Saturday Journal page

No really a journal page today - but the potential to become one if left to play!  Look - what pretty yummies!!!!

These are my Gansai Tambi - they have arrived.  As everyone keeps saying - the colours are so amazing - totally different to what you would expect from a normal water colour palate.

I haven't got very far with colouring with them yet - I have just done the colour chart in the lid the way I want to use the colours so I can see how they will react.  I still have jobs to finish and I really want to be all up together so I can have a clear head.

I tried to get a Hot paper pad of a decent weight in a small size in the town and could not get anything that was exactly what I wanted.  I ended up getting a good weight cartridge paper in a larger pad - then I cut in half - and I used the loose papers along with some really heavy Not watercolour paper and made a book of my own with my bind-it-all.  I bound the short edge - and I used a pair of the canvas covered boards that zutter make..  I had to cut the boards to fit my pages - I used a craft knife and I can't believe how easily they cut - it was no effort at all.

I have stamped some images into the plain little book to start practicing on - and I have my eye on this months Cardmaking and Paper craft magazine - the free gift is a fantastic Oriental theme stamp set and if they don't all get sold I will have one before I send them back for credit. 

You can only get these watercolour paints direct from the makers in Japan - and the price does fluctuate with the exchange rate. Mine is the 36 set - which is the only set with the metallic colours.  They are not expensive when you compare them to other quality sets - and you can get the pans separately when you need to. 


Kuretake Gansai Tambi Japanese Watercolour Paint Set - 36 Colours



Gansai Tambi 24 color set




Gansai Tambi 18 colors set






Gansai Tambi 12 color set

It has taken me a couple of days to get this post sorted and linked to work properly - so I will share any journal pages tomorrow.



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Stencilled tag with Memento inks

Now this will make you laugh.  I was half ways through my dinner last night - and I had forgotten to cook the potatoes.  I was so excited about getting my old steamer out again and my pretty vegetables - I had totally forgotten about the baby pearl potatoes I had bought to go with it!!  I tell you - I don't get better with age!

I can make a decent art tag though ;-)

Over on the Personal Impressions blog is the how to for this pretty tag.

Tonight I will remember the potatoes - I will probable forget the pork chop.

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Memento Inks

You can read my product review of Memento Inks over on the Personal Impressions blog

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Feathers to you!

We have gone feather mad lately.  Feathers are the 'in' thing this year - and I have to admit that I just love them

I made a card

and a pretty charm hanger thingie whatsit

And we have feather dies - feathers stamps - and - of course - real ones - showcased in one of hubby's fab crates

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Day off

Monday is kitten's day off

and I am off the the chiroptactor

then I am going to fight with YouTube again (it WILL give in ;-) )

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Saturday Journal Page

Gosh - I have been so busy this week.  The shop has been busy with half term - I have had a couple of weddings to do favors for - and I have been busy with the Personal Impressions work.  It should all start coming together next month and settle into some sort of routine - it's always chaos when these things start from scratch.

So this afternoon is a very leisurely playing with journals time.

Simple layout for this - but it's so pretty.

Brush over the bottom half of the page with a pale green Memento ink - put a pale blue at the top of the page - just cover the centre of the page area.  Stamp with a silhouette type stamp - then mask the stamped area with an oval or a circle - what ever suits your stamp shape.  The black is applied with a baby wipe to keep a smooth surface.  I may doodle over the edges at a later date

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Paint brushes and roll

I made a new roll for my paint brushes.  Isn't this pretty?

The background is one of the heavier weight fabrics that I have - it's a canvas type cotton with words printed on it - suitable for me don't you think!  I have even managed to use one of the patterned bias bindings that I have had in the shop and been desperate to find an excuse to use.

I just love my pretty brushes - the all the handles are patterned

They go right down to tiny points - I only paint little things - I love adding tiny little details

They are actually nail art brushes - yes really - and they can take quite a bit of hammering from me as they for all the nail polish and remover that nail tecs use.

This is the type of thing I get.  The brushes have loads of different tips - they are very inexpensive and I am getting hooked on collecting all the different ones.





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Day off

Monday is kitten's day off

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Saturday Journal (on Sunday)

Yes - I know - late again - running at slow speed at the moment

and my journal page is a bit different from usual.  Personal Impressions sent me some Chalk Vintage Paints from Viva (and some past and stencils) and I wanted to experiment a bit with them in my journal to see how they feel - you can't beat getting your fingers in something and taking it all apart to find out how it works ;-)

So here is today's (yesterday's) page - and there will be a proper full report on the Personal Impressions blog soon

I created a background

Added a white space in the middle to stamp on - and used the dark paint to colour the stencil paste

It is going to take the weekend to dry

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good old Fibro

It's been pretty full on for the past couple of weeks - for several different reasons - some good - and some not so - and it's all taken it's toll on me again.

I feel such a wuss! There is still tons to get done - as there always seems to be.  Very little of it is stuff that desperately HAS to be done - mostly things I want to get tidied up - I still have not got sorted fully from the upheavals of the moves - the box room needs a through clear out.  There are a couple of kit projects that are waiting to be finished and made up.  You know stuff like that, that I want to finish and tidy away so I can settle my head and thoughts.  

It's no good though I am going to have to admit that - I am really fragile at the moment.  I need to really rest myself and totally clear my head - get rid of the worries and stress - otherwise I can feel another fibro flare up coming on - and I have done so well to manage them.

so I am going to do a bit of gentle crafting and get into my colouring and zentangles - that will do me the world of good!


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Bible art Journaling

I have a couple of new pages done with Rebekah's journaling group. She is a bit product heavy - so I am having to improvise quite a bit.  I am skipping the watercolour painting until my set of Gansai Tambi arrives - hopefully at the beginning of June.

This page has a verse heat embossed in glittery green - then shaded with Distress inks 

As I don't have any delicate watercolour paints (Inktense pencils are really strong, vibrant colours -well they are when I use them!) - I dabbed a bit of ink from some Distress pads - gave them a spray with water =- and used that to shade my drawn tags a bit

And lastly - my book is just an old second hand one but you can get proper bibles that are designed for journaling and note taking with big wide margins and footers.  As I had no margin to doodle in - I added a flap and glued it in - not sure about iit really

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