Flowery Journal Page

Realised I haven't shared in detail the journal page I finally finished and shared on Wednesday in WOYWW?  So here are the details and close-ups

 This is the finished page.

I started with stencils - Crafters Workshop mini daisy cluster and mini flower frenzy and distress inks (squeezed lemonade, wild honey and picked raspberry) and some stamping (Dylusions from the Doodle Parts set) in more distress (mowed lawn, picked raspberry).

Edged the leaves with a black Sharpie marker.

 Close ups,. The words are from the Dylusion set Word Love.

Dina's Lonely Girl again as the centrepiece. I love her!!
Lightly coloured with pan pastels and mowed lawn round the edge.

Poppies for Brenda

The oh so talented and poppy mad Brenda has a challenge on her blog to make something with poppies or using the colours of poppies. As I too am a fan of the poppy (would love to recreate the Cadbury's Flake advert with the poppy field... if I could just find one!) I had to have a go.

I have made a fairly simple card using one of my favourite poppy stamps (I have a few!) This is by A Stamp in the Hand

I stamped the poppy image on white card in grey ink (Memento London Fog) so I could use watercolour pencils over the top to colour the image. Not sure if you can see in the photo but I added some blue shading round the edges too. The sentiment is from the Art Sayings stamp from Sam Poole for Creative Expressions.

Brenda has a Sir Stampalot voucher on offer for one lucky winner, and there are a couple of days left to take part.

Ok, off to watch some Olympics - wasn't the Opening Ceremony fantastic? It probably worked better if you understand your British history, but I did history to A Level so....!!! There are some images burned onto my brain, wonderful stuff, well done Danny Boyle and everyone involved.

Tag it On - Alice

Welcome back for another recipe challenge from Dragons Dream - Tag it On - this fortnight, May wants us to follow Alice - the rabbit and a situation..... but first, let me add my thanks for your great entries to the steampunk recipe last time. Also to welcome our latest DT member, the incredible Tracy
Metcalfe

This was a struggle for me as I have no Alice themed stamps, couldn't even find a rabbit stamp!! So it had to be my Graphic 45 'Halloween in Wonderland' paper pad....

The pocket watch stamps I used are by Rubber Stampede (top one) and Just for Fun (bottom one) - the situation is being late... which I nearly was for this DT spot, lol!!

Hope you stop by and catch the other DT offerings (they are fab!) and find time to join in - you have 2 weeks again.

WOYWW 164

Hallo, happy Wednesday to you.... and time for another mega tour of the world's creative spaces. Julia has the link and all the info here 
My floor space today has the finished journal page from last week that I still haven't blogged about - so that means you get to see it first! Also, my at long last altered torso (which was blogged about here ) that used to lie on top of some of my paint tubes often seen in rear of shot!!

Underneath the torso is a part done journal page (another one!) using the Dylusion mushroom - or probably toadstool - stamp.

The ribbons are from Monday when I watched the Olympic Torch run through Sutton, this is from one of the sponsors (Lloyds bank)






and this is my photo of the torch bearer - yes I know he's past me, the one I thought I'd taken as he came towards us didn't actually take! (and there were loads of people in my way too)

The crowds were huge, the atmosphere fantastic and the sun blazing hot! It was well worth taking a day's holiday to stand and watch, and now I can't wait for the Games to start! As lots of you know, I am really keen on sports, so my TV is going to be on for hours and hours (once I get home from work)

I didn't get to visit many of your desks last week, sorry about that, I will try harder this time!

Crafty Boots - Babies

Welcome to another Crafty Boots DT challenge. In celebration of the imminent arrival of various DT babies, Kerry has chosen the theme, 'babies'.

Now, I have a really cute stamp of a wicker pram that I wanted to use, but do you think I could find it? That will be a big fat NO then.... mind you I didn't move all the drawers of stamps..so this is my alternative!

It's a House Mouse design - here's hoping all those babies sleep like - babies!!!

Coloured it with water colour pencils and added a little of the shaded lilac distress ink round the edges of the congratulations and the stamped image before mounting it on a lilac card base. Good luck with the births, girls!!  

Do come and check out what the rest of the amazing DT has made.

Simon Says - No Rules!

This week, the challenge at Simon Says Stamp is - anything goes, no rules - make what you like!  Hels Sunday Stampers challenge is 'Bits and Pieces' - great song - and to use embellishments. So I decided to combine the two.

I had an unexpected afternoon off today and though I should have been doing a couple of design team pieces, found myself - finally - altering this torso I have had hanging around naked for months (years actually, I bought it at least one year ago, if not two..)

 Started with a layer of gesso then Paperartsy Fresco paint, 'pea coat', added a layer of crackle glaze and top coat of 'honeydew'  and waited for the magic....

 Once the paint had crackled, I added a sash - a piece of toning patterned ribbon from my stash, and made a belt-come-pinafore  from some blue skeleton leaves, and tied some fibres round the waist.

 Painted some metal wings with a light wash of the pea coat blue paint, and dried, (they fell off before the glue had dried, looks like I stuck them back on a bit wonky!!)

Finished it off with a fabric flower embellishment (Wendy Vecchi's Blossom Bucket range) that I lightly coloured with some blue distress ink, and a philosophy tag pinned into the waist.

Found a bit of natural light in a window to get some photos!

Off to link this up now, Simon Says are offering one lucky entrant a $50 voucher....

WOYWW 163

Hallo, it's time for the mega blog hop that is Wednesday workdesk day, WOYWW - week 163 (despite the lovely Julia thinking last week was....) Having had quite a productive few days at the end of last week, I haven't done a lot since - but there are a couple of part done journal pages (again!)

 Got as low down to the floor as space allows me for this shot - which is, not very! You get to see the mess behind the craft mat though... a pile of part inked tags and atc's and bits and pieces...
Not at all sure where this journal page is going - I may just abandon it... for a while at least.

This one is a bit bright and funky - started with a couple of flower stencils (crafters workshop) in squeezed lemonade and wild honey, and a touch of picked raspberry... and some leaves in mowed lawn.

It needs a bold central image - not sure what yet, may have to go with my fave Dina Wakley 'lonely girl' or the 'silhouette script' girl I used in the previous page above! I'll probably also doodle on the solid leaves...

The one I was working on last time is finished here 

I'll try and catch as many of your desks as I can this week... have a good one!!