This one has been fun and sad at the same time (we lost one in the post - not fun, sob), fun in the fact that it was with a 'Desert Island Discs' theme, the soundtrack of your life. There were some very different journals doing the rounds, including two fabric ones which were fun to work on, as well as Donna's masterpiece, if you want to see more of the collaborations, head over here however this post is about the return of mine.
Collaborart, is about working collaboratively and therefore when you receive a circle journal, not only do you work on your entry but have 'permission' to work on those that have gone before, this in turn means the journal returned is a really rich piece of art work, which I love. I'll let the photos do the talking, but a mahoosive thank you to all those that took part and added to the pieces as they travelled around! I don't have a favourite piece, I love each and every one of them and their additions!
The final piece was my originally entry into the journal, this is how it started out
Good morning, well I'm searching through my blog folder and realised that I'd shared my entry into the Desert Island Discs circle journal on Collaborart (where the journal originates click here to find out more) but not on my blog, so I thought I'd share it here before it gets archived.
This journal was the second fabric journal that had crossed my path and I chose the track We Are Young and created an Empire State building in the clouds (as per the lyrics), I used fabric pens and fabric spray paint to create the background and then had fun with my sewing machine for the afternoon
I then added to other entries in the journal, a little bit of white machine stitching on this one.
A quilting stitch on this one
The gold 'tie back' and edged checked board on this one
Going over the title on this one
and some more decorative stitches on this one
finally a bit more coloured machine stitching on this one.
And a wavy line on this one.
This CJ is now drawing to a close with one final entry into Donna's journal which I'll share with you in the future, hope you're all having a great Wednesday!
Morning all - hope the weather is fine and bright and sunny where you are, it's a blue skies day in Yorkshire this morning - bliss. Hubby cooking pancakes at the moment and we are sat chatting, had a lovely morning up to now, just chatting and giggling it's good for the soul!
I keep forgetting to share what I've put on the Collaborart blog - so having a sort thought my blog folder I thought I'd show a circle journal I've been working on recently that is a fabric journal. I was somewhat concerned about working on it initially but once the sewing machine was dusted off and I had a look through I managed to produce this. The inspiration came from the lyrics of the track in which the words were 'holy cow I love your eyes' - I couldn't help myself!
Up close you can see the angel 'wings' and the halo. The background was gelli print fabric, the rest was predominantly felt with hessian and a bit of fabric (the eyes) added in for good measure.
Oh and leather for the patches
Part of the collaborative side of the blog is to add to previous pieces, so on this one I added the bars.
Little 'ghost' fishes on this one
The 'frame' either side of the left top piccie.
which you can see better here
A little bit of a quilting stitch on this one
which again you can see better here.
Another quilting stitch around the title on this one
Which you can see here slightly better (although the photo is slightly blurry)
And finally I added the ribbon circle around the edge and the applique on the bodice.
Slightly better view of it here.
The worry of adding to someone's artwork is getting easier as we do more collaborations, if you fancy seeing other work then check out the Collabor-art blog!
Again for those who haven't seen this on the Collabor-art blog, I've just completed my entry into Sonja's CJ having great fun using my gelli plate.
There were still plenty of tracks that I love to choose from and so I set too listening to the CD and perusing the book, it didn't take much to decide on the Gun track Don't Say It's Over from the track list.
The CJ is based on a chipboard page with an envelope attached and I wondered if I could do something a little 'different' with the envelope. So gelli plate at the ready I set too. I had a fab morning playing journalling etc to create this entry, background gelli plate and music and star stamps, images and masking tape, leaving enough 'blank space' hopefully for future additions.
The back of the page looks like this, again Gelli plate.
I opened the envelope up, gelli plated it (this is becoming a habit), reinforced the 'tear off' strip of the envelope (which didn't survive the gelli plate due to it's perforations) with black card, hand stamped the track name, attached the gun image, masking tape and an off cut of scrapbook paper and felt me
work here was done!
