Art Journal

I recently joined a group on Facebook called Journal 52 where each week they give you a prompt and over the year you build up an art journal.
I have never tried one of these before but it looked interesting so I thought I would give a it a go, it's the perfect chance to get inky and try out some techniques that I havn't always got the nerve to try on my scrapbook pages.
I started with my cover and this is how it turned out

 

I started with a gessoed book page and just built it up from there with inks, mists texture paste stencils and stamps. After having so much fun with this page I then moved right on to week 1

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Week 1 Prompt: Up, Up, and Away!
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We’re setting soar to a new year, a new adventure, and a new story to tell!

For this prompt, think of some things that float or fly through the air – a hot air balloon, a butterfly, an airplane, a bird, clouds, or even a made-up creature from your imagination. Draw, paint, collage (or a combination of all these!) – what “Up, Up, and Away!” means to you. For some, it could be about finding your wings or learning to fly or letting go or setting dreams off to flight…whatever you can imagine!

 This page represents reaching above and beyond my "limits" I am a great lover of quotes and I found this one on Pinterest "Reach High, for the stars lie in your soul, it was perfect for what I wanted.

The pages are sort of as quick or as long as you want to make them so I might have half a chance of having a 52 page journal by the end of the year! I do know that I had fun making them and will be creating more very soon

Toodle pip x

BoBunny mix it up - Everyday Heroes

I am just sharing this layout that is up on the Bo Bunny blog
A mix it up of 5 different Bo Bunny collections

I knew I wanted to create a masculine layout so I pulled elements from five different collections Pincushion, Woodland Winter, Zip Dee Doodle, Elf Magic & Kraft to show off this great photo of the Everyday Heroes, aka the men in my life, my Husband, my Son & my Son in-law.

 I usually lean towards a light colour or white background, but this Handmade paper from the Pincushion collection has a slightly distressed look & made a great darker background and makes the other papers pop off the page.

In the Kraft collection gift Bags you also get a sheet of 6 patterned circles I added one along the banner to create a journaling spot.

 I used a variety of stickers from different collections. The days of the week are from the Christmas collection, Elf Magic and the others from Zip Dee Doodle. I used a black ink pad and dabbed over the chipboard alphabet from the Avenues collection, this left a small amount of the original colour to make a contrasting edge to the letters. The Kraft Gift Bag has a fun moustache design and I also used it to create a pocket for some hidden journaling.

BoBunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper; Handmade, Sew, Toile, Patchwork/Pincushion; Cozy, Peek a boo, Journal/Woodland Winter

Stickers; Combo Sticker, Misc Me/Zip Dee Doodle; Misc Me/Elf Magic

Cardstock; Licorice/Double Dot 

Chipboard; 12 x 12/Pincushion; 12 x 12/Avenues

Brads; Zip Dee Doodle

Buttons; Woodland Winter

Kraft; Gift Bags/Moustache

CSI 108 - solved

This week Debbi and I used the same pic and the same sketch and came up with 2 quite different layouts

This was the case file

And here is my layout, but make sure you go check out Debbi's HERE

 

We used this great Sketch over at Creative Scrappers

Evidence
Mixed Media background
Bird
Hearts
Flower
Newsprint
Border Punch
Rub Ons
Stamps
Penwork

Testimony
Tell a story you've never told before

The picture was taken in Debbi's scraproom and we were supposed to be scrapping but really all we had managed to make this huge mess on her desk, not one layout between the pair of us lol We are both slow scrappers and awful procrastinators!

The mess we had made inspired me to make a messy/mixed media background for my layout.
I bought the cutfile of the scissors a while back and really I wondered when I would ever use it, it fit perfectly for this layout and I cut and stitched a slit on the edge of the layout as if the scissors had actually cut it.

I created a pocket with a punched edge flap and layered it behind the photo, the brad & pins turn horizontally so you can lift up the flap and take out the journaling card.

Hope you will find time to play along this week it's a really fun case file

Toodle Pip

BoBunny Design Team January Blog Hop

Welcome to the BoBunny Design Team January Blog Hop! 

Today we will be hopping to five of the BoBunny Designers, each of them will be sharing a little more about themselves and their paper crafting styles. By the end of the hop you will have learnt a little more about each of them.

 As you begin the hop here, on the BoBunny blog, you will see a question next to each designers name. Click on their name to visit each of the designer's blogs and look for the answer to their question. Collect the correct answer to each of the questions and enter them below using the Rafflecopter widget for your chance to win. The more options you select on the widget the more chances to win. One lucky winner will be randomly selected to receive an amazing BoBunny prize package with over $50 of goodies in it!!!

For those who don't know me very well, I am Tracee Provis a mother of 3, married to the most understanding hubby on the planet, I also have a gorgeous Granddaughter who will be 10 this year. I live in the UK and share our house with our 2 youngest children, our 2 adorable fur babies Rodney & Peggy, along with our 16 year old cat Hilda, who is now as deaf as a post.
I love to create "stuff" I say that because I like to dabble in crafts of all types, but my "true love" is scrapping. I am often found squirrelled away up in my craftroom working on one project or another.
My scrapping style varies with my moods and you can always count on BoBunny to get your mojo started.

 For my project I decided to make a hanging card for my eldest daughter who got engaged this Christmas
As the wedding is not until late 2015 I thought she might like to have this displayed for a little bit longer than a regular card.
I pulled out some of the gorgeous BoBunny blossoms to add that perfect touch to my piece.

