Eyeing things up at the beginning of the new month!

Hello everyone! There's a new host and a new theme at Art Journal Journey! Gill of gibbyfrogettcraftations blog has chosen 'Anything with Eyes' as her theme - what a wide choice we're going to have and I couldn't wait to get started - I have used a stamp that I may use again later this month I think, as it is one of my favourite Lynn Perrella Stamps!
I am once again using my calendar journal as my first entry.

It has been a dreary old day here again and with the depressing news on local TV about the floods in the area - including a film clip of Lyme Park gardens with water just flowing through them and a dam in one of favourite places to walk being so damaged that a whole town has had to be evacuated!

It is not a good photo, but to be honest it is quite a dark page! I enjoyed the freedom of making lots of stencilled layers and then some text stamping and then with a feeling that it was too bright covered it all with a wash of Quinacradone Gold. The image just did not want to stamp directly onto the page so I stamped it on tissue and used Matte medium to stick it down. Maybe I will lighten it as the month rolls on!!

Here is last months cheerier page all filled in!

I must admit the last few weeks have held a bunch of mixed pleasures with pages for AJJ to be made, samples for the upcoming Crafty Individuals shows (which by the way are Monday 5th August at 4.00pmBST and Tuesday 6th August at 10.00am to be made  - although these times seem subject to change)to be made and posted off, a tortoise to be fed along with starting to sort out things at our caravan.

I will briefly take you back to Avignon.

 When we returned from Arles we found there was a wine evening taking place in the Square Agricola Perdiguer - a garden set in the old cloisters of the church, started by a botanist in the 1800s
It was very crowded so no more photos....

 ...but we did go back the next day to take photos of the beautiful gardens..

 They do like giant pots in Avignon!

 I wish my Agapanthus looked like these!

There, that's brighter!

I have been looking at some new stamps on line - do I need them....I'll sleep on it!!!

Thanks for looking, Chris