AJJ - Come Fly With Me

 Hello All.

Here's a Junk Journal page for my Come Fly With Me theme at Art Journal Journey.

I used an image of a juvenile Great Spotted Woodpecker. We have one that is regularly visiting our bird feeder along with mum and dad.

Thank you all for your wonderful entries for the challenge, I'm trying to get around to visit you all.

Have a great weekend.

Alison

365 Somethings - Days 156-159

 Hello All. 

I hope you're having a lovely weekend. The heat has been turned up here, 30 degs C is too hot for me outside. I'm planning to chill and make some art today, and catch up with some blogging.

Here's my latest set of collages for the 365 Somethings challenge.

And I captured photos of Canada Geese and their fluffy family on a walk recently. They guzzled up the duck and swan food I gave them.

We've had a lot of Starlings and their young visiting our bird feeders recently, 20 or 30 at a time. They make a lot of noise, but their antics make me smile. You can see our back lawn doesn't get mown. We like to encourage the wildlife.

That's all for today.

Thanks for visiting.

Alison

May Art Journal Calendar

 Hello All.

I have my May art journal calendar to share with you today. 

As usual, I like to use the new Art Journal Journey theme, and this month Matilde has given us the theme 'Birds'.

I used a few stencils, for the title, in the background & for the journaling circles, mainly PaperArtsy ones, so I'm also linking up to Try It On Tuesday's 'Use a stencil' challenge.

I used acrylics to paint the birds on white tissue, then glued them to my pages.

Here's my completed April calendar.

Thanks so much for dropping by today.

Wishing you all a happy May.

Alison

GJJ Days 25 & 26 - Gratitude For Joy & For Recognition

 Hello All.

Today I'm sharing a couple more of my GJJ pages.

Firstly, Day 25's prompt was Joy. What gave us joy today? I saw a jay on the bird feeder in my garden twice in one morning, and both times it gave me joy, and I ran to tell my hubby. Unfortunately the jay didn't hang around long enough for him to see it too.

On Day 26, Sarah Matthew's prompt was gratitude for recognition. Sarah showed us how to make some foam word stamps, and also 'trash' stamps using the offcuts of foam, but I used some of my hand-carved stamps on my page instead.

Happy Friday to you all, and thanks for visiting.

Alison

GJJ Days 23 & 24 - Gratitude For My Surroundings & Gratitude For Birds

 Hello Everyone.

Happy Advent to you all! I've started an Advent art journal that I'll share in a few days, but I still have a few pages for Gratitude Junk Journal to show you. I'm going to double up on the pages now.

I think you all know by now that I love the outdoors and all kinds of wildlife, especially birds.

Here's my Day 23 page, which reflects the lovely countryside and wildlife where we live, that I'm so grateful for.

I spotted a YouTube tutorial by Shawn Petite, and used that as inspiration to create this page.

On Day 24, Amanda Fall's prompt was gratitude for birds.

I've always loved a quirky Puffin! Those beaks are so striking against their black and white plumage. One of my best holidays was in the north east of England, when we got a boat out to The National Trust's Farne Islands and saw Puffins and lots of other wonderful sea birds and seals. I used images from an old NT magazine for this page.

Wishing you a happy new month.

Thanks for visiting.

Alison

Daisy Yellow Art's ICAD Challenge - The Final Few

Hello All.

Today I have the final few ICAD's to share with you.

57/61 - Guillemot.

 58/61 - Razorbill.

59/61 - Starling.

60/61 - Collared Dove.

61/61 - European Robin.

I'm sad to see this series come to its end. I hope you've enjoyed seeing my birds. I finished with three of our regular visitors, the noisy, greedy Starling, the pretty Collared Dove, and the cheeky little European Robin.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend.

Thanks so much for your visits and lovely comments on my ICAD art,

Alison xox

Daisy Yellow Arts ICAD Challenge - Week 8

Hello All. 

Here are another week's worth of ICADs for Daisy Yellow Art's challenge. Nearing the end now.

50/61 - Cuckoo.

51/61 - Wood Pigeon. Regular visitors to the bird feeder in our garden.

52/61 - Dunnock.

53/61 - Chaffinch. Another visitor to our garden.

54/61 - Stock Dove.

55/61 - House Martin.

56/61 - Puffin. I've always loved these birds. I finally got to see some of them a couple of years ago, on the Farne Islands on the North East coast.

Wishing you all a happy new week,

thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Daisy Yellow Arts ICAD Challenge - Week 7

 Hi Everyone! I'm back today with this week's little 6x4" index card collages.

43/61 - Jackdaw. I love these little corvids, we often have one or two on our bird feeder.

44/61 - Jay. Another favourite. I love that flash of blue.

45/61 - Tawny Owl. Who doesn't love an owl?! Tawnys are so beautiful.

46/61 - Coot. We see these on our morning walks, usually with 2 or 3 young at the moment.

47/61 - Pochard Ducks. I don't know if I've ever seen one of these. They are winter visitors to the UK.

48/61 - Song Thrush. Occasionally hear these from our garden, they have a lovely song.

49/61 - Kentish Plover. Pretty little birds, not sure if I've ever seen one of these.

That's all for this week. I hope you've enjoyed seeing these little bird-themed collages today.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Daisy Yellow's Index Card A Day - Week 4

 Hello All.

Here are my ICADS for week 4 of Daisy Yellow's challenge.

22/61 - Swift

23/61 - Canada Goose

24/61 - Grey Wagtail

25/61 - House Sparrow

26/61 - Golden Oriole

27/61 - Crested Lark

28/61 - Great Crested Grebe

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Daisy Yellow's Index Card A Day - Week 3

Hello All.

Thanks again for the helpful advice and good wishes for my tooth and elbow. My mouth is a bit less sore thankfully, so hoping it's settling down. I'm resting my arm as much as I can, not easy. Thankfully Hubby's on hand to help.

Here are my ICADs for week 3 of Daisy Yellow's challenge.

15/61 - Long-tailed Tit

16/61 - Pied Wagtail

17/61 - Mallard

18/61 - Greenfinch

19/61 - Blue-headed Wagtail

20/61 - Chaffinch

21/61 - Grey Heron

Some of these birds we see quite regularly, the chaffinch visits our garden most of the year, and the heron, mallard and pied wagtail we see on our walks upon the golf course. Sadly the greenfinch has declined in numbers here in the UK, I haven't seen one for many years. The long-tailed tits visit very occasionally, it's always a thrill to spot those. And I don't think I've ever seen a blue-headed wagtail.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you're enjoying my series of bird-themed collages.

Alison xox