Lens Guy Photo of the Week 3

Here is the third one off photo in the weekly series. This is a photograph of a yellow tulip taken after it had rained. You can see more and find out more about his photography on his facebook page here.

Art Journal Travel

this week's challenge was to use an old map background and journal about the best and worst places you have been to me. When I thought about this so many of my memories (good and bad) were about the journey to a place not just the place. I covered an old map of Scotland with a thin coating of white Dylusions paint using an old credit card and then used Distress Inks in Shabby Shutters, faded jeans and China blue to stamp travel related words and images.

 I used the car from the Tim Holtz visual artistry set. This is a very muted piece for me as the journalling was the most important element this time. I stamped the word Travel using Rangers black archival ink.

A playful spring layout

I had an hour to craft tonight so thought I would do a quick fun lo to playalong with the scrap factor contest on UK scrappers. It is a little slapdash but sometimes that adds to the fun. The challenge was to follow the colour scheme below.

As I was thinking about the fact that spring had sprung I decided to make my photos become the spring springs by cutting them into circles and then around in a spiral. I struggled with the colour scheme but had some pink card and an old piece of background paper in my stash. The hybrid elements came from a Peppermint Creative april showers digi kit (writing strips, rabbit and title block and elements).

Here it is without the flowers springing. The photos were taken in poor light so not sure if the full spring effect can be seen.

Spring in Galloway

The house is surrounded by fields and noisy lambs

The tulips still look fab after a spring shower

Just back from visit to Len's Guy's family and enjoyed all the signs of spring - even though a bit damp and muddy.

 On the way home we took the "goat" road through the Queen's forest. This is a lovely drive and the kids were cute but it is also very twisty and bumpy and designed to induce nausea in even the most seasoned traveller. However we did stop to admire the wild mountain goats and their kids who were super cute.

Last of the Hybrid scrapfactor Layouts featuring Jasper

This Layout took ages and yet appears so simple. 

Coordination’s Black Magic/Blue – Embossing Folder – di lavender and china blue ink. Cut into strips to make border. Made frames for photos. Sprayed with dylusions sky blue, pink and fuchsia

Cut out centre of page and mounted large frame onto lilac/black coordination

Hybrid – Created title using Miss Mint Vintage Mix Alpha, Printed out three balloons (changed colour) from OTS You Look Like a Monkey kit, drew round edge with white and stuck to page – added journaling details and ties in pen. Printed, embossed, inked and highlighted with white sakura pen

 Using scrap paper sprayed with inks freehand drew arrows and stuck to card. Details added with black and white pens. Highlighted little balloon and write on small photo. Drew fine lines and journaled onto page.

Hybrid Scrapping Mirror Fun

This is a double page LO and will be part of my Paris album. I created the background of the first page by printing out elements of french graphics from the graphic fairy web site and then distress inking and stamping onto it. 

The second page used TH shabby French stamps which are embossed with distress powder. I didn't have suitable coloured alphas so coloured them with alcohol inks and promarkers. I punched the flowers out of Rangers metal and put ink on them too but it was a little too "yellow". One day I might go back and change it.

Hybrid Scrapping Layout in full pinwheel action

With this layout of my nephew I was trying to mirror his constant action with the pinwheels. The photos were taken using the camera+ app on the iphone. The paper is from Scrapwithin Reach Carnival ride and the journaling page and coredinations black magic blue. Brads and buttons from stash.

Hybrid – OTS GBGD Monkey – journaling tag, text labels and monkey

Distress inks – lipstick red. Shabby shutters, faded jeans

Hybrid Scrapping Layout Juggling Me

I gave sneak peaks of this but here  it is in full now the audition process is over. I have to say I enjoyed the challenge of making 5 LOs. I like this one as it combines stamping and scrapping and an element of art journalling as I am now happy to messily write on my scrapping layouts. I used Dylusions Ruby Rainbow and Love Struck Lucy stamps, Stampotique Oh Dear Stamp and I coloured them with Pro markers. I have a long way to go with this am going with a cartoon feel till I improve.

  I used SJ Journal panels from uk scrappers digi downloads and  RPENN express yourself font and Shabby Princess Sweet Sensations fonts. Papers are DCWV Gorgeous page, Crate Paper – north pole, Basic Grey – Lily Kate, Chloe’s closet – accessorise. There were torn and distressed with  Distress inks faded jeans, shabby shutters, pumice stone. Flowers from the Martha stewart flower punch.

Hybrid Scrapping layout inspired by art journal - Home is where the table is

This layout came to me after I had completed an art journal page where the prompt was home. This was a hybrid layout for the scrap factor auditions. I like this layout but had put it into the hybrid category and only just realised that using fonts was not hybrid enough and I should have had another element on it. I used Heart stamps from Dylusions Love Struck Lucy and the Dwelling stamps by Claudine Hellmuth.

