Mixing Acrylics, Water Colour and Big Brush Markers on a Journal Page

I am still behind with the prompts over on Nina Ribena's Art Journal Prompts and More.  This is the final page for the August prompt 'On Your Travels'.  I decided to create a sea side themed page.  Now I just need to start on the September pages!

Three Colours, Eight Steps plus Five Prompt Words equals One Art Journal Page

As usual, I am a month behind with my Mission Inspiration page.  I am not sure why I put them off for so long, as once I get started with a page, I rarely dislike where I end up. In fact, I got so engrossed in creating my page this time, that I forgot to take photos after steps 5 and 6.  This is my mission for August 2018.

WOYWW 484: The One After the Crop

Hello and welcome to the weekly sharing of my desk, as encouraged by Julia, our hostess and keeper of the links (see HERE for more).  I wanted to share all the lovely swaps that I was given at the crop last Saturday.  I have already shared my photos and described the day itself, so if you haven't seen them yet you can find them HERE.

From top left goodies from: Shaz (from Oz), an ATCoin from Neet with an ATC below from Mrs D, a glasses case from LLJ and a mini memory bear complete with poem from Annie (Whipso).  Below from left to right: ATCs from Chris (Pearshaped), Margaret, Heather, Jo (Twiglet), who had sewn her ATCs and Christine (Bishopsmate).  In the middle at the bottom an ATC from Shaz (Silverwolf).  They are all so different and so beautiful.  Eva sends her thanks for her goodies too, even though she wasn't up to being there.

On the other side of the desk normal service has been resumed.  Eva was having a look through my Groovi folders and was also very keen to try out the new Picot dies from Claritystamp.  They are now top of her wish list lol.  Have a great week everyone.  I will  be round tomorrow to visit as I am at work today; I haven't got used to this new pattern of work days.

Found Poem Tag

The fact that this tag contains a found poem is totally fortuitous, as it was the last thing that I added.  This tag was created for the September challenge over on Tag It Tuesday.  At least two of four given prompts have to be used.  This month the prompts are: 1 Make straight lines, 2 Scribble, 3 Rip text page and 4 Add blue.  One way or another I've managed all four this month for a change.

Adding Glass Slides to a Canvas

I recently played around with alcohol inks on microscope slides (see HERE).  Several people suggested using wire wrapping as a way of adding them to a piece of work.  I decided to use an 8" x 8" canvas board from Claritystamp.  I have never done any wire wrapping before, so I made things up and experimented as I went along.

Fantasy Journal Page at the WOYWW Crop

As I was attending the annual WOYWW crop I decided to take the  minimum of crafting to do.  So much time is spent catching up, eating cake, catching up, cake, coffee ... you get the idea, that there is little actual time spent on crafting.  I therefore only took some stamps, my Strathmore Visual Journal water brushes and colouring materials: Luminarte Twinkling H2Os and my Ecoline pens from Royal Talens.  Even so, I didn't finish the page while I was there.

Yupo Space Background

This was made for the September challenge over on Mixed Media Art Journey.  It gave me an opportunity to use part of a Yupo background that I'd already created.