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

52 Weeks Art Journal - 33/52 - Embrace The Moment

 Hello All.

Here's my week 33 page for Raspberry Blue Sky's 52 Weeks Art Journal Challenge.

This page started off with some leftover blue paint on it, and I added some pieces of collage. I schmooshed on some paint, and used a PaperArtsy stencil and a wet cloth to remove some of it. I stencilled the birds with the PaperArtsy stencil, then added flowers, foliage and the figure with Dina Wakley stamps and paint, and wrote the quote with a paint pen. I added some white pen outlines, then white, black and gold splatter.

I've used a few different types of media on this page, so I'm linking it to Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting, and for all your lovely comments on my art this week,

Alison

Artful August - Day 7 - Tree

 Hello All.

Here's my 15 minute page for Day 7's Tree theme.

I used Dina Wakley tree and text stamps on my page, with circles and marks in my favourite paint colours. The found text was very serendipitous. It was on the first scrap of book page I picked up!

A few different types of text here, perfect for Neet's Type theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Art Journal Calendar - May 2021

 Hello All!

We've had a mixed bag of weather here today. Fortunately, it was fine until late afternoon. I went walking with Hubby on the golf course first thing, and then with my Mum and Dad and our River Walkers group later in the morning. I love the river walk, especially now with all the river birds having their chicks. Here are the Egyptian Geese and Coot families. Aren't they adorable?!

Back to the title of my post. Here is my May art journal calendar spread. I'm linking it to Elle's Language theme at Art Journal Journey. I think the theme of my spread could be the language of colour, as I do love my brights. I've also used PaperArtsy script stamps on the tickets, and scribble journaled around the edge of my spread. Or maybe it's the language of those two birds, chatting away at the bottom of the page.

I used my Gelli Plate with PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylic paints to make the colourful background, and the tickets were sprayed with pink Dylusions ink.

I used some Dina Wakley stamps, and also one of my hand-carved stamps. It's our birthdays and anniversary month in May, so I used a couple of Dina's bird stamps for us lovebirds 😍 It'll be our 30th anniversary next week.

Before I go, here is my April spread with those Easter eggs all filled out with daily walks and lots of arty time.

Thanks for visiting me today,

Alison xox

Creative JumpStart with Dina Wakley

 Layered thoughts was the title of Dina Wakley's class on CJS. We layered text on tissue paper, using stencils, paint, coloured pencils and paint pens. Then we ripped it up and used it as the background for a collage page, with a few added drips and splatters, and some words.

I'm linking my page to Valerie's Heavy Metal theme at Art Journal Journey. Isn't that Amsterdam Deep Gold acrylic ink just sublime?! Makes me feel good. Are you all singing now? :D

Thanks for visiting me today, I hope you all have a great weekend.

Alison xox

More Creative JumpStart

 Hi Everyone!

I have a few more CJS projects to share with you today, starting with Rae Missigman's Colour Story on 5th Feb (Day 36).

After creating some large pieces with acrylic paint, watercolour paint, and soft pastel marks, we cut them up into various sizes of squares and rectangles.

On 6th Feb (Day 37), Vicki Boutin showed us a fun faux watercolour mon-printing technique, using Distress Inks. Here's the background I created.

And on 7th Feb (Day 38), Cheiron Brandon showed us how to create a background, and make up a story with Tim Holtz Paper Dolls and story stickers. I'm linking my page to Valerie's Heavy Metal theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting me today,

Have a great week,

Alison xox

Creative Jumpstart Day 28

 Day 28 of CJS was Story Telling with Stamps by Kae Pea. She used watercolour paint to stamp with one of her Art Foamies stamps. I don't have any of her stamps, so I made my own with a foam sheet. 

I used both the inner and outer stamps for my piece, applying the watercolour paint to the outer stamp first and stamping with it, then adding contrasting colours to the inner heart, and stamping with that. I added some stamping with Dina Wakley stamps, and plenty of splatters.

Here's the first page I made. I used a cheap watercolour set for this, which didn't work as well as I wanted. It's a bit wishy washy. I also used a low quality watercolour paper. I painted on some plants and added some scribbly writing.

