October Art Journal Calendar

 Hello All.

Here is my art journal calendar for October.

The leaves were stamped with acrylic paint and a PaperArtsy Lin Brown stamp, cut out and glued onto a background of teabags and PaperArtsy Fresco acrylic paint. The scarecrow is a Tracy Evans stamp. The letters of the title are Darkroom Door stamps. 

I'm linking my calendar to my Autumn colours and inspiration theme at Art Journal Journey.

And here's my completed September calendar.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Art Journal Calendar - September 2024

 Hello All.

I've been busy with my crochet hook lately, making poppies for Remembrance, hats and scarves for charity, and now I'm getting started on projects for my daughter's wedding in 2026! She's requested crocheted place mats for all the guests (possibly 160 or more), crocheted potted plants, and crocheted flowers to go in coloured glass vases. It's lucky that I crochet fairly quickly.

Anyway, I did manage to make my September art journal calendar, and here it is.

That transparent red iron oxide acrylic against the PaperArtsy Seaglass acrylic is making my heart sing!

I'm linking my calendar to Art Journal Journey, where Aimeslee's theme is Anything Goes.

And before I go, here is my completed August calendar.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

February Art Journal Calendar

 Hello Friends.

I'm getting dozy in my old age! I thought I'd already posted my February calendar pages. Anyway, here they are.

I created my pages with Vicki's theme of Keeping It Light at Art Journal Journey in mind, and added some lightbulbs to journal in.

I think the border I created with a Dina Wakley stamp looks a bit like a row of lit matches, lol.

I finished my page with a lovely Helen Keller quote.

And here's my completed January calendar.

Have a happy February, and thanks for dropping by.

Alison xox

Art Journal Calendar - July 2023

Hello All.

I have my July art journal calendar to share with you today. As it has butterflies on it, I'm linking it up to my Come Fly With Me theme at Art Journal Journey. 

 I cut a load of butterflies from a paper napkin, then used gel medium to adhere them to my pages. I then glued some teabag papers over the top for a faded antique look. I decided to glue extra butterflies around the edges that would stand out more.

My journaling circles were punched from a gessoed music sheet, I added numbers and outlines with a black gel pen. I used Darkroom Door Alpha stamps for my title, stamped onto the edge of a music sheet and outlined with black pen. I finished with some black ink splatters, and outlined the whole spread with black pen.

Here's my completed June calendar pages.

Thanks for visiting, hope you have a wonderful July.

Alison

Art Journal Calendar April 2023

 Hello Friends. A happy April to you all.

I'm joining Elizabeth's Recycle, Re-use & Re-purpose theme at Art Journal Journey with my April art journal calendar.

I started by covering the pages with used teabag papers, then I used a piece of corrugated cardboard to create the lines with black ink.

I punched the circles from security envelopes, and used an empty tea light holder to stamp the outlines. I stamped the title using Darkroom Door Alpha stamps, added the day numbers, and sketched some flowers. 

I added white ink splashes, and also dropped some white ink into the flower centres. I love how the ink spread out along the lines of the flowers. So cool!

And finally, here's my completed March calendar.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

August Art Journal Calendar

Hello Everyone. Happy August to you all.

Here's my art journal calendar spread for the new month.

I started with torn pieces of collage fodder that I recently made. I added some pieces of green crepe paper. Then I stamped the numbers with Prussian Blue acrylic paint, and the tiny circles with white acrylic and a piece of Lego.

On gessoed book pages, I stamped my hand-carved birds, stamped the titles with Darkroom Door Alphas & Numbers, and used a lid to stamp the journaling circles, added some splatters of Prussian Blue acrylic, then cut them all out and glued them to the pages.  

I'm linking my pages to Chris' When We Were Young challenge at Art Journal Journey. I got the Ornithology bug as a young teen, and used to head to the local woods early on a Saturday morning with my binoculars.

Before I go, here's my July calendar, with its windows all filled in.

Thank you so much for visiting. I'll be coming over to catch up with your blogs now. Blogger seems to have given up on sending notifications of anyone's posts now!

Alison

Art Journal Calendar - December 2021

 Hi Everyone.

Today I'm sharing my art journal calendar spread for December.

I started with some collage papers, then scraped on some turquoise and white acrylic paint. 

I used a PaperArtsy Mini doorway stamp for my daily journaling, stamping straight onto my page first, then stamping onto gessoed book pages also. I cut out the inside of the doorways, and adhered them as shown above. 

I used Darkroom Door Alphas and numbers to stamp the title and words, and Hero Arts Alphas to stamp the day numbers. I used a white pen to add highlights to the words, and finished with white ink splashes.

Here's my November calendar, all filled in.

I'm linking my December calendar to Valerie's When one door closes, another door opens theme at Art Journal Journey.

Have a great weekend, and thanks for visiting.

Alison

October 2021 Art Journal Calendar

 Hello All.

Here is my October calendar spread, with some lovely Autumn colours for Tracey's 'My Favourite Colour Is October' theme at Art Journal Journey.

I used a brayer to apply the acrylic paint, yellows, reds and oranges and some luscious metallic gold.

I used one of my leaf stamps to stamp a border with red acrylic, then added punched blue gel printed journaling squares. Well sometimes we get blue skies in October?! I used Darkroom Door alphabet stamps for the title, and added black pen outlines and numbers. I finished with red and gold paint splashes.