In addition to this page I 'added' to the entries already in the book in the spirit of collaboration, if you fancy seeing more of the collaborative work that we've been doing, or even fancy joining in, check our the blog - here
So here we are on the last Friday of November, the word gulp as December looms large tomorrow! Time to find the silver linings, the sparkles, the positives and the gratefuls of the last 7 days
Last Friday we ventured down to the local theatre for a pre-Christmas treat - A Christmas Carol performed by a local theatre group, thoroughly enjoyable and much fun. There were a few elements that added to the play overall, the well to do Victorian lady knocking over her wine glass and swearing had most of us tittering, as did the ghost of Christmas future arriving on stage dressed as death which led to Craig chortling his way through the 'Bottom' sketch - anyone who is a Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson fan will know what I'm talking about and the rationale for putting a man over six feet tall into a knee length nightgown and then expecting him to get on and off the raised bed platform without flashing underwear escapes me, but nevertheless we had a great evening! I want to read the book now but don't own a copy so will have to get it picked up.
Saturday brought kitchen cupboard cleaning and I can hear you groan now - why is this on my list? Because the last time I did this little task I pulled my back, this time my hubby helped and did the awkward cupboards which meant I was still upright at the end of this - a win win - clean cupboard and my back still working!
A warm bath on Saturday afternoon to warm my bones, second one in as many weeks and my backs still working, I could get used to this!
Hubby making roasted squash soup again - honestly it's beautiful, so tasty and zero points!
Writing the round robin newsletter from beginning to end on Saturday, every year I do a round robin type newsletter to go with cards to people that live far and wide despite the fact many say it's not the 'done thing' it always feels like hard work to do but I still insist on it every year and it is nice to look at the year that we've had, this years newsletter came together quite quickly, it's not as funny as previous ones or as sarcastic (a tone I struggle to omit with most written words if I'm honest - can you tell) but it is complete and approved by hubby and said 12 year old - just need to fathom out how to copy it now!
Sunday brought us to a Christmas Craft and Gift Fayre, am I the only person who stands saying "I could make that..." and not buying the item whilst not arriving home and making it either! It was a lovely mix of stalls at this particular one and little bit of everything, we got to admire some great photographs, some beautiful Christmas wreaths, some gorgeous knitted items (although I'm no good with wool so not for me), oggle at the cupcakes for sale, lots and lots of lovely items. The haul for the day has to go to said 12 year old who managed - a slice of rainbow cake and let me tell you that in itself was a mighty fine haul for the outing - it took him two days to eat!
he also managed, a DVD film for a £1, some old coins and a copy of a book signed by the author himself, and a chocolate orange stirring stick. Whilst dear hubby caught himself a 1 kilogram - yes that's 2.2 pound pork pie! And me, well hubby bought for me two chocolate orange stirring sticks with cinnamon (these were the Christmassy ones) together with a fur muff for my hands, I'm always complaining of being cold and this particular one is in grey leopard print, with a wheat lavender bag inside which means - it can be warmed in the microwave - simply genius!
Sunday night brought a Chinese take away because we couldn't be bothered to cook, naughty us but it was lovely!
Monday morning came around too quickly but in a simple summary this week I've
Enjoyed the gorgeous night sky (even at 6am Thursday morning)
Watchihng - I'm a Celebrity - Ant and Dec are fantastic, so much fun to watch!
Watching - Elementary - wow what a TV series.
Hubby finding Whitechapel on catch up - provided we can watch it earlier I might be able to cope.
Said 12 year old being honest with us one evening about an issue at school, he was relieved to have a chat about it and think he was surprised with our reaction - which was laid back and matter of fact.
Cleaning the house by stealth, I'm trying to sneak in cleaning tasks without it being a mass cleaning session - up to now it seems to be working!
Making some in roads into the massive amount of Christmas cards I need to make - I hate Christmas card making and usually do it in January, didn't manage it this year, but believe you and me the same won't be said of next year!
Lovely evening meals cooked by hubby!
A warm house (goodness knows what it will cost us with the gas bill but I refuse to be cold!).
Ovaltine
Wii console keeping my hubby and son happy!
Catch up with my sister.
Secret Santa gifts finally completed and sent
Circle journals completed and sent (the sense of achievement is always a positive).
A day off work on Thursday even if by default due to the by-election in the town meaning we couldn't use our normal office base.
And that my lovely people will have to do you this week.
These are two circle journal entries I've done recently on the Desert Island Disks Circle Journal on Collaborart.
And a layout that I did as part of the UK Scrappers cyber crop recently! This one documenting chemistry experiments in the summer.
If you fancy joining in, pop yourself a post together and head over here to link up so we can come and visit and share your positives. Don't think anything positive has happened this week - really? Go on have a think, you'll be surprised at what positives you can find when you set your mind to it!
