in preparation

I always like to have a few pages ready to journal on and these two are in my mini journal.  I started them whilst at my crop on Saturday and sat and finished them this afternoon.  Can you tell I was thinking about the pile of pancakes I need to make while finishing the first one? 

Dream a little dream…

 

A couple of weeks ago I won a set of Tim Holtz stamps from Linda and being frugal, have stamped the images on the back of the scrapbooking paper I’m recycling from my old wedding layouts.   He does almost fill this page in my mini moleskine though! Didn’t leave a huge amount of room for my journalling.

I’ve used dylusions paints, and here you can see circles of interference paint plus a little spray of perfect pearls.  The stitches are doodled, and I couldn’t resist doing some more on the page below along with some doodled flowers. 

Image from tumblefish studio

Mini Journal

Paints & Ink Sprays: Dylusions.          Image: Tumble Fish Studio      

I love my art journals and although I’ve only been creating my pages since August 2010 I think I may be getting closer to my style.  I’m finding that I love brighter richer colours.  Colours that ordinarily I might avoid as I think of them as being too loud for my eyes.  I suffer from photophobia and I honestly think it gives me a fear of anything bright – colour included, but I’m learning to love them again.  Having said that this page is about the near constant headache I’ve had for the last week and my craving for silence. Light I can hide from, silence is not so easy to obtain in a house with a three and five year old.

Paints & Inks: Dylusions.  Images: Cemerony & Itkupilli

Another page from my small moleskine, this time in luscious red.  I think this page was also borne from my state of mind and lack of sleep down to these cluster headaches.  Ah well, tomorrow is another day!

Finally I would like to say a very big thank you to all those that have visited my blog in the last few days to view my calendar pages. I was amazed to see the stats!   Thank you so much for your visits and for your wonderful comments and here was me thinking of giving up my blog.

Small and beautiful

I seem to be in the land that migraines forgot but cluster headaches relish at the moment.  With both kids out of the house today I have pretty much slept most of it, but I did have a lucid hour to eat and relax whilst trying to come back to the land of the living before this afternoons school run hit.   While relaxing I decided to have a play in my mini art journal.

The book I'm using is a small moleskine sketchbook which measures 14 x 9 cm.  Its got 80 pages in it apparently, at least half of which have now got paint on them. This is the first page that is now ready to journal on.

I think this could well be one of my favourite pages yet and I thoroughly loved working on a small scale.