52 Weeks Art Journal - Week 13 - How Do You Fill Your Cup

 Hello All.

This week's 52 Weeks Art Journal prompt from RaspberryBlueSky is 'How do you fill your cup?'. That's easy for me. It's getting outside for a good countryside hike, and taking my binoculars for some birdwatching.

We missed out on a great hiking holiday in Scotland last year, but we are fortunate to have some lovely countryside on our doorstep despite living on the outskirts of London. We have been taking early morning walks every day for the last 10 months, and it's definitely kept us both fit and sane.

I'm linking this page to the last day of Sheila's A Single Flower theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

The 100 Day Project - Days 51-56

 Hi Everyone!

It's been mostly sunny here today, which was lovely for our early morning walk today. I had another outing late morning, to the hospital for a routine ultrasound scan of my liver and gallbladder. Hardly a soul there, and as I was the only person in the waiting room, I was seen straight away. Just have to wait for the results now.

I thought I'd bring you up to date with my stamp carving this week. Here goes...

A few abstract designs which are going to be so useful, and I'm really thrilled with my little bee.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,

Alison xox

Spring Is In The Air...

 ...is week twelve's theme for RaspberryBlueSky's 52WeeksArtJournal challenge.

I made a page with a gel prints quilted background, added a music paper flower, stamped my hand-carved bee and pebbles, and added some details with coloured paint pens.

I'm also linking this page to Sheila's A Single Flower theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for popping by my blog today,

Alison xox

GelliArts March Printing Challenge - 18-23

Hello All.

I have a few more gel prints to share with you today. As usual, the daily themes are top left of each photo.

 

Those hand-carved stamps have been useful again. I carved the 'love is' right way round to work with my gel plate, and I need to do one wrong way round to stamp with.

Hope you're all having a good week. 

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

The 100 Day Project - Days 44-50

 Hello All!

I can't believe I am halfway through this 100 Day Project of carving my own stamps. That means I have carved 50 stamps!

So here are another week's worth for you to view.

As you can see, I had to carve myself a shamrock for St. Pat's Day, and some more numbers and mark-making stamps. I always need more mark-making stamps 😉

Enjoy the rest of your weekend,

Alison xox

52 Weeks Art Journal - Week 11

 Hi Everyone!

This week's theme for RaspberryBlueSky's 52 Weeks Art Journal Instagram Challenge is to use a colour you don't normally use. I chose the colour purple, with some contrasting yellow and orange.

This started with some torn pieces of gel prints, then a scraping of heavy body gesso. I scribbled some circles into the gesso, then spritzed, stencilled and splattered with purple inks. I used purple Distress Oxide ink to stamp and colour book and music pages, then cut out shapes for the flower. The small circles and leaves are cut from leftovers. I've been making some collaged Easter bunting to hang on my house ;-) I finished with some buttons, black doodles and splatters.

I'm linking my page to Sheila's A Single Flower theme at Art Journal Journey.

Wishing you all a happy and creative weekend,

Alison xox

GelliArts March Printing Challenge - Days 8-17

 Hello Everyone! Happy St. Patricks Day to you all!

I thought I'd bring you up to date with my gel prints for GelliArts March Printing Challenge.

My favourite one has to be 'Beach' this week. I'm so happy with how that one turned out. You never know what you're going to get with a mono-print. Can you see the huge waves crashing in from the left of the print?

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Cards for Mothers and Daughters

 Hello All.

I have a couple of cards to share with you today, the first is a Mother's Day card. I used the same techniques as on this art journal page a few days ago, with watercolour paint and a black pen sketched flower.

And the second is a new job card for my daughter. Beth has taken a secondment post for a year, on a government based project for sustainable aerospace. I'm very proud of my talented girl! She's very excited by the nature of the project.

I sketched the plane, created a stencil, and after stencilling with black paint on a mono-printed background, I used a white paint pen to add details. I finished with some suitable Tim Holtz phrase stickers.

Thanks for dropping by today,

Alison xox

The 100 Day Project - Days 36-43

 Hello All. I hope you're having a good weekend so far. I've been busy in my studio, so it's been great here.

I have a few more of my hand-carved stamps to share with you today.

I really enjoy carving those blocky words, I'm sure there'll be more coming. And I'm pleased with how the face turned out, I'll be attempting more of those too. In fact number 41 was going to be a face, but it didn't work out, so I carved it out. I quite like what was left though, and I can always stamp it and draw in a face if I want to.

Thanks for dropping by today,

Alison xox

52 Weeks Art Journal - Random Words

 Hello All.

This week RaspberryBlueSky's weekly art journal theme on Instagram is random words. I used some of my hand-carved stamps for the background of my page, then cut out flower pieces from some of my painted collage papers. I added some Tim Holtz word stickers, used a black pencil to outline, and finished with white ink splatters.

I'm also linking this page to Sheila's A Single Flower theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xx

Art Journal Journey - A Single Flower

 Hello All.

I have another page to share for Sheila's A Single Flower theme at Art Journal Journey.

I created the flower, using a black pen on a blue and gold watercolour background. Then I simply layered it with some music paper and another watercolour background, and added some stamped words that are from the Journaling Mini Words background stamp by The Artistic Stamper.

Hope you're having a good week. Thanks for visiting.

Alison xx

March Printing Challenge - Days 1-7

 Hi Everyone!

I found another challenge on Instagram! This one is from GelliArts who make Gelli Plates, and each day in March there is a different theme to use for your print.

Here are my first week's prints. I've used my hand-carved stamps on all but one of them, including word and number stamps that I carved the right way, so that they work with the Gelli Plate.

Happy new week!

Alison xox