A first and a second..again!

Hi everyone, I didn't quite nod off last night but having posted three times yesterday I decided that was plenty!

I have a calendar journal page for Jo's 'Texture' theme at Art Journal Journey.

 I used an Andy skinner crackle stamp and different colours of ink randomly over my page and added stamped and cut out images by AAll and Create' Bipasha.
That was going to be it but last week we had a rainy walk at Lyme Park and came across a wall that was being repaired so I drew around the crackles to create a broken down wall between the two images.

As you can see the person doing the repair is taking a slightly less haphazard approach to wall building that the original builder

I though you might like to see August's pages filled in!
Nothing out of the ordinary happening!!



Now for my Second look on the 2nd where Bleubeard and Elizabeth invite you to show us a post from your blogging past.

This is from September 2016 - you can link here for a better look as blogger does not want to resize this and I have tried every whichway!
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A calm journal page

So after the excitement (previous post)- I went to a page I had started a little while ago when I had a playdate with my lovely friend Sarah. We spent the afternoon using our Gelli plates and this is a second printing.
I added stencilling, stamping to the background but nothing much else.
I came back to it yesterday and stamped and coloured an Indigo Blue image of poppies - repeated across the page, then coloured the poppies - pink and purple(!) using distress inks.

The butterflies are from The Artistic Stamper 'Insects and Butterflies' set. I repeated 'Imagine' (also Artistic Stamper I think) without re-inking, chosen mainly because of the size of the butterflies compared to my little row of flowers
I painted over the butterflies with cosmic shimmer pearl but the camera hasn't caught it (or the fronds of Sakura pen grass either)

Feeling calmer and getting ready for time out with our grandchildren later.

 I am linking to Try it on Tuesdays - 'How Does Your Garden Grow?' challenge (rather strangely, with butterflies this size!)

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I find this quite funny as yesterdays posts were using 
The Artistic Stamper stamps and TIOT, as I was still enjoying entering 

their challenges 


Thanks for looking, Chris

P.S Although I am apologising for the state of this post it should 
really be Blogger as this has never happened before!!!