The Odd Couple......

March 8th 2016

Today I am sharing two images by Sandra - first is the new release from yesterday "Old Man Date" and I have teamed him with "Charlie Who" and made them "The Odd Couple" from the old tv series!

This page is in my A4 journal so it's a bigger size to work in - hence all the extra bits and pieces! Collage houses, border at top and odd circles are from Kate Crane's The Kathryn Wheel Etsy Store. Little bird sitting on one of the houses is from a Lisa's Altered Art collage sheet. All the "odd" mixed up letters for the title are from an Aussie company "Collections".

Background is old book pages, texture paste, stencil, ink sprays, paint, sticky mesh, washi tape, water soluble crayons - LOVE all the texture! Images coloured with pastel pencils and fussy cut.

A great fun page to create!

September Steampunk!

January 21st 2014

I know you will think I am mad but these are not my "Kathryn Wheel" calendar pages for September this year they are my catch up ones from last year!!! I am a couple of months behind but I am so determined to finish the 2013 year and then make a start on this year - I didn't want to give up and I think that is important!

These pages have a Steampunk theme using fabulous images from Lily at The Octopode Factory - just perfect! I added die cut steampunk gears to the background of my pages before I painted the pages. I stamped "September" down one side of a page. The quote stamp is from a Tim Holtz set and I thought it suited the little "punky" characters who all look very inventive LOL!

I went with a Steampunk theme so I could enter the Punk You Girl Challenge for this month - a great theme and one which I haven't "played" with for awhile!

"Hoo's" Late?

November 4th 2013

I'm still trying to catch up on my Journal Calendar Pages for The Kathryn Wheel!!! So over the weekend I finally got August done! (Now I just have September to do and then I can work on this month's).

I decided to do the pages in "Fall" colours and also enter it in the current Dilly Beans Challenge - I have had the cute owl image from Dilly Beans for some time and hadn't used it so I decided to print some off and have fun with paint and glue LOL!!

I made the days of the week from a leaf die cut, added some branches for the owls to sit in and die cut the "August" lettering. I had very messy fingers after this but I love it!

Black, Purple, Orange & Lime Green Colours for Halloween

October 2nd 2013

I'm happy to be a guest designer again this month at Bombshell Stamps and my challenge for this month is to use the colours in the title of the post so get creating and link up to the Bombshell Blog!!!

I've used "Bombshell Angel" Rubber Stamp with a great "digi" Halloween outfit and I've decorated my October Journal pages for The Kathryn Wheel challenge (I'm still 2 months behind as I haven't done August & September yet LOL!!)

I've used crackle paint on my pages and you can see underneath I used lime green & black and purple over the top of the crackle - I sponged some orange paint around the edges, punched little stars and numbered them for the days of the week and die cut "october"!

Hope you can join my challenge at Bombshell for this month!!

July Calendar Pages

September 9th 2013

Well I am a few months behind with my Calendar Journal pages for The Kathryn Wheel so I am madly trying to catch up! 

I just love these pages! I used a gorgeous image from Michelle Perkett and I know some of you will wonder about a wintery looking July but I live in Australia and July means Winter LOL!! 

Image is coloured with Copic Markers and a bit of liquid applique added to the hats and snowball. Background was inked with my very old Artnic cubes and whatever other little square ink pots I had sitting around - I can't tell you how old some of these were and some disintegrated whilst I was using them on these pages but I love the effect and it was a great way to "use" some of them up and then throw them away!

I stamped a Dylusions stamp border at the top & bottom of each page and smudged a bit of red ink on each corner. Numbers were stamped on and I outlined some of the ink stamped boxes to make the days of the month.

Now I really need to get August & September pages done!!

She Sells Sea Shells...

June 20th 2013

Another post for today! I've been madly working on my June Pages for The Kathryn Wheel Calendar Challenge but because I used some gorgeous mermaid images from Dilly Beans I needed to get the pages finished asap to enter at the Dilly Beans Challenge Blog for their "Under The Sea" Challenge and LOL I have made it with 9 hours left!!!

I have been admiring these mermaid images for some time so I finally purchased them last night and I decided that I wanted to also use my pages for the "Summer of Colour" Challenge for this week with the colour combo "Orange & Hot Pink" - wow I had so much fun with these great vibrant colours and I'm sure somehwere under the sea these beautiful colours would be shining!!!

Background is paint in orange & pink of course with some white highlights. I cut the little numbers for each day of the week from a card sheet I have had for ages, Images are coloured with Copic Markers and fussy cut and a bit of my favourtie sticky mesh stuff added! Sorry about all the pictures - I just couldn't resist!!

April Showers Bring May Flowers...

May 6th 2013

In Australia it is not Spring but Autumn so flowers here are coming to the end of their time for this season!! The current challenge theme at The Cheerful Stamp Pad is "April Showers bring May Flowers" so we are loving all the great entries - you still have a week left to enter so link up!!

For this reminder post I have used some great new images from Gecko Galz to make my calendar pages for The Kathryn Wheel challenge! It did take awhile to cut oout all the flowers for each day of the week but I really like the effect! I tried to make a lattice background effect with some masking tape. I can't believe it's only the start of May and I have my pages done already - must be a miracle LOL!!

April Calendar Pages

April 30th 2013

Just snuck in again with getting my pages done for this month for The Kathryn Wheel Challenge!!
For my pages this month I used a credit card to drag the paint down the pages. I used some new images from Angie Delarie to make the "days" of the month and some of her exisiting pre-coloured "Mystery" images - LOL they are trying to unjumble the days of the month which I wrote out randomly! Make sure you check out Angie's Blog for her new release designs this month!! I am so happy I am keeping up relatively well for this calendar challenge!!

March Journal Pages

March 31st 2013

Just getting my pages fnished in time for The Kathryn Wheel Challenge - as always I had good intentions of doing these at the beginning of the month but LOL that never happens - maybe I will get April done earlier????

For these pages I used a new set of green Fireworks sprays - I love the colours and metallic shine on them. I sprayed both pages with the lightest green then added some sticky note squares and sprayed with the 2 darker green colours, added some texture with a Tim Holtz stamp in orange and added the numbers to the boxes. I used distress ink dabbed around the edges of the pages and around the days. I couldn't resist the gorgeous bunny image from Gecko Galz for this - very fitting for Easter and I thought the green and orange colour combo worked well.

Amore!

February 24th 2013

Finally finished my Febraury Calendar pages for The Kathryn Wheel Calendar Challenge. This month I used the credit card technique to cover the background with paint then did some sponging, stamping, doodling, added punchies for the days of the week. The gorgeous images are from Michelle Perkett Studio and were printed onto tissue paper then adhered to the pages with Mod Podge along with the "February" Word Art. I added some lacey border sticker to the top of each page. I'm really happy with how this month turned out!!! Now onto March LOL!!!

The Kathryn Wheel 2013 Calendar Challenge!

January 31st 2013

Well one of the things I wanted to do this year was some journalling as I purchased Kate Crane's DVD's quite some time ago and really wanted to have a play so I deceded that my journal would be filled with whatever I felt like doing so I don't have a separate journal for the calendar I am just mixing it all in with any other pages I create! Her eis the link to The Kathryn Wheel 2013 Calendar Challenge which I am linking up to! I really loved doing this with paint and collage images plus some stamping! I can't wait to work on the month of February!

The little squares for the days of the month are punched from Gecko Galz Patterned Papers and the little winged collage girl is from Ceremony. I used various rubber stamps with the swirl and letters and numbers. I loved getting messy with the paint and ink!