Here's my September spread, all filled in with lots of walking and arty time.

Have a great October!

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Scrappy September - Days 3-5

 Hi Everyone.

Here are some more pages for the Scrappy September Scavenger Instagram Challenge.

Day 3 - Teal, Dictionary Page, A note from a friend, Paisley.

Bonus Item - Your favourite colour.

Day 4 - Gold, Old book page, Junk mail window envelope, Bird.

Bonus Item - A picture of today's favourite moment.

Day 5 - Sky Blue, Graph Paper, An image of a bicycle, triangle.

Bonus Item - Something crocheted.

I'm linking the Day 5 page above to More Mixed Media's Anything Goes Challenge with optional Brown.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

September 2021 Art Journal Calendar

 Hello All.

Here's my art journal calendar for this month. I've kept it quite simple, using some pages from a cookbook as my background, and a page of squares from Tim Holtz's Retro patterned paper pad for my journaling. I used one of my own hand-carved stamps around the edges with Peeled Paint Distress Ink, and Darkroom Door's Alpha stamps for the title. I inked the edges of the squares and the pages with Walnut Stain DI.

I'm linking my spread to Wendy's Vintage theme at Art Journal Journey.

Here's my August spread all filled in...

Wishing you all a safe and happy weekend,

Alison

Artful August Day 24 - Triangles

 Hello All.

Here's my Triangles page for Day 24 of Rachel Greig's Artful August challenge.

A 20 minute page today, I started by gluing down some torn triangle collage, then stamped the Darkroom Door houses with their triangular roofs. After I grounded them with the numbers, I had the idea to create the number triangles. I stamped the quote, added a little scribble writing, and decided it need some blue drips. I finished with neon pink and white ink splashes.

With all those different types of triangles, I'm linking my page to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

March 2021 Art Journal Calendar

 Happy March Everyone!

I have my new calendar pages for March to share with you today.

I started by gluing down some dress pattern tissue, then I scraped some turquoise paint over it. I used neon pink paint to stamp with my hand-carved plus signs stamp, then used a cardboard tube to stamp with some diluted instant coffee. I stamped some 'u's and scallops with black paint.  Two more of my hand-carved stamps ;-) 

I stencilled the splats, then stamped the title with Darkroom Door alphabet and number stamps. I drew a pink tulip with paint pens, then added pink day numbers and splatters.

I linking my spread to Sheila's A Single Flower challenge at Art Journal Journey. 

I'm also entering Try It On Tuesday's Say It With Flowers challenge.

Before I go, here is my February spread with all of my daily doings recorded.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Creative JumpStart with Rachel Greig

 Hello Everyone!

Rachel's Greig's class for CJS was 'A letter to my younger self'. She used distress inks and Darkroom Door stamps to create an art journal page. Here's my version. I used Crafty Individuals and Darkroom Door stamps on my page.

I added brads to the rose window images, so I'm linking up to Valerie's Heavy Metal theme at Art Journal Journey. 

Won't it be lovely when we can go traveling again?! I live on the outskirts of London, so I've been there many times. I've visited Paris and Prague too. I've been to Italy, but never visited Rome. I'd love to see the Colosseum someday.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

February 2021 Art Journal Calendar

 Hi Everyone!

I'm here today with my February calendar spread. 

I recently discovered stamping with watercolour paint, and I used this technique for my background, over collaged and gessoed music and book paper, with some Dina Wakley heart stamps, Reeves watercolour tube paint in phthalo blue, and some metallic gold pearl watercolour paint from Imagination Crafts. I added a splattering of the paints too :-)

For my journaling, I stamped another of Dina's hearts 28 times onto gesso music paper with black archival ink, cut them out, inked the edges, and glued them to my pages. I used the phthalo blue watercolour paint to colour in the Valentine's Day heart, to make it stand out. 

I used Darkroom Door alphabet and number stamps for my title.

I'm linking up to Valerie's Heavy Metal theme at Art Journal Journey, and also Try It On Tuesday's Falling In Love theme.

And finally, here's my January calendar all filled in...

Wishing you all a happy and healthy new month.

Thanks for visiting! 

Alison xox

Art Journal Journey - The Meaning Of...

 Hi Everyone.

It's a new month, so today I have my December art journal calendar to share with you.

My pages reflect the true meaning of Christmas for me, so I'm linking up with Tracey's The Meaning Of theme at Art Journal Journey.

I began by gluing down some gel prints to my pages, then I used nativity stamps by Elusive Images (sadly no longer in business), stamping onto tissue to get a good print, then gluing to my background with matt medium. 

The title was stamped with Darkroom Door's Alphabet Medley stamp set.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison xox

Gratitude Junk Journal Day 15

 It's day 19 of Leah's Art Every Day Month challenge, and today I have my day 15 Gratitude Junk Journal page to show you. For this the prompt was a reason for gratitude - reading a passage in a book, a poem or quote that expresses exactly how you feel. I chose a Vincent Van Gogh quote.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Transport

Morning All!

Here's my Artist Trading Stamp for day 25/30, with the theme of Transport.

For this ATS I used a Darkroom Door stamp of a bicycle outside of a bar, then hand-stamped the words Enjoy Life on a scrap of old book page. Having a quick half pint before the footie fans arrive to watch the big match ;-)

I'm linking to Leah's Art Every Day Month.

Happy Monday,

Alison xox