A Mixed Media Color Challenge #6

Played along in my journal with A Mixed Media Color Challenge again this week. Love combining mixed media with collage, and had lots of fun with stamps, masks, texture paste and paint.

Thanks for visiting today. Hope your weekend is full of ...........what ever brings you joy.

Lets Get Shabby Challenge #49

This months challenge at Lets Get Shabby  is to select one of the "seasonal" pictures below and use it as your inspiration to create. You can find all the details on how to play along HERE.

Sadly this is my last project for Lets Get Shabby as a DT member. I have been with the team since October 2010. Wow ! and have absolutely loved every minute of it. Mandy and Julie have always come up with new and different inspiration ideas and have been so easy going, organised, warm and friendly that the time has slipped by with me hardly realising how long it's been. Thank you girls ! Thanks for having me, I have loved my time creating at Lets Get Shabby.

The photo representing Autumn was an easy choice for me. I love the depth of colour that nature can create in Autumn, it is my favourite season....the oppressive heat of summer is replaced by cool, crisp evenings and the dusty, faded, bleached colours of summer are replaced with deep rich hues that are like a last hurrah before the colourless greys of winter.

Thank you for taking the time to visit today. The seasons and weeks are going by way too fast...may you find time in your busy days to see where nature is at; take a minute, and appreciate it.

A Mixed Media Color Challenge #5

Played along with A Mixed Media Color Challenge again. It is the best promp and inspiration for me to get out my Art Journal and just have fun...and inks, paints stamps and masks make me very happy. I'm a bit late getting this one done but could not resist these colours. Seem to be on a bit of a Paisley  theme at the moment ( just an old hippie at heart ).

Thank you for visiting me today. I hope the rest of this week is full of colours that bring you peace and make you happy.

A Peek At Paris

Is this one of my fondest memories of Paris.....French Champagne and French Onion Soup ? Maybe, they were certainly the best I have ever had !

Yes, cheesy and touristy and this photo looks like a post card ( can assure you it is my photograph ) but well worth visiting. A beautiful local girl who went to ballet school with my daughters has been dancing at The Moulin for the last 4 years and gifted us tickets to the show. It was a fantastic nights entertainment !

Just one of many very wonderful small bakeries, producing the most delicious breads and pastries. Is it any wonder that we love all things French when every thing they make is done with immense pride and so much attention to detail. 

Condemned in its time as an eyesore, called both a "belfry skeleton" and a "truly tragic street lamp" and described by Guy de Maupassant as a "high and skinny pyramid of ladders....which just peters out into a ridiculous thin shape like a factory chimney", this amazing metal masterpiece, the Eiffel Tower, is today, the most beloved symbol of Paris.

Of course we ate plenty of these....this is the chocolate variety.

The very beautiful Pont Alexandre 111. So typical of elegant French style with its iconic Art Nouveau lamps and rich gilded statuary of cherubs, nymphs and winged horses. I could not believe how the gold  stood out....it was so intense, almost as though it had been lit from within.

These are the last photos I will be posting on my trip to Paris last December. Such a very beautiful and truly unique city, I can not wait to go there again ! Thank you for visiting today. Hope the week ahead is full of happy surprises.

Scrap Around The World..........August Challenge #4

Another beautiful moodboard and sketch have been created for this months challenge at Scrap Around The World.

Hop on over to the Scrap Around The World blog HERE for ALL the details on how to play along as well as all the fabulous inspiration from the DT.

 Reveal # 4 from Scrap Around The World Designer Eila Sandberg together with 

an unusual sketch from our resident sketch designer, Jules McKenna-De Lumen!

The beautiful hair piece with the leaf shapes & the little twig with pink buds & pale blue & peach coloured feathers were what I noticed first on the mood board. I've used a feather mask with texture paste and a Prima blossom twig to partly circle my photo along with canvas mistable leaves. The sketch, with all it's circles, was wonderful to work with & opened up so many possibilities! I interpreted it with paper circles, chipboard and a gorgeous Prima clock!!

Our challenges are open to everyone, anywhere in the world

 & all this month's prizes include FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING!!

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This month our merit winner will receive this huge prize pack from Green Tara!

2nd place will receive paper collection 'Special Moments' from Polish company Studio 75!

See their full range here in their online store.

3rd place will receive a $25 chipboard prize-pack from

Scrapmatts Chipboard in Australia,

containing a selection of their latest releases!

4th place will receive a $15 prize-pack of your choice from Purple Pumpkin!

       

They are an Australian based mother/daughter team & create wonderful additions to your pages, 

which can be found in their online store HERE.

Our random winner will receive an electronic gift voucher 

to the value of US$25 from "A Cherry On Top" courtesy of Eila!

{Yes they ship internationally!!}

Hope you can play along with us this month. Thanks for visiting today....hope your weekend is full of fun and hugs.

Lets Get Shabby Challenge #48

The challenge at Lets Get Shabby this month is about GREEN. Not just about the colour tho, but also FOLIAGE, LEAVES, TREES, VINES and any PLANT FORMS you can dream up. You can see what the rest of the team have created and get all the details on how to play along HERE.

I do love blossom. This photo is what I originally had as my first blog header and is what my current header is based on....ha, I've certainly got my moneys worth out of this one simple photo taken so long ago.

Inky dribbles, canvas leaves, velvet flowers and delicate die-cut foliage all make for different textures.

Mask, texture paste and ink.

Chipboard coloured with ink and then 'crackle medium' applied.

Today, I also want to thank every one who left a comment for me on my last post and my mixed media journal page. I have been away for all of last week with no computer. When I got home this morning and read all the truly wonderful comments that so many of you had taken the time and effort to leave for me I was so touched, thankful, and of course, as we all know, comments make us happy :))

I was fortunate enough this time round to be featured, so I had a double whammy of happiness. If you are interested in mixed media challenges pop over HERE and join in the fun. The colour challenge here this time round is red, so after creating HERE at Lets Get Shabby with green, you can compliment it HERE at A Mixed Media Color Challenge with red.

Thank you for visiting me today. I hope your weekend is full of fun, colour, warm hugs and good coffee. 

Mixed Media Color Challenge #3

Had some more fun playing along with A Mixed Media Color Challenge again this week. I have to be honest and admit that my background had already been done, it was a reject piece of craft paper that I had created a background on for something else using a diamond mask and inks, but didn't end up using. It was too pretty to throw away so kept it just incase and as it happened the color scheme for this  challenge was pale blue and turquoise. So, I stuck it into my journal and played around with it a bit more adding some texture with paste, some stamping some more gesso and paint and a pretty little floral die-cut.

Thanks for dropping by today, have a great weekend.