WOYWW #802 - The Quiet Before the Storm

My 3 day Bible Conference starts this afternoon at 4pm going on till 1am each day in Arizona Time. So funny how my random screen saver has decided to join in the fun too.

Just a week's worth of journal pages this week and a few bits and bobs...

Day 8 - was touch and go. I used up some of the scrap snippets strip I made a while ago which was still pending my sewing machine coming out!

I played with the word sunshine for just a Posca Pen design on top with some distress ink around the edges.

Day 9 - was some acrylic paints and ink with B&W Posca doodles on top.

Day 10 - I had some frayed threads from my dyed fabric strips so used those with some water colour and splatters. 

Just so happens this was the day I missed the Aurora Borealis yet again, who knew!

Day 11 - finally managed to download the extra freebie from one on the conference speakers so used it on my folder, on my ticket page and in my daily journal.

If you sign up for Roxanne's emails list you'll get it free too. I love it for the butterflies and the lady praying.

Day 12 - I had a black half page so black gessoed the other half and had a paint doodle.

Day13 - I used a mop up sheet, some ink splatters and drew some mushrooms on more of the mop up sheet. We did the Belt of Truth in church so I used some words from last years conference which was on the Armour of God.

Day 14 - Wanted to use the colours from Chris and Dianne's costumes from last Saturday's Strictly. I just played around with lots of different supplies.

The words just jumped out at me from my saved cuttings.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #801 - The October Journal

I managed to get a 4"x4" journal made for October  last week. I used the cover from a RHS magazine for the cover and did 5 signatures of junk papers inside. Separate signatures certainly helps it from gaping when complete.

Here's the desk with the journal open ready for my page yesterday...

And the journal itself, loving the sunflowers such happy colours.

Day 1 - I carried on the orange theme of the cover.

I doodled the flowers and added some words form Psalm 1.

Day 2 - Our son popped home for a few days for the annual dentist/car service/mot visit. He definitely brings me JOY - although 3 nights is quite enough LOL.

Day 3 -  We did the dentist run together and managed to make it home OK despite my car having a little trouble. Hubby did the spark plug thing and it seems OK now. I watched the Disney films "Soul" with my son it was lovely.

Day 4 - fortunately had a printed page from one of my church's all age services so just coloured in with Posca Pens.

Day 5 - Our son went back Saturday morning so I had a craft day...

I did my October Bible Journaling Ministries freebie mini kit for the month page. 

The theme is Hope in Grief this month.

My Faith Inspirations October Page on Proverbs 10:12 "Hatred stirs up conflict but LOVE covers all wrongs", where using magazines was the technique. I collaged on this page

I used the left over bits and bobs for my daily page, and magazine letters.

Day 6 - On Sunday I was finishing up my preparation for next week's conference and had some miss-printed bits so used those plus more magazine letters.

Day 7 -  Monday I crafted during our church's monthly prayer meeting, which was on zoom again. I made this within the hour.

Not got back to the scrapping again - oops.

There's always tomorrow...

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #800 - The First Entry & Today

Yay WOYWW #800 what a milestone.

I started my original blog (ccraftcorner) back in March 2011 and first entered WOYWW a year later on 14th March 2012, @ #145. Twelve and a half years ago, oh my!

My desk was a little different back then as I had a laptop as opposed to a computer but I was scrapping and only a few months behind (unlike today where I'm 9 months behind! - See end of post)

I bought the green cutting mat and the paper trimmer back then from QVC and they are still going strong, even the silicone mat (under green mat) is still on the go too. I think 2012 was when my crafting started to expand from just scrapping and card making into the more arty stuff although I have filled eleven 60 side 12x12 scrapbooks since then Eeeekkkk!

Here's today's desk with all my monthly journals for this year. I was going to make my journal for October this morning but the day took a  down turn and I haven't done any crafting yet as a result.....YET!

I did buy some new Posca pens and some textured papers/fabrics this week. The latter on top of the pile which is all on my piece of hardboard which I put on the end of my bed as extra table space.

Here are the papers laid out and the belly band label made me smile!

The posca pens are the Autumnal Tones set which I have slotted in with my Standard and Pastel sets. 

I love a rainbow flow of colours...

So on to the end of September's Journal

Wednesday's page flowed out of the scrapbooking diecut scraps I used for the collage and an image I had in my stash for a while.

Defo needed the orange posca pen for this page but had to make do with the coral pink then...

Thursday's page - I remembered I had some coffee for splattering and love the soft colours.

The word reflect was on a few of the collage pieces under the paint and I tried to "reflect" some of the pieces as I went along before using that word as my focal point.

Friday I used a mop up sheet I'd been adding to for a while and just added the sun and stars and writing, glitter and perfect pearls.

Saturday was a collage and paint play day. I tried out the distress on top of my craft glue again to get the crackle (blue). I even tried alcohol ink for the first time (green). I added previously made foliage and fungi.

Sunday I did a textured backing white on white with a touch of silver and added lots of words from my hubby's engineering magazine. My most masculine page yet methinks. Hubby liked it anyways.

