AJC Poetic licence tag

Every week on the AJC we are given 12 words to form something you can journal. More often than not they never make proper sense but I think they are great fun to do and a challenge to fit them together with out using other words. You can use other words if you wish but I try not to if I can get away with it.  I didn't want to do a full page, because of the time it takes to complete a mixed media page, most of the other girls on the caravan are purely digital, so I chose to use a tag and basic collage techniques. Here is this weeks attempt.

           

Can Can journal page

This months port of call for the AJC is France. The film Can can has always been one of my favourite films and as the Paris of yesteryear is far more appealing to me than the Paris of today I decided to use one of Toulouse Lautrec's posters and work my mixed media journal page around that.

 

 

 

 

Mini card

This card is one I have made for The Fruit Pixie using The Craft UK die cut topper sheets, this time Mini.  It would be great for all those who love the London look that it popular at the moment or anyone who loves their cars.

 

As with all the Craft UK die cut sets you get many toppers but just one sheet of card so I have used multiple toppers to make this card and still have a couple left to use the left over cardstock to make a gift card for the present or a couple of very simple cards as well.

 

All products for this card are available from The Fruit Pixie online shop.

Little paper hearts

I love making these little hearts out of book pages. I drew around a template with my water colour crayons, painted it out with a water brush, stitched them and stuffed them, then cut them out. These would be great just to pop in your loved ones pocket on Valentines day just to say "I love you"

Sherlock Holmes journal page

For my second page for the AJC port of call - United Kingdom, I just had to do a Sherlock Holmes page. He has been my literary hero for many years now. I know all of Colan Doyle's stories, have seen all the old Hollywood films, TV series and radio plays. I even love the new British and American TV adaptations. The new films though..............just don't even go there!! 

      Anyway here is my page, a mixed media/ hybrid page which I had great fun creating.

                            Now onto the next port of call on our AJC journey around the world - France

Travel card and book

I have been working with the Craft UK travel topper set for the Fruit Pixie. I made this little 4x4 book using the cardstock and toppers from the set plus a matching piece of cardtsock to back the covers and make a couple of dividers. There are plenty of toppers to use to decorate your dividers. For the cover I used one of the toppers and the Tim Holtz typeset alphabet die and a cardstock alpha which I punched out with a small hole punch.

 

 

For a little extra touch I added a piece of ribbon and stitched a couple of The Fruit Pixies wonderful vintage buttons as a book mark.

 

 

 

With the remaining topper and border I made a card to go with the little book. I used a Craft UK 6x6 card blank and covered it with a piece of the Crafthouse press vintage map paper which went beautifully with the theme.

 

 

All these products are available from The Fruit Pixie online shop.

Gardening box card

I have been working with the new Craft UK collage sheets for The Fruit Pixie. I began with the gardening set and made this box card. The drawer could be filled with gardening goodies and can make an inexpensive gift look expensive and imaginative.  The set comes with a sheet of the toppers and borders and a really good heavy piece of matching cardstock.

Hearts

I made these two soft hearts for The Fruit Pixie using the Cosmic Shimmer sprays to colour calico, seam binding and the Tim Holtz trims. I then cut out and stitched it into a heart shape and embellished them.

 The pink one I used some paper flowers and one of the many lovely keys The Fruit Pixie sells plus one of the cute tags form the Fruit Pixies pound shop.

The green one I scrunched up the fabric and then simply used a couple of the buttons from the Bo Bunny timepiece collection which I backed with some of the Tim Holtz trimms

Everything apart from the calico and flowers is available from The Fruit Pixie online shop http://www.thefruitpixie.co.uk/index.asp

Wedding Ann card

 It was my parents wedding Anniversary this week so of course I made them a card. I used the Joanna Sheen Dancing with shadows cd rom to create this card. I cut the circle in the front out with a Spellbinders die, the rosettes are made using the Tim Holtz dies as is the banner too. I must admit I was very pleased with it!

Button Heart

As us girls know Valentines day is just around the corner and so I have been drawn to make heart shaped things!

    I began with this project for the Fruit Pixie, a button heart made with the wonderful button mixes Sarah Jane sales, finished off with one of the Romantic word tiles, glued onto a background from the 7Gypsies Trousseau collection. A sweet quick and easy project for Valentines day. Why not have a go! All the things I used are available from The Fruit Pixie online shop.

AJC Bristolian journal page

The port of call this month with the AJC, is the UK and as it is my home I thought it was important to do something about my home city Bristol. Now I grew up in a small town 9 mile outside Bristol called Nailsea, although I was born in Bristol, so I don't have a Bristolian accent but I do use the dialect words all the time. I must admit dialect words do fascinate me so I have journalled a few for my page.

   The page is a hybrid mixed media page, I used Paperartsy Fresco paint for the background, the lettering was done with a dip pen and india ink. The alpha is by Tumblefish studio and the cat and snowflake by Holliewood designs.

Resist technique tags

I learnt a new technique the other day and just couldn't wait to try it. So here are my resist technique tags made for The Fruit Pixie. Both tags are made out of The PaperArtsy smoothy card and have been cut using the Tim Holtz Tag and Book plate die.

