean cards these days, and when I do I usually spoil it and get a fingerprint on it or something! But sometimes occasion calls for a card, so here it is!

Mini Couture Collection by Dylusions

Yesterday I taught a fun and messy Dylusions class at Art from the Heart. We had a go at a journal page like this:

And a tag like this:

It was a quiet and chilled-out day because everyone was concentrating on either cutting out or colouring in LOL!!

Here they are hard at work:

And a here's a few gorgeously colourful and fun tags that they made:

Before you go, you might want to take a peek at a quick video I made of my Junk Journal:

Right, I'm off to do a spot of housework (Bleurgh!) Not sure why I'm bothering ... it's the weekend so it will only get messed up again. Maybe I should paint instead ?? ...... Byeeeee!