 

For my hanger I used this black plastic hook that I saved from a pack of socks that I received for Christmas. I cut out a rectangle from a cereal box and attached papers from the Head Over Heels collection to both sides.

I love to fussy cut bits for my projects and I cut out a couple of the doilies from the "Date Night" and the "Amore" sheets. I layered them over some more of the papers and the long banner element from the "Noteworthy" embellishment pack. After I added my Blossoms I punched out some leaves in black to add a strong contrast to the flowers.

 

I pulled out some bling and carefully cut the centre out of one of the bling flowers which I then used directly onto the photo to frame and highlight my daughters beautiful ring.

There are 2 different alphabets on the combo sticker sheet and I used the red to put my simple title "yes".

  

My question is - How many dogs do I have?

Thanks for hopping along to my blog your next stop is the wonderfully talented

Ulrika Wandler

If you didn't start at the beginning, here are the links in order:

BoBunny Blog - http://bobunny.blogspot.com/2014/01/bobunny-january-design-team-blog-hop.html

Rhonda Van Ginkel - http://snapwhiz.blogspot.com/2014/01/bobunny-design-team-january-blog-hop.html

Romy Veul - http://scrapstuffandmore.blogspot.com/2014/01/bobunny-design-team-january-blog-hop.html

Solange Marques - http://solangescrap.blogspot.com/2014/01/bobunny-design-team-january-blog-hop.html

Tracee Provis - http://stresstickled.blogspot.com/2014/01/bobunny-design-team-january-blog-hop.html

Ulrika Wandler - http://hemmahosulrika.blogspot.com/2014/01/bobunny-design-team-january-blog-hop.html

BoBunny Blog - http://bobunny.blogspot.com/2014/01/bobunny-january-design-team-blog-hop.html

Bo Bunny - A Wintery Tale Minibook

Today I am up on the BoBunny blog with this Minibook created with the Woodland Winter collection.

 

I have wanted to scrap these snow day pictures for quite a while, but they never quite fit on a layout, a mini book is the perfect solution to have them all in one place. The Woodland Winter collection has to be my all time favourite winter collection in the most gorgeous shades of browns and blues

As owls are my favourite birds, this adorable image that I fussy cut from the 12 x 12 Cozy paper just had to adorn the front cover. Using double dot cardstock I cut my front cover and then I decided that I wanted the rest of my pages a little larger. The album is actually 5 x 6.

I cut some small strips in a banner shape and adhered them to the front in order to hide my Granddaughter's legs dangling out from under the smaller front page.

I love all the deer images that are on the papers and these pieces create their own little scenes which means you don't always have to add a lot to them before they look complete. I used the alphabet from the 12 x 12 Combo Sticker sheet to create my title.

 

To create my title for this page I used one of the chipboard pieces and added the word "man" to spell out snowman. The banners on the left are already printed on the page and look really effective. I cut some triangles out and stitched them to the top of my photo to carry them across the pages.

 

Bo Bunny not only make pretty papers and embellishments but they also  package them beautifully too. Here I used the packaging from the Woodland Winter buttons to create a mat for my photo.

 

I stamped out the numbers for my pictures with the It is Written stamp set. I added some of the cards from the Woodland Winter Misc Me range as well, everything coordinates so perfectly. 

Bo Bunny Supplies:

Patterned Paper; Toboggan, Slush, Scarf, Journal, Cozy, Blizzard, Woodland Winter/Woodland Winter.

Cardstock: Khaki Dot/Double Dot.

Stickers; Cardstock, Combo Sticker/Woodland Winter.

Chipboard; 12 x 12 Woodland Winter.

Buttons; Wodland Winter.

6 x 6 Paper Pad; Woodland Winter.

Misc Me Contents; Woodland Winter.

Stamps; It Is Written.

Doilies; 4" Small.

Sneak Peeks of the new Bo Bunny Collections

Don't forget to stop by the BoBunny blog to check out all of our Winter 2014 New Releases and enter for your chance to win some goodies!

You're gonna love what you see

 

Can't wait to start creating!

CSI case file 105 - Solved

I loved the palette for this week and once again had the perfect picture.

I had real fun with this one and come the end it was hard not to just keep adding little bits and pieces!

I love the weeks when we get the added bonus of a sketch from the very talented Em Stafrace of Page Drafts I couldn't wait to use it - I swapped out the 4 photos for 1 and placed my journaling over to the right. The chain running from down to the circle was used to represent the banner on the sketch.

Evidence
Stars
Circles
Book pages
Planets - My title has the word "planet" and my circles represent the planets
Stitching
Something Unusual - for this I used the metal from a wooden clothes pin and attached some chain from a keyring to the dangly circle
Speech Bubbles

Evidence
I placed some journaling in a frame.
The whole layout is about my son Josh and the peculiar things he says sometimes, almost like he is on a different planet to the rest of us.
Whilst losing at a game of mini golf he came out with These Golf Balls are rubbish, they're not even like Footballs(soccer balls. He also added to that thinks he is highly amusing and looks bewildered when we don't get "his" hysterical quips. . . I sure do love that Boy!

A close up of my journaling

 Hope you will find time to check out the rest of the DT work, there is lots of inspiration to be found.

The deadline for completing Case File No. 105 is Sunday, January 19, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. EST.

So plenty of time to play along

Toodle pip