My New Art Journal

I was at ‘The Range’ the other day, having gone to have a browse and maybe pick up a smash journal.  I wanted to buy a made up journal to use, as the sketchbook I’m using is a bit awkward, because you can’t take the pages out to work on them and the 3D elements mean that rubber stamping is tricky. I was so chuffed to find one of the Madam Payraud journals for £2, because it was missing the packaging and I snapped it up straight away.

I’ve decorated it by adding ribbons, lace, a friendly plastic embellishment and some text I printed out on my printer.

More Embellishements

I got a little obsessed with making embellishments using a new set of silicone molds I got yesterday. I really ought to work out what I am going to use the embellishments for! 🙂 I love the beautiful swirling colours!

My New Steampunk Character: Wren

I am working on an art journal page with her in, but this is the first proper sketch of her 🙂

Handmade Cog Embellishments

Just playing around with UTEE, I made these cog embellishments. My mind is whirring with lots of ideas as to what else I can do, and what I can try next! 🙂

I Found My Blitzer!

After seeing this post http://thefrugalcrafter.wordpress.com/2014/01/22/beautiful-cityscape-i-love-this-stamp/  by the Frugal Crafter and seeing the machine Tim Holtz and Stampin Up are peddling, I thought….I have one of them from when I was a kid, but it’s called a Blitzer. My Mum had saved it in a cupboard and it’s in good nick considering it’s 15-20 years old! I thought it would be perfect for stenciling as I have found it pretty difficult to get a crisp image all over the stencil! You add pens (I used Promarkers) and pump air through it and the ink kinda bursts onto the page. Some pens put splodges and some more find sprays of ink, fab for stencils though so I’m really chuffed!

The second image is just where I have added colour restoration when scanning it in. Interesting to see how the colours change!

Not-so-jolly Jester

This is a piece I’ve been fiddling with. I painted it, then felt something was missing, so I added the frame round the jester. I think it just finishes it off somehow.