Love Birds

This is a page for a year long monthly bird themed journal page swap in my art group. This month, as to be expected, the theme was "Love Birds". The image is from a bird themed collage sheet by Itkupilli. I adore her bird images as you can see from my blogheader and background.

February Calendar page

I am finally getting round to posting my February calendar page. I actually had it finished in time, I just forgot to post it here.
I am sorry that it is such a bad photo, but the journal I am doing these pages in is too big for my scanner.

Altoid tin card swap

In my art group we are doing a swap of little cards that will fit into an altered altoid mints tin. The little cards are 2" by 3.25", each of the particpants had to choose a theme and all the others had to make a card for them. There is 6 of us in the group so in the end each of us will have pretty cards in our chosen theme to put in our altered tin.
Here are the cards I made:

This one is to the theme of "Big eyed people"

These two are "Steampunk" and "Phrenology"

This one's theme is "Portals", my little doorway actually opens, behind the door is the word Hope.
Finally

This one is to the theme of Things with wings and pointy hats".
My own theme was Steampunk also and I can't wait to get my little cards. being even smaller than an ATC, they were great fun to do!

Take a word "Botanical"

Here is my contribution for this week's "Take a Word" where the theme is "Botanical".
The main image is from a vintage photo CD I have, altered in photoshop. Some of the flowers are from Magic by

The Three Muses "Artist of Choice"

The theme at the Three Ms is Artist of Choice. I could have chosen so many as I really don't have one favourite one. However, the one that seems to crop up again and again in my own artwork is William Bouguereau. I just love is lifelike young girls and women. The image in this journal page is from a Lunagirl CD that I purchased a while back.

Take a Word "Butterfly"

Here is my contibution for take a word challenge blog where the theme is Butterfly.
It's ages since I played in a challenge, but I love butterflies, so really wanted to do this one.

I have been published

I have just officially heard that I've been published in Somerset Studios Art Journaling magazine! I have n't seen a copy of it yet but hope to get one soon. It's my little travel journal that I made over the summer, if you scroll down my blog you'll find the pages somewhere I'm sure:o)

Having fun

I've had the most wonderful day in my art space making various pieces for a swap and a challenge in my art group.
Here are three atcs on the theme of "Birds". Each atc had to have a bird on it, an egg and the word egg somewhere.




And here is a journal page. This is for a challenge. We have to do one or two pages every month on a given theme. The theme this month was "favourite colour". I just could not decide what my favourite colour is and so I chose all the colours of the rainbow, though in fact it turned out that blue was the most dominant.

Mini journal

In my art group we are doing a mini journal swap. We have to make a 3.5 by 5" page each month on the theme of Birds. We are encouraged to think outside the box. I loved a freebee, that the generous Terri Kahrs has posted on her blog, so much that I decided to use it for my first page. I altered it quite a bit but you can find the original here Thank you Terri!

2011 Monthly Calendar

Just came back from Australia yesterday.
Like many people I am taking up Kate Crane's monthly calendar challenge again.
Here is my page for January with the first few days filled in.
You can find out more about this challenge on Kate's blog here

Rose in Winter

Today is the day that I leave for Australia to be with my youngest son for Christmas.

I just want to thank all my blogging friends for their support and wonderful comments. Thank you so much they are very much appreciated.
I will not be blogging much while away, other than perhaps the odd photograph. I hope to visit many of your blogs though while away and look forward to the inspiration.

Wishing all the very best holiday season!
This picture is a photo I took in my garden the other day, jazzed up a bit with some textures from Brenda Starr and Katmary on flickr, they can be found in the textures for layers group. Thank you both!
It looks quite cool printed out with a bit of glitter added, - feel free to use.

2 journal pages

We have loads of snow here in Edinburgh and that meant that school was closed both today and tomorrow, two extra days of holiday, yippee and more play time of course. 

Here are a couple of jourrnal pages. 




Most of the elements are from collage sheets by Tumble Fish Studios on Etsy. You can find them here

Birthday card for a special friend

I have not blogged anything for ages. Normally I don't blog my cards but thought I would make an exception with this one. It's for a special friend and I have to say it looks better in real than on the picture here.

I also have some exciting news. I was contacted by Stampington's Artjournalling magazine and they have accepted one of my journals. It will be published in the January issue.

Next Saturday I am off to see my son in Australia over Christmas, so probably will not be blogging much in the next few weeks.

This is the card

and this is the card with matching envelope
The stamp used on the card is by Oxford Impressions.

Take a Word "Moon"

Everybody loves the moon, the new moon, the full moon, the harvest moon and a blue moon. Here is my creation for the challenge this week.


Credits:
Background: Photo taken by my son. Textures Natalie Lif on Flickr. Images Teesha Moore altered by me.

One Sheet Mini Book

Here is a little mini book I have made out of one sheet of A4 (8.5/11") paper. I made it for a swap in my art group. The theme was free choice but it had to have quotes in it.

Making these little mini books is great fun! Here is a link to a really clear explanation (I think) of how to do them.
mini book

Front cover


page 1&2


page 3 & 4


page 5 & 6


Back cover

Take a Word "Angel"

The theme at Take a word is Angel. I called my Angel atc Inner Peace. The background is from Joes Sistah on Flickr.

Art, Heart & Healing

Like many people in blog world it seems, I have become a member of Willowing Ning site in order to participate in the free course Tammy is offering there.
Here is a picture I did in my journal after watching the videos of the first week. I did not follow exactly what she was just suggesting, but I incorporated some of her background techniques. For those of you who have not heard of this course yet, I put a button on my side bar.

Take a Word "Time"

As many of you will have noticed, there is a new challenge blog run by the clever ladies of the Three Muses.
Every week they will give us a challenge to create something with a word prompt. This week is it is "Time"

Time is something I never seem to have enough of (like many people I'm guessing). I decided to create a tribute to the Goddess of Time, asking her to grant me more. The piece did not work out at all how I had wanted it, but at least I had fun painting...

The Three Muses "Hats"

Time was rather short this week, so all I had time for was a rather boring atc with a hatted lady on it. Sorry not very inspired but I did want be part of the challenge and hope to be inspired by others:o)

5 x 7 journal page

This is the front and the back of a 5 x 7 journal I am doing in my art group.
SIDE ONE

The main image on this one is a freebee from Pringle Hill Studios which I altered slightly. Thank you Terri!
SIDE TWO

The main image on this one is from Digital Collages.com