Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2016 September..Jane's Journal card style

Phew what steaming weather we have enjoyed for the last few days here in the South. We're up to number 9 of  Tim's 12 tags and I must confess that although very clever technique wise, it was not one of my favourite of Tim's projects. He shared this technique in Creative Chemistry 103 so I had seen it in the summer.
Here is Tim's tag.

Yet again I struggled to find suitable stamps in my stash. I also only have bright coloured alcohol inks so I  decided to make a Christmas card. I need lots of stock for Dotty's as well as cards for my personal use this year. I went very off piste this month as I don't have many really solid stamps like Tim's man silhouette. I used my old trusty Visible Image Merry Christmas stamp as  I thought it might work with this technique.

 You will need to look at Tim's Blog here for the step by step but below is my version of the alcohol ink resist on Yupo paper. After getting the resist I decided to add a border of inks to my sentiment. I wanted a more floral organic feel rather than Tim's very masculine one.

I made a distress paint patina background

 and then added some more festive colours.

I then put everything together and below is my completed card.

I added a Cheery Lynn sleigh and holly sprig die cut and pink (yes very un me) holly berry gems and a little ribbon to finish everything off.
I would like to enter my card into the following challenges.

Tim Holtz 12 tags of 2016 September
Simon Says Stamp Monday At the movies My Movie is Santa Claus the Movie
We love to create 2/2  anything mixed media goes
Penny Black and More 2/3  add a sentiment
The Ribbon Girl 3/3 September card challenge
Addicted to stamps and more anything goes
Everybody Art anything goes
Mod  Squad what's that you say
Christmas at Sweet stampin Christmas die cuts

Thanks for visiting me today and for the kind comments you take the time to leave. I would also like to warmly welcome my latest followers who have joined me on my creative journey. It's great to see you here.

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Bye for now,

Jane x

Hanging on to summer

I really enjoyed looking after Bear, my son's dog last week and we shared lots of long walks to all sorts of spots I rarely go to. The weather was very kind with no rain other than overnight one night.A very large wet dog is not fun!

He enjoyed sniffing around and I enjoyed the scenery. I noticed the leaves are beginnineg to change into their autumnal hues and there are lots of berries ripening ready for the birds for the winter.

I'm surprised though how many chicks have recently hatched. I wonder it they are 2nd broods of the season?

I have also noticed that the acers I grow in pots in my garden have changed into their autumnal colours.

I loved these seeded wildflowers on our walks

They reminded me of my Tim Holtz wildflower dies so when I got home I had a plan.

 Whilst bear "guarded" me in my studio ;0)

I decided to have a play brayering some distress inks similar to my Tim project last month





I had some left over pieces of die cuts which I also incorporated. I stamped and embossed a birthday sentiment

and made a wildflower inspired card ready for selling at Dotty's.

The house feels a little empty but it is lovely to have our dear Billy back downstairs. He set up camp upstairs as soon as Bear arrived, bless.

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

Pixie's snippets playgound #246 I used snippets of card for my die cuts.

Frilly and Funkie 2/3 things with wings

We love to create 1/2  anything mixed media goes

Ribbon Girl card challenge September

I hope you had a lovely weekend?  I was busy with some card commissions. I also got some gardening done yesterday as the weather was glorious.  We may have temperatures hitting the 30cs again this week.....we're hanging on to summer. Thanks for visiting.

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Bye for now,

Jane x

O is for......

Hello I'm here today with my next dictionary letter in my art journal which is O. I managed to get some crafty time in my studio whilst looking after dear Bear, who went home yesterday.
We so enjoyed our walks and on Tuesday I spotted this in on the ground....Bear was proud to show it off.

I wondered if there was a ripe conker inside, as it is still a few weeks early.

 I was not disappointed as it revealed this little beauty to put on my window sill

 I can never been bored finding my first conker treasure of the season and I immediately sent a Wattsapp to the family ;0)

Bear then guarded me in my studio as I set too making my O page....................

I thumbed through my dictionary looking for something to do with autumn and conkers and hit upon O for OCTOBER..of course. I could make a really golden autumnal page to represent the month. I found a lovely little poem on the Internet to use;

Listen!

The wind is rising, and

the air is wild with leaves.

We have had our summer evenings,now

for October eves!

Humbert Wolfe

I haven't used my acrylics for a while so out they came and I used them to create a swirling background just like wind and leaves in my poem

I have an ancient leaf stamp which I brayered paints onto and stamped around the edges.

I have recently bought the new Tim Holtz mini leaf stencil and I used Wendy Vecchi's gold embossing pasted through it.

I LOVE this paste, it has such a gorgeous sheen

I die cut some birds on branches and trees (which I didn't use in the end) and altered them with paints adding texture with crackle paints.











I also made lots of leaves and coloured them with distress inks and then crackled them for texture.

I added some stamping with my Bronte script (Mark must bring this wonderful script back...it's discontinued at present) and the winter tree Visible Image stamps. I just used the branches of the tree around the edge of my page.

I let everything dry over night and then it was time to assemble my page.

and here is my final piece.

The dictionary definition is tucked under the branch.

The sheen on the gold embossing paste is gorgeous but very tricky to show in my photos...

 and one last close up.

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

The Craft Barn dictionary challenge O mine is for October

Pixie's Snippets playground #245 I used lots of snippets to create my distress ink leaves

STAMPlorations stencil mixed media September 

Crafty Catz anything goes with an autumnal twist

Frilly and Funkie things with wings

The Artistic Stamper 2/3 Monochromatic

                                           The Emerald faeries 2/3 monchromatic
                                                             Everybody Art leaves

                          Happy little stampers mixed media use distress inks. I used Distress                                                    Inks to create my leaves before crackling them.
                                              Stamps and stencils the colours of autumn
    Uniko Inspired by a song mine is Calfornia Dreamin by the Mamma and the Papa's have a listen on YouTube, it will make you hum along! https://youtu.be/3kcmwXUdDCE

Funnily enough summer has returned again here for a few more days and my garden hit 28c yesterday afternoon. Perhaps we still have a few more summer evenings to enjoy before the winds do rise and take the leaves off the trees. I'm off to celebrate my best friend's birthday over lunch today, enjoy your day too. Thanks for visiting and sending you sunshine if you don't have any.

Back soon,

Bye for now,

Jane x