time flies

Good Evening. Well, its been a wet and often chilly August up
 in this part of the North West. Today's been wet and quite cold.
I have a few things to show that will bring blog posting for this month to a close.   First of all parchment. The first card is a pattern  designed by Tina Cox. Quite simple to do but a fairly modern design and quite fun, they use little toppers for the main design I used some eyelets and brads to attach them.

This third card is a design by Mary Kerr. Lots of cutting, I added a little glitter to the hats. Instead of stippling with a single needle tool on the fur for the hats I used a small ball tool. I find that gives more the look of fur. For the berries I have used liquid pearls. But you could use glitter glue or paint and dip dot. A green parchment is used to back the main design which is done on plain parchment.

 Next is scrapbooking. Photos taken on a picnic at Ennerdale Water. We had worked hard decorating and the weather turned out nice so we thought we deserved a break. Behind the one photo there is another hidden, It shows a bee feeding on jam and I added the story that explains it all.

Again the picnic, Marc my son-in-law with the dogs.

Last off all photos of the dogs taken at the picnic. Leo is mine and the other two belong to my eldest daughter and her hubby.

Well, that's all I have to show you right now. I'm sure there will be more Christmas cards made soon has the season of cheer is edging  nearer.

So, until next time, take care and spread the love.

cooler August

Hello all, I hope you are enjoying the cooler weather. I know I am. Are you following the European Games? I have been watching the diving  and enjoying that lots.
I have a few things to share this time. I have had my family up here and they have been busy decorating two rooms for me, so crafting went to the back seat for a while. We also took time out to have a picnic at Ennerdale Water My scrapbooking mojo is on the way back too. And I managed some work in my art journal.
First of all a page show casing Chloe one of my granddaughters. I had several  packets of flowers open, I had used one or two out of each packet  and so I decided to get as many packets empty as possible. I have been keeping this sheet of paper until I got the right photo for it. I added a close up so you can see the lovely Bramble Fox perspective "Beautiful". I printed off lots of photos this morning so I have lots to work with now the mojo is back.

Next is parchment, A pattern by Tina Cox.

Below is a design by Christmas Coleman.

Last of all my art journal. I tried a Indian girl in a owl head-dress Not a full success, but I enjoyed it It's been coloured it pencil and a flat back gem added to the head dress.

A close up shows it a little more, and I used a little gold gel pen too.

Next, the witch. Plain old HB pencil. I couldn't sleep and doddled away for a while and this appeared on the page!

Well, that is all I have to show you this time.  

 I have been reading a book by Jodi Picoult. It's fiction but she added an interesting thought before a chapter. She wrote. maybe bad things happen because it's the only way we can keep remembering what good is supposed to look like. Interesting thought. I guess we can all help by being the best person we can be. Spread the love folks and I'll see you next post.