Try It On Tuesday - Summer Blooms

Hello Everyone!

There's a new challenge theme of 'Summer Blooms' over at Try It On Tuesday, and I'm thrilled to be their guest designer for the next fortnight.

Here's the art journal page that I created for the theme.

I created the background and flowers using some of the collage fodder I made recently for Collage Kickstart, and finished with some found text from a book page, and some white ink splatters.

I hope you'll be inspired to pop along to see all of the team's beautiful artwork at Try It On Tuesday, and join in with the Summer Blooms challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

100 Days of Watercolour - 24-30

 Hello All.

Here's another week of watercolour play. I've been cutting my pieces out to use on art journal pages, I really must get on and use them. I don't know where the time goes!

Day 24

Day 25 - These circles are about 4" in diameter, so quite big.

Day 26 - These are about 4" across too.

Day 27 

Day 28 

Day 29 - For these flowers, I first lay down the blobs of colour, then I sketched the flowers, then cut them out. I really love how these turned out.

Day 30 - I first put down the blue, then added yellow petals and orange centres, then the rest became daffodils with no blue. Hubby said the blue was there for Ukraine.

Thanks for coming to visit today. Hopefully I'll have something else to show you before next Monday.

Alison

GJJ - Day 20 - A Quote of Gratitude

 Hi Everyone.

I love the quote for Day 20 of Gratitude Junk Journal. It's all about being grateful for what you have, and not complaining about the things you want.

A fairly simple page (for me), just a collage of Seven Gypsies patterned papers and some old book page scraps. A little turquoise paint scraped over with a palette knife, some quickly sketched flowers and outlines with my Stabilo All black pencil, then activated with water. I held up my journal to get some drips, and added some splatters. I stamped the quote out using my trusty Hero Arts alphabet set, then finished with some white acrylic ink splatters.

I'm linking my page to Leah's Art Every Day Month challenge Day 27. 

I think my page has some Summer vibes with the flowers and the turquoise sky, and maybe the drips are a Summer shower, so I'm also linking to Chris' All Kinds Of Weather theme at Art Journal Journey.

I hope you're all having a good weekend.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

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

52 Weeks Art Journal - Week 8 - Bloom

 Hello All. I'm joining in with Raspberry Blue Sky's 52 Weeks Art Journal Challenge on Instagram, and this week's prompt is Bloom.

I already had a page started with some paint, marks and collage, and I sketched a flower shape over this with black india ink. I added some scribble writing, splashes and the flower centre with white ink, and also some gold ink marks and splashes.

I'm linking my page to Valerie's Heavy Metal theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting, I hope you have a wonderful weekend.

Alison xox

Creative JumpStart Day 12

Hi Everyone!

Day 12 of CJS was Textural Watercolour with Nancy Curry. It was interesting to watch Nancy's process. I managed to create a painting with some texture, although my cheap watercolour paints didn't work as well as Nancy's artist quality ones. It might be time to invest in some better paints.

 The flower centres were made using fluid acrylic paint, and I used a black watercolour pencil for the flower stems. I added watercolour and acrylic paint splashes to give even more textural effect.

Finishing a page with paint splashes is one of my favourite things to do, so I'm linking up to Erika's Favourite Things theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by today,

Alison xox

AJJ - A Stitch in Time

Hello lovely followers.

I had some messy time today, creating a page for Halle's A Stitch in Time theme at Art Journal Journey.

I made a collage background with teabags, a separated paper doily, and paper lace.

The stitched orange pieces were cut from the top of a bag of guinea pig dried herbs and grasses. I couldn't resist keeping it for Halle's theme!

I swiped some Seaglass PaperArtsy Fresco acrylic over it all, then sketched the flowers with my black Bombay ink dropper, adding some splashes of ink too.

I used a Prima France Papillon stamp for the clock faces, stamped onto an orange painted scrap.

Hope you get some arty time today also!

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

366 Somethings - Week 21

Hi Everyone!

Here are another week of collaged index cards for the 366 Somethings challenge.

I seem to have used a lot of teabags this week :-)

I love the big flower I made on my birthday, number 145. Do you have a favourite?

Thanks for visiting, 

Alison xox

Just Some Flowers

These flowers are for Mia's Flowers theme at Art Journal Journey. I did some mindful doodling.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Daisy Daisy...

Hi Everyone! I hope you're all keeping fit and well. 

Since I'm confined to the house, I've been doing circuits of my garden to keep my fitness up. I usually plug in my head-phones and listen to an album or a podcast. My son Gordon and his friend Joe have started weekly podcasts, called Liminal Podcast, and you can find them here if you're interested. I find them quite amusing, and it's a comfort to hear my lovely son's voice of course.

Today I have another art journal page for Mia's Flowers theme at Art Journal Journey.

The base is a gel print, and the flowers and circles were cut from a doodled, painty under-paper and a scrap of black card. I had a lot of fun doing those doodles.

I hand-wrote a few words of an old song that my Nan used to sing to us, and finished with some white ink splatters.

Thanks for dropping by my blog,

Alison xox

AJJ - Flowers

Over at Art Journal Journey, Mia's theme for May is Flowers. 

I used one of my gel-printed tags on a dictionary page, adding doodles and journaling.

Thanks for visiting, keep safe and well,

Alison xox

366 Somethings - Week Six

Here are my index card collages for Week Six of 366 Somethings. I'm getting through those scraps and the odd teabag, and still using the original book page for my found text. Might have to find another soon though.

I decided today to start adding the date as well as the number of my collage, so I know where I'm at more easily. You might spot that today's collage features scraps from yesterday's art journal page. I keep everything! Lol!

Happy Tuesday,

Alison xox

Sounds

Happy Friday Everyone!

'Sounds' is today's prompt over at Kasia's Advent Calendar Challenge. I could have mentioned the sound of my guinea pigs munching and squeaking in my art room, but I wrote the first three lines of Coldplay's new single, as I love the song, and I find the lyrics very poignant and appropriate for the times.

As you may have spotted, three round teabags made it onto my page.

A bit of finger painting too, with turquoise and green Fresco acrylic.

Some white gesso to pull it together, then writing, outlines and splatters with my glass dip pen and black india ink. I let the ink drip too, and it looks like the flowers have stems.

I'm linking my page to Yvonne's Words & Numbers theme at Art Journal Journey.

Alison xxx

Flowers

Hello Folks!

A nice easy theme today, as I'm busy cleaning and hoovering the house, because my daughter is returning from her 4 months of working in Germany. She's only with us briefly, one night, and our son is popping down from Manchester for two nights to see his sister too, but you have to take what you can get! It'll be lovely to see them both, and all of us together too.

So here is my little artist trading stamp for the Flowers theme of day 21, of AT Stamps with Carabelle on Instagram.

On a pre-made mono-printed background, I used Carabelle Studio 'Layered Strips' to stamp some background detail. Then I stamped the small flower from Carabelle Studio 'Bloom' off the edge and on the left of my ATS. I stamped two flowers again onto white card, cut them out, and adhered over the previously stamped flowers, then finished with a couple of red buttons in the centres.

I'm linking up to Leah's Art Every Day Month Day 21.

Have a lovely day all!

Alison xox

Garden Party Challenge No. 2

Hi Everyone

Garden Party Challenge no. 2 is now up on Instagram, and here are the prompts...

And here's what I came up with...

I made two cards, here's the other one...

I used collaged papers for the background and flowers, and cut butterflies from a patterned paper sheet.

Hope you're having a better day than I am...I had a rather disappointing and frustrating letter from my consultant.

Alison xox