I DO MORE THAN JUST SCRAPPING - WELL SOMETIMES...

For the past year my blog has been pretty much wall to wall 12 x 12 scrapbook layouts - this is predominantly to do with the fact that I managed 365 layouts last year.  I've found previously that I can either art journal or scrapbook but not both - it's to do with where my head is at.  I'm finding the beginning of this year a challenge (in a fun way), in that I'm still actively creating layouts whilst I'm also joining in the Documented Life project thus blending the two activities that I find increasingly difficult to do together.  Be warned the last time I managed to do both, I found that both activities blended into a scrapbook/art journal mash up.

Anyway I've got a blog folder full of things I've done over the last 12 months but which I've not shared on my blog, as I'm having a bit of a clear out I thought it would be prudent to start sharing some of these things.

First up is a bid of fabric art that I created for Susie's birthday last year, my first time of dabbling with fabric for quite some time.  The base was a mix of a soft denim and a gelli plated fabric.

I printed the word off onto some t-shirt transfer paper and then ironed onto some cotton.  I add the beadwork by hand and the little silver locket.

You can see part of the quote up close, I loved the font!

Finally, it is designed to be hung on a door handle

I'll be sharing a few other things later, hope you have a great day!

WEDNESDAY POST

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!