April

 The showers continue to plague us & I’m desperate for decent weather so I’m glad I have got a week booked in southern Spain at the en of the month. I need to get some gardening done but it’s so muddy and waterlogged that I can’t summon the enthusiasm for it. However my craft room has seen plenty of activity!

Here’s a little catch-up 

Life documented 

Colour me positive 

Some cards & coins

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Add an item a day 

Grandson is 19!

His sister is 21!!!

And finally an anniversary card 

See you soon…..

Free course

 I have just spent the week on a free course and what FUN I have had! Certainly messy at times but who cares…

Day 1 MESSY we made papers with splashes and drips 

This is acrylic ink(blue) My Colour Studio intense ink ( bright pink but the label calls it tangerine!) yellow is Windsor & Newton and the black Parker Quink. I added some stencilling with black acrylic and white gesso. 

Day 2 SCRAPS 

Kraft paper tape is used as a foundation for scraps that are still not quite finished as they have to be stitched- no room for my machine on the desk until I finish the course!

Day 3

Decorations 

For this one I took a couple of the tags I made, got my Cropodile out & added some eyelets, ribbons, fuzzy beads (right hand tag) 

Day 4

COLLAGE

Black and white scraps masterboard - I’m waiting for a new die to arrive before I cut it!

Day 4

DYING 

another messy day here with torn strips of sheeting, linen & linen shirt scraps & some gauze 

Pink is the tangerine ink purple is Deka silk paint 

Green silk paint & Windsor and Newton yellow ink

Day 5

CLUSTER 

Cluster: 7 layers of scraps (5 silk 1mesh 1 dyed gauze) tyvek bead - silver heart button is foil takeaway dish that has been run through a ribbler in multiple directions and a heart punch + 2 needle holes- the circle is a washer that has been buttonhole stitched before it was applied, sometimes I use these for fake Shisha work and will add seed beads around the edge

WHAT A FUN WEEK!

Mad March

 The days are getting longer but I’m still waiting for the better weather to arrive in NE Scotland!

At least I don’t have to find an excuse to be in my workroom rather than the garden- it’s far too cold & muddy to get out there. 

Here’s what I have been doing recently…

Scrap collage (free course) monochrome 

Another course with limited colours required making collage papers 

And after selecting a few of them I ended up with 2 pages of 3x3 collages 

Colour me positive 

A catch up with the prompts 

And we have a new theme for March at Life Documented 

Use a limited colour palette & scraps…. Perfect for what I have been doing recently lol

Across at Art Prompts Galore it’s alphabet ATC coins 

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That’s all for the moment… bring on the Spring!

Another colagragh

 Life documented is leaning towards technique this year and so we were doing tape/paper colograph this time. Definitely not a technique that I was enamoured with!

Fabric like medical tape/ lace on double sided tape/ masking tape + diecut lacy square

Salvaged patina oxide ink brayered onto the tapes& printed 

Grey acrylic paint 

Torn into strips and woven , quote written on a label 

And as a very last minute make….

I rustled up this one yesterday afternoon before I went to meet friends as I had just discovered that it was his 70th birthday today!

It’s still February!

 I’m glad that this month has been a little slower apart from the fact that I have had pneumonia! I’ve been weary due to the antibiotics but it’s been a great reason to be creative. 

I’ve been doing more work in my “Fragments “ journal, keeping up with the daily prompts in another one that I want to fill up, working on the “add an item a day “ which is now finished as is the companion piece that I created from a failed collage piece - I used some Lavinia Stamps advertising images as the colours were perfect for the backgrounds that I had created  

Art prompts galore pages are done 

Drywall tape/black/game piece 

Multiple stencils/paper doily/drips 

And a cute little book from the “Fringed Flip Book “ course (free) with B B HENRY (bbhenryart.com) which was fun!