Time Alone

Happy Sunday Everyone!

Although I love to spend time with family and friends, one thing I also enjoy is a bit of time alone for reflection, making art, reading, and sitting in the garden watching the birds. So here is an abstract page I created for Elizabeth's Count Your Blessings Challenge at Art Journal Journey. I used PaperArtsy Fresco Acrylic paints, tea stained book page, and Seth Apter stencils for the words. 

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

Book Love

Hi Everyone! 

I love reading a good novel, usually a bit of a romance, historical mostly. Although my bedside pile currently consists of a few of Kate Moreton's. I also like a good mystery once in a while, and Tolkein is a favourite too. Reading is a blessing I cherish. So here's another page for Elizabeth's challenge at Art Journal Journey.

On my hunt through magazines for images of books, it was mostly cookery books that I found, and one on cricket! Lol! Not my usual reads! I did find a Mr. Darcy quote from Pride & Prejudice though, which is a definite favourite.

Thanks for visiting,

Alison xox

365 Somethings - Week 32

Happy Monday Everyone!

Here are my latest collection of decorated teabags for IHanna's 365 Somethings Challenge.

I began with adding blue acrylic paint with my fingertip, then I used a Carabelle Studio background stamp with black archival ink. I stamped with white paint and Stampendous stamps, then finished with a word sticker mounted onto burlap. 

Wishing you all a creative day,

Alison xox

I Love Colour!

Happy Sunday Everyone!

I adore colour, and use lots of it in my art, it's such a blessing and inspiration to me, so here's an art journal page I created for Elizabeth's Count Your Blessings Challenge at Art Journal Journey.

It was a page that already had some leftover paint colour on it, so I added more with stamps, bubble wrap and a stencil, then stamped the Dina Wakley figure, and used black paint through a fine nozzle to write my title. I finished with some white marks and black splatters.

Wishing you all a great week ahead,

Alison xox

Tea and Friendship

Morning Everyone! We had a deluge of rain yesterday, which has cooled things down thankfully, but today has started with sunshine and a cloudless sky, it's beautiful!

At my crochet group yesterday, we were celebrating the birthday of our dear friend Jan, and here is the card I made for her. She loves tea, and also sings, so I used some teabags, music sheet, and found some old tea and friendship stamps by Lindy's Stamp Gang. The base is a gelli-print.

Happy Saturday!

Alison xox

Our Green and Pleasant Land

Happy Friday Everyone!

Our garden and local fields haven't been very green lately with the heatwave, but I've been busy watering plants to keep our garden as green as possible, and it made me appreciate our little bit of paradise.

So here is the second page I created at my friend Hazel's house, with my lovely garden in mind, and I'm linking it to Elizabeth's Count Your Blessings Challenge at Art Journal Journey.

It was another page created using my art prompts. I used some funky tree stamps by Dina Wakley to represent my garden love. The red splatters look like cherries on the trees, although we only have conifers in our garden. Hazel thought the blue splodges looked like her pond, although we only have a little stone birdbath at home.

Wishing you all a happy weekend,

Alison xxx

Art Journal Journey - Count Your Blessings

Hi Everyone! I have another page to share with Elizabeth's Count Your Blessings Challenge at Art Journal Journey. 

I'm blessed to have my good friend Hazel of Hazel's Creative Moments living nearby, and we regularly get together for a day of crafting. I also get my doggy fix with Hazel's gorgeous two black cocker spaniels Josh and Murphy. 

I took my art prompt cards over to Hazel's house on Tuesday, and we had fun creating a couple of pages with them. This was my first page.

I was fortunate to win a set of Tim Holtz's Sealife stamps from Autumn of Sew Paper Paint, and used these on my page.

I'll be back tomorrow with the second page I created at Hazel's house.

Alison xox