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Hi All. Hope you have had a good week and you are looking forward to the weekend. I am confined to indoors and doing very little as my cold turned to a chest infection I have antibiotics and been told by the doc to take things easy. Not my style at all so I thought I would do a bit of sneaky posting on my blog. Thank you for your visit and for the lovely comments. I have been able to read them on my i-pad as I haven't been on the computer for a while. It is almost the end of my hosting month at Art Journal Journey  and I want to say a big thank you for all the wonderful artwork that has been submitted for the challenge and getting to know more of you so much better during the month. Also a very big thank you to Susi and Valerie for having me as their host again. I have two pages I prepared earlier before I got the bug so thought I would post them today even though you still have time to join in for the rest of January. I may have to be a good girl and stay quiet for a few days. Dis...

Hi All. Apologies for lack of visits to your blogs but life has rather got in the way just at the moment. Thank you for calling in and for your lovely comments. Today I have two journal pages for Art Journal Journey  where I am hosting a Winter Wonderland theme. Still almost 5 days left if you want to join in with us. I had these pages ready made so thought I would post them today just in case I haven't time again before the end of the challenge. This is the back  of an old calendar, I got this idea from Susi. I painted it in white acrylic then drew in charcoal and used more acrylic for the images and the sky. This is a digital page though I used a stamped image for the centre piece and altered it a little. Have a good day all Love Chrissie xx

Hello Everyone. It's nice to be back again after a week away and thank you to everyone who left comments while I was away and to the ones who call today. I have a rotten cold and MIL is back in hospital again but apart from that all is ok. At Art Journal Journey you have the rest of January to join in with a Winter Wonderland theme. Today I dug out a painting I did in the 1990 and added to it what I felt should have been there on the day we did the walk. It was at Uldale bottom in the Lake District and a place that very few people visit. Every Inchie Monday has village as their word of the week, Have a great day everyone Love Chrissie xx

Hi All. Nice to have you join me at Jumbled Crafts and thank you for your wonderful support. Time for a new challenge at Try it on Tuesday  and I'm sure the choice of  Silhouettes will be very popular. Hope you join in and have the chance to be chosen as one of our top five and maybe asked to be a guest designer in a future challenge. My team mates have made some amazing things to inspire you so pop along and see them and maybe find time to visit their blogs as well. I made this picture to give to some friends. I started out with the two images I have had since way back when I made them into this silhouette with the help Paint Shop Pro. The background I made by using acetate and blobbing it with alcohol ink. I blew the ink through a straw, I dabbed it with tissue, I scrawled on it with the end of a paintbrush and this was the result. It took ages to dry so I hadn't a clue what it would like like when I turned it over. I cut a piece to size to fit the opening in the card then u...

This would normally be my Monday post but I won't be around tomorrow or for another week so I fitted it in early. I will have my phone with me so will look forward to popping in at your blogs to see what you have made but I haven't fathomed out how to do posts on it yet or even if you can do that on a phone. Thank you for calling in and for any comments that you leave. At Art Journal Journey we have the Winter Wonderland theme and it feels cold enough to snow so maybe winter is still on the way for us. A digital creation today. The background is part of a photograph and the other images I found on Google. The quote was on a quotes website with no copyright. At Every Inchie Monday we are still going through the list of words chosen from Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. I get them checked out by Vic as it is one of his favourite book and I have never read it. Sorry to say it has revived his interest in the book and I think he said there was a series on telly. HELP! This ...

Hi All from a sunny but frosty NE UK coast. Nice to see the blue sky and sunshine again here. Hope it is nice where you are and that you have a great weekend. Always lovely to have you drop by-thank you. Art Journal Journey  have the Winter Wonderland theme for the rest of the month so I hope you will join in with us as I am the host there for January. The background is done in chalk and the figures are from Gecko Galz I think. I do thrill to the first snow of winter but I am not thrilled when it lingers and becomes slushy and frozen At Mix Media Monthly the theme is Time Flies. I had a few background waiting to be used for something so thought I would join in this challenge as it is a blog I hadn't visited before until one of my old blog mates reappeared on my blog roll and she had made something for this challenge. For the clock I used two Chocolate Baroque stamps and a clock face image I found on Google. I made the flower using the Tim Holtz Tattered Flower die and guess what e...

Hello Again from Jumbled Crafts and thank you for your visit which is always appreciated. Another page from me for Art Journal Journey where I am hosting the Winter Wonderland theme for this month. I hope you will join in and also that you click on this button to see all the wonderful entries in one place thanks to Valerie . Today I have done a digital page with a textured background and skating silhouettes I found on Google. The snowflakes and text on the background are Paint Shop Pro brushes that I made. The quote I found on Google. Dear June at Denzinaworld  has a new list of cheeky challenges and the first theme is poverty.  June added a picture you can use for your project and I used it as my background. The girl at top left was called Eliza Armstrong and her parents sold her for £5 which would be £527 in today's money. The girls were bought for a life of prostitution and their lives were very short. Have we moved on? Maybe not as some girls are now imported and promise...