Seek, Gather, Create August 2024 - Week 1

 Hi All.

Seek, Gather, Create August 2024 is another Instagram challenge, hosted by Tina Hois, Laura Denison, Lisa Goddard and Casey Turner.

These are the prompts for week 1...

1. colour: gold

2. plastic wrap

3. something burnt

4. handwriting or asemic writing

Here's the page I created...

I used some gold Twinings Tea plastic wrapping and created a little pocket using staples, made a background with lots of teabag texture and PaperArtsy Seaglass Fresco acrylic paint. I burnt some lace trim which was slightly scary, and added some scribbled journaling, Tim Holtz people and Dymo text.   

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

Thanks for dropping by.

Alison xox

Tea

 Hello All.

I created another page for Elizabeth & Bleubeard's Collage Fodder, Food & Drink theme at Art Journal Journey. As the title of my page is Tea, I included some teabag paper with my collage fodder, and used a recycled teabag label.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison

Happy Easter and an Easter Garden Safari

 Happy Easter to all those who celebrate it!

Our church decided to hold an Easter Garden Safari this year, with 8 artists from the church creating art relating to a part of the Easter story in 8 front gardens (actually 7 because the last one was at the church). The route to view all of the gardens is about 3 miles, so not too taxing.

I was asked to be one of the artists, and I also volunteered our garden.  Here are some photos of my Easter Garden Art.

I used some of our collection of used beer bottle caps to create the flowers, then glued them to kebab sticks.

A close up of my mixed media artwork of The Last Supper, created on a paving slab. I cut out pictures of bread, and glasses and bottles of wine, to create collages for the bread and goblet.

This bible passage was my inspiration. I hope you can read it just about. It's Matthew 26, verses 26-28.

I created the bunting using collages of torn pieces of gel prints, then cut out the flowers using a template, and hand-wrote the letters with a black Posca Paint Pen.

Here are a few examples of the wonderful art created by the other artists from my church. 

I love this beautiful painting of Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey!

This stunning piece symbolises Jesus washing the Disciples feet. It was created on the same type of paving slab that I used. The ripples on the slab work perfectly for the water.

The fabulous collage on the church doors is created with buttons and tiny glass nuggets and tiles.

A beautiful depiction of the scene at the cross.

A wonderful display showing Jesus' love for us all.

And a beautiful painting of Jesus praying in The Garden Of Gethsemane.

I must admit that although it was a great honour to be asked to take part in this wonderful Easter activity, the best thing for me has been seeing and chatting to the people and young families that have visited my garden over the last few days. I didn't realise how much I had missed talking to people face to face, at a distance of course! And it's so lovely to see the children's happy faces when I offer them a small chocolate Easter egg 😄

I hope you're having a lovely Easter weekend.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Gratitude Junk Journal Day 13

 It's Day 16 of Leah's Art Every Day Month, and today I'm sharing my Gratitude Junk Journal page Day 13, a class with Shemi Dixon which was titled Gratitude For Our Bodies.

We started by writing down all our negative thoughts about our bodies, then covered most of this up with collage and paint. 

We finished by adding what we love about our bodies, it was a great exercise. I never thought I'd say I loved my scars and stretch marks, but because they are marks of such happy events, I love them.

Wishing you a happy and creative new week,

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison xox

Myself Journal Page

Hi Everyone!

Last weekend, I went up to the Alexandra Palace craft show with my friend Hazel. We were very excited to see French stamp company Carabelle Studio there for the first time, and treated ourselves to a few new stamp sets. I tested my purchases out on a journal page today.

I also used a leftover card that I didn't use in my prompt card set, some teabags, and some drywall tape.

I'm linking my page to Art Journal Journey's Colour In My World Challenge.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison x

Graduation!

Our amazing daughter Bethany has just finished her Masters Degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering at Imperial College in London, and she got a first! She was also awarded a prize of £100 for outstanding contribution to the student community by her Head of Department. We're so proud of her achievements! She worked really hard and it paid off. 

Here's the card I made for her...

Well done Bethany! We love you, and we're looking forward to having you home for Summer!

Alison x

Artmarks Summer Challenge 2017 - Day 6

Another bright page in my journal...

Day 6 - Wide

Happy Friday!

Alison x

Artmarks Challenge - Days 4 & 5

Here are my Artmarks Challenge pages for days 4 & 5...

Day 4 - Geometric

Day 5 - Ruled

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison x

Daisy Yellow ICAD Challenge - Week Seven

Here are my eclectic bunch of ICADs for week seven of Daisy Yellow's challenge...

Happy Wednesday!

Alison x