Creative Artiste Challenge Blog February Challenge sponsored by Scrapmatts

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

The weekend is here. I wonder if you have plans. I am going to start looking for a wedding outfit for me. On Saturday evening we are going to our local theatre to see a 50th  anniversary performance of the radio show Round the Horne.

This is something of a sad post for me as it is my last one for the Creative Artiste challenge blog. As many of your know our daughter is getting married later this year. I am making a lot of things for the wedding and sadly at the moment I don't have the time to apply to the mixed media projects. I have had a lovely time on this team. I am very grateful to my fellow team mates for their patience  and tolerance with my abilities.

On to today, on the first Friday of the month the new challenge starts on the Creative Artiste Challenge blog this is challenge 23 the theme is Anything Goes (Mixed Media) and the sponsor is Scrapmatts.

I decided to decorate one of my journal covers. I used one of my kitchen roll backgrounds. I did make quite a few and there is more kitchen roll drying to make some more. 

Our lovely sponsors this time.

I have quite a range of nautical dies and I used them to decorate the cover. The ship is a Tattered Lace die. 

I was sent some goodies by Scrapmatts  I painted words with acrylic paint. They seemed to be appropriate for a journal. 

Enjoy the coming weekend. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

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Delightful Digi's - Thistle Journal Cover Design

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you have had a good week and have something nice planned for the weekend. I am off to Ally Pally on Saturday we are hoping to get there early as there are so many people that I want to meet up with and of course I have a shopping list. I hope to get lots of photos if they come out I will post some here.

This is something of a sad post as this will be my last post as part of the Delightful Digi's Design Team. I have taken the hard decision to step down from this team as I am finding that I don't have enough time to make the most of the delightful images. I do wish Emma and all the rest of the team all the best for the future they are a very talented bunch.

Those of you who have been reading my blog for a while will know that I keep a journal that I write in everyday so really it is a diary. I realised recently that it is much cheaper to buy plain journals and have the fun of decorating them myself. As soon as I saw this Thistle design, that is part of the new designs collection at Delightful Digi's, I wanted to put it on one of my journals. 

This design is Thistle round I coloured  it with my Promarkers. The backing paper is from Delightful Digi's as well I inked it with a mauve Distress ink to add colour to the design. In the corners I added some corner die cuts from a Tonic set that I have. 

 

There it is my last blog post for Delightful Digi's. I will have the journal for a long time as a beautiful reminder of my time with the team. 

Have a great weekend.

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

Not Just Cards - Delightful Digi's Olly the Owl

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

I hope you are enjoying the summer. Yes we are still away and this is another scheduled post this time for the Not Just Cards challenge blog. The them is always "Anything Goes" so why not join in for a bit of fun.  Don't forget your makes don't have to be cards. I used an image and backing papers from Delightful Digi's who are one of the sponsors this month. The images and backing paper came from the the O-Sew- Sweet collection.

I decided to decorate my journal cover it was plain brown and needed some jazzing up. I will let you into a little secret this journal is with me on the cruise. I write a diary entry everyday it is much cheaper to buy plain journals and decorate them myself. I used Olly the Owl image and the Patchwork quilt  background in Purple. 

I coloured Olly with Promarkers. He is in a frame that has flowers in the corner. 

I printed Olly three times but I only coloured the flowers on two I cut them out and added them to the main image. I finished everything off with ribbon and die cuts. 

I love having the freedom to decorate the journals how I want it makes a nice change from making cards. I do hope that you have a good week. I will be back by  the end of the week actually on my husband's birthday.  

Happy Crafting.

Hugs Jackie

Delightful Digi's Field Mouse Journal Cover

Hi My Crafty Blog Friends

How is your week going? It is nearly the weekend. We have a trip to the theatre tonight and a trip to London tomorrow to celebrate our daughter's birthday. So we are going to be busy. I do hope the weather is kind.

You might have noticed the new sparkly Design Team badge at the side of my blog. Yesterday it was announced that  I am now a member of the Delightful Digi's Design Team and today I am sharing my first make using one of their images and a backing paper. There is a blog where you can buy the images that you see just click on the picture below.

Everyday I write a diary, I have been doing it for years and years. I decided to buy a journal with a blank cover to decorate myself as decorated journal are expensive to buy.  Well it has been sat on my craft desk for ages waiting. Today was the day that it got decorated. 

It is an A5 journal with a craft card cover. I used the Delightful Digi's Green Quilt from the O- Sew-Sweet Collection for the background. The green of the quilt matched the green of the matting layers I had used. The way the journal opens meant that I couldn't cover the strip at the side, rather than leaving it plain I decided to put a length of lace there. 

For the main image I used the super cute  Field Mouse also from the O-Sew-Sweet Collection. He was coloured with Promarkers I must say he was lovely to colour quite therapeutic . I added buttons again as they went with the sewing/stitching theme. I might really be cured now. Though phobias are never rational it might be because the buttons I am using are new that I can cope.

I cut the sentiment with a Spellbinders die.

This was cut with another Spellbinder die. 

I am rather pleased with the end result and I will enjoy filling it in. I will certainly be on the lookout for more blank journals to cover. 

I forgot to mention that there is also a  Delightful Digi's Facebook Group that you can join to see what the design team have made and share makes of your own. Don't forget to visit the blog there are some beautiful images there. 

I hope you all have a brilliant weekend. I am hoping to do some crafting on Sunday. I do need to finish the wedding invitations. 

Happy Crafting

Hugs Jackie

Advent Journal

Hi Bloggers

How is your week going? We were really  lucky  to get tickets to see Michael McIntyre later this week so we have to look forward to. It is a show to try out material so the venue is smaller than normal.

This post is something a little different for me, I have created a journal. I went a service at church that was led by Hopeweavers (a local organisation that leads quiet days and times of reflection often with a craft element) and we were given the chance to create an Advent Journal. The idea is to add our thoughts to the journal throughout Advent. There were no rules or restrictions  to what we could do. I decided that I would use it to try a few new craft techniques as well as my thoughts and feelings.

We were given a journal with a black cover. I didn't want to decorate the cover at the service as there was a particular technique that I wanted to try. I used the time there to number the pages.

So here are the starting materials some craft card and a journal with a black cover. I wanted to have a go at the faux leather technique. I found an online tutorial by Sheena Douglass that I followed. The only difference was that I used a decoupage glue to seal the sheet when it was finished.

I was really pleased with how it turned out and I thought I would have to leave it to dry for a long time but I was able to used the card the afternoon I made it. I used die cuts and ribbon to decorate the cover. The embossing folder I used was a 6" x 6" one which I had to extend the design to cover the whole sheet. 

This is the back the logo is the Hopeweavers logo. They have a website you can visit. 

So there you have it my journal for Advent. I am quite looking forward to filling it in. There will be a service in January where we can share our journals if we want to. 

Have a great week.

Happy Crafting 

Hugs Jackie