I worked on a #8 manilla tag for the November challenge over on Tag It Tuesday. Four prompts are given each month and at least two have to be used. This month the prompts were: 1 Paste through a stencil; 2 Paint with your fingers; 3 Write random words; 4 Numbers. As you will see, I used three of the prompts.
This is my first year joining in with #Inktober and I have been following the official #Inktober2018 prompts as it is my first time. I have already shared my first set of responses (see HERE) and today I am bringing my drawings for days 17 to 31 together.
The first time that I have ever drawn a hand, so day 17 stretched me.
For the very first time, I have been taking part in #Inktober2018 and thought that I'd share my journey up to the half way point of the month. I am not a confident drawer, especially with ink, and have made a light under drawing in pencil each day before committing myself to inking. Sometimes I have kept things simple and cartoon like and sometimes I have attempted a more artistic effort with shading. There are lots of alternative prompt lists available, but for my first year, I have kept to the official prompt list. I have used a fine, black Posca pen for inking each day.
These ATCs were created for a swap over on JJAMMMA (Junk Journals and Mindful Mixed Media Art). The prompt letter was W, so I thought it would be the ideal time to try out my latest purchases, a box of Van Gogh water colours and some water soluble oil pastels both from Royal Talens. As usual, I stuck to using stamps from Claritystamp on my ATCs.
This card was made for a lovely lady and her husband who recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary.
For once I have actually completed my Mission Inspiration page before the end of the month. This is my response to the September prompts. The three suggested colours were Mustard, Peacock and Slate and the choice of prompt words were Feather, Leaf, Time, Home and Quilt. As you can see, I based my page around 'Feather'.
The challenge over on the That's crafty Challenge Blog this month is 'Forever Autumn'. I decided to play with layers of stamping and also wanted to see how heat embossing over Distress Oxides would look.
When I saw the current challenge over on Country View Challenges: Planes, Trains and Automobiles I knew exactly which stamp set I wanted to use. I have had it in my stash for ages and never used it; I felt it was about time to change that. My son has also recently bought himself a convertable, so I thought that he might like the tag to use as a bookmark.
I finally got round to having a go at the August challenge over on Mixed Media Art Journey. Each month six word dice are thrown and the resulting prompts make up the challenge. It is the first time that 'Create Insert' has been one of the prompts. I decided to use two tags to make the insert for the middle of a signature in my Eileen Hull Journal.
Altered dominoes was the first prompt in July for the 'Puzzled' theme over on Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More. This caused me to have to think outside the box: firstly, I don't have any dominoes that I could alter and secondly, how to incorporate them on a journal page. It was the last of the five puzzled prompts that I completed for that reason, although I left a blank page in my journal ready. In the end I found a way round both problems when I came across a quote that I really liked.
As it is the summer holidays and I have more time for crafting, I decided to catch up with a page from my Mission Inspiration journal. I missed two pages at the end of 2017, but left space for them in my journal. Between other projects I have worked on the prompts for November 2017 over the last few days. As usual there were 8 steps, 3 suggested colours and a choice of 5 prompt words.
