Art journal week 21 Hobbies

art journal, hobbies, ukstampers weekly challenge No. 21
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Finished another journal page: this one is about hobbies and had to include:

  • how many hobbies or what hobbies have you had over the years?
  • what is your earliest recollection of doing anything crafty?
  • include some kind of hand made embellishment

Wow – where do I start with this one – I have had a lot of hobbies and most of them were some kind of sport.  I dabbled in gymnastics, ballet and tennis as a youngster.  Athletics soon took over for quite a few years then motorcycle sidecar racing for a few years.  I then started athletics again just to keep fit and also had a go at judo and modern dance.  Next came weight training which I kept up for many years with a little dabble at wheelchair basketball. I have to watch what I am doing these days so I now consider my main hobbies to be gardening, cooking, reading and crafting.  My first recollections of crafting are making paper chains and pom-poms, rub-ons (transfers), toilet paper flowers, papier mache bowls and finger knitting.  There were loads more but I remember those in particular.

Card:  white card painted with green and red paint, bits of black and white too
Stamps: Tim Holtz mini muse
Other:  bottle cap, red UTEE, heart cookie cutter, glossy accents, dragonfly punch, Stencil The crafters workshop Circle Circle Dot Dot, white pen, gold pen, punchinella, crackle glaze

Art journal week 24 Wildlife

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Two pages in two days, have I got my mojo back – let’s hope so?  Here is my page for week 24 on the ukstampers weekly challenge.  The prompt was Wildlife and you had to include:

  • do you like animals, do you have pets, what was the name of your first pet?
  • if you were an animal what would you be?
  • include some animal print on your page.

I couldn’t make up my mind about what animal I would rather be so I left that out and instead of including animal print I included animal prints – the faded mouse paw prints   (artistic license and all that!)
We have had many pets over the years and they include: tortoise, budgies, goldfish, dogs, cat, gerbils, rabbits, rats and dogs.  I loved them all and couldn’t contemplate not having some kind of pet and at the moment our dog is enough to cope with.  We also have plenty wildlife visitors to our garden.  The first pet I really remember is a cat called Sherry.  I used to dress her up as a Queen and sit her on a regal cushion and I sometimes would push her about in my toy pram which she didn’t seem to mind.
When I was young I would go out for walks in the meadows or woods and I was always bringing something back to either just  to show my mum or for her to ‘look after’.  This could be anything from baby frogs, voles, birds, sticklebacks, caterpillars, bees, bugs of all sorts.  Even dead things came back with me like sheep skulls, bird skeletons, snail shells, owl pellets and the like.  Boy was my mum thrilled!

Inks:  Stazon Jet black, Memento Tuxedo black
Card:  White card
Stamps:  Inkadinkado Morphic bugs and Patterned pets, SeeD’s Cute as a bug, Crafty secrets Mouse party, Joanna sheen JNM Meercats, Lavinia stamps silhouettes Bats, spider, web with twigs and damselflies, House mouse Mouse feet, RS tapestry Tiny frog and mayfly, Autumn leaves Silhouette blossoms
Other:  Acrylic paints Mustard, Sienna and Moss and dabber Snow cap, coloured pens, white and black journalling pens, That Special Touch honeycomb mask

Art journal week 23 Secrets

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For week 23 on the ukstampers challenge the prompt was Secrets and you had to include:

  • can you keep a secret or how long have you kept a secret?
  • use some hidden journalling
  • stamp some hearts on your page

Edited:  I have only just noticed that I have made the masquerade mask upside down!! DOH!!   Hmm or have I?

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I started this page a few weeks ago and I can’t quite remember all the colours I used but here goes…

Inks:  Stampin up Mellow moss and Cameo coral, Distress ink Black soot, Black stazon
Card:  white card
Stamps:  Studio G small alphabet, Elusive images Diamond art, Heritage rubber stamps – lips, Free stamp from craft stamper mag – eyes from Visage, Non sequitur Grave tidings, tiny heart from Papertreyink Out on a limb
Other:  punchinella (stars and circles), rub-on arrow,  Tim Holtz tissue tape, acrylic paints, beads, Tiara stickles, white and black journalling pens, diamond glaze, gems, black ribbon
Template for the mask is from splitcoast stampers (I think).

