In The Garden and Parakeets

Good morning, I'm sharing a journal page with you today, I'm entering it in the latest challenge at Moo Mania and More - In The Garden, I'm also sharing some photos of the parakeets that visit my garden regularly

I started by painting gesso over the page and then I stamped the image [After Midnight] to position him, I then stencilled modelling past around the image.

I coloured the page with distress paints, and stamped and embossed the image

Finally I added some die cut leaves and flowers and added the quote.

For my birthday a couple of months ago I got a new camera with a decent zoom on it. I use to take photos of birds and they'd just be a little speck on the photo, now I can get up close.

This parakeet is enjoying an apple in my neighbours apple tree.

These parakeets are enjoying the coconuts that are hanging on my patio. I took these photos through my kitchen window, I was very pleased how they turned out as my windows need a clean.

Thank you for visiting, have a lovely day.

Masculine Journal Page

Good morning all, I hope you're all having a good weekend. Mine hasn't been so good, I badly twisted my ankle on Friday and am feeling very sorry for myself, my foot is very painful, very swollen but it's changed to some amazing colours.

I'm sharing my project with
The Art Journal Journey challenge - Masculine - Feminine.
The Anything But Cute challenge - Make It Masculine.

  

 I love this After Midnight stamp,

I started by scraping acrylic paint over the page then I did some stencilling with a fluorescent pink paint

I added some stamping to the background and did some lines with the edge of an old credit card.

I painted some white paint so that the stamped and embossed image would stand out. I edged the page using black Archival ink and then I added the Immanuel Kant quote, he was a German philosopher - born 1724 and died 1804 - "Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild". I think the image looks a little wild.

Stamps used
After Midnight - the main image.
Dina Wakley - the border.
PaperArtsy - the white circles.
Stampers Anonymous - background.

There are some stamps on the background that I'm not sure who made them.

Craft Room Colour Challenge

Sadly the Craft Room online store is closing so this is the last challenge that the store will be sponsoring. The randomly drawn winner of this challenge will receive Andy Skinners Batik Garden stamp set. Why not pop over to the Craft Room and grab a bargain as there is a massive 40% discount at the moment.

The latest Craft-Room challenge is a colour challenge and the colours to use are BROWN ORANGE and CREAM.

It's my brother in laws birthday this week so I decided that my DT piece would be his birthday card.
I covered a card blank with dark brown card and then matted various papers and card onto it. I wrapped some bakers twine round the stamped image before attaching it to the card and added a silver fish charm and the sentiment.
The stamps that I used are
Personal Impressions for the main image.
After Midnight Art Stamps for the sentiment.

I'm entering my card into the Just For Fun  Sporty For a Man challenge.

Why not pop over to the Craft Room Challenge blog to see the fabulous work that the rest of the DT has done and to enter your own work.

Deco Pages

They've started this years deco swap at KCUK and I've made these pages for Ann, the theme for her book is anything male, I hope she likes them.
The background is some denim look card that I've stamped clocks on. I stamped the main images onto white card and coloured them with vintage photo Distress ink then matted them onto some black card. I stamped the sentiments onto blue card and went round the edge with the vintage photo then matted them onto black card. After attaching the images to the card I added some of Tim Holtz embellishments.
Stamps used
Main images After Midnight.
Sentiment Clarity stamps.
Clocks not sure.