Monthly Archives: December 2011

Art journal week 47: Generosity

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Week 47 of the ukstampers challenge prompt is: Generosity

  • Are you a generous person?  What is the most generous thing you have ever done?
  • Have you ever been the object of someone’s generosity – what was it?
  • Be generous with your stamping on your page.

Yes I would say that I am a generous person.  Even as a child I was always giving things away.  Over the years I have been involved with many a charity even and have been a volunteer with a couple of charities.  I have also benefited from other peoples generosity and one that sticks in my mind is when an ex-boyfriend co-ordinated a whip round at our local race track which enabled me to buy my first light weight wheelchair.  I am a firm believer that there are many more kind people in the world than bad.

Inks/paint:  Memento Tuxedo black ink, white, Ballet pink and wedgwood blue acrylic paint
Card:  watercolour paper, white card
Stamps:  Aspects of design Daisy flutter (or daisy daydreams?), Sugar Nellie Flowers, Paperbag studios Scrap journal, Scrollworks Netting, Tim Holtz Mini muse
Other:  Bo Bunny rub-ons, copics to colour little girl, white pen, Zig painty twin pen Soft blue and soft pink

Art journal week 45: Patience

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Week 45 of the ukstampers challenge prompt is: Patience

  • are you a patient person?  Do you lose it at the drop of a hat?
  • What in particular drives you potty?
  • Use some contrasting colours on your page.

Normally I am a pretty patient person but I do get irritated by stupid questions or when people say they can’t find something when they haven’t bothered looking.  I don’t like rude people and with all these new phones about people endlessly playing with their phones when they are in company.  I tend to have to wait around a lot: on deliveries, taxis, post,  and other people.  I say other people because if I require help in any way I need to wait for other people to have the time and inclination to help which is very frustrating.  When it comes to crafting though I like to see the finished article fairly quickly.

Ink/paint:  Stazon black, Lagoon, Turquoise, Silver, Tangerine, Black and White acrylic paints
Card:  watercolour paper, white card
Stamps: Scrollworks Mesh, Stampotique Smushasha
Other:  Orange fluorescent marker, black, white and silver pens, orange oil pastel

Art journal week 42: Coicidence

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Week 42 for the ukstampers challenge the prompt is: Coincidence

  • do you believe there  is more to things than coincidence?
  • do you have any strange coincidence stories?
  • include some numbers on your page

Lots of things have happened in  my life that I have thought were a coincidence but really, statistically they would probably have happened anyway.  Coincidences are just events taking place that may appear at first to be spookily uncanny but there are usually other events or circumstances that link them.  Therefore coincidences are inevitable, spooky or otherwise.

Ink/paint:  Veracraft black, white and black acrylic paint
Card:  photofabric cotton poplin, white paper, black paper
Stamps:  Paperartsy Man of numbers
Other:  white correction pen, computer generated words

Art journal week 44: Inspiration

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Week 44 of the ukstampers challenge prompt is: Inspiration

  • what or who inspires you?
  • are there certain times or places that give you inspiration?
  • include some inspirational words on your page.

Inspiration comes from many sources such as the web, magazines, bloggers, forums, other art or craft forms, the patterns in nature, geometry, colour, texture and many more.  I  have Kate Cranes DVD, have taken an online course of Traci Bautista’s and follow a few crafty blogs and I am always looking at what people do on you tube.  I think the colours and textures of nature inspires me most.

Paint:  periwinkle, mustard, orange, black and white acrylics
Card:  watercolour paper
Stamp:  Dylusions Beyond the edge
Other:  orange oil pastel, white and black pens, cool shadow copic pen, computer generated words, letters cut from a magazine

Art journal week 43: Sociable

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Week 43 of the ukstampers challenge prompt is: Sociable

  • Are you a sociable person?  Do you like the company of lots of people or prefer small gatherings?  Can you do small talk?
  • Can you amuse yourself, do you like your own company?
  • include some kind of invite on your page.

I do spend a lot of time by myself and manage to fill my day – I don’t understand these people who say they have nothing to do as there is always something to do and there is never enough time to do it all (which is why I am behind in these weekly journal pages).  Being in the seated position all of the time I find social gatherings where people are all standing around conversing 2 feet above me very tiresome.  Not only do I have to strain my neck looking up all of the time but I strain my ears trying to hear what they are saying.  This usually leads to me just nodding and smiling graciously and wondering what on earth they were talking about then going off to the kitchen, if I am not hemmed in, to find some food.  I am reasonably au fait at small talk but don’t ask me to do any public speaking or I will run a mile – so to speak.

Paint:  I did the background ages ago but I think I used white and rust acrylic paint
Card:  white card
Stamps:  Stampin up Cheer and wishes, home made foam stamps Squares
Other:  grey and rust oil pastels, mesh

Art journal week 41: Films

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Week 41 is all about films:

  • what is the first film you saw at the cinema?
  • what is your favourite film and why?
  • include some film memorabilia on your page

Ok I don’t remember the first film I saw at the cinema but more than likely it was a Walt Disney film.  I particularly like films that have great music.  I don’t go to the cinema very often any more as my local cinema has been flattened and I don’t like going to the big cinemas as I have to sit at the very front or very back as I stay in my wheelchair rather than transfer into the cinema chairs.

Inks:  Stazon black, acrylic paints: white, black, lime and yellow
Card:  watercolour paper, white card
Stamps:  Hero arts Upper-case alphabet
Other:  Tim Holtz film strip, tiny silver brad

Art journal week 40: Birthdays

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I hope you all had a lovely time over the Christmas holidays.  It was a quiet Christmas day in our house but a very busy boxing day and I have spent most of my time cleaning, cooking, eating, cleaning, cooking, eating etc……. so I am hoping that I now have some spare time to finish the ukstampers weekly challenge.  I am only up to week 41 and I would like to get all 52 done and dusted by 2012 so these last few will be rather rushed.
Week 40 is about birthdays:

  • do you make a big thing of birthdays – do you remember birthdays?
  • what is your most memorable birthday story?
  • include some candles on your page

I do remember birthdays and I love sharing the celebrations with my family and friends with a good meal (much better than parties).  This year my brother Chris and his family cooked one of my all time favourite meals; slow roasted lamb over here and they did all the cooking and clearing up so I didn’t have to do anything thing.  Mum and dad came over too and we had a lovely relaxing day.   The most memorable story however would be at Harry’s 40th birthday BBQ in our back garden.  He managed to break his ankle just by picking up a CD from the floor and turning round awkwardly.  He ended up at A&E the following day and needed his ankle pinned and in a stookie for 6 weeks.

Inks:  Distress inks More mustard and Stormy sky, Memento London fog
Card:  white card
Stamps:  Tim Holtz Urban tapestry and Fairytail frenzy
Other:  Intense pencils and copic pens to colour