Altered Journal

Did I mention the workshop with Tim Holtz before?   Possibly.  I went to the Artful Journal workshop at Art From The Heart.    And if you have read my blog before you will have noticed that the cover of the book I made last week has changed.    It said 'Give Thanks' before.  And it is my intention to make a gratitude journal but I realised this wasn't the book to do it in.  

Previously on newly creative (sounds like a TV programme on Five!) I also explained that I was making a book to record my Journal Workshop and the one I'm going to on Thursday at ArtsyCrafty.   I may have mentioned that one before as well!  

Anyway, to cut what is increasingly becoming a very long story, short I decided I wasn't much struck on the cover I'd made for my book so I cut it up and stuck the letters inside the covers of the Artful Journal.  Here's the 't' at the front and the 'h' is at the back.  

Btw, it wasn't 'th' ~ it was Tim's initials!!

Here are some photos of the inside pages.   I haven't done the writing yet in case I change my mind again.    

I 'borrowed' one or two photos from Mario's tweets, thank you Mario ~ especially the ones that had me on them!  That's my left arm!

And here I am again, with the man himself, Tim Holtz.

There are several pages left in the Journal to add all about ArtsyCrafty.  Come back at the end of the week to find out all about it.

And finally here's an update on the journaling background I blogged about on Saturday.   It now has a bit of zing to it.  Thanks Dyan for the tips.

How exciting ~ an award!

Today I was given a blog award by Sunshine Girl aka Nicola.  

The award is the

and there are a couple of conditions for the award:

You have been TAGGED and want to participate?Then create a post where you post the 'LOVE BLOG' image.You should also blog the persons link that gave you the award and inform her/him that you accept the award.You then choose 3 - 5 favourite blogs which you also link in your post, then inform each blogger that they have been tagged.

Dear bloggers:The aim of this action is that we bring unknown, good blogs to light, so I would ask you not to blog fellow bloggers that already have 3,000 followers.

As ever it is so hard to pick just a few blogs but I will pass this award on to:
Anneliese
Kai
Paige
Jackie

Thank you Nicola and hope those of you who read my blog enjoy visiting my online blog choices.

Am I Dylusional?

For this background I stamped all over the page with black Archival Ink using a Melody Ross & Unity stamp.   Then I sprayed some of Dyan's new colours of Dylusions spray inks and spread the colours across the page with a wet paintbrush and the occasional spritz of water. 

The I cut out the houses from one of Dyan's downloads and stuck them on

This next page is definitely a work in progress.  I first painted over the page with 3 of the new acrylic colours and then sprayed over the top with the inks and used the ghosting technique as well.   It's every bit as dull in real life as in the photo so need to work on giving it some sparkle - and no I don't mean glimmer mists!