  I then placed a template over the tag and applied Eco Green Artist medium Gloss using a credit card type thing, remove the template carefully and leave to dry. I then had a surprise  I had tried it with another Gloss medium and had got a nice smooth effect but with the Eco Green one on the smoothy card gave me a lovely crackle effect!!

I then used PaperArtsy Fresco Finish Acrylic to colour this tag

For this tag I wanted a different look so used Cosmic Shimmer Chalk misters.

       To finish off the first tag I firstly cut the little frame from the Tag die out of card and then the gold wrapper from a Galaxy chocolate bar ( they cut beautifully so a good excuse to eat chocolate whilst
 crafting ) and stuck them together. The bottle is a medium Creative Expressions glass vile which I have squirted in some Imaginations crafts magi Glits Gel and tied a tiny Jewellery tag around the top . The bingo card, butterfly, doily and border are all from Kaisercraft Miss Match Bingo cards and Collectables.

For tag 2 I made a flower using the Tattered Flowers and leaves dies from Tim Holtz to cut the Creative Expressions Kraft Twistwrap paper. This is fun stuff to use and sculpts nicely so is great for flowers and leaves. You can also colour it, I used Imagination crafts silkies. Then add the word using Tim Holtz Typeset alphabet strip die and a button to finish.

All these products are available from The Fruit Pixie on-line shop, where I am the resident design elf! :)

Art Journalling tags

Another new challenge in the AJC is something called Poetic licence. Tangie has given us over 400 words and then every week she issues a group of numbers that correspond with the words and we then have to make something out of them. Well I love things like that but knew I just wouldn't have time to do a journal pages  as well as my other AJC journalling so I needed some thing quick and easy to do. I came up with a tag book! So I cut a tag from my Tim Holtz die and produced this -

Tiny Passport

A fun new part of the AJC this year is Tangy is issuing passport stamps along the way. So of course I wanted my own AJC passport to keep them all in.

I scanned in my passport pages ( not sure it is exactly legal but I expect they will let me craft in prison)  and then made up a little book. I then print my stamps on a product by Letraset called Safmat and I can then cut them out and stick them into my book and it looks as if they have been stamped in. Great fun!

7 Gypsies paper doll

Meet Nellie, my paper doll made for The Fruit Pixie using 7 Gypsies Trousseau collection. I had wanted to make a paper doll with these papers as soon as I saw them, the wonderful photos on the papers are just perfect as a start for your doll.

  To help me with size and scale I use the Artistic Stamper Art doll stamp set, large but then I alter the shape to give me the look I want. I went for the Edwardian look to match the paper style but the world is your oyster!!

 I also used - Small brads to form her joints. Imaginations crafts silkies for her shoes, I used the Turquoise lave from the Persian velvet set. Craftime Enchanted ribbon bows and little pearls. The button flower is from the fantastic bright button collection. All these products are available from The Fruit Pixie.

New Year, New AJC!

I can't believe it has been almost a month since my last post! I did go to Austria for a week just before Christmas and then came Christmas and New Year but now I am back on track again.

 I have decided I wanted to do another year of the Art Journal Caravan ( only got as far as April last year then life got the better of me) I have more free art time now and so I hope I can do the whole thing.

 So this is my first page, hybrid of course, the letter page, well a postcard this time for me. My new word and passport stamp is included and as we are off around the world this time in our art journals I decided on a travel theme.

                                         



Rosette Christmas decoration

I made this cute little decoration with the off cuts from the Ruby Rock Christmas journal. I scored and folded a 12x2 strip of the Ruby Rock it paper using the Hougie board and made it into a rosette. I then used one of the borders from the Ruby Rock it Joyeux Noel borders set and some bakers twine to finish it off. All these products are available from the Fruit Pixie where I am proud to be their design elf!!

Gift card holder idea

I must admit it was M&S that gave me this idea and I know that the Woodware Cd Sleeve available from The Fruit Pixie would make the perfect base for this gift card holder. I also used a small coin envelope to hold the gift card. The paper and the lovely glittery angel came from the Ruby Rock it Joyeux Noel paper range also available from the Fruit Pixie.

 

Add a piece of card with your Christmas message on a piece of card inside the CD Sleeve and then pop your gift card inside the little envelope and your ready for the big day!!

 

Little altered Reindeer

When I saw this little wooden reindeer in Wilkinsons for £1 I just had to add him to my growing collection of reindeer's. He looked OK in white paint but I had plans for him. I used IndigoBlu Slap it On which is available from The Fruit Pixie, to apply the napkin from our Christmas crop at Bristol Scrappers. With a bell and piece of ribbon and some glitter gel for his antlers to finish him off.  For full instructions please look on the Fruit Pixie facebook page.

Ruby Rocket Christmas journal

I have had my Fruit Pixie designer elf hat  to make this Christmas Journal using the Ruby Rocket Joyeux Noel papers and a Kanban mini album. These papers are a dream to work with and gives you such a wonderful vintage look. The Fruit Pixie has everything you need to make this journal.

 

I added an envelope to the back cover to hold tags and bits and bobs.

                                                                      and then this to finish off.