Sunny Saturday!

Yes! The sun disappears now and again but I have just come back from meeting one of my friends for a chat in the garden below! There are benches but my friend has her walker to sit on so were both able to sit in the sun at a good social distance. She had to turn her hearing aid up and complained if I said too many esses together!
It was so good to put the World to rights.

I told you yesterday that I had another Journal page...here it is...

I found the bottom two G45 images while clearing out my scraps and this is where my idea for page started. I cut the clocks and roses from some designer paper and used my machine to make some stitches on the tag - I changed the tension to get the loose stitching on the left.
I stamped the sewing items using a Crafty Individuals set and dusted some mica powder over while the ink was wet.I brushed off the excess.
Now I had everything except a quote - the little box on my desk holds some favourites and this one fits quite well I think.
I played around with the elements till I was happy but realised that I would have to start with the quote being stamped.

I used Brushed Corduroy and Victorian Velvet DIs through the butterfly wing stencil I bought the other week.
The ink I used at first was drying out so I inked a darker brown and lined it up as well as I could to make the word darker.
This made it much easier to arrange the other elements around it!

I am joining in with 'A Stitch in Time', Halle's choice of theme at Art Journal Journey.  

I would also like to enter at The Artistic Stamper Creative Challenge - Retro

Thanks for looking, Chris