Mileage

My Son is now settled in Uni halls in London. After a very long drive some misunderstandings with payments and general scary moments my son is now settled and I am now free to think about my art again. So I hope to be playing again soon ;0) I don't think I have shown this before and if I have I appologise but I really wanted to show some art and after the goings on of this week end 'Mileage' seemed to be appropriate lol. Gosh and I have I done some this week end. Not just driving mileage but emotional mileage too! It was like him being four years old again going off to school for the first time only this time it's he is an young adult and over 200 miles away. I know he is prepared for the living alone. He knows how to use a washing machine and cooker, get a food shop on a budget (we have give him money each week to budget his own food) as well as all those other thing you teach them, so we have done all we can. He just has to get on with it and work hard so scary isn't it? not just for us but for them too!

So my Angel baby is off to fly hi all alone lol we are at the end of the phone but we can't go running up to London if something goes wrong every five minuets. Any way enough of my mother hen flapping around here is some journaling hope you like it and I hope you have had a much more serine week end than I have lol. Love Dawn xx

There's a hole in my page!

Hello every one I hope your having a wonderful weekend ;0) The Inspiration for this was found from Christy's art geeks on the Wild Precious group I bought some roses this year and was looking forward to growing them so this challenge was particularly nice. Christy had drawn the roses and suggested cutting through a journal page then putting the roses on the other side to. So here goes I thought for the first time I cut a large heart through the page transferred a Victorian woman in to the page after colouring the back ground with my trusty neo's Then drawing a thought bubble with the hopes of my new growing roses experience. 

And on the reverse side you can see the heart and more of the roses through the heart only coloured differently. Again I used neo's as back ground and then doodled more roses And stuck on a previous butterfly I had created among them with a wee bit of journaling. I found it very enjoyable I wonder if you have cut holes through a journaling page before? Well I enjoyed my first time, thank you for stopping by to have a look and share your experiences. Dawn xx

And here is a photo of how one of the roses turned out, I have six blooming bushes and I have really enjoyed the scents and colours just as I hoped ;0) Dxx

Journal Journey's Ch03

Hello and good morning to you all where ever you may be ;0) Well can you believe it's September already? The months are flying by and already there is talk of the C word (Christmas) Stop! I don't want to face that so early please! ;0) All the children will be back at school any day now, so your really excited or really sad. Some will be going off to big school and others, school for the first time it's all too much for us mothers. One of my babies is off to university so we will all be traveling from Manchester to London to drop him off. Sad but happy moment. Any way enough natter from me. I hope September is good to you ;0) And what of this months Journal Challenge?

This month I would like you to think of:-

Inclusions/Tags

I do hope you are going to have fun with this, I would like you to add an inclusion (something stuck to the middle of a spread that you can see both sides of when turned over) or a tag. Here is a little inspiration from me below.

I went a little mad lol So, have any of you done this before? If not don't be put off. I have added a large tag which I put a list on & decorated and just use some clear sticky tape, then I have used two smaller tags and also attached with some clear tape. There are wonderful tapes that are on the craft market or you can just use electrical tape, sew it in or even use glue. I hope to see lots of variety this month as it's a technique!  It would be so nice if you could add my button to your blog to spread the word so others can come and play too ;0) Love Dawn xx

The winner of the fairy book from last months fairy challenge was Joanne please e-mail me Joanne.

Please remember to include a link to your post not just your blog and also a link in your post to my blog thank you Dxx

Paint Party Friday

No this isn't one of the best journal pages I ever did, actually it may be the worst! But I was in hospital with limited supplies doodling and this was what I cam up with. I hope you don't mind me putting this into our lovely PPF with all your wonderful pieces because it really cheered me up when I was in hospital to get ink and paint on my hands even thought I was poorly sick ;0) Love Dawn xx

Transfers

Morning peeps ;0) I couldn't sleep tonight so I thought I would just get some journaling done and here is what I have come up with.

After I took all the photos I decided to add another transfer with hot glue on the right to fill in the space and it's the first time I have used HG and it worked so well I will be using it again!

Here is a CU of a stamped image (Archival ink) over transferred images and with paint rings on top, I think you can see that this spread is about lots of layering as well as the transfers.

I found this image in a magazine (newspaper freebie) and I just loved all the geometric shapes in it I had to spread bits of this all over to bring the spread together. All these were Gel Medium easy to do and really enjoyable rubbing all the paper off to reveal this beauty. I love how all the paint, stencils & stamping shows through underneath.

And as I write in the journaling, I don't know why or what this page conveys and sometimes I don't think we need to know, do we? I just loved getting this work down in all its glory and I really liked how it looked when it was finished. I don't think all art has to mean anything it's simply come in to being and therefor is art of my creativity just the same but with know start or end point. It just simply is. Love Dawn xx

Grungy Monday 20

Hello to all my fellow bloggy journal buddies ;0) I am back from hospital and I am feeling well. A big thank you to those of you who left well wishes I am touched. Grunge Monday with Linda is one of my fave challenges because of it's lovely grunginess.   We celebrate Tim Holtz  & his ideas for products & Techniques and the twentieth week is all about a product Distress Stickles. This is a muted more vintage looking glitter and I have to say I love it. And over at Simon Says Stamp & Show the theme is 'Bling' now mine is muted but it's very bling ;0)

I have used stickles every where both to highlight texture in the back ground and used really neat to add some texture to her dress and hair piece. You can see the subtle glitter effect it has on the back ground.

