Texture and Other Stuff

Hi Everyone!

I have another page to share for Jo's Texture theme at Art Journal Journey.

This page started with some gesso and leftover paint, then I added some collage materials, book page scraps, teabags, paper coasters, and die-cut leftovers. Then I just went crazy, scraping red and blue paint and white gesso over it, stamping lime paint with giant Lego, drawing circles with drawing ink, and dripping :-) I tore some lime painted book page circles, adding them to the ink circles, painted red hearts, and finished with some scribble writing and black ink splashes.

Now for the other stuff. Some photos from our early morning walk. We saw lots of Canadian geese on the golf course lake on Monday. I love the mist rising off the lake!

A beautiful sunflower growing in our garden.

And especially for Neet, a photo of my guinea pigs, Angus on the left and Elliott on the right, enjoying some grass. Elliott's the cheeky youngster at 18 months, and Angus his long-suffering 4 year old chum. They get on quite well really, bless them, and they're actually the same size, although Angus looks a lot smaller in the photo.

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

Ahh Sunflower!

Afternoon All!

I'm just getting back to the craft room after a little break, I had a horrible cold last week. There seems to be a lot of it about! Anyway, I'm a bit croaky, but feeling much better, especially after getting back in my art journal.

Working in my gel plate print journal, I adhered scrapes of paper and teabags, then made my collage sunflower with torn pieces of gel plate print and rusted paper. After adding more pieces of torn collage, I used a paint pen and gel pen to add doodles and marks, and wrote out the poem 'Ahh Sunflower by William Blake'.

Hoping my sunflower's not too orange, I'm entering my page for Rike's 'The Colour Yellow' theme at Art Journal Journey.

I've just discovered Creative Artiste Mixed Media Challenge, where they have a Mixed Media Anything Goes theme, so I'm linking my page there also.

Happy creating,

Alison xox