Journal Soup Class

Journal Soup is a class I'm taking from the fabulous Kate Crane and it's all about  journaling outside the journal - on scraps of cardboard, and off-cuts of mount board etc.

Here is one of my latest pieces.  It is acrylics, pastels, inks and bits and bobs of collage on a piece of cardboard packaging.  

Here are my calendar pages so far this year

What do you do with all those Gelli prints?

  

Gelli Prints

Some of them are just the result of cleaning off the brayer or practice stamps and stenciling.....

and some of them will become journal pages (eventually)

but, I have a lot of prints just waiting....

  

....so I got busy with a rotary cutter and cut them up into two inch squares (you get 20 pieces if your Gelli plate is 8x10) and I stuck them down on a canvas board with matt medium.  I decided that they were a bit too uniform in size so I started to cut them into random sizes and strips.

I am quite pleased with the result :-)  What do you think?

 close up views

close up views

 close up views

 close up views

   

Journal Soup & Dylusions fun

I managed to blag a load of mount board from Freecycle and this is the result.  Lots of colourful additions to my 'Journal Soup' box

The best thing about me is you  <3

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Home sweet home

Show me the way to go HOME

I don't sing because I'm happy, I'm happy because I song ;-)

I don't sing because I'm happy, I'm happy because I song ;-)

Art & Soul

ATCs made with yummy Dylusions inks

Let the music play

Signature series

Retro 2 Go

I won't be blogging for a while as my husband & I have just launched a new business to compliment his classic VW restoration business. Retro 2 Go.  We'll be selling retro/vintage/nostalgic camping, campervan and festival accessories at VW shows/music festivals and vintage fairs and also online. 

I would welcome comments on the new website - it's a work in progress and I'm learning a lot as I go along.  Thanks.  Gigha x  retro2go.co.uk

Art Journal Calendar page - March

I decided on little doors for my March calendar page.  I think they turned out quite well.  My favourites are the little Hobbit doors and March 2nd and 19th.

I is for Inchies

I love making inchies, although I usually make them from scraps of fabric.  
These have been made from card and scrummy Dylusions inks.

Inchies tag

H is for...

Hairy Husband!

He's the love of my life and brightens up my day xxx

Mr Klinky

Original photo

Steampunk Style Bunting

I really enjoyed making this Steampunk style bunting. To decorate, I used various bits and pieces including wine bottle foils, an old trouser button, studs, washers, watch parts, die cuts and keys and off-cuts from other projects.