Scrappy8challenge - August - Salt

 Hi everyone.

Here's my take on the August Scrappy8 challenge on Instagram. This month's theme of SALT was chosen by Dawn/@4gracecreations. 

I went a bit wild adding sea salt to acrylic inks on some watercolour paper, to tear up and use on my art journal page, layered up some collage scraps, and added a little hand-drawn wild flower between my colourful heart flowers. The book text is taken from my old copy of Jane Austin's Pride and Prejudice.

I'm linking this page to Jo's Wonderfully Wild theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks so much for visiting,

Alison xox

28 Hearts Week 4

 Hello All.

Here is my final week of heart art.

Day 22

Day 23

Day 24

Days 25, 26, & 27

Day 28

And as it's a leap year, here's a bonus Day 29

Thanks for your support and lovely comments on my heart art.

Alison xox

28 Hearts Week 3

 Hello All.

I have some more heart art to share with you. You might recognise the first one.

Day 15

Day 16

Toilet roll tube hearts stamped onto a gelprint.

Day 17

More toilet tube hearts on a gelprint, made into flowers.

Day 18

Crochet heart

Day 19

Watercolour heart

Day 20

Gelprint

Day 21

Watercolour heart

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Seek, Gather, Create - Week Two.

 Happy Saturday Everyone!

I'm back today with my art journal page for Week Two of the Seek, Gather, Create challenge.

This week's items are...

1. A face

2. The colour teal

3. Stripes

4. A wing or wings

I'm linking my page to Vicki's Keeping It Light theme at Art Journey Journey. Birds and butterfly people are very light, and I used a light coloured background.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison xox

28 Hearts Week Two

 Hello friends.

Today I have my second week of heart art to share with you.

Day 8

Day 9

Day 10

Day 11

This is an art journal page that I'm linking to Vicki's Keeping It Light theme at Art Journal Journey. 'Light as a feather'.

Day 12

Day 13

Day 14

A card made with Tracy Evans' new stamp designs for Valentine's Day.

I'll have some more heart art to share with you next week.

Thanks for visiting, have a wonderful weekend,

Alison xox

28 Hearts - Week One

 Hello All.

This time of year it's so hard to get motivated, but I'm getting there, and I decided to join in with Marie-Josee Brillon's 28 Hearts February challenge on Instagram.

Here are my first week's hearts.

Day 1 - Cut from a gelliprint. I used my hand-carved heart stamps on the gelliplate.

Day 2 - Gelliprinted.

Day 3 - hearts painted with ink, then I cut one out and collaged onto a teabag.

Day 4 - Layered hearts cut from gelliprints.

Day 5 - Watercolour.

Day 6 - Watercolour.

Day 7 - strips of home-made washi tape applied to cardstock, then a heart cut out by hand.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Week Two of 28 Hearts and Day 6 of February Journal Recipe.

 Hello All. 

Happy Valentine's Day!

I have another week of watercolour hearts on teabags to share with you today.

And it's also day 6 of February Journal Recipe, my Instagram collaboration with Shilpa.

We have some Valentine's Day prompts for you today...

Colour - Red

Shape - Heart

Product - Crayons

Technique - Stencils

You must use at least 3 prompts.

Here's my page ...

I used my gelli plate and a stencil to create the turquoise background, then used a red Portfolio oil pastel crayon through a Carabelle Studio hearts stencil, adding black pen outlines and scribbled writing. The Tim Holtz Paper Doll couple stand on some fabric collage fodder, with a Tim Holtz phrase sticker.

I'm linking my page to Elizabeth and Bleubeard's What's Your Style theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

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

Creative JumpStart Day 6

 Hi Everyone! I was thinking about my favourite people when I created this page, which was based on CJS Day 6 with Birgit Koopsen, 'The Distance Is Only Physical'. There's also lots of colour and splatters, which makes it my favourite type of art.

I'm linking up to Erika's Favourite Things theme at Art Journal Journey.

Keep safe everyone, and thanks for dropping by today.

Alison xox

366 Somethings - Week 39

 Hi Everyone!

We had a great start today on our early morning walk. Well I did, as Hubby didn't have his glasses on. I saw some rabbits, one of which was close up, just the other side of a hedge in the lane. Then a deer ran across in front of us on the golf course. And to top it off, a huge flock of Canadian geese had stopped off by the lake on their way south. It was wonderful to see them taking off to continue on their journey.

Back to the art. I have another round of my collaged index cards to share with you today, and here they are. Teabag papers on every one this week!

I'm finding it hard to pick a favourite today. I love the dotty circles on 268, the heart on 269, the die-cut letter and number waste on 270 and 272, and the circles and squares and colours on 273! How about you?

Have a happy and creative week,

Alison xox