A couple of journal pages

Here are two journal pages I've done recently, the first one is based round the image which is from Deviant Scrap

I bought the large butterfly and text stamp from Christy Tomlinson and then didn't know what to do with it, so did a journal page

The sun has gone into hiding here, still warm, but dull.  Hope you've got better weather.

Phew it's hot!!!!

Well at long last the sun is out and it's hot, hot, hot here in Deepcar.  We've got our two grandchildren here for the week and we met some relatives for a pub lunch then they  went swimming, loved the wave machine and the water flume, but boy was it hot and humid in the place.  They're both sat quietly, one reading a book, the other playing games on the iPad, so took this chance to do this post.

It's a page I did last week in my old ledger, I should be dieting and I was feeling guilty for not sticking to it.....oh well, maybe next week.

Golden paints and Dylusion inks, image I think is from Tumble Fish Studio.

Little Gift

Went for lunch to Sandy Poppins yesterday and I decided to make her a little gift.  It is a notebook and I got the idea from here, but mine is completely different

The front and back are made by spraying Dylusion inks through stencils onto good quality paper, I used 4 different colours, the insides are made out of some journal paper I think from Prima.  Stamped using T!m Holtz, made a dangly thingy out of a stamped elephant onto shrink plastic and a muse token.

We had a lovely day and Sandy cooked a fantastic lunch.  We even managed a trip to Ikea!

Journaling

Last Friday was the regular art journaling day at AFTH, I managed to almost finish two pages and then did a bit a home, as usual Dy was full of inspiration

Everything used on these pages are by Dyusions except the border on the second one.  The border I had done I didn't like so just used some paper from stash.  If you look closely I also used some liquid pearls and stickles.  Wonderful to rediscover them again, I'm using them on everything, lol.

365 (6) Art Calendar

It's that time of month again, and I'm still managing to keep up, here's my July page

and below is June completed

If you're wondering what I'm talking about, pop over here to take a peek at other fabulous calendars.

A lovely day with a friend

Had a lovely day yesterday with my friend Sandy Poppins.  Sandra and Andy have just moved into their new vicarage and I went to see her yesterday.  This is the new home card I made for them

Background coloured with the new summer DI pads, the houses I drew onto an old house lease dated 1817, then sprayed with the new DI re-inkers, bit of doodling etc.

This is the gift I took, an Ikea mirror, altered with Ver-day, if you look closely you can see some leaves, I took a Dylusions stencil and put texture paste through it, when I'd given it the Ver-day treatment, I used metal rub-ons to highlight the leaves.  Added 3 of the buttons I'd altered and edged the mirror in Stewart Gill Byzantia turquoise ink.

It's really muggy here, very dark, just wish the thunderstorm would come soon because the dog is driving me mad, he hates thunder and can sense it's on it's way and he's wandering up and down.

Playing with Ver-day

Yesterday  a friend of mine, Moira came for a playday.  She has got Ver-day in stock and we wanted to have a play.

Here are some samples (warning, photo overload)

This was a gift from Clare which I've given the treatment to, isn't it fab.

Plastic buttons

Old pen nibs and a chrome watch winder

This went from the above to

this!

A small brass bike charm

A small wooden box, which still needs some additions

We had a brilliant day, and I'm hooked on this stuff, I also altered some old lace, but decided there were enough photos on this blog, lol.