Quick Stampin'Up! Layout

Last Wednesday I went to Skipton to Janet's Craft Club to spend the evening with12 ladies doing a layout based on my sample above using Stampin'Up! products.
We used Haiku papers, It's Beautiful wheel, Baroque Motifs and School Serif alphabet stamps, 1 and a quarter circle punch and 5 petal punch and the smallest circle punch.
Very simple, but can be embellished in various ways.
It certainly wasn't a difficult layout, and thank you ladies, I really enjoyed my evening.
x

My Jems Challenge

Well this time it was my turn to send Julie's Jems their stuff for the challenge. I sent a heart blank, an "Adore" ticket by Tim Holtz, a black fleur de lis shape, Pink punched heart border, pink hearts and black and pink ribbon.
Here's my effort and I'm so sorry this post is short - have to go and sweep up some more grime and debris :-(.

Look what my sister made!

I'm not doing any crafting at the moment - got builders in changing boiler and all kinds of boring things like that, but this is an Ikea mirror that my sister decorated.
She used stamps by Stampin' Up! (Carte Postale and French text background), Elusive Images and Clarity Stamps........... and she stamped the images on........................old cereal boxes!!!!
Isn't it fabulous? I love it.

Art Journalling with Dyan.

Had a fabulous day with Dyan yesterday doing one of her Art Journal classes. We made some pages first using newspaper, glue and gesso. When they were dry it was time for the paint- yay!
Then it was time to "blind" pick an emotion from Dyan's basket of prompts and add images and journalling. I picked Passion (the page above is the result) and Calm (the page below)

Two journal pages and a work in progress

Well here are 2 more journal pages - sorry they are a bit soppy! LOL! All that red just called out "Hearts and flowers" to me.

I do love the colours on the "Song of the Sea" page but it's a bit bare and I feel it needs some more images - just still looking for the right ones to complete it. I've been looking for ages for some vintage seashells/mermaids, but not found them yet.

Thanks for looking x

Claudine Tag

This is one of the Tags I made at Dayan's class at Art from the Heart on Tuesday. Background is Claudine Hellmuth Paints and Tim Holtz stamps. Body is Blonde moments stamp used on sticky back canvass and painted with diluted Claudine Hellmuth paints. Wings and hat are grungeboard. DS not too happy that dungarees are painted pink when I've used his head! LOL!
I've promised to do him one with a blue pair. :-). x

Think Monday Think ATC

The talented Sarah left me a comment on my last post ( thank you so much!) and suggested that I might make an ATC for the Think Monday Think ATC challenge this week, since the theme is "Kings and Queens" - so I did!
Image is Lisa's Altered Arts again and my background is coloured with Brilliance Pearlescent Sky Blue Ink and Dusty Concord Distress Ink.
Below are a couple of more ATCs I made at the same time.