September

There's information about the month of September on 12 Months in View today with a challenge to produce some September related.

If you read my blog yesterday you will know that I had already put some colour on the next page of my journal by pressing the wet page to the dry one.

I used a Dina Wakely stencil and some Crushed Grape ink to add some colour.  I pur paper towel over the edges of the stencil so I didn't get straight lines on the page.

I also sprayed through a flower stencil as I always think of Michaelmas Daisies at this time of the year.

It was actually brighter on the page than in the photo and I didn't much like it so I sprayed it with White Linen ink.

I stamped leaves with two different greens and a butterscotch ink.  I stamped the toadstools and coloured them in using a dry brush and a Barn Door Distress Ink pad.  I added the quote and the title.  Then highlighted with a white pen.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

A new season

On 12 Months in View today we start a new Season - Autumn.  If you haven't joined in with this challenge blog, today is a very good day to start.

The challenge today was to produce something that was Autumn themed.  I turned to the next page in my journal and found there was a bleed through of colours from the previous page but I ignored them!

 I found some acetate packaging that I had saved for making stencils.

I used my Cuttlebug and the Tim Holtz Tattered Leaves die to cut the stencil.  I put a piece of folded scrapbooking paper in the 'sandwich' so that I cut paper leaves as well as the acetate.

 I stamped with Black Archival Ink at the bottom of the page to form a hedgerow.

I sprayed the page and blotted it off by pressing it onto the next page.  Then I sprayed more ink through the stencil I had made.

I stuck down a few of paper leaves I had cut out  and the quote.

I used letters from my stash to give it a title.  I used the stencil to draw some extra leaves with a white pen, stopping when I got to part of a stuck on leaf to make it look like the white leaf was behind it. I highlighted the seedheads with white.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice

Rocking Your World Friday

It's Friday and on Friday there is the meme on Celtic House called Rocking Your World which is
'the moment to step back and take stock of your week, to work out the positives, the things that have made life more bearable and to celebrate these facts. Pop a post together, come back and link each Friday and let's share our positives around. It's a great therapy and stops life slipping through our fingers or spending too much time dwelling on the negatives. Not sure if it's for you - give it a go - you'll never know until you try!'

So this week
We almost finished clearing my Dad's house.  I took this photo of the sunset whilst we were there.  Although to be honest it wasn't quite this spectacular - when I zoomed the lens the camera interpreted the scene like this.

We met with the lady who is buying my Dad's house and really liked her and her sister and her brother-in-law.  I think they will really enjoy looking after the garden.

We had a reasonable journey to Pembrokeshire on Friday and back on Tuesday despite the Bank Holiday.

On Thursday I did a workshop taught by Tim Holtz which was great.

When I got back from the workshop I was able to Skype with Andy and Naomi.

And last Friday my birthday present arrived from them.

I've read the first 3 chapters.  I need to read chapter 3 again before I move on to chapter 4.

Thanks for stopping by.
Bernice