Golden!
I am so excited to be adding Golden Fluid Acrylics and a selection of Golden Mediums to the store. May take a couple of days, or three to get them all online. If you can’t wait that long, please feel free to email me at sales@asprinkleofimagination .com for details if you want to place an order before they are online.
I seem to be getting less and less time to be creative of late, but as I had received my fab piece of mail art from Sarah, I needed to get on with the piece I was going to do for Shirley. I am happy to say it’s finally gone in the post today.
I really hope she likes it as I thoroughly enjoyed making it. Lots of techniques - collage, handmade patterned papers, stitching, oodles of wax. Not sure the pictures do it justice, but I found it really tactile. Perhaps Shirley will let you know what she thinks when she receives it, which fingers crossed should be tomorrow. I’m just hoping it survives with all that wax and this heat! eek.
Graphic 45 Olde Curiosity Shoppe
The flying pig on this set of Graphic 45 stamps
So what’s floating your crafty boat this week?
is coming home from a hard days shopping (I know, but birthday shopping for a very girlie little girl when you’re not girlie – in the slightest, with the exception of a love for stilettos' and handbags. Ok that makes me sound girlie, but I promise you I’m not, I think I just like having shoes that will inflict damage if required – self defence shoes shall we call them). I digress.
Happiness is coming home and finding fabulous mail art waiting for you….
I joined Collabor-ART, the brain child of Sarah, who created this piece for me. The photo’s really don’t do it justice, but isn’t that always the case. Everything looks better in real life.
One of the on-going projects is a mail art trail. I have yet to create my piece for Shirley, who’s UKS Circle Journal I also have. Looks like I need to crack the pain open very soon.
In the meantime I have done a couple of background in my latest art journal. Actually I did them a couple of weeks ago, but I just haven’t had time to take photo’s or blog them until today. Dribble free pages, on top at least, so far. Lots and lots of layers though.
Right, better get back to it! Thanks for stopping by.
I now have a little section in my journal filled with dribbly pages. For now I’m enjoying them.
was all it took. Thanks Ally!
So many of you have asked me to share the whole page from my last dribbly page. Sorry, I forgot, been caught up in lots of shop stuff since. I haven’t even picked up a tube of paint since. Well, here it is…although sharing it now is making me think it needs something else. Think I’ll whack some black around the edge. What do you think?
What I do think though is that the left hand one looks like a monkey hanging out of a tree!
You understand that all this dribbling is acrylic ink on my pages. It’s not actually me dribbling. I’m not that bad.
A simple painted background for this one then I got out my beloved acrylic ink to doodle and dribble.
In answer to the questions about the page I shared yesterday, the letters are indeed letter stickers. Old BasicGrey Motifica one’s to be exact. Now you know how long I have had them! So what are you waiting for, get all your old letter stickers out and create some texture with them.
One of my problem pages. As I mentioned before I’m on a mission to add more texture to my pages, and this is one of them, but I’m stuck again.
I envisaged it being a black and white page when I started. That alone is rare as I never envisage anything when I start a page. Needless to say I should stick to that as it didn’t work first time around. So it got covered with the trusty gesso.
Then I added colour. Didn’t like it.
More colour. Yeaaah, that was ok.
Needed more.
More colour.
Now I’ve added black to it. Yes! Like it now.
But what to do next. Guess for now it will stay as a background waiting for the next round of inspiration to strike.
Finally I didn’t just find time, I made time to play in my journal. It was a page of layer as I started and liked, carried on and hated, got out the gesso and palette knife and covered up most of it. The more layers I added the more I liked what was being created.
When I was happy I whipped out the rubber stamps as this page didn’t scream “write on me” and I had a nagging feeling that if I did I wouldn’t like it so much any more.
Tim’s stamp said what I needed it to say as right now I’m working hard to follow some life long dreams. It’s hard work and I have been told that I beat myself up to much when something doesn’t go to plan. And the little girl, she represents me, as well as being my favourite stamp. She’s becoming a fond friend in this journal.
A work in progress, but I thought I’d share it all the same. This one is using off cuts and chopped up tags to create of focal point. The background was painted in with dabbers in aqua, pool and stream.
It still needs some work on it, but I’m waiting for that inspiration to strike. Maybe I’ll crack out the inktense pencils for it.
I’m not quite sure why, but last week I decided that I “needed” to start a new journal, and while having a tidy up (and I use that term loosely) I found a moleskine sketchbook. Perfect as I want this journal to just be double pages.
I’ve set to work in it already and have a bunch of pages that are all very different from each other. One of them I’m already not to seen on, but hey, I wanted to try something, and I did, and now I know not to try it again.
Recently on UKStampers, a question was asked in the Art Journalling forum – “what gets a page started”. I had to think about it as often I don’t think about it. It can be as simple as what’s to hand. Having had a bit of a tidy up has probably been a huge contribution to my sudden burst of creativity as now everything is to hand. All my paint, ink sprays, mediums, pencils…oh the joy. The page above was partly down to that. The pink (Liquitex HB in Medium Magenta) is my current colour obsession, evidenced by the fact I have just ordered a pair of magenta nubuck ballet shoes from French Sole (another addiction I have). But that’s a different story.
Back to the page, I love magenta, and came across my Gold dabber when tiding them away. I love the metallic dabbers. They look like nothing in the bottles, but they are probably my to date, favourite metallic paints.
If you’re going to use your favourite colour, why not your favourite stamp? Simple page, full of favourites. I love this little girl from Stampotique and she works great as a repeated image.
Other occasions, it’s something I want to say that brings about a page. On this one, I wanted to express how the days just seem to running into the nights at the moment. That good ole perennial struggle for more hours in the day please. So, I did a sun in the place of the moon. The sun was done with Liquitex HB Cadmium Yellow Light Hue, Cadmium Orange and Red Pepper Paint Dabber, the sky with Jenni Bowlin’s Spice Tin dabber (It makes a great night sky colour). The whole page was then spritzed with Perfect Pearl Mist in Perfect Pearl, just to give it a starry shimmer without the pain of creating stars.
I’m going to get back to some creativity now, but don’t forget to check out UKScrappers Art Journey where this week I’m looking at bring texture into your pages.
Thanks for stopping by!
On the way back from our trip to Edinburgh we stopped off at the Angel of the North. I have wanted to see it in person since it was commissioned, and all I have to say is “ wow”. We even got blue skies for the occasion.
I’m still drawing/doodling, which ever you want to call it. I’m not quite doing something everyday, but here are a couple of no where near finished pages in my A4 moleskine. They are at the basic drawing stage awaiting lots more colour and me to have a clue where to take them next. Still gives, me something to do!
Tien Tien (also known as Sweetie in english)
There is nothing like being back in your own bed, but we had a lovely time away in Edinburgh. Such a fascinating city and, in all honesty, we ran out of time to see and do everything we wanted to do. With two small kids in tow and a Panda’s at the zoo, Edinburgh Zoo was top of our list to visit.
As lovely as Panda’s are, and we had a very enthusiastic guide, who furnished us with loads of information and made it great visit, my heart lies with the big cats. In particular the Jaguar. Edinburgh Zoo even has a male with a black coat. Heaven for me. I could have stayed and watched them all day.
