Daisy Yellow Art's ICAD Challenge - Week 5

 Hello All.

Here are my icads for week 5 of Tammy's challenge. The ones with the labels are also for The Ugly Art Club's 5 minute challenge.

Day 29

Day 30

Day 31

Day 32

Day 33

Day 34

Day 35

Thanks for visiting,

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

June 2022 Art Journal Calendar

 Hi Everyone!

Happy June to you all! And a very happy Platinum Jubilee weekend to my UK friends. I hope the sun shines on your celebrations.

Today I'm sharing my June art journal calendar spread. 

I used some recent gelprints for the background, and my journaling shapes are fish, to tie in with Mia's new Fish theme at Art Journal Journey. 

I think my background looks like waves and bubbles, perfect for my stencilled fish.

And here's my completed May calendar...

Thanks for visiting me today,

Alison

April Art Journal Calendar & AJJ - Red Rain

 Hello All.

I finally got around to creating my April calendar yesterday, and it was inspired by the great Peter Gabriel's song Red Rain, which links it perfectly to my theme Play It Again Sam at Art Journal Journey.

I started with a layer of teabag papers, then scraped light blue acrylic randomly over this. I hand-cut the raindrops from various red gelprints, and die-cut Tim Holtz's Umbrella Man and lettering from scraps of black card.

I used a red acrylic marker to add shadow to Umbrella Man and my title, and also some red splatters. I used a black gel pen to write some of the lyrics of Red Rain around the edges of my spread, and to add shadow to the red raindrops. I wrote in the day numbers, and finished with some randomly stamped lines using a Crafty Individuals stamp.

Here's my March calendar all filled in with my daily happenings from last month.

I pleased to let you know that Hubby's MRI was clear on Friday, but he has to return to the hospital for a neck scan and more tests tomorrow. 

Wishing you a happy Sunday, and thanks for visiting me today.

Alison

52 Weeks Art Journal - Week 22

 Hello All.

This week's theme for Raspberry Blue Sky's art journaling challenge is Art Inspiration, a recipe for your soul. Things that you like to use in your art, that make your heart sing. I like to use collage, teabags and things that are nature-inspired.

I used some of my handmade washi tape, a piece of a recent gelprint, and the butterfly paper stencil I cut out and used for my June calendar.

I'm linking my page to Mia's Butterfly theme at Art Journal Journey.

Thank you all for your kind words about my sweet guinea pig Angus. His little companion Elliott is giving me lots of comfort, and I'm making sure to give him lots of cuddles and attention as I don't want him feeling too lonely.

Big hugs,

Alison xox

Gratitude Junk Journal - Day 10

 Hi Everyone!

It's Day 13 of Leah's Art Every Day Month, and to confuse matters I have my Day 10 Gratitude Junk Journal page to share with you 😊

For this page, we were asked what we would love best to do if we had an afternoon for ourselves. I decided I'd go for a country hike and do some birdwatching. I used some gel printed papers to create the hills and the sun. I'm really happy with how my walking boot turned out, as I wasn't that confident to start with.

I'm also linking up to Wendy's Birds theme over at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by today!

Alison xox

Gel Printed Christmas Cards

 Hi Everyone!

For Day 9 of Leah's Art Every Day Month Challenge, I have a few Christmas cards to share. 

I made these using a Gelli Plate with hand-cut bauble stencils and tree masks, then finished the cards off with black pen outlines, and PaperArtsy stamped sentiments and star details. 

I used a YouTube video technique by Giogio Craft for the bauble cards, and a technique by Anita of It's A Mistry Design Studio for the tree cards.

I added some sequin stars to the tree tops.

You can see what everyone else has been creating HERE.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison xox

Gelliplate Play

Here are the results of some Gelliplate play I had with the colours I used on yesterday's art journal page. I used some PaperArtsy stamps and mark making tools with Arteza acrylic paints prussian blue, red orange, oxide yellow and titanium white.

 I made 18 6x4" prints, and a couple of ghost prints to clean the plate. I love this ghost print below. It looks even better in real life.

Wishing you a happy and creative new week.

Alison xox

Art Journal Calendar - August 2020

Hi Everyone!

I'm a day late with my August art journal calendar spread, in fact I only found time to create it today. As you can see, I've already filled out 2 days.

I used a 5x3" Gelli Plate with Dina Wakley heavy body acrylic and home-made mark-making tools, to make a bright background. The little tags were cut from a previously made gel print, then the details were made with a fine black Posca paint pen. I used PaperArtsy stencils for the title.

I'm linking my spread to my theme Pockets and Tags at Art Journal Journey.

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison xx

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

366 Somethings - Week 18

Hello Everyone. Here are my collaged index cards for week 18 of the 366 Somethings challenge.

I'm keeping typing to a minimum as my wrist still isn't right. This week, I love the colours on 124, and the neutrals of 125. Always interesting to read the book text altogether for the week :D

Keep safe and carry on arting,

Alison xox

Art Journal Calendar - May 2020

Happy new month to you all! 

We are officially one third of the way through 2020, and we have been confined to our house for 6 weeks today, apart from two hospital visits. 

Here is my May calendar spread. I got quite carried away with polkadots, and my wrist isn't too sore, so hoping it's on the mend.

I started with a base of teabags, then scraped on a bit of crackle paste to pick up the texture. The journalling circles were cut from a gel print, I outlined them with orange acrylic paint, and painted the title. I finished with doodled lines and dots.

Thanks for visiting, keep safe and well,

Alison xox

Easter Joy!

A wonderful and blessed Easter wish to you all! Praying that our lives will soon be back to normal, and this virus gone for good by the grace of God.

Alison xox

Instagram Challenges

Hello folks!

I've joined in with a couple of Instagram challenges this month. Gio is giving out prompts every other day in April, and Ana every day of April. These challenges are fun to play along with, and are keeping me busy and motivated.

Gio's first prompt was rainbow, and I used the theme for my calendar pages.

The second prompt was Home Sweet Home, and I used some of my gel prints to create a card...

Ana's first prompt was Brushos. It's been a few months since I used these! I used them with Carabelle Studio stamps, stencil and texture plate.

Ana's second prompt was Crayons. I used Gelatos with a Carabelle Studio stencil and texture plate.

Ana's third prompt was Distress. Distress inks are another product that I rarely use now. Wrinkle free distress used to be one of my favourite techniques. Again I used Carabelle Studio stamps, stencil and texture plate.

Wishing you all a happy and healthy weekend,

Alison xox