Paint Party Friday

This is a wonderful day art wise. I am becoming more & more practised because of this blog as I know I have to have something ready for play time over at Paint Party Friday (PPF). This is a fabby challenge there is no set theme just come and share anything you have put paint to. And because the way this challenge runs you get to see all sorts of art. I hope you will pop along as there is so much variety and talent.

Last week I did some journal pages about bullying Here  my challenge was to turn it in to a positive. So many of you left beautiful comments to thank you. This week it's all about celebrating, not trauma (phew) ;0) And so I thought of lots of things in my life I could celebrate, my boys (my three children, all young men now) my art even But I have to say my Marriage and my Grandson are pretty cool things to celebrate ;0) And I really enjoyed creating these pages I just couldn't take the smile off my face ;0). Can I please remind any visitors that in July (my B'Day month) I am beginning a challenge of my own. I am so excited about it and I would really love it if you can join in. I will be having a journal challenge each month starting in July. I now have a  button so you can help spread the word, you can become a follower now so you don't miss the start ;0) I would really love to see you. Love Dawn xx

Paint Party Friday

Hello my fellow PPF friends. I think I saw most of you all last week and I found out so much and I wrote some ideas down to try in the future as well. I have some news I want to share with you as well..... I will be starting my journal challenge in July, (my Birthday month). I am so excited about this. It will be one challenge per month so plenty of time. If any of my dear followers knows how to make a blog button so we can spread the news I would be so grateful to the person that can help with this. Any way back to painting. This week, practically everything I have done has had paint on ;0) and that's such a good thing. This is page 3-4 of my altered baby board book Pg.1-2 can be seen here and the front cover is almost ready to. Gosh did I have fun with this.

The girl in the orange is a representation of me in high school and part of my healing process was to think of a child hood trauma and make a positive thing instead. So I went for my bullying experiences, this effected me in many ways, I was lonely, alot of the time and had many negative things said. So this spread is me having lots of friends and having trust & love. Although it was sad to think of the sad times as a child, I was really made happy by giving the younger me lots of friends ;0) And I am really happy with the painting parts of this so much.

 

I can't Thank Tam and her Free Class enough. I feel I am really getting the hang of painting these little Wimseys. I have talked about this so much if you want any information just click the links (in side bar as well) So I altered the back ground of the book and then sketched and painted the figures on water colour paper and cut them out and stuck them on and added more paint and inked some stamps up and just had lots of fun creating this. Thank you for stopping by and any comments you have left I will be visiting lots of you again soon Love Dawn xx

Altered Baby board book

Hello, Hope you are well and the sun is shining where you are ;0) It's shining here for once in the NW of UK for a change after all the horrid rain we have had it's lovely to catch up with some blogs and post a few things with the back door open and the sunlight streaming in. I am sure I have told you about the Free Classes Tam has on line. In week one I created This And now for week two I have created this and I am very proud  of it ;0) we have moved on to altering a baby board book, you now the ones I mean I am sure. Well grab one or get one from the charity/thrift shop and create this wonderful book all about you! There is a process of healing involved but you can always just do the techniques.

Here is a close up of the younger me and all the things I want for her when she grows up, this can be difficult if you haven't had the smoothest child hood because you can put all the things that you now would like for this child (even if it didn't happen).

A final close up. It's full of texture and transfers, stamping etc and I really enjoyed playing. The class is already finished (was in Oct 10) so you can go as quickly or as slowly as you like. I have already done the next two pages and I will be sharing these on PPF Love Fridays for another reason now ;0) Have a wonderful day full of warmth and smiles. Love Dawn xx