Autumn is my favourite colour

 Hello everyone, we've been having some of those grey days that the UK does so well, but with the leaves turning to so many beautiful colours, along with the berry and fruit show this year it's a beautiful place to be!

Try It On Tuesday are celebrating that with our new theme 'Autumn' and you can see what that means to the Design Team here.

I made a few Autumn backgrounds in some of my journals and chose a small square page for this.

I stamped some All and Create leaves and coloured them with Derwent watercolour pencils. I cut some Collage Soup Autumn collage to make a block on my page and then sprinkled the leaves over. Some were too large to look right so I used Printshop to resize some. The squirrel is cut from some Stamperia paper. The quote was stamped onto a scrap that was on my desk.

I do hope you will celebrate this season with us at TIOT this time with our 'Autumn' theme.

Thanks for looking, Chris  

New TIOT theme

 Hi everyone, We have a new theme at Try It On Tuesday and it's one I think is going to be popular with a lot of you. 'Animals - real or imaginary' is our new theme. The Design Team have some fun examples to share with you.

I chose a stamp that I really love, even though I don't use it often.

I used Neocolourll watercolour crayons, along with a wide waterbrush, to make a background. I left the middle free to do my stamping then filled in the gaps afterwards.

I coloured in the image with watercolour pencils and a fine brush.     I love this little family with the busy Mum feeding her young.

The sentiment was taken from a sticker set by The Works.

To finish it off I added a brown watercolour border.

I hope you will join us this time at TIOT with your favourite 'Animals'. 

You have two weeks until the theme changes                           The Rules and Guidelines are here.

Thanks for looking, Chris

If I'm not too late I would like to join Mia for her 'Make Your Own Backgrounds' theme at Art Journal Journey.

Pretty Papers

Hello everybody, it's very nearly officially Autumn and it's also time for the start of a new theme at TIOT.  Time is flying, especially as I have been sorting out my craft room. That was good though, as I found lots of 'Pretty Papers', which just happens to be the new Try It On Tuesday theme. We all have some lovely papers on the Design Team, as you will see here.

I made a journal page...

I chose a 13Arts page for the background than added some different parts of a few different Stamperia pads. After cutting them out I used a Tim Holtz distress tool to scruff up the edges (yes, the little tool has turned up, so I no longer need to use scissors for making distressed edges)

I am pleased to be cutting into my papers. While tidying I managed to make quite a pile of papers I won't use, to take to the local school. They will be more useful there than a charity shop I think.

I hope you will look through your 'Pretty Papers' and join us this time at TIOT.

Thanks for looking, Chris

 

Children at TIOT

 Hi everyone, just in time as many children either start or return to school this week we have a new Try It On Tuesday topic 'Children'. The Design Team have some fabulous inspiration for you.

I used an All and Create stencil first with Picked Raspberry DI then Vintage Photo leaving a space in the middle for my Crafty Individuals image of two sisters taking a walk. I added some Kaisercraft background stamps to add more squares. The words are from Tim Holtz.

I do hope you will join us at TIOT this time. Rules and guidelines are here.

Thanks for looking, Chris 

Always Shining

 Hi everyone, I'm just popping in with a final page because I wanted to thank everyone who joined in with my 'Hot Summer(Days and Nights)' theme at Art Journal Journey.

There was so much lovely art to see and I so enjoyed being here and seeing them all. Thank you all for your support. 

Thank you to the Art Journal Journey Team for asking me! It has been good to get back to some regular art journaling! 

I cut up a calendar page for this, it reminded me of the seaside towns we used to visit on our Summer Holidays and I'm sure the sun shone every day. The border is some scrappy washi tape I made at Journalfest in July. I also used a sponge ink applicator to add some yellow circles and a pink pen to add some dots. The words were done using Printshop on my computer.

Thanks for looking, Chris

Rainy Days

 Hi everyone, yes unfortunately 'Hot Summer' days sometimes include rain, the temperatures haven't dropped, but as well as some lovely sunshine we have had some really heavy showers this week and Mr Umbrella Man is making an appearance!

You may remember me saying that my original inspiration for my Art Journal Journey theme came from Neil Diamond and his Hot August Night concert in Los Angeles. He sang many old favourites and 'Solitary Man' was one of them

Here is my 'Solitary Man' page. 

I started by using blue Distress inks on an acrylic block, which I spritzed and pressed all over my page, with a few spatters for good measure! I then used a Funky Fossils cloud stencil by adding Black Distres Ink to the stencil and spritzing before pressing onto the page. I know clouds are not blue but wanted the spattery blue to give some more colour to the page. I used Tim Holtz's Umbrella man die cut (in yellow to show that the sun was going to shine again very soon!).       I added some black pen dots for scattered showers!

Finally I am once again practicing my lettering with the title! I think I have a long way to go! 

Thanks for looking, Chris

Off to the Beach

 Hi everyone, the weather seems to have picked up a little bit and we have had some lovely evening sun. My latest page for my 'Hot Summer' theme at Art Journal Journey is still at the beach though.

I used to love visiting the beach when I was a child and then when we had our caravan near Morecambe I would love to just walk along the shoreline. 

I had a watery looking page in my square journal. I used some scraps of paper cut into squares/rectangles and joined them together - I added some stamped shells and some stamped, coloured  and fussy cut beach items too. The sentiment came from the same set. I used markers to outline the papers.

I would love to cool down at the beach on a 'Hot Summer' day but I don't think I would spend a whole day now I'm older!

I am a little behind with catching up with posts, last week was a week full of appointments and tradesmen visits and ended with a day out for our 25th Wedding Anniversary. I'll be with you soon! 

Thanks for looking, Chris