Hi everyone just thought you might like some colour in your lives to remind you that Spring is just around the corner.
Don’t you just love those dylusions paints.
Archive for January, 2017
All About Winter or Spring At FSC
FSC wants to see ‘Winter or Spring’ this month which the lovely Caro picked as the theme.
I went for Spring with my DT piece and as you can see love is definitely in the air with this make.
Unusual for me to have hearts on my card but because Valentine’s Day is just around the corner I made this for Clare to give to JP.
The script heart stamp is a discontinued one but it was made by Anita’s and the LOVE stamp is from Studio 490.
Showing the card that my Saturday class made which was mainly about the water colouring and die cutting.
The backgrounds on both cards were water coloured and I used the die cuts for dry embossing rather than cutting out.
Apart from the flowers and birds which were cut out and glued on afterwards.
Both cards together.
Easier Art Journaling
Dot and I both agree that we wished we had started our art journaling in a smaller book rather the the normal A4 size.
Feeling more comfortable with this A5 book because when starting something in the larger version my interest tends to wane before it is finished. Where as with this one I can’t wait to finish.
Love the first page with all the sewing, stencilling and collaging but the second isn’t too shabby either … lol.
Used the same colours on the second page but whereas the first has collaged layers the second is one flat layer. Both are a nice contrast to each other.
Finally bought one of those small date stamps because when looking back at the pages I like to know when it was started.
Close up pick of those collaged layers.
Already started the next pages!!!
First Post Of 2017 – Australia Here We Come
Happy New Year Everyone.
If I was going to do a bucket list one thing would definitely be on it – a trip down-under to visit my great friend and crafting buddy Dot from Ink Art Designs.
Not in my wildest dreams did I think that this would happen.
Well 2017 is certainly going to be an exciting year for Andrew and myself as our Christmas present to each other is a trip to … Australia!!
Because of the long haul flight we decided to break it up with a four day stay in Hong Kong before flying into Melbourne. We will be staying with Dotty for nearly three weeks then the journey home will be broken again with a four day stay in Singapore.
Dot has already started planning all the exciting things that we are going to do but for me the highlight has to be the crafting retreat that she has booked us into at Cockatoo Downs Farm. Even the name sounds magical.
Shock horror is Andrew coming crafting with us???? Shouldn’t think so, he has to take care of Dot’s dog but did I fail to mention that she lives next to a golf course!!!!
My first piece of the year started with this tag and my idea was for it to go onto the first page of my new A5 Journal Book.
As usual off I went on a tangent – have problems with reigning in my thoughts when crafting – by the time I had finished the tag it didn’t fit in with my journal page.
Will show the journal page another time in the meantime here is a close up of the tag.