This second piece worked better. I used Reeve's watercolour tube paints, and better paper.

I really love that Imagination Crafts Pearl Gold watercolour paint!

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

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

A Few Cards

Happy Saturday! 

Here are a few cards I made, that started with a gel-printed circle.

I'm linking my cards to Try It On Tuesday's Splash and Splatter Challenge.

Keep safe, and thanks for visiting,

Alison xx

Where There Is Love...

Happy new week!

I was glad to get back to my art journal today. It's been a bit neglected lately, due to all sorts of things. I created a page for Elizabeth & Bleubeard's Heart theme at Art Journal Journey.

I used a canvas page in my Dina Wakley journal, using DW acrylic paints also. I added doodled collage hearts & circles, and some marks and hearts made with paintbrushes and black & turquoise DW acrylic. I finished with black posca paint pen splatters, and a DW stamped quote.

I hope you all have a creative Monday,

Alison xox

Grateful

Hi Everyone! Dina Wakley has a new monthly 'Gratitude' challenge on the RangerInk blog, and this month it's being grateful for small things. As you can see on my page, I'm grateful for a good journaling pen. I just bought some Uniball Gel Impact pens, which seem really good on my painty gel print page.

I'm also linking my page to Erika's Polkadots, Stripes, Plaids or Patterns theme at Art Journal Journey.

Wishing you all a happy Wednesday,

Alison xox

August 2019 Art Journal Calendar

Happy August to you all!

This is my August calendar spread, made with a teabag papers background, Dina Wakley face and phrase stamps, and a few different gel plate prints.

I'm linking up to Gill's Anything with eyes theme at Art Journal Journey.

Wishing you all a wonderful week,

Alison xox

Spring Garden

Morning All!

Here's another little spread in my 6x4" art journal for Jo's Hello Springtime theme at Art Journal Journey.

Teabag base, Seaglass PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylic applied with palette knife, background stamps by Prima, and main images by Dina Wakley. The dots were stamped with red Stazon ink, and I used my dip pen and black Bombay India ink for words and marks.

Have a happy and creative day, 

I'm off to battle the wet and windy weather for a hair trim.

Alison xox

Romance At TIOT

Hello Folks!

Try It On Tuesday have a Romance theme going on for the next couple of weeks, so I made a batch of Valentine's cards using a Gelli Plate technique by Gio of GiogioCraft. You can see Gio's blog post and video tutorial HERE.

I used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish acrylic paint, and I added words, using Sara Naumann and Dina Wakley stamps.

Wishing you all a creative day,

Alison xox

365 Somethings - Week 48

Happy Wednesday Everyone!

Today, I have some more teabag art for IHanna's 365 Somethings Challenge. These ones are for Week 48, and are a little bit festive, in fact they've already been turned into Christmas cards. I have to admit I made a whole load more, as they're small, flat and cheap to post.

I hunted through my stamps, and found 7 different star designs. The two top and two bottom are by Birgit Koopsen for Carabelle Studios. The middle left is Crafty Individuals, the middle centre is Dina Wakley, and the middle right is by Seth Apter for PaperArtsy. They're all stamped on various Gelli Plate prints.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison xox

365 Teabag Somethings - Week 33

Hi Everyone!

Today I'm sharing my Week 33 teabag art for the 365 Somethings Challenge.

These ones were fairly simple, stamping with Dina Wakley stamps and Fresco Acrylic Paint, outlined with a fine black Posca paint pen, then finished with a Tim Holtz rub on. I really love the blue and brown combination.

Wishing you all a wonderful week,

Alison xox

I Love Colour!

Happy Sunday Everyone!

I adore colour, and use lots of it in my art, it's such a blessing and inspiration to me, so here's an art journal page I created for Elizabeth's Count Your Blessings Challenge at Art Journal Journey.

It was a page that already had some leftover paint colour on it, so I added more with stamps, bubble wrap and a stencil, then stamped the Dina Wakley figure, and used black paint through a fine nozzle to write my title. I finished with some white marks and black splatters.

Wishing you all a great week ahead,

Alison xox