Stars for Simon

This week's "Simon Says" is to show stars.  I have been stumped, idealess for this!

Last night in a fit of despair I start messing with a tag (my fail-safe, whenever I am stumped, is to chuck (sometimes literally) ink at a tag) - as my followers will have seen I have recently found and fallen in love with Donna Downey's blog - and was messing about with some of her paint drippage ideas (not that I have much in the way of paint - and the shops were shut.... )

Anyhow I inked and gesso'd and dripped distress reinkers down this tag before stamping the "journal" dictionary definition by Tim from his World Traveller set and the star border from the Rockstar set.

Still didn't know how to make it into anything remotely blogg-able let alone up to entering a challenge so abandoned it to watch Comic Relief - what a show this year's was - brilliant, even it if was hard to watch the tear-jerking films.

Then today, after shopping (mostly boring, grocery type) and a lunchtime football match on tv, I thought of these star shapes I bought ready cut out (Craftwork Cards) - I overstamped a Wendy script background and stamped her Embrace the Possibilities on a piece of scrap card.  Blah blah blah. It's not really up to much but I will enter it anyway!

Now, I said mostly grocery shopping.... Like I said, I have fallen in love with Donna's blog - some people said, give it a go, try journalling - so I bought a sketchbook type journal thing to have a go in today - and another blogger (I think from WOYWW) said Primark do some really cheap jewellery and she was taking bits apart to use as embellishments - nuff said!!

The sketch book is A5 size - not too big to be daunting, but big enough to get some inks or paints etc on a page - so we'll see what happens.  One of you who commented about my venture into journalling (not that I'll be writing my soul on these pages, it will be more art (loosely) type stuff ) - said don't start on the first page - so that's my plan!  At least it's spiral bound so if all else fails I can rip it out!

Finally (cos I have rambled on for FAR too long, THIS little beauty came in the post today.  Be stilll, my beating heart!  I have already read it (fairly quickly) through - there are some fab projects... and my wish list of must haves has grown even longer! Thanks to Wendy from The Stamp Attic for sending it so quickly!