Bejewelled

The theme for this month's fabric circle journal was bejewelled. Thinking what to do was a challenge especially as I collected it from the sorting office on my way on holiday and wanted to make a start while I was away so materials were limited. The first picture is truer re colours but the 2nd one shows the richness of the beads and materials better

More drawing

Painting, drawing and doodling in my journal continue - recently I've been continuing to make use of odd moments and trips away to do more journaling. Packing the materials I want/need whilst away is the biggest challenge so it was good to go away on Sunday with a small overnight bag that included my journal, paints and pencil case (and yes I still had a change of clothes, toiletries etc as well as my kindle)

Circle journal

 

This month the theme of the circle journal was "A letter to my childhood self". I started with a simple background, painted the girl and then just started to paint and doodle. Thinking what to write was probably the hardest part

Junque Journal

The post yesterday brought this fabulous junque journal. It came from a swap hosted via UK scrappers. Everyone taking part had to make their journal covers together with 20 pages which were distributed between the participants.
The resulting journal is amazing. Thank you to Rebecca who hosted the swap and all the ladies who took part.

More cute animals

I've continued drawing cute animals with help from the book I mentioned in the last post. I've also continued to use the odd few minutes to add to pages in my journal

Mini books

I had a trip to London for work recently. I don't boo the earliest train back as it's nice to have the opportunity to do a little shopping. The course was only a short walk from Blade Rubber so I had  trip there first but then I ended up at Paperchase. The shop in London has an art department selling a wide range of unusual papers and also sells some book and magazines in addition to the stationary you find elsewhere. I bought a book called "Making Mini Books" by Kathleen McCafferty and was keen to try some of the projects. Here is the first one. In the book it has been made as a necklace but I'm going to attach mine to my junk journal.

I already had the pages as they came in the Junk Journal swap I did on UK Scrappers. The covers are cut from a hardback book I've recycled. I punched the holes and added the elastic. I thought I would use the pages to practice drawing. This was another book I bought recently - "Illustration school let's draw cute animals". It's fun book as a starting point to practice drawing with some very cute animals that will be appearing I my art journal. The whole journal only measures 3 inches x 2 inches,

More art journal pages

I continue to journal regularly and seem to be getting better at making use of even a few minutes to add small touches to pages.