Birthday card

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It will soon be Suzanne’s birthday and I have spent the last few days wondering what card to make for her.  I have hundreds of stamps and loads of ink pads and embellishments but I have kind of lost my mojo a bit.  Never mind – Craft stamper mag. to the rescue again!
In the May 2010 issue Katy Fox did an article on Re-use Re-cycle to make a mini album.  I used her design and colour scheme with a few tweaks of my own to make this card.  I have tried to capture the shimmer effect but sadly it just looks shiny in the photo rather than pink shimmer.  The photo it taken against a dark brown background.

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Inks:  Stazon Timber brown, Distress inks Scattered straw and Rusty hinge
Card:  white, brown, card board box, Prima Flights of Fancy patterned paper
Stamps:  Stampin up Pocket silhouettes and Just believe, Non sequitur Samurai butterflies), flower stamp free from an old Craft stamper mag.
Other:  Prima Say-it-in-pearls (flower centre), white pen, Stickles Coffee (looks pink), Cosmic shimmer Mist Angel mist, old card board box, white Gesso, Punched fronds, Natural linen thread

Father’s day card

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Dad really enjoys watching the birds at the feeders and bird bath from the conservatory window so I didn’t go for a historic cars or sports theme but instead went for these wee birdies having a sing song on the cherry tree.  My parent’s garden is absolutely full of baby birds at the moment all chattering away and I too could while away the hours watching their antics.

Inks:  Versafine archival Vintage sepia
Card:  Brown textured card, aqua card, patterned paper
Stamps:  Crafty Secrets Bird notes
Other:  linen cord, brown flat backed pearl

Celebrate card

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This is a pretty card for my great friend Lizzie’s birthday and yes we will be celebrating!
The design comes from one of Katy Fox’s articles in the Craft stamper mag (Aug 2010) and I really love how pretty and floral it is without going over the top with flowers.
I have a few pieces of floral material that I scanned, printed then cut to make the bunting and scalloped piece.  The rose is a rub-on and the only stamps I used is the word ‘celebrate’ and the green stitched border.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black, Stampin up Mellow moss
Card:  white card, Stampin up patterned paper
Stamps:  Stampin up Celebrate, Technique Tuesday Hanging by a thread
Other:  Prima Fairy flora Rub-ons, material scanned and printed, black linen cord

Mini thank you cards in a pouch

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You can never have too many thank you cards when you have  babies (or so I have been informed) so this is a pouch or wee bag with 16 mini thank you cards I made for Kat’s baby shower.  I can’t believe that I didn’t use a single stamp when making these cute little cards.  The images are dingbats coloured with copic pens.

Card: white, pink, patterned paper, yellow and blue vellum
Dingbats/fonts: 2peasDW oh baby! (images) and 2peas Gingersnap (text)
twopeasinabucket dingbat fonts
Other:  tiny safety pins, tiny baby bottles, ribbon, mini rik-rak, white fun flock, daisy

Art journal week 19 Lists

art journal, uk stampers challenge 19. lists
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This page is for week 19 on the ukstampers weekly challenge and the prompt was Lists:

  • are you a list maker, do you need lists
  • include a list of some kind on your page
  • use some arrows on your page

That has to be a big yes for me as I am very much a list maker.  I like to break down big jobs that may look overwhelming at first into lots of smaller easier to manage things to do.  I then get great satisfaction as I score them out once accomplished.  I try to write them in a logical way for example I still write my online shopping lists by aisle that I used to go around the actual supermarket, or maybe write them in order of importance.  If I don’t write a list I will usually forget something.  Sometimes if I have written a list and then lost it or leave it behind I can at least picture the list in my head and still remember things that way.  I even have the post-it note gadget on my computer desktop with little reminders.
It isn’t just about remembering things but it can also be a good time-management strategy.

Card:  watercolour card
Stamps:  Tim Holtz chronicles alphabet
Other: acrylic paints, copic pen cadmium red, white and black pens, neon pencils

Acer leaves card

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I was going to do a gardening themed card for Chris for his birthday but no matter what design I came up with, it just didn’t look quite right for him so I opted for a more arty style and instead of using autumn colours for the Acer leaves I chose green.

Inks:  Memento Tuxedo black
Card:  water colour paper and a white aperture card
Stamps:  Non sequitur from Samurai and Cranes sets
Other:  Adirondack colour wash Pesto, Chroma jewels Amber, Lime,  Neon colour pencil Lime, Copics YG25, YG23 and G82, Stampin up colour spritzer with black pen and green pen, Diamond glaze