Collage play with Crowabout

Decided to play with crowabout and use some of their wonderful collage sheets for my journal.
Here is the double page for week 71. The main image on the left page is from freebees on the "Land of Nod blog Land of Nod

The Three Muses "Incognito"

Incognito is the theme this week. I love that theme and like most weeks used it as a journal prompt.

Butterfly girl

Today I painted this litle folk art style painting on a wood panel which |I managed to get in the States. I burned the outline of the girl and then used acrylic paints, stamps some masks etc etc to do the rest. The face was done with prisma color pencils. I called her Butterfly Girl.

Thought of Motherhood

On Sunday it is Mothers Day here in the UK. As far as I know other countries celebrate mothers day on a different Sunday. Anyway, this page was inspired by thoughts of Motherhood...

The Three Muses "Newspaper"

This is a little 6 x 8 canvas. I covered it all over with newspaper scraps from this week's Saturday paper. I then collaged and painted over it and added some stamping. The words are random words that called out to me as I leafed through the same Saturday paper.

Little portrait

This is a little portrait I did on a 5 x 5 canvas. I have been doing an online portrait painting class with Sharon Tomlinson here
This is a first attempt and I am not very happy with it yet.I feel much more confident doing my faces with pencils and maybe a little paint. This is done with folk art acrylic paints mostly. I'll need a lot more practice!

Cards for ATC swap

A while back I joined a Ning site calles "Roses on my Table". Here are 6 ATCs for a swap on that site with the theme of Alice in Wonderland. I had not made any ATCs for ages and ages, so it was good fun making some again..

Back from the USA

Yesterday morning I got back from my trip to the US and I would like to start by saying thank you to all my blogging friends that wished me a good time. I had a great time even though the weather was unseasonably cold. Maybe that's why my first page is all about blooming and blossoming. I can't wait for spring to start. This is just the background to my page before having done any actual journalling.

Off to the States

I will be away from home until March 5 as I am going to the States so I will not be posting for a while and will not be able to paint or craft. I guess my withdrawal symptoms which no doubt I will have, will have to be substituted by several visits to Michaels etc.....

With this post I want to say thank you to all my lovely visitors and followers. Your wonderful comments are always very much appreciated!!

And the winners are...

Pfew, at last the time has come, we have reached the end of the magic carpet ride. I have enjoyed it so much this year and actually managed to get round to all participating blogs ( well I think so anyway). There are so many amazing creative people out there. Lisa deserves a big gold medal for having had this incredible idea...

Anyway, I said I would announce my winners at mid day GMT today, so here goes (I used a random number generator. I have emailed my winners and now just hope they will like my give aways. They are: Sisters of the Art, Bluebeard and Elzabeth and Alter my World.

Congratulations ladies!

Two further pages

Here are two further pages from my journal. Next week I will have to do some different projects for a change...

The Three Muses "Postage Stamps"

Here is my contribution to the the 3 Ms theme this week which is Posatge Stamps. I had great fun making the little faux stamps you can see on the left.

I feel I need some colour

After all my vintage pieces I felt I really needed to use some strong colours on one of my journal pages. I felt rather inspired by a series of videos on journalling by Teeasha Moore I watched on Youtube. I had great fun creating this...

The Three Muses "Birds of a Feather

The new theme at the three muses is "Birds of a Feather". Well I have done yet another journal page. That's all I seem to be doing right now...

Spreading Love

I have been spending a lot of time in the last few days on the OWOH magic carpet, hopping from blog to blog and seeing some amazing art work and generous giveaways. A lot of people have been doing that of course. This journal page was insired by this incredible event that looks as if it is going to be even bigger this year than last...

The three Muses "Quotes or Quips"

Here is my contribution to the three muses. I am sure that ultimately we create our own reality. Active dreaming and imagining is a part of that...

One World One Heart

Many of you will know there is another One World One Heart event taking place between January 25 and February 15


I will have 2 give aways. One includes two pieces of art, an altered CD and a Gothic Arch with a polymer clay frame. The other is a brand new still packaged unmounted stamp set. I will announce my winners with the help of a random number generator on February 15 at mid day GMT. I am happy to ship world wide to anyone who has an active blog. Hope everyone visiting will have a fantastic time riding the magic carpet. Can't wait for the event to start tomorrow.

The Three Muses "There is something in the air"

Another theme from the elements at the three Muses. Lots of possibilities with this one. There was a very first hint of spring in the air here, I think that inspird me for this.

The eyes see

I decided that 2010 would be the year when I would learn how to draw and paint proper portraits and figures. I would like to use less and less ready images and more and more my own figures in my artwork. But of course you have to start small. I found this brilliant face drawing class by Monica Zuniga at the hands and heart Ning site http://handsandheart.ning.com/
Monica takes you really through it step by step. Here are my first efforts at drawing realistic eyes. Unfortunately the scans have come out pretty badly...

Mixed Media Monday "Wings"

I have not been able to blog for ages, nor did I have time to create art much... work was just too busy, also I had a friend to stay. But things are slowly getting back to normal and I decided to use some of the themes on challenge blogs as art journal prompts. The theme at MMM is wings, and as I seem to be right into angels at the moment,that was easy. I also wanted to use one of the images of William Bouguereau. I got a whole Lunagirl CD full of them. I love his paintings and I know I will use them again and again. Angel and girl don't really go together in style, so I tried to tie it together with the colours I used....