Anniversary Card

This card was made for a lovely lady and her husband who recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary.

Art Journal Insert

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.

WOYWW 452: Full Shed!

After a hectic week last week, I started with a dodgy stomach on Sunday night and spent Monday in bed.  I was feeling a lot better by yesterday, which was just as well as I was expecting, not only Eva for a day's crafting, but also a former school and university friend of mine who was visiting the shed for the morning.  As she brought some knitting and appliqué work with her I will be sharing three sides of the desk today for a change.  To see more desks, don't forget to visit our chief desker Julia over on the Stamping Ground.

My side of the desk shows the start of some more home made washi tape for an art journal challenge.  I'll be sharing the finished project tomorrow.  You can see the choice of inks that I would be using and the masking tape stuck to the glass mat ready for stamping onto.

My school friend was working on a piece of appliqué which she is intending to turn into a cushion cover.  It is a representation of her pet rabbit, Richard.

On the other side of the desk, Eva was in in a messy mood and brought everything plus the kitchen sink to work with.  This is the neat version of the desk; you really don't want to see what happened later.  
Wishing all my fellow deskers a good week, I'll be off to start visiting shortly.

A Journal Page of Joy!

This page was created for week 3 of Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More.  My word this week is 'Joy' and the page combines my love of art journaling with another of my passions: Stoke City Football Club.  Last weekend we kept our first clean sheet for 3 months and escaped the relegation zone with a win over Huddersfield Town.  It was also our first game under the new manager and the atmosphere at the ground was electric.  It seemed an easy choice of word therefore!

More Home Made Washi Tape: Masculine Card

After the enormous success of my home made 'washi tape' on a tag (see HERE), I decided to see if I could use the same technique to create the background for a card.  I am always being asked for masculine cards, so went with a palette of blues and greens.  I think it worked out perfectly, but let me know what you think.

Home Made Washi Tape Tag

The home made washi tape was made for a challenge; Explore Your Creativity 5 with Junk Journal Junkies and Mindful Art.  For the challenge you had to use the technique of layering, the product home made washi tape and keep it monochrome; all on a tag.  I love what I ended up with and will certainly be creating my own washi tape again!  I am also entering it into the Anything Goes January Challenge on Country View Challenges.

Psychedelic Colours to Brighten up the Day

I made this card some time ago but as the weather isn't so great today I thought I'd try to brighten things up.

I started by covering a piece of white card (20x13.8cm) with small pieces of masking tape overlapping each piece randomly and burnishing them onto the card.  I then went over the whole piece with Salty Ocean distress ink.  I stamped the Indigoblu circle dot background stamp onto a separate piece of white card using Versamark ink and heat embossed using white detail embossing powder.