An Alcohol Print Tag

I took another one of the alcohol ink gel print backgrounds from a recent workshop with Barbara Gray to create this tag.

A Matter of Perspective

I made another card using one of my alcohol ink background postcards from Barbara Gray's workshop.

June ATC: Red / Something For Him

The June prompt for the ATC swap over on Clarity Crafts Mini Makes and ATCs is red/something for him.  This is the ATC and a card that I made for my swap partner.

A Garden Walk Art Journal Page

The latest prompt from Try It On Tuesday is In the Garden.  I thought this art journal page would fit the prompt.

WOYWW 836/56 : Downhill All the Way

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

My desk this week shows the beautiful card that Jo (Twiglet) gave me at the needle felting class that Eva and I both went to last Friday as well as some of the toppers made at my recent workshop with Barbara Gray.

My lavender fields picture has joined the rest of my efforts at one of Tilly Tea Dance's classes on the mantlepiece.

I am not keen on stairs and followed a great YouTube video to create this drawing.

A quick play with archival ink lol.

Thinking of my upcoming trip to Paris with Y8.

Quick cave art.

The most skewed I could think of!

19 more working days until retirement - 18 after today.  Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

Alcohol Ink Thank You Card

This 4" x 4" card was a very quick make.

Country Scene on Alcohol Ink Background

I had such a great time at the recent workshop with Barbara Gray. For this project, I used one of the ghost prints from Experiment 5.

Alcohol Ink Postcard

For this, I used the results of one of the projects that I achieved at Barbara Gray’s Alcohol inks on gel press workshop recently (Exercise 4).

More Foiling Fun

 For my second project using Clarity Hot Foiling I used one of the Clarity Quotes postcards from set 7.

Foiling Fun

I had some fun with the new gold hot foil available from Clarity Crafts and their laser printed postcards to create these projects.  I turned one into a card.

Some Ideas Using the Leafy Swirls Design

A Clarity classic design, the Leafy Swirls stamps and stencils.  Here are some ideas and inspiration using a combination of both. As usual the links to each project appear below the photo.

A clean and simple thank you card (see HERE).

WOYWW 835/55: Back Home

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

My desk shows some of the things I was getting up to while away over the weekend. The pack contains all my makes from the fabulous workshop with Barbara Gray on Sunday - I learn such a lot. The flier is the one for the make and takes that I led at the Open Days on the Friday and Saturday (more on my blog from Monday and yesterday). The postcard shows some of the gorgeous pottery made by Barbara which should be appearing on her Pinky Gray web page soon.

I have a growing art gallery in my living room which sits along side Tilly's needle felting.

When I move my craft room inside, I may keep the tall pencil pot on my desk.  I have another owl on order too.

As you can see, I managed to keep up with my #dailyart2025 while I was away.

Since I got back on Monday I have done two large loads of washing and the technical survey has been done for the impending solar panel fitment.  They are coming back today to fit an isolation switch to the meter in advance.

I am still catching up on my sleep as it was hard work - although my lunatic of a twin sister ran a 50k on Saturday, and the route went past the hotel where I was staying, so I think she wins!

Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.

A Stamping Make and Take

 I recently had the pleasure of leading the stamping make and take at the Clarity Open Days.  This is the project everyone completed then had fun playing with their own design using the same stamps on a second card blank.

Clarity Open Days: A Round Up

On Friday and Saturday the latest Clarity Open Days took place in Ditton, Kent.  Months of planning go into these days, culminating in a full day setting up in the community centre, two days seeing old faces and meeting new and a generally good time all round.  I was honoured to be asked to run one of the make and takes for the first time.  My project seems to have gone down well and I will be sharing it on my blog tomorrow for anyone who was unable to be there or didn't manage to sign up before the spaces filled.

Front - Lisa, Barbara, Hilma, Sue, Jazz.
Back - Grace, Louise, Janice, Myself, Paul, Sam, Deborah, Jane, Hazel, Linda, Jilly, Sheila.

The whole team ready for action on the first morning (Thanks for sending me the photo Deb).

#dailyart2025: May Part II

 Here are my drawings for the second half of May following the prompts over on 365 days of drawing prompts and other art.  I have just started my fourth Petite watercolour journal from Clarity Crafts.

A nice straight forward prompt.

The first instrument I thought of connected with the genre.

A bit late for Star Wars Day!

An iconic setting.

I kept things simple!

And again!

I thought this was an easy one too.

I just had a play with different shapes and types.

My immediate thought was sleeping beauty's castle.

I was thinking of Canada.

Keeping the countryside theme.

I wish!!

More of a cartoon look.

Definitely not anatomically correct!

June 2025 Calendar Page

I had a play with some of my latest purchases from Clarity Crafts to create my calendar page for June.

Spread Your Wings Journal Page

The current prompt over on Try It On Tuesday is Things with Wings.  I thought this art journal page would fit the bill.

WOYWW 16th Anniversary Card and ATC

I made a card to go with the ATC celebrating the 16th Anniversary of WOYWW.  It only seemed fitting to send it to the founder of the long running weekly blog hop.

WOYWW 834/54: On My Travels

Welcome to the weekly sharing of desks which is WOYWW (What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?), the brainchild of Julia, who kindly entrusted it to me to continue after the first 15 years of togetherness.  Please feel free to link up your desk and visit others' - we are a friendly bunch. 

My desk today shows the ATC received from Julia celebrating 16 years of WOYWW.  I sent her mine and a card - as I only had one, it seemed fitting to send it to her.  This will be on my blog tomorrow.  

I will be setting off for Edenbridge as this blog post is published, to help out with the preparations for the Clarity Open Days on Friday and Saturday.  I shall be away until Monday so I am unlikely to have much time to visit this week sadly.

I thought Sleeping Beauty's Palace fitted the bill.

I am taking my journal, pencils and pens with me so I can keep up with my #dailyart2025 pages.  I decided not to complete a week's worth in advance.

This time next week it will all be over until November.  Stay safe and Happy WOYWW.