Christmas Card

this morning I was up early and have made a card with the card patterns sketch 143   and as I have just started making Christmas cards I decided that another Chrissy card would be in order! I think I will be using this sketch to make a few more too.

changing a page.....

this week I did the design team challenge at Lets Scrap  It was to use found objects on your page. Eventually I decided to use pages from a notebook, stamped and inked to make a flower. Here is the result

I was happy with the flower but after loading the page to Lets Scrap I began thinking the placement was not right and the page was looking as though it needed more. So.......I moved the photo and the flower, added some stamping to the border, turned the patterned paper strips around the other way and trimmed the edge, made two smaller flowers, then covered a manilla tag with stamped, inked notepaper and wrote my journalling.
I think I am happier now......what do you think?????

some tags

Lately I have been busy playing with acrylics, watercolours, spray inks, stencils, stamping etc etc on tags. I don't know what I will use these for yet so when I decide, I will add finishing touches and text to suit. It has been soooo much fun playing!

another page finished!

art journal page or scrapbook page??????......I don't know but it doesn't matter anyway as I am happy with it. At present I am working on individual pages all different sizes and will probably bind them together into a book at some stage.

PS......so far this month I have been doing something art related ALMOST every day LOL.

stencils!

Julie Balzer is running competitions on her blog to win some of her wonderful stencils. All you need to do is leave a comment answering the question What is a stencil design that you wish existed? I would love to have a stencil of gum leaves possibly with some gum blossoms as well. This is an example of what I mean....I hand cut the leaves and glued them to this layout.

Having a stencil would open up the possibility of endless variations!

some art journal backgrounds

while on holidays I have been finding some time most days to play with painting backgrounds. I have been following Julie Balzer's free stencil class and my head is bursting with new ideas. I also recently bought her DVD. It is so much fun to just play!

I used a corner of this one to make this card from a Let's Scrap sketch

 

the orange in the one above is actually a little more yellow. The other colours are quite accurate. It needs more doing to it yet.

this is one I am loving!

I painted over this as I paint flowers like this all the time and I am trying to do something different. However when I do a suitable background I may put some of these on top.

Texture Tuesday

I have missed doing my textures lately....just so busy. I decided to try a different type of image today and am pleased with the results. I used Kim's Autumn Burst texture on multiply @93%.



and this is the original