ANYTHING GOES WEEK!

Helloooo!  Today I am showing you a journal page .   Its been a while since I did any journaling myself and I do miss it!  But its the New Year so it warrants getting my book out :-D  I don't bother with New Years Resolutions any more as I am totally useless at keeping them hahaha!  So I found this quote...

You will need to enlarge it to see it, sorry!  It reads...

'My goal for 2015 it to accomplish the goals of 2014, which I should have done in 2013 because I made a promise in 2012 which I planned on keeping in 2011'

Now...if you can follow that you must be pretty clever hahaha!  To make the pages I dry brushed some beige acrylic quickly over the page and then added Texture Paste through the BIRD & BRANCH MASK.  When that was dry I replaced the mask and coloured in with Promarkers.  I doodled around the edges and used the HAVE YOUR SAY MASK to make the 2015.  The other dates are stamped.  The masks I used...

If you fancy working having a play then why not enter our challenge?  We are running a challenge through the month where you can join us with each weeks themes and be put into a draw to win fabulous prizes.  You can link your work *here*.

Thank you for looking today, HUGS, KAREN  x

KNITTING NEEDLE BOX!

Helloooo!  I am such a sentimental person hahaha!  I have had my knitting needle box for 40 years and now it is falling apart :-(  If you want to see my now very sad looking box it will be at the end of my post!  Now I have a new one, especially cut for me by Tando Creative.  The chipboard is thick like mountboard so it will last me forever now!  I also asked Di to cut me out the words to go on the top.

Its just a bit longer than the longest needle and 6cm wide and deep...perfect!  I have painted it with PaperArtsy Fresco paints, layering them up with stamping and stencilling.  The flowers are stencilled through the *BIRD & BRANCH* mask using coloured texture paste.  The wording has also been painted with Fresco paint and then , along with the flowers, been glittered.  The base is plain amethyst.

 

Now you all want to see its predecessor don't you hahaha!  When I left school I worked in a Computer office of a local authority and this is what the printer ribbons came in!!!!  It was a whole different world back then wasn't it?

 

 

This is the mask I used...

 

I hope you like my new box and thank you for calling by, HUGS, Karen xxx