I sketched our table and paper pieced it using a piece of TH seasons paper and white card for the legs are coloured with pro markers. Papers: 3 bugs in a rug – double sided rhapsody and violet; SEI – sprouting spots; Coredinations Black magic lilac. Fonts – Pebbles white and American Crafts remarks raspberry. Home font  Sweet Sprinkes Shabby Princess

Aida cotton and voile from stash, embroidery thread and needles were used for the heart and stitching.

I used dylusions paints to stamp with and blend the colours on the dwelling stamps

ATC - It's In the Mail

These are for the UKStampers April swap where the theme was "It's in the mail". I had been wracking my brains over this one and then inspiration hit as I was sitting in the garden enjoying the sunshine and looking at blue skies, green grass, yellow daffodils etc. I decided I wanted to use those colours and the ATCs should have a little envelope on them. Each one contains a ticket with today's date and a little stamped piece with trains, plane and boats on it as that it is how mail travels. I used TH Visual Artistry stamps for the birds and postmark (embossed). Royal Langnickel Journey stamps for the other images. I used a Tonic Borders butterfly punch and stuck tissue paper behind it. The backgrounds were made using Distress Ink in Shabby Shutters, Faded Jeans, Lavender and broken china.

The envelopes were cut down from bigger ones and the flowers came from my stash - think the yellow ones are Prima flowers. There's a message on the back of the tickets but that is to be read by those who get them in the swap. The ticket was in a digital kit from OTS TG called new beginnings and I added the date and stamped on it.

Lens Guy Photo week 2

This is the second of Lens Guy's photos of the week. This work is a little different from his normal work but still captures what he does. These limited edition prints are part of a new promotional series and there is just one in each edition. To find out more check out his facebook page. For those of you not from Scotland Irn Bru is "made from girders" and is a very sweet fizzy drink that is bright orange. Some claim it is the other national drink - not me - but if you like sweet fizzy drinks give it a try. He has been taking these photos using an iphone and an app called Camera + which allows you to process and add details to photo. He finds it really hard to do as he does love all his lens and gadgets and metres. For all you scrap bookers out there I think this is worth a try but I am going to stick to the Hipstamatic app as I love the retro feel of the photos and the very random effects.

Art Journal Music using homemade stencils and stamps, Just for Fun

First hi to my latest followers - I am still amazed that anyone drops by to see what I do and I appreciate all the comments and opportunities to see what everyone else is doing. This is also for the Just for fun challenge which asks you to use circles. If you click on the logo at the side you can pop over and see some great work.
This page taxed me as I do not have any musical stamps but after downloading a sheet of vintage music from graphics fairy I began to get going. The page was already showing bits of paints from other pages that had splodged onto it and when I think of music I think of the originial vinyl even though I love my iphone and digital music so that made me think of circles.  My first stencil appeared which was moved around and liberally sprayed with luscious dylusions inks.

Once I had sprayed to my heart's content I printed out some large musical notes and used them as stencils and as stamps. The stamping was a bit haphazard as I did it with paint but I like the effect.

You can see both a stencilled and stamp painted example here.

Finally I added my journalling about Music. 

I love music of all sorts and have quite eclectic tastes ranging from grungy metal to pop to divas to jazz and blues so a Top Five was almost impossible. However my final top five are all significant and remind me of certain times in my life (but that it is too personal to share...) Final choices: Nevermind by Nirvana, The Bends by Radiohead,  Boy with the Arab Strap by Belle and Sebastian, U2 by October and Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.  First single ever bought was Terry Jacks Seasons in the Sun and I cringe as I write this as I still know all the words...

Art journal - Superstitious?

Efemera at UKStampers challenged us to journal about our superstitions and use a charm on the page. My first reaction was I'm not... but then I remembered umbrellas and how I have a thing about not opening them inside.

I do knock on wood occasionally and cross my fingers. Why I really don't know. I did wear green to my wedding with Lens Guy and 17 years later we still together. I do avoid walking under ladders but that is surely common sense?

My charm was created from old pieces of broken jewellery and a heart button. I thought it looked suitably talismanic and could ward off evil? 

I used TH mini umbrella man and the umbrella parts from Dylusions Ruby Rainbow. I even created a mask for the umbrella top which was much easier than I thought it would be. I then used the mask to cover the umbrella stamp when adding another layer of ink. The original background was created using mask pieces from the TH set.

A card and some journal backgrounds

A bit of a twee card for me but I made the dress thinking of my mother and 50's fashion. Little bit pink for my usual style but she would not like a grungy stamped card. I was also playing with the dylusions paints, brushes and old credit card to create some backgrounds.