WOYWW #591: A journal page and twinchies

Well, I'm back again on WOYWW two weeks running! An accomplishment in itself. I was hugely inspired by the Lifebook Taster sessions that started on Monday. Access is free for two weeks (until October 11th), though Tam extended access by another week in previous years, so I won't be surprised if that's the case this year too! You can check out all the lessons here - new sessions are released every day. The Facebook group for those of you who are interested can be found here. 

I'm not going to complete all the lessons, just the ones that inspire me most. Instead of the warm-up activity, I made a journal page last weekend. This is my desk during the proceedings (you'll notice I'd  tidied my desk a bit - yes, that's tidy for me!):

I actually struggled with this page a bit as I was trying to follow a tutorial and copy someone else's style. It wasn't until I fell back into my own process that I felt comfortable with the page - I'm not sure if that's a good or bad thing. Anyways, here's the complete spread (it has some pressed flowers and leaves I collected from the garden back in the summer):

Then yesterday I braved one of the newly released LifeBook Taster sessions, a lesson by Laly Mille. She created some twinchies (two inch squares) to inspire us. These can be used as backgrounds or just on their own. I've left mine blank for now, but I might add some motifs to them later. I loved this lesson and I extended it by creating a set of 4 cards as well with the leftover pieces that I decorated with postage stamps and the words that inspired the colour scheme. Here they are for your viewing pleasure: 

That's it folks, picture heavy, but hopefully easy on the eyes. The weather has turned much cooler now and we even had some hail last Thursday! It was a bit distressing to see my plants battered outside - some of them got a bit bruised but still standing! 

Thanks for visiting today - I'll be over soon!

WOYWW#590: Birthday Fun

I've been AWOL from WOYWW for the last three weeks. Life's just got a bit busy with schools back and me being back in the office twice a week now, though I still do a lot of work from home as well. I haven't done much in the way of art since then, but I do have my son's (and Oreo's) birthday card to share today. I even have a shot of my desk while I was working on it a few week's back. 

I used recycled cardboard packaging as in previous years. I painted it with black gesso and decorated it with Stamperia's Cosmos collection 12X12 papers and some photos - it's kind of a hybrid scrapbook layout/mini album/birthday card with flaps and an envelope for some virtual birthday money. Here's a closer look:

I've also made a matching coaster. I just stuck one of the images from the paper collection on a piece of plain MDF coaster base, sealed it and then resined it. 

The envelope contains some fake money, that I printed from this website: https://funny.pho.to/ There are lots of other fun features on here that I had a little play with. You can put your photos into different templates. Here are just some of them - you can even make some gif files:

Have a go at this - it's so much fun! Thanks for your visit - I'll be over soon! xx

WOYWW #587: Mini Journal Part Two

What's up peeps! Happy Wednesday! I clean forgot to take a shot of my work desk for WOYWW but I have a video of my finished mini journal instead, which kind of shows my desk in the background. It's so easy to work on a small scale, especially if you follow the same process for each page. My process involved some inky backgrounds I created a white ago for collage and I simply added some postage stamps, washi tapes, book text, gesso to distress and that was pretty much it. 

That's it art-wise, but I have some more photos to share. See if you can guess where we went last weekend from these photos below. Hint 1: it's a small touristy place in Worcestershire. Hint 2: it has the same name as a famous street in New York with all the theatres. (I probably gave too much away LOL!)

It's a photo heavy post today - I have a few more to share. Meet Walter and Mabel, our resident pigeons. They've been here ever since we moved in three years ago - or so we think it's the same couple - always together. You can't see in this photo but it was raining heavily and they were just sitting on the fence for ages! I wanted to invite them in to dry off! The lawn is dug up because we're getting electricity out to the summer house which is yet to be built just in time for the winter LOL but I'm planning to put fairy lights on it which will look pretty in the dark. 

And just one last photo: we had a bumper crop of apples this year. They seem to be bigger and healthier than in past years. This is my next lot for a crumble:

Happy WOYWW! Thanks for your visit! I'm not sure how much time I'll have today, but I'll visit everyone who leaves a comment over the course of the week! xx