Make a Scene....

Please! We hope you do 'Create A Scene' as it is our new topic at Try It On Tuesday! 
So many places to see from our Design Team!

I have gone to the woods at night time...and my favourite little inquisitive rabbit is there..

 ..as you can see it is a magical wood - it was quite a dark night until the fairies threw an empty dandelion clock up there. They are now busy throwing balls of light onto it!

 The background is a combination of Brusho colours.

 I used the tree in two halves to frame the scene.A little bit of overstamping was needed. 

The fronds on the Seahorse made lovely little bushes!

Now I needed some woodland floor. 

 I remembered using the wolf's back as grass before and although I had some small mushrooms I thought they were too big -instead I stamped up part of the leaves on this branch.

Then I had to set to and do some colouring with a silver pen, fussy cutting and spattering some silver paint!

I hope you will take us with you for this challenge.

As usual the TIOT challenge runs for two weeks. There are a few Rules and Guidelines here!

I am entering this card at

The Lavinia Stamps Creative Challenge - Woodland Magic 

Penny Black and More - Favourite stamps

Thanks for looking, Chris

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

Be careful what you wish for!

Hi everyone! There has been a queue for the computer, hubby has been updating 'something' - I leave well alone and let him get on with it - the plus side is that I have a journal page for today and also for tomorrow!
As you can guess this started with a page I had used to clean my brayer! I did think about toning it down with gesso but I like these colours!
I stamped over parts with a row of stitches and thimble stamp and a sewing machine - both by Aall and Create's Bipasha. 

I had come across the cotton reel and scissors images in my scraps and the thread card was in a bag of ephemera scraps.
The clock is from a sheet of rice paper. 

I wasn't sure which paper doll I was going to use, perhaps a lady in a home made outfit, but then I saw this little girl with the bow in her hair! I wouldn't mind betting that this little girl loved ribbon and was always asking for new ribbon for her hair.....she wasn't imagining that her mother might use some leftover fabric from her dressmaking to make her this HUGE bow!
Are her siblings laughing at her as it wobbles on her head? I recognise this look from my youngest if he did something that amused the other two!

I am of course joining in with Halle's 'Stitch In Time' at Art Journal Journey!

Thanks for looking, Chris



  

T Stands for....Twelve o'clock entry!

Hi everyone! I wonder if anyone guessed where we might have visited last week?
It is somewhere we used to pop into on a whim in pre Corona times!
This time we had to go on line and book in for this visit. We had a Midday entry so we took the 12 minute drive and arrived almost exactly on time! 

There were warnings on the road telling us that if we hadn't booked we would be turned away!

This is similar sign by the gardens for anyone who thought they could walk in without coming in their car!

This was taken on our way out but you can see that it was one way only to get in which set the tone for the rest of our visit!
The last time we visited Quarry Bank Mill at Styal was back in March....Link here....now the daffodils are gone and and we also saw lots of flowers that we had missed!

 There are crops in the field by the path up to the garden entrance - the only place we could not avoid being passed by a couple walking towards us who hadn't got the sense to walk in single file - the path is quite wide but not the required 2 metres!
Once in the gardens it was one way only and reminders to keep apart.  

The newly built visitor centre and cafe waiting to open - who knows when? 

 The greenhouse roped off but we could see the grapevines growing well!

We had a peep into the small greenhouse too

A couple were sharing a picnic by the sweet peas

 No access to our favourite way down by the steps - probably because the handrail would be widely used!

 We could still look down there though

 Next we came to one of my favourite areas - the Peonies and Irises, sadly most are dying off - still beauty in decay though! 

 A peony and iris clinging to each other!

We followed directions to the path down to the lower garden.

The bees were loving this

 As you can see from this flower it had been raining (when we left home actually) but although it was windy and cool in the car park it was quite warm in the sheltered gardens!

 A better view of the new visitor centre.

The directions led us to a path we had never been on before

 Even smaller sets of steps were roped off

We were pleased to see that not all rhododendrons were finished.

You can see how steep it is down to the lower garden - thank goodness the path winds it way down slowly!

The gardeners are  working hard

Here are the Irises that were on my last post!

Lots of folk having picnics...not for us!

 The sun shone briefly and hubby had a shadow for all of ten minutes!

 A view we have never seen before as we were not allowed out onto our usual route back!

 This is where we came in....

 ...and went out!

 Back in the car park we had a drink of water and a biscuit and it is here I will join Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T Stands For Tuesday.

The whole trip took us just over an hour and a half and we were home in time for lunch....

..one of our favourites, Fish Finger sandwich and salad, and more water!

I do hope you aren't too tired now,I was going to post my latest Journal page but I will save that for my next post if you would like to see it.

Thanks for looking! Take care, we still live in dangerous times!
Chris