And here where the cuff is more intense Stickles. This is actually a journal page I have been working on for some time. I have put so many layers on this with stamping and tissue paper and brayering etc I hope you like this finished item and come back to my journaling blog again, maybe you would like to join in my Journal Challenge for this month (August)  it's fairies. Do pop back if you get time to play and as always thank you for taking time to stop by. Love Dawn xx

Hello Bloggy friends. Just a short post to let you all know I am off to hospital for my operation ;0) I will miss your beautiful talent for the week I am gone. 

Not to be morbid but if for what ever reason I don't come back (which I am sure I will But just in case) You have all given me the best time. I have had such support and love and I hope I have given such as well.

But fear not I will be back with some more art work and to visit you all again very soon. I will really miss my usual challenges and talking to you all. However, I have packed some arty stuff to take to hospital and I will share this with you on my return. Love Dawn xx

Texture Paste

Well it's very warm here, although the rain has come it's so warm and muggy, but with a shower and windows open all  over the house ' I will survive' as the great Gloria Gaynor once said lol. I have been playing with my texture paste, stencils and  colour wash sprays again, bliss! I bought some of this TP ages ago for something (I forget what) any way I was at the wild precious ning group (link on my side bar) and came across a new  free group. and Christy was using this TP and so I thought i would play around with it too. Oh so easy and really effective don't you think?

Here's a wee close up for you. I have also used some lace, you can see it down the centre of the book under the inclusion. On the back of the eyes I have written the instructions of this technique, so as to remember to use it again in the future. The new group within Wild Precious is called Christy's Art Geeks Another FREE group. Lots of fun techniques going on here, so pop along and have a nosy. I do hope you will come back soon. Thank you for those who are putting the Blog button on their blogs. And you can also get to this months challenge through pressing the button on the side, I do hope you will join in and don't forget there is a little gift this month to. Love Dawn xx

This is the latest member of our family ;0) DUKE isn't he adorable? This lovely character came in to our life a couple of weeks ago. James mum had got him and finding out she was pregnant again decided it would be too much (some people really don't think long term) any way she asked us if we new any one (having many pets of our own) Michael just had to have him. we have the room, all our boys are leaving us sniff sniff and so here is Duke along with Lola our other rescue dog and the seven cats we have. (three rescue and 4 kittens) so I think we are full for a while at least lol I hope you will welcome him as we do. Love Dawn xx

Elements class wk 04

Hello my lovely journal buddies. Here is this week elements class, it's all about water this week and boy the healing part was tough but I am so happy I have done this part as well as creating a lovely journal page. If you have been popping by you will know I am taking a class Elements by Effy Wild. We're all enjoying this so much. It a very supportive group and lots of help and support on hand for everything we are doing within the class.

We did another exercise and from this we did some writing then covered over it and made something positive and this is what I came up with. I really enjoyed playing with my new sprays 'Colour Wash' from ranger I got them all and they are rich & vibrant, they are in the same colours as the first lot of alcohol inks so I imagine there will be more ;0) I have also used one of my new Prima stencils I wouldn't be with out them they are fantastic and lots of variety to choose from in both 12x12 & 6x6 some gesso and a 2" brayer to soften edges. The sentiment was stamped out with hero art alphas, I have a couple of these sets I really like them and I find I am using them alot. If you want to know anything else about this just ask. Thank you for stopping by and any comments you leave are very appreciated. Love Dawn xx

Journal Journey's Ch02

Hello and welcome to my second challenge woo hoo. I am so pleased with all of you who joined in last month and thank you for being with me lol. Lets hope some more of you will get the bug in August to come and play along. Please help spread the word by adding my button to your blog if you haven't already thank you.

So August is the holiday season but I have completely ignored the obvious lol and this month we'll have a mythical theme I do hope you will all join me for:-

FAIRIES

Yes fairy month. And as usual you can stamp draw put photos in your page/pages, calender pages? What ever you would like to do and mediums? well anything you like ;0) paint, collage, ink, etc. If you want more of a challenge why not try to use something you have had in your stash that's sitting there a wee bit unloved. Let me know in your comment if you did the added challenge, and what you used ;0) 

I used the transfer technique to make my fairies, from some photos off the web. However, I have altered them lots. And I thought I would use something I find hard to use as an extra challenge GLITTER. Don't get me wrong I love glitter but I always find it really hard to use ;0)

You can see the glitter here a little, the paint I used for the skin of the fairies also had a lovely sheen to it so their skin looked magical to ;0) OK now it's over to you, begone, go, create *sends you off with happy smile*  You can always ask questions in the comments I look at this most days and there is always my e-mail. Just remember I am learning all the time and DO NOT know all there is so come on, learn along with me and have some fun at the same time Love Dawn xx

I have been reading some books By Julia Kagawa about fairies and silly me, I bought two of the same one (I do this alot so dizzy;0) any way I thought you may like to have my extra copy ;0) It's called the Iron Daughter. If you would like to be put in the draw for this book, please leave me a comment to let me know you're interested when you  have entered this months challenge and I will make a draw at the end of Aug and announce the winner on the 1st of Sept along with the next challenge ;0)

Please leave a link in your post back to this post so others can find me and hopefully join in the fun. Thank you. I look forward to having a look through all your entries Love Dawn xx