Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - Letter T

Evening all,

wow what a thunderstorm we had last night - very loud and loads of flashes of lightening!! I love them and luckily for me my tiddlies don't bat an eyelid either. My eldest sat with me waiting for the lightening to flash and my youngest went straight off to sleep at bedtime and slept right through the loudest claps of thunder bless him!

I'm thoroughly enjoying this challenge still, even though I'm notoriously late to submit most of the time!! If you fancy a peek to see what it's all about and all of the other beautiful T entries please pop on over HERE.

Anyhoo, my chosen word for T is Tantalus, the journaling on the spread explains all........

I inked my pages with Barn Door and Walnut Stain DI's before splatting it all with drops of water from the tips of my fingers. Not too effective on this surface as the pages are very absorbent!! Ha ha ha I wasn't expecting the 2 DI's used to create a purple tinge but they did, you can just about see it in the pictures - all I can think is that the Walnut Stain may have some blue pigmentation to it??
Next came some stamping, with one of Tim Holtz's classic sets by Stampers Anonymous, to create a border.
I then added the picture (sourced from google) which had been colour-washed with inktense pencils.

The journaling explains the mythology - I hope you can read it ok??

Many thanks for popping by and leaving a comment if you feel you would like to, your time and thoughts are always greatly appreciated.

Huge hugs

Dawn x

Playing again................

Evening all,

I'm soooooooo lucky that my 2 gorgeous tiddlies play so well together and that I managed to sneak some play time myself!!!!!!!!

Here is another page from my large altered book journal - lots of layers (ha ha ha, I lost count!!) of inky painty fun. No real purpose to the page either other than the total enjoyment of the process - happy days!!

I started by collaging some scraps I had lying around in the kitchen and paper recycling box (naughty mummy sneaked some of Millie's birthday wrapping paper, tut tut!!), lots of layers followed before I added some lettering, doodling and a stamped image. The stamp used is a Prima mixed media doll by Julie Nutting, one of my faves at the moment - this incarnation is the mask that I had used for a previous journal page, I liked it so much that I kept it back to use on another page as she looks just like my hands do when I have been crafting!! I did tart her dress up with some watercolours though!

Lots of space for some journaling when I feel like it too - bonus!!

Ha ha ha ha ha, the above pic shows the 'assault course' my lovelies had built and been playing with while I was sneaking some crafty time. Tee hee you can just see Max poking out of the tunnel at the top of the pic and Millie balancing on some cushions. Much fun and laughter as you can probably imagine, and yes I did have a go!!

Many thanks for popping by and leaving a comment if you feel you would like to, your time and thoughts are always appreciated.

Huge hugs 

Dawn x 

Party Bags - MY WAY!!!!!!!!

Evening all,

phew, what a relief this cool breeze is over the last couple of days, my poor tiddlies were not coping with the heat well and were getting VERY grumpy!!!!!!!!

My eldest, Millie, is six this coming Sunday and had an early birthday party at home last Saturday as two of the children she wanted to invite would have been away if we had done it any later!! There were four of them in total, more than enough for our small home lol.

Anyhoo, I decided to do party bags my way - lol CRAFTY ones........

Each of the four party bags had an individual (and all different colour schemes) hand bound pamphlet journal made from manila file folders and craft card. Each one had patterned paper, stickers and images to colour tucked into pockets on the insides of the covers.
In addition to this they each got a roll of stickers, a large sheet of stickers, a glue stick, some felt tip pens and the more traditional bubbles and couple of packs of sweets - ha ha ha ha ha not a crappy plastic toy in sight!!!!!!!!
Millie made the name tags to attach to the bags, which I had cunningly acquired for free (lol if you don't ask nicely you don't get!!!!!!!!) from our local craft shop!!

Front cover

Back cover

Inside front

Inside back

Muppet that I am though, I forgot to take pictures of all the journals before the bags disappeared!! Luckily I managed to grab Millie's before she had demolished it bless her.

Great fun to make and I was so thrilled to get messages of thanks from all the mums too.

Many thanks for popping by and leaving a comment if you feel you would like to, your time and thoughts mean an awful lot to me.

Huge hugs 

Dawn x 

Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - Letter Y

Evening all,

thank goodness for a fab cool breeze today, bonus in that it was blowing in the right direction to flow right through my house, YIPPEE!!

Anyhoo, short and sweet from me tonight!! My ABOMINABLE (and I'm not joking!!) effort for Y is YETI........

Very quick and simple as time was muchly lacking lol, but still better than nothing!!

If you fancy a peek at the fab challenge and all the other entries please pop on over to the Craft Barn's dedicated challenge pages HERE

Many thanks for popping by and leaving a comment if you feel you would like to, your time and thoughts mean a lot.

Huge hugs

Dawn x

Journal page........

Evening all,

phew it's hot!! Can't complain after that long old cold winter we had hey!!

Here is another page from my large altered book journal. This was the first one in the book (always the hardest I think!!) so I just let rip with some stencils, distress ink and doodling........

Hmm, after looking back over a load of my old pages, I have just noticed I seem to have a 'thing' for diagonal symmetry!! Do you see recurrent patterns/themes in your own pages??

Many thanks for popping by and leaving a comment if you feel you would like to, your time and thoughts are always greatly appreciated.

Huge hugs

Dawn x

Craft Barn Alpha Challenge - Letter B

Afternoon all,

hope the sun is shining for you all??

If you fancy playing along with this fab challenge and having a peek at the other entries for the letter B please pop on over HERE.

Here is my effort - B for BACCHUS........

Ha ha ha, I had much fun doing a painty splatty background - can you tell!!!??? Lol I got a bit carried away and almost obliterated the definitions with paint but realised just in the nick of time - ish!!!!!!!!

The bottles of wine on the border are courtesy of Crafty Individuals and were stamped on to DI'd card before being clear embossed and cut out.

The images were found on Google.

Tee hee, not being averse to a chilled glass of Rose, B could only have been Bacchus as far as my theme went - HIC!!

Many thanks for popping by and leaving a comment if you feel you would like to, your time and thoughts are always much appreciated.

Huge huggles

Dawn x 

Journal page........

Afternoon all,

here is another spread from my large altered book journal, lots of fun again tee hee........

A simple painty, stencilled and stamped background with lots of doodling using a stabilo all pencil.

A huge thank-you to the lovely Gez for the collage images, ha ha ha I found them again under a pile of craft stuff, thought I'd lost them - Phew!! What a fab excuse to have a play at the time too!!!!

Many thanks for popping by and leaving a comment if you feel you would like too, your time and thoughts are much appreciated.

Huge hugs

Dawn x