Rainy day...

I went along to watch Tiare, classygirl today and she was working on a Journal 52 prompt 'Rain or shine'. Its raining at last and filling my watertank, yay!!! So what better way to celebrate than to do a journal page with the Dylusions stamp Ruby Rainbow. I Coloured in Ruby with Dylusions inks and a waterbrush, while she was drying I got out my paints and did the background.  I used the Dylusions stencil 'diamond border' and the Balzer Design stencil 'Mini bubble doily'. 

Then I thought ok, I need a quote. So I was talking to my friend Tamiko and she gave me this quote. "Let a smile be your umbrella on a rainy day". Perfect isn't it.. So I had to use the new Bar lettering from Sundays with Sandee on my page to have more practice with that.. Popped some raindrops on some dangles and the wind is blowing the umbrella with a stamp from Kaszazz. 

So what a bright page it ended up being just perfect for the rainy day outside, because the rain is something I have missed, its nice to see green again outside...

I am going to enter this in the following
Tiare, classygirl
Balzer designs
Journal 52
Sunday's with Sandee at Frosted designs 

Have a great day
Sandy :) 

Dream...

Just because I still had the watercolours out all sprayed and ready. The paper was cut and sitting there taunting me.. 
So I did this... 

Going to link this up at Balzer designs
Also for the facebook group  Journal 52 prompt. Week 13 'How does your garden grow'.

Have a great day
Sandy :)

Stars...

Today I was watching Tiare having her pajama party at Classygirl. So it was time to get the journal out and have another paint along with her.. Only 7 pages left and this journal is full, so every opportunity to get it out is good.. So Tiare was using soft pastels and I have only ever used them for drips, never for colouring a page or background, so I have a 12 pack of colours so picked the blues.. Hmm was I happy with them? They are great for a background with lots of water, Tiare said to dab the brush so you don't get brushstrokes.. So dabbing did work much better.. I wanted to use some purple for the next layer and did not have purple in my pastels so turned to the Caran d'arche neocolour 11 crayons, I have a lovely purple in that one..

Next 3 stars out of paper ok hmm I had some dictionary pages that I had used to mop up some ink sprays with, so ripped them up into 3 stars.. Went around the edges of the stars with charcoal pencil and blended.. Little stars with the signo black pen coloured in with the white signo.. Quote is 'Good friends are like stars. You don't always see them but you always know they're there.' 

Going to enter this in for my Journal 52 Stars.
Have a great day 
Sandy :)

Be...

So here is another one of my doodled girls.. Tried a swirly nose this was such an easy nose to do and thought it kind of suited the doodled part, also different eyes and mouth and even different shaped face to this one.. She is winking at you so thought the words around the outside suited this.. Be silly, Be honest, Be kind.. She has flowers in her hair too kind of like those.. I also didn't colour in her face this time, kind of liked it just like this.. More watercolour H2O's, loving these colours and the great sparkle they have.. 

Going to pop this in at Paint Party Friday I know its late but love peeking at all the great work everyone has on there.. 
This is also for Journal 52 week 9 Colour swatch inspiration..

Have a great day
Sandy :)

Love Letter...

The prompt that got me doing another journal page this week is from Journal 52 week 6 'The art of love letters'. It's great how it gets me doing pages that I would not normally do, just from a prompt.  So stamps on this are all from Kaszazz.  Lots of dangles, swirls and white and red pen.. My letter is all scrunched up and then flattened sprayed with water and then more walnut stain ink.. I was kind of going for the thrown away love letter.. 

I do like the way the heart turned out. It was fun adding all the layers. I Gesso'd it, then Painted it red then embossed and rubbed back some of the red to expose the white Gesso.. Then I painted it with crackle and let it do its thing.. I love those embossed roses and the texture it created with the crackle... 

I am entering this over at Inspiration Avenue
show and tell challenge..


Have a great day
Sandy :)

Smile :)

While I was watching Tracy at Mixed Media Monday today and she started drawing flowers. I thought oh I might try drawing flowers on book paper and colouring them in with my water colour crayons while I am watching. So gathered up what I needed and did 5 flower, still have one left. I had seen these done by Jenniebellie on an earlier video Here with pencils and had been wanting to try that out.. Have seen Tracy do them before as well.They where fun and know I will do them again as they are something that can be done with just a few supplies anywhere.. I had in my mind prompt 3 that I am up to with Journal 52  'You always make me smile'. What makes me smile? Flowers and bright colours always make me smile. :)

Have a great day
Sandy :)

Happy Mistake..

So I spotted some paper from a parcel I received in the mail and thought oh will drop some Dylusions spray ink on that, like I did last time when I followed along with Sandee.. The only thing last time it was not tissue paper it was greaseproof  paper (Aussie term) or parchment paper, wax paper all the same thing.. So when I went to stick it on that's when I realised whoa this is not right but gee it turned out all sparkly and shiny.. I liked it so much I did not want to put anything over the top so here it is.. It was tricky to stick on as it kept breaking but I just stuck more modpodge on it and stuck it down, I was stubborn with it.. Just wish you could see the shine.. 

So going to join this up with the Journal 52  as 'Somewhere a simple place'.. Because playing in my new studio/ fun room is definitely my place to be.. 

Have a great day
Sandy :)

Journal 52 week 1

Few friends are joining in on a group called Journal 52.. This could be fun so did a journal page with the first prompt.  This week the prompt was Up Up and Away!! So anything you can think of with this theme.. 

Here is a link to it if you would like to join in too.. Journal 52 week-1 There is a facebook group and a flickr group you don't have to blog about it.. 

So this is done with a Gelli plate background and the stencil of the girl with the balloons is from my Typo set of stencils.. I have been wanting to use this one..  There is some zendangles across the top they are just for Sandee... Bit of doodling around the edge for the border and a journal block just to say what it is all about.. 

Have a great day 
Sandy :)