Tagging my recycling!

 Hi everyone, we are back from our travels. We had six days in Paris then one day at home before a round trip of around 170 miles to attend my uncle's funeral. He had lived a happy life until his last few months when illness set in. While it was not a happy occasion his instructions were 'not to be sad'. All of us there shared our memories of him and it was good to chat to aunts and cousins as well as my brother and his wife. After our shopping trip today we have had a relaxing afternoon.

For Art Journal Journey and Bleubeard and Elizabeth's theme 'Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose' I have reused two old tags.

I covered the whole page with old receipts to begin with.

I added some green paint randomly over the page then repeat stamped  onto the page, I added some arrows to the tags and then stamped them around the edges of the page. The tags were stuck to the page....done!!

Thanks for looking, Chris

 

Hello Spring

 Hi everyone, I really do hope that this title rings true, I am so ready for some Spring sunshine! We have a new theme at Try It On Tuesday - 'Hello Spring' 

The Design Team are ready for Spring too, please take look here!

I started my journal page with some spritzed green inks, I added some leaves with paint through a stencil then added some torn up scraps of leafy napkin tissue. The Carabelle Studio, Birgit Koopsen Tulips were stamped, coloured with Promarkers and cut out.

The quote is from a Paper Artsy by Alison Bomber, mounted onto yellow and green paper.

I hope you will welcome Spring with our 'Hello Spring' theme this time at TIOT. I look forward to seeing what you create.

Thanks for looking, Chris 

Update - I have no idea why this didn't schedule but couldn't do anything about it until we got back from Paris, which unfortunately, thanks to Avanti West Coast was a lot later than we intended being home. We had a little lie in this morning!

Loving my greens!

Hi everyone, I have another page for Art Journal Journey where The Altered Book Lover's Bleubeard and Elizabeth (I'm sure Elizabeth is getting some help from Bleubeard) have the theme - 'Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose'

I had some quite ugly gelli printed paper and the final piece of a  designer paper.

I looked through a little scraps bag and found the book paper heart and the dictionary paper, then another bag turned up the receipt from our trip to Avignon (No, I don't throw much away!), the piece of stamped Crafty Individual paper (the rest didn't stamp well) and the map hearts.

I stamped, added some random water colours and fussy cut a stamp I bought at Version Scrap in Paris last year and added a Crafty Individuals diamond stamp with part of a background stamp that has been separated from the sheet!

Finally everything was spattered with black distress ink that I dabbed with a tissue so it wasn't too black.

By now we should be home(briefly, as we have to drive 100 miles to a funeral this week)

Thanks for looking, Chris

Storage page

 Hi everyone, I have a rather unusual journal page today, it is pasted onto a cereal box.

I have purchased quite a few stencils over the years and one cereal box wasn't enough so when we emptied one recently I set to to decorate another.

Here it is with my reorganised stencils

I decorated the back too 

I used lots of scraps of papers I decorated in the past, along with some scraps of leftover designer paper, some under paper from spray box, birthday cards, magazine images, wrapping paper and a Tim Holtz small talk sticker.

Elizabeth's theme at Art Journal Journey is 'Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose'. 

A lot of these items would have ended up in the bin if I hadn't 'rescued' them - I am slowly getting through my scrap mountain!

Thanks for looking, Chris

Recycle

 Hi everyone, we have a new theme at Art Journal Journey today.  We also have a new host, Elizabeth of The Altered Book Lover, who I am sure will be helped along through the month by lovely Bleubeard!

She has chosen 'Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose' as her theme.

Huge thanks to Valerie who gave us some freedom of choice in our subject matter and I guess that as long as we remember to do some recycling etc. along the way Elizabeth will be kind to us and let us choose a little too!

For my first page I have recycled a lot!

The page was sprinkled with Paper Artsy Infusions and spritzed. I used a tag I made back in January, I added some ink to the tag which was mainly white. I used some chocolate paper that had had some of the foil ripped off. When I added the coffee pack die cut it looked a bit lost, I had scrap of red dot tissue that once I added it defined the die cut more.

I added a couple of US postage stamps. A mini brick stamp by Paper Artsy gave some texture around the edges and just for fun I added some spatters.

 

I hope you can join us at AJJ this month with your 'Recycle, Reuse, Repurpose' pages.

Thanks for looking, Chris

Happiness is...........

 Hi everyone, I have another page for Valerie's 'Anything Goes'  theme at Art Journal Journey blog.

This will be my last page for Valerie's theme. I have really enjoyed making pages for this month, I've used some stamps I haven't used for ages. Thank you also for your inspiration Valerie, especially your faces. 

My face is a Paper Artsy Lynne Perella stamp. I spritzed some blue Distress Ink with water on an acrylic block and pressed it onto the page. I added more Distress Ink (Ripe Persimmon and Aged Mahogany) through two different stencils. I added some Seth Apter stamps and coloured the image with Derwent pencils. Finally I added 'Happiness', a JOFY Paper Artsy stamp and a little bit of spattering.

I hope to join Nicole's Friday Face Off this time too

Thanks for looking, Chris

T Stands for The Rush...

Hi everyone this will be a rushed post today. 

We finally got our car back late yesterday afternoon. If they had told us the reason why there was a hold up I wouldn't have minded so much, but the silence (which was about a part not turning up a soon as it should have, then another part that was sent being too big!) was really annoying!

We had to do a very rushed online grocery order on Friday afternoon which meant I forgot a couple of important items for a new recipe I planned making so we had a short village walk on Saturday.

The time I spent on the phone also meant that it ate into my crafting time, which as I needed to schedule posts wasn't good.

I did manage to make this page for Valerie's 'Anything Goes'  theme at Art Journal Journey blog

The base for my page was a stencil mop up to which I added ink through some sequin waste and some stamps by Jo Firth Young from Paper Artsy. The main image is a Trish Latimer girl. She is grounded by some washi tape and some stamping.

The words are from two separate stamps(one masked off) by Visible Image.

We had a lot of rain last week so the river was quite full

We walked on the new path that was made after the work on that side to do repairs the bridge was finished.

We got some different views of the island, that as you can see has almost disappeared .

Lovely to see new greenery...and newly planted trees to replace the ones they uprooted!

As you can see, the river is very calm before it reaches the weir

The old village must have been pretty in the past.

We were also lucky to have youngest and partner to pick us up to meet middle son and two grandchildren at Styal.

I forgot to take photos until we were almost ready to leave.

It was a lovely afternoon, which included a light lunch. 

The weir here was rushing over too!

The heron obligingly posed and so did the family! (I refuse to short this word to the modern 'fam'!!!)

Looking forward to seeing the Magnolia tree when we get back from....Paris, yes we're off tomorrow!

I just have time to show you the drinks we had with our meal on Wednesday when we took our car in. Here we are with our shared starter of garlic bread - we were also given some delicious pasta crisps.My drink was Apple and Sour Cherry(delicious) and hubby had a fancy orange drink! 

I am joining Bleubeard and Elizabeth at The Altered Book Lover blog along with the rest of the T club at T Stands For Tuesday.

I may not get here for T next week but I will share my Paris photos when we get home.

Thanks for looking, Chris