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October 25, 2015

Anything goes? What about art journaling?

This month over at the Crafty Life blog there is an Anything goes challenge, and although originally I thought to enter with a mini book that is in progress, I decided to go with the following …

By the way, I’m thrilled to announce that I made their wall of fame for September!!! 🙂

Yesterday our clocks went back an hour, and instead of getting an extra hour’s sleep I was burning the midnight oil and getting an extra hour of creativity!!!

This entry is in my flexi smaller art journal …

There is a ‘self’ portrait … and yes I do see myself with ‘blue’ hair some day!! LOL … The girl is with a collage technique painted using acryllic paints, colouring pencils, and markers ….

I’ve used paper that I’ve gelli plated as well as masks with mists over that … then 3 D glitter paste with another stencil.

The glitter paste absorbed the colours underneath then I added gold patina paint over that, and it gave it a vibrant ‘rich’ effect.

With Simple Stories I am collection I added the quote, I am blessed, grateful, enough!

I hope you like my page, I know I enjoyed making it!!!

Have a great week everyone!!!

Posted in AJ FlexiSketchBook, CraftyLifeChallenges, GelliArt, masking, misting, painting | 8 Comments »

October 15, 2015

Hello beautiful!!!

Morning everyone … where has this week flown to?

I have a layout that I created on Sunday to share with you … I’m entering it in this month’s Scrap n Pieces challenge which had a lovely mood board and the colour pink!

So here is my take on it:

The background paper is a piece of white cardstock that young hands have drawn on … I keep all my nieces and nephews drawings and recycle use them in my artwork as well!!!

The photo is of Raphaella’s shoes which she wore at my friends Katerina’s wedding in 2013 … I loved her chic shoes and just had to take a photo of them!!!

Lots of pink and bling, and shiny accents!

Close up of foiled stitch … in pink colour!

More close ups!

Well I hope you’ve liked my layout! Have a fab day everyone!!!

Posted in HeatWaveTool, masking, misting, scrapbook, SNP challenge, theFuseTool | 5 Comments »

October 9, 2015

Art Journaling

Today I have two more pages that I’ve been working on this week …

This was inspired by a class called Journal Soup by Kate Crane … I’m catching up with a variety of classes that I’ve signed up for!!!

This is totally me … using stuff on my desk, delli paper that I’ve gelli plated … a screen print that I drew over and enhanced … 3-d paint to add dimension!!!

Posted in AJ FlexiSketchBook, Art Journal, GelliArt, masking, painting, thermofax print, washi tape, watersolubles | 3 Comments »

October 4, 2015

Summer 2015 Mega Mini-book

It’s done, has been for a couple of weeks now, and time to show you a bit of it ….

Here is the cover, and as you can see I’m holding it together with large rings!

Here are a few of my fav pages:

HERE you can view the video that I’ve made please forgive my talking randomly as it was late, and I was just chatting on!!!

Enjoy!!!! I hope you like it, I know I loved making it, and it’s quite a keepsake for me!

Posted in family, Greece, minibooks, Naxos, scrapbook, theFuseTool | Leave a Comment »

October 2, 2015

I’m back!!!!!! So, being back means that I’m trying to do more art journaling every day. I last posted in June of last year!!!! OMG …… a bit after I started my diet … I haven’t been doing my dailies, I confess … but I’m back now, and before I start showing my work I thought I’ll show you what else I’ve made this past year …

Here is a double page that I did in January at a crop, thinking that I was ready to start my dailies again …. LOL Yeah, right!!!!!

I had few things with me, but I’ve let it untouched as I like to see what I can do when I’m away from my work area!!!

I’ve been working on faces in particular as I got Jane Davenport’s book, Beautiful Faces!!!

This one I did on the ship on my way to Naxos!

Then I created these while drawing with my nieces and nephews:

This one I did on a messy page:

My niece Sofia inspired by me, drew a couple of girls for me, so I’ve added them in my book too … she’s 13 now …

Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed my pages!

Posted in AJ BK 3, DailyJournaling, painting, watersolubles | 4 Comments »

October 1, 2015

The Craft Garden October Challenge

This month we have a lovely Autumn colour challenge … check it out!

Welcome to October.

Your challenge this month is to use autumn colours. Here are a couple of design seeds palettes to inspire you but as long as you use autumn colours please feel free to use any colour palette you like from wherever you like.

Market Tones

Autumn Palette

Our challenge rules are:

your project must be created during the period 1st October and 30th October 2015

your project can only be entered into this challenge and 2 others

we must be able to see clearly how you have been inspired by autumn colours

you must enter using the inlinkz button at the bottom of this post during the period 1st – 30th October 2015

you can submit a project using any crafts you like. We are not just about paper crafting

you must HAVE FUN and ENJOY your crafting