Autumn Colours with AJJ

 Hello All.

This week we have been having a wonderful time walking the coastal paths and watching the crashing waves on the North Devon coast. We really needed to get away, and it's been not exactly relaxing, but very refreshing. I adore being by the sea.

Our main reason for coming here was to visit the beautiful Ashbarton Estate that our daughter and fiance have booked for their wedding weekend in June 2026, so we had their company for a couple of days. The venue didn't disappoint you'll be pleased to hear. It's going to be perfect for the colourful festival wedding they are planning.

So, back to the real reason for this post. I have another page to share for my Autumn colours and inspiration theme at Art Journal Journey.

More teabags! I just love them! And I love toadstool spotting too, and have seen a few on my walks this week.

Thanks so much for visiting me today.

Alison

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

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

Wanderlust Live Day Two

 Hi Everyone.

I have a few more projects from the Wanderlust Live weekend to share today.

First up is a pile of gel-printed collage fodder created with Iris Fritschi-Cussons. 

This was a fun exercise, using printer paper, book pages, tissue, teabags and a brown paper bag, acrylic and watercolour paint, Stabilo Woodys water-soluble crayons, pens and pencils.

Next I created a mixed media tag art journal spread with Arlyna Blanchard.

We created beautiful loose watercolour flowers with Francisca Nunes.

And finally for today, we created space for our inner light with Christine Karpiac.

There are more classes from the weekend I haven't yet done, so watch out for those.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Alison xox

Wanderlust Live Day One

 Hi everyone.

I've been catching up with Everything Art's Wanderlust Live Weekend, a weekend of free arty lessons on YouTube with some of the teachers from Wanderlust 2024, which was launched for registration a couple of weeks ago.

Here is my art from Day One.

Mini Abstracts with Nicki Traikos

 

Colour Play with Christine Karpiac

Peaceful Pages with Nicole Warrington - These are just watercolour backgrounds at the moment. I may do some journaling on them eventually.

Thanks for visiting.

Have a great weekend,

Alison

Seek, Gather, Create Week Three

 Hello All.

I have a junk journal page to share today for week 3 of the Instagram Seek Gather Create challenge.

These are the items we had to use...

A leaf, Something smooth, Something red, A repeating item.

I wonder if I can link this to Elle's Art Journal Journey challenge, since I used a teabag? There's a map and some music to read too! 😁

Thanks for dropping by,

Alison

Fodder Challenge 2023 - Part One

 Hello Everyone.

Fodder School recently ran a free Fodder Challenge on Instagram, featuring 12 mini classes from the tutors in their up-coming year long class. The year long class is a bit pricey for me, so I love it when they do the freebie 😀

Here is the first installment showing what I created. I only managed 9 of the classes in the time frame, so I picked my favourites.

Day One - Watercolour foliage with Tiffany Sharpe.

Day two - Book cover with gelli-printed collage fodder with added marks, with Barb Smucker.

Day three - Floating quote quartet with Alison Bomber.

Day 5 - Mixed media tokens with Kecia Deveney.

Day 6 - Gelli printed fabric ribbons with Yetunde Rodriguez.

Apologies for the photo heavy post. As you can see, there was quite a variety of amazing projects. Thanks for staying till the end of my post 😀

I'll be back with the rest of the projects tomorrow.

Alison xox