Monday I had 2 pages to play with at the end of September. The back cover I needed to attach to the last page so I made the penultimate one into a pocket. I  used a paper strip inside the pocket and copied the pattern with paint over the page, adding some foliage pieces and drawing some more with my new Fuchsia Posca Pen.

I also managed 4 scrapbook pages this week which finished off 2023 - YAY.

Two on 22nd December, a geocaching trip and our son's birthday (a day late).

Then 1 on Christmas day and one of us all before he left after his visit with us.

It was a gnome sort of a year last year so I used my die gnome house roof as the hat and a leaf shape as the beard.

Happy 800th WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #799 - Oh My Life!

I seem to be having a bit of a minor medical issue time. Dentist last week was slightly traumatic but nothing major required. Sunday I had an eyesight issue, diagnosed as a corneal abrasion in my line of sight. Got drops and it's better now but really scary at the time as I was driving...

Just my daily journal pages this week

Wednesday evening I followed a Christian process listening to God through words and pictures. This is what I came up with.

Thursday I was feeling a bit sad and this song came into my head. 

Wish I had somewhere to fly away to sometimes.

Not sure what was going on here, happy flowers sad tears and some doodles...

Saturday I went to a craft group with my Cuttlebug and used the organisers dies to do some cutting out.

The monkey reminded me of an Eddie Izzard sketch about learning French at school and how the phrases don't quite help you!

Sunday a painting of the offending left eye (as I see it in a mirror)

Monday I was inspired by a page I saw on a FB group. Loved the colours and doodles.

Tuesday's page..started with left over pieces of yesterday's page as collage, then paint, stencil, doodle.

Think the colours reflect my mood - not great!

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #798 - Struggling

Having a bit of a week....! 

Here's my desk on Tuesday afternoon just before I packed it away to write my post...

I started a new Wednesday morning Church group last week and sat in the same place for over 2 hours! 

Harp image from Fussy Cut Freebies and a printed scripture verse I'd had for ages about the harp.

Thursday I used a printable from Etched by Faith. I'd missed dancing last week so maybe I was yearning for it.

I was fine on Thursday in the day, however, the extended sitting on Wednesday probably lead to my back giving out after badminton! I hardly slept as a result....Oh my!

Friday I had a huge amount of issues with my back!

Then a different flare up, for which I'm still waiting for the GP to approve my repeat prescription request as I found my current tube of ointment is now out of date.

Friday's page reflects how I felt Friday.

Saturday I remembered Devotion in Action had a new water colour up, so I followed that.

My son and his friend returned from Japan early evening and stayed overnight Saturday which added to my anxiety. 

He did bring me a Japanese news paper to use in my crafting and the coin is a 1 Yen.

I didn't go to church Sunday due to the visitors and was really sad after they left late morning.

The butterflies were a tutorial from Instagram.

Monday I had my annual appointment at the hospital which didn't go to plan, consequently I went into meltdown....

In the evening I followed a You Tube tutorial from Jenna Burne which was mainly black which was how I was feeling but surprisingly this was what I came up with.

The word refers to plants of the Umbellifer family. Only now, after looking it up, have I realised my flower heads do indeed resemble plants in this genre.

Yesterday I pretty much stayed in my room sleeping and crafting.

I journaled all my sadness all over my pages then sploshed some acrylic paint on top. Then the BLACK Distress ink came out.....

I've got the dentist tomorrow, really hoping that goes OK.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #797 - FREE Conference

Here's my desk from the side near the window. 

I have been busy prepping my purple folder for the Bible Journaling Ministries - Women Of the Word (WOW) Conference next month. There's a gazillion downloads/printables.

The colour combo this year is pinky purple so I'm stoked! My favourite.

Anyway the Conference is all on-line from 16th-18th October - 4pm till gone midnight daily and all presentations are free for 24 hours after they are published. There are 27 guest presentations in all.

I did my ticket page in my Faith Journal. The ticket is available from the Pop-up Facebook group which is just there for the conference time.

I carried on the colour theme in my daily journal focusing on Mary's Song from Luke 1:45.

I went to the prayer week of a local church and made my daily page using various items I brought back from there.

I've been trying out various Dark Chocolate with higher concentrations of Cacao so I did a page using the wrapper from the Asda "Extra Special Ugandan" 85% one.

Whilst doing my folder for this year's conference I realised I had loads of printables left over from previous conferences so I've decided to use them in my daily journal.

There is Wisdom from Proverbs 3:13

Then Truth from Ephesians 6:16 and John 17:17.

The Prayer Week was based on The Armour of God also the church service on Sunday introduced this topic 

(It was the focus of the Conference last year too) So I used some pieces from last years conference.

I did a colouring page from Sunday's talk which enforced the message some more and I'll endeavour to remember the 6 items:-

1) Belt of Truth

2) Breastplate of Righteousness 

3) Shoes of the Gospel of Peace

4) Shield of Faith

5) Helmet of salvation

6) Sword of the Spirit

Waymaker from Isaiah 43:19 is a lovely worship song.

And finally yesterday's page about being set free - Psalms 107:14

I think this was one of the bonus kits from last year. 

There really is so much on the FREE pass.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.