I'm afraid

I still have no arty stuff to show you:(

We arrived back from Iceland and hit the ground running with trips to London to sort out visa for Kazakhstan and having a new driveway/paths and patio re-laid, there was just no time for art! 

And now with my husband off on his way back to work in Kazakhstan I am off on my travels again:)

Tomorrow I travel down to Suffolk to my friends and then on Friday we fly out to The Czech Republic, Slovakia and a few days in Vienna!

 I will be gone for 2 weeks and I am sure by the time I get home I will be raring to get in the studio again.

 These goodies arrived today and will be waiting for me when I get home.........and I signed up for ANDY SKINNERS TIMEWORN online workshop......it starts at the end of August so I am hoping that will get the creative juices going again after quite a break!

These goodies are from THE STAMP ATTIC.....in case you needed to know:)

Holiday pics

We arrived home from our trip on Monday......what an absolutely amazing, fantastic time we had. It met and exceeded all of our expectations......mile after mile of gobsmacking scenery......I had a hard time deciding which pics to show you.....we took quite a few:)

So, here is just a small selection.....

 VOLCANOES.......

 to WATERFALLS

ICEBERGS ....

to GLACIERS

 TURF HOUSES..........

 to CHURCHES

GEYSERS.........

 to BUBBLING MUD POOLS

 And a day in REYKJAVIK........this is HALLGRIMSKIRKJA

a typical street view.....

 

 SUN VOYAGER sculpture on the waterfront

 and finally could not resist showing you these very cute little guys:)

Going AWOL

for the next 10 days as my husband and I (blimey sound like the queen!) are heading to ICELAND tomorrow.

 My husband has wanted to go there for as long as I've known him so it's fulfilling an ambition and we are both very excited!

Will see you when we get back.....no doubt will bore you with lots of pics!

Quick start

to a journal page!

 I made this page in my pairs swap partners journal......it was REALLY quick to do but I liked the way it came out so thought I'd share it here in more detail.

First step.....swipe a couple different colours of ink pad across the page....

 use the edge of a black ink pad to add random lines.......

 ....use a quote stamp to stamp repeatedly in lines not worrying if the complete words come out or that they overlap........

 add some torn bits of washi tape following the lines again........add stickers and draw circles around them.......

.....post to swap partner and wait to see what she adds.....

repeat in own journal cos I like it!

Do you ever wish

that you had made something you hadn't??

 Well, I wished I had made this when I saw this FABULOUS page in my pair swap journal when it dropped through my letterbox a few days ago!

I LOVE THIS JABBERWOCKY PAGE!.....thanks Sam:)

 Apart from the Jabberwocky page Sam created some other fab pages......if you want to see them click here to go to the Collabor-art page.

So, onto the pages I made in Sams journal this time round .......plenty of scope to add more to these pages

 I added the orange dots and stamped swirls to this page that Sam started..................

 the colour and the cow head and the figures around the edges of this page........

 and finally I started these pages for Sam to add to..........................

Abandoned he-art

A while ago Michael deMeng started a Facebook group called

ART ABANDONMENT

.....here is what he says about it:

 Art Abandonment is a group designed to encourage random acts of art, left in various locations around the globe. The idea is that folks can make something and leave it for a lucky unsuspecting person to find. Artists can then post locations and photos of abandoned goodies…and finders can let everyone know that they are the lucky finder! O' sweet abandon!

So leave some art. Leave a contact email for the finder…and if you get notified share the message with this group. If you prefer you can use the contact email: i.found.artwork@gmail.com we'll be checking it often and share the results. 

It's an open group so anyone can join in!

 

So, yesterday I spent a very lovely afternoon/evening with my friend PALMA REA who is visiting the UK from Italy............after I dropped her off in Chester I found a piece of abandoned art IN MY CAR! 

How cool is that??

Inside the box was this BEAUTIFUL clay piece

 I absolutely LOVE it..............thank you so much Palma.....I'll treasure it:)

Eye eye

 I bought this fun eyeball stamp recently (from The Stamp Attic) and was playing around with it today for something else and suddenly thought.......it looks like an owl!

 So in my increasingly small work space......must put some stuff away...... I made an eyeball owl journal page!

 Like this ledger stencil......makes it look like you worked on an old ledger page:)