Heart Journaling

I seem to work better if I have a deadline to keep to so decided to join in with Heart Journaling.

Each Friday for 23 weeks a different theme is going to be posted to provide impetus for an art journal page and the photo of your page has to be posted in the gallery by the following Thursday.   This week's theme is Wings.

I stamped all over the page using a Unity Stamp and Coffee Archival Ink.  Then I sprayed with various colours of Dylusions Inks - the colours I don't use often!  Then I glued the sunflowers and daisies - actually you can't tell they're daisies!  These were paper napkins.  Then I  stamped the leaves with some of Dyan's stamps and added some white outlines and some stamped birds.

Birthday Party

Art from the Heart ~ one of my favourite-ist places in the crafting world ~  is celebrating their 10th birthday in September.  Find out more here:

I'm really hoping that I will be able to get there that weekend.  I'm going this Saturday to do a class with Dyan.  Photos next week!

Adventure on a rope bridge

This week in Explore we have looked at ourselves, written about adventures in our lives and made our own embellishments based on maps.  On Friday, Shimelle's prompt included a selection of pagemaps to choose from to make a layout.  I haven't done much scrapbooking lately so doing a layout was an adventure in itself.

Mandy's embellishments and layout are really inspirational and I have been heavily influenced by what she had done.  I scraplifted her ideas and I hope she will be pleased with my results.

Her photo reminded me that I had photos that Roger and I took of each other on holiday in Northern Ireland in June.   The Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge crosses a 30-metre deep and 20-metre wide chasm.  The bridge swings as people walk across and you can see through the slats to the sea below.

I was determined that I was going to do it and actually agreed to having my photo taken because I needed proof I'd done it.