This image of a giant toadstool came from a magazine advert
and had been sitting in my clippings stash for months. I picked out three colours which toned in with it, Vintage Photo, Fossilized Amber and Spiced Marmalade and created an art journal page. This was one of my earlier page attempts, but I think it has stood the test of time and there is little I would change about it if I were working on the page again.
What a difference a week makes. This time last week we were in Bucharest visiting the Old Town, where I came across a whole street filled with art shops, this week I am back at work!
I admit that my desk is totally staged. I was very good and actually only ventured into one shop as my husband was with me. I spent the equivalent of a whole pound on these paper napkins that could be bought individually. I also picked up a play in Romanian for 40p which can be used for journal backgrounds. The cover is good too and I may well alter it sometime in the future. The reason my desk is staged is that I have been very busy making samples for two upcoming Clarity shows on HOCHANDA since we returned home. Leonie's are on Friday and Barbara's are on Sunday afternoon. Obviously I can't share what I have been making, but I did use my watercolour pencils for a couple of the samples.
The old town of Bucharest is full of restaurants and cafes as well as art shops, a fabric shop which I would have loved to explore, boutiques and the book shop which I shared last week.
I may set aside more money for crafty purchases next time we visit as the Talens and Pebeo paints and inks were rather good value.
There is no picture of the other side of my desk as Eva hasn't made it over for crafting this week. Next week we will make up for it for certain. We have a full day workshop with Maria Moorhouse on Saturday for a start.
Please visit Julia over at the Stamping Ground to find out more about what WOYWW is about and to see more interesting desks than mine at the moment.
I haven't joined in with a challenge on Tag It Tuesday yet in 2019, so decided to work on a quick tag as I was up very early yesterday morning. The tag will be used as a bookmark as I always have a few books on the go at any one time. This challenge always consists of four prompts, at least two of which have to be used. For once I actually included all four. The prompts for February are: Add one letter from your name; Add numbers; Doodle with a white pen and Fussy cut and attach something.
I started this blog exactly one week before my 50th birthday. I had never done anything like it before and I wondered if anyone would be interested in my love of crafting and some of my projects. One of the most viewed projects on my blog was an early share: the MDF card/book that I made for my twin sister's 50th birthday. I
bought this Kaisercraft MDF book on a whim as it was half price but I
was really pleased with the way it turned out - and my sister loved
her birthday book.
The
colour scheme was easy - my sister's favourite combination. Having
primed the MDF with white gesso I painted the front and back panels with
Reeves Lavender Acrylic paint and the middle panel with Pebeo Studio
Acrylics Iridescent Green Yellow (359). I then put it to one side for a
couple of weeks as I couldn't make my mind up how to decorate it
further.
This card is for my son and his girlfriend who hosted us for the most wonderful break in Romania. I wanted to theme the card, so used the colours of the Romanian flag in the background.
This card could be adapted for any occasion with a change of sentiment and can be used with any colour scheme too.
This is one of my favourite art journal pages from 2017. I love this colour combination and the happy accident of discovering a sunset on the mop up sheet is a type of background that I use a lot.
