Happy Saturday everyone!
I hope you're enjoying the Easter weekend.
I have some more of my hand-carved stamps for The 100 Day Project to share with you today.
A good variety of stamps again. You might recognise no. 61 as I used it as a border on my April calendar spread, and the leafy stem and elephant were used on my recent gel prints.
Thanks for visiting today,
Alison xox
Happy April Everyone!
Here's my Easter inspired April calendar spread.
I began with some collaged teabags, sprayed some speckled egg distress oxide spray, then stamped a border with one of my hand-carved stamps. I cut some egg shapes from the leftovers of some Easter bunting I made, which was collaged gel prints. I'll post more about that tomorrow.
I finished with a hand-written title and some white ink splashes.
I'm linking my spread to Art Journal Journey's Inspired By theme.
And finally, here's my March spread all filled in and looking very pink.
I hope you're enjoying a wonderful Good Friday.
Alison xox
Hello All. Happy April!
I have my final few March mono-prints to share with you today.
It's been a fun challenge, and has inspired a few of my hand-carved stamps in March. The elephant is one of my favourites.
Thank you for all of your lovely comments on my prints over the last month, they're very much appreciated.
Alison xox
Hello All.
This week's 52 Weeks Art Journal prompt from RaspberryBlueSky is 'How do you fill your cup?'. That's easy for me. It's getting outside for a good countryside hike, and taking my binoculars for some birdwatching.
We missed out on a great hiking holiday in Scotland last year, but we are fortunate to have some lovely countryside on our doorstep despite living on the outskirts of London. We have been taking early morning walks every day for the last 10 months, and it's definitely kept us both fit and sane.
I'm linking this page to the last day of Sheila's A Single Flower theme at Art Journal Journey.
Thanks for visiting,
Alison xox
Hi Everyone!
It's been mostly sunny here today, which was lovely for our early morning walk today. I had another outing late morning, to the hospital for a routine ultrasound scan of my liver and gallbladder. Hardly a soul there, and as I was the only person in the waiting room, I was seen straight away. Just have to wait for the results now.
I thought I'd bring you up to date with my stamp carving this week. Here goes...
A few abstract designs which are going to be so useful, and I'm really thrilled with my little bee.
Wishing you all a wonderful weekend,
Alison xox
...is week twelve's theme for RaspberryBlueSky's 52WeeksArtJournal challenge.
I made a page with a gel prints quilted background, added a music paper flower, stamped my hand-carved bee and pebbles, and added some details with coloured paint pens.
I'm also linking this page to Sheila's A Single Flower theme at Art Journal Journey.
Thanks for popping by my blog today,
Alison xox
Hello All.
I have a few more gel prints to share with you today. As usual, the daily themes are top left of each photo.
Those hand-carved stamps have been useful again. I carved the 'love is' right way round to work with my gel plate, and I need to do one wrong way round to stamp with.
Hope you're all having a good week.
Thanks for visiting,
Alison xox
