Farmyard fun

We had such a fab few days with our Daisy staying. We packed so much in during her stay including a visit to Godstone Farm, which we have not been to since our own children were pre school. We both love pigs and she squealed as she found this to ride!

 There are great play areas too where she whiled away a very pleasant afternoon. 

Daisy loves to craft and I thought I would share some of her little projects she made with me. First up she wanted to make something to put her "Pound Shop" Easter crafting buys.

 We cut down a box to make a nest, she decorated the outside with distress inks

 we then put some scraps of paper through my shredder to make some "nesting" material

she added some die cuts and then had a place to put her Easter goodies.

Here she is  proudly sitting with her makes

My make for today is another Easter card made for Dotty's tearooms and on sale now. Dotty's is at 108 Carshalton High Street, SM5 3AE and is open 7 days a week. 

It's another Graphic Fairy digi. The sentiment is a Lili of the Valley stamp. I embossed the background and added some very spring like papers from my stash. The card blank is Kraft to give a real vintage feel.

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

Moving along with the times 1/3 Easter
Simon says stamp Monday Easter/spring
The cutie pie challenge 2/3 spring cuties
Crafty sentiments 2/3 Easter

Simon says stamp Wednesday Easter inspired

Noor spring
Deep Ocean Vintage/shabby chic

 Thanks for popping in and for the kind comments you take the time to leave me. Enjoy a lovely weekend, after a brief respite of spring like weather it looks like the Beast might be returning.......

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x

Fisher's Farm

I'm still playing catch up with some post sharing some of my Daisy Days I enjoyed before I went on holiday. Today I would like to share with you a super day out I had with my DD and Daisy a few weeks back. We went to Fisher's Farm in West Sussex. If you have children or grandchildren it is a super day out. We were concerned that there might not be enough to interest and entertain Daisy as she is only 19 months but she had a ball. The only thing I would suggest is perhaps to take a picnic. We found the restaurant a little disjointed to say the least.

Daisy absolutely adores all animals and to see her face and to hear her literally squeal when she saw the baby animals at the farm made my heart sing. When I watch her I am seeing the world through new eyes again. My favourite farm animals are pigs and I was thrilled to see there were some Gloucester Old Spot piglets...squeal (from Nanna this time)

and lambs too.

 

There were also small furry babies

There are plenty of play facilities even for toddlers and she went up and down the slide, and played on the swings endlessly.

I wanted to use my day out as inspiration for a some new art journal pages. I also wanted to enter some fun challenges. Scrap around the World have a great mood board to work with and PaperArtsy are working with stencils.

I also wanted to use this sweet photo of my darling Daisy in Jane's Journal...her joy and delight was palpable.

 So down in my studio this is what I created. I found an old atlas and tore out the pages where Fisher's Farm is situated.

 I stuck these into my journal and added some texture using paste through a couple of stencils

 I added some lace and tissue tape too. I made up some paint sprays by adding Fresco paints to water. I chose real "ice cream" colours as these colours always make me think of hot summer days and dripping ice cream (don't question the workings of my mind...you would never survive in there..LOLOL)

 I let the colour run down the pages... Mmmmm melting cholcoate ice cream.

 I love the way it formed drips.

 I also added my pink and cream paint sprays to represent vanilla and strawberry ice cream

This was the base I used for my pages. I didn't take any more photos as I just got carried away with the Moment but this is my final piece.

The butterfly, grunge border and long grass stamps are Visible Image. I used red archival ink for the butterflies and then I outlined them with a black Micron pen. I added lots of doodling again.

In the borders I created I added some more words. I wrote "Daisy Days" with a black Micron pen.

I love the way you can still see the map through the layers of paint and the way the lace has soaked up the paints.

and one final shot.

I would like to enter my pages into the following great challenges;

Scrap Around the World June challenge Below is the fab mood board we were asked to work with,

 I was thrilled last month that the very first time I entered this worldwide challenge I was one of the honourable mentions with my darling buds of  May Journal pages.  This month the board suggested ice cream and happy summer days to me. I was inspired by the pastel colours and the lines...this is how I got doodling my border around my pages. There is lots of texture in the board too so I added the lace on my piece and the stencilled texture paste. The words happiness also make me thing of my family and the happy times we share. My Journal is made by Dylusions with 8x5" pages.

PaperArtsy stencils I love using stencils with my mixed media work.

Frilly and Funkie It's summer

Love to Create anything goes mixed media

Simon says stamp Mondays stamp and mist I misted my background with paints and then stamped on top

Papertake weekly trio-tastic 3 of anything

The Artistic Stamper summer is on its way

Noor! UK here comes summer

Simon Says Stamp work it Wednesdays  refreshment My refreshment is ice cream...mmmm

Creative Inspirations your favourite crafting item at the moment this has to be my Dylusions Art Journal

Simon says stamp Wednesday anything goes

I had great fun with these pages. It was a super girlie day out. We had a wonderful family day last Sunday and yes I will share some photos from that day soon. We were so lucky with the weather as it turned out so hot and sunny and yet that night the heaven's opened, which my garden liked. I have a rare crafty day at home tomorrow so I hope to get ahead with the projects I'm working on and also do a little gardening. I hope you are all enjoy the last full week of June and the first week of summer. Thanks for stopping by.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x