T is for...........

The weather today is beautiful.
This was my garden this morning, gorgeous hot sunshine

Today I am sharing my newest art journal page made for the Craft Barn dictionary challenge where the letter is T and also for some other great challenges where the themes are summer/floral/ things with wings etc. Just up my street.

My daughter and SIL have been to 2 weddings 2 weeks in a row so I was feeling in quite a wedding mood.  I thought I would create a summer wedding page when I came across a great word in my vintage dictionary....

tintinnabulation.......

tintin what I hear you say (and if you have heard of it you get a brownie point) I certainly hadn't.

Yes tintinnabulation.

My clever Hb knew its definition  and we agreed it would be the perfect word to use.

 I can often hear the local church bells ring when there is a wedding.
Out came my summery TH stamps and I stamped in various archival inks.

I added some other stamps too and then started dabbing on white, gold and bronze acrylic paints until I was happy with the background.

My bells were altered with tissue and coloured with distress stains. I added a sprinkle of

golden glitter.

I added sparkle medium through stencils to the bells and to the page to get  a real bridal feel.

Then I just got too carried away to take any more process photos!

Here is my finished piece. I added some wide lace to give the appearance of a brides veil hiding the texture and fabric of her beautiful dress.
The dragonfly gives the feel of a hot June day.

The bells are ringing...tintinnabulation...LOLOL!

 To see how I made the dragonfly you will have to come back to see my June Tim card post. I will share this soon.

 The lovely pink ribbon is from my own daughter's christening cake I made in June 1986...30 years ago. The church bells rang then too.

I would like to enter my page into the following challenges;

The Craft Barn t is for tintinnabulation
A Vintage Journey use texture/embossing paste
Creative Carte Blanche things with wings
Pixie's snippets playground #232 I used snippets of card for my flowers
Allsorts the great outdoors
Frilly and Funkie let the words do the talking
Noor summer
Stamps and stencils floral frenzy

I am heading straight back out to the sunny garden now, time to put on the kettle or it may even be Pimm's O'Clock soon ..who knows. Enjoy your Sunday too. Don't forget to listen for the tintinnabulation, especially if there is a wedding taking place. I think I will just sit and listen to the bees today....bliss.

Thanks as always for your kind visits and sweet comments you take the time to leave.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x