WOYWW #795 - Scrapping too

Here's my desk a tad untidy, shock horror!

I had a dying session in the week and the cards of ribbons and rags are hanging below my bottom shelf. Love the bright colours from Dylusions inks.

I finished sewing the ribbons to the rings for church, to be used by the children during worship. I worked with what I had and made rainbows with the colours.

My Bible Journaling watercolour page for this week was of John, the disciple that Jesus loved. It's week 8 of the witness series by Devotion in action

I've done a few scrappages this week.

Firstly a double page of our trip to Ikea and the building of the new bed for our son's room/spare room.

Secondly various Christmas preparations.

Thirdly the funeral of our nextdoor neighbour. She'd been our neighbour since we moved in over 24 years ago and had lived there since the seventies. Sadly missed.

Then to the journal 

Day 21) a page with 4 tag slots on the right side.

All the images are from the Nahum 1:4 kit from Bible Journaling Ministries

The 4 tags, days 22-25

The rest of the steampunk Nahum 1:4 images on the front of the tags...

...and various things which took my fancy on the back .

Day 26) an attempt at the last (week 4) of Seek Gather Create - not my best moment.

Items to include were A window, the colour green, something blurry and a repeating pattern.

Day 27) Another fabulous image from Fussy Cuts Freebies

I was much happier with this page despite doing it quickly before dancing last night. I had prepped the image with a coat of glue the day before though but it hadn't worked with the page then.

Just 4 more days with this month's journal and wondering what to do for next month now???? Any Suggestions Welcomed.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #794 - Off-Piste

Desk is as usual tidy so I went with the wide shot for a change.

My mini Bible is just about visible bottom right with this weeks watercolour from Devotion in Action

It's of Timothy, an impressive young man who trained under Paul and was left in charge of the church in Ephesus.

Scrapping 1st page in 20th Album.

A bit of self indulgence to start my new album.

And the August "steampunk" Journal has had a couple more off-piste moments, but first...

4 pages of Fussy Cuts Freebies images.

Couldn't choose which girl to use so used both.

The basic steampunk items here. 

Only noticed the number of fingers when gluing the glove down!

The pocket tag uses an image from the Gecko Gals bonus sheet in response to their monthly newsletter email.

The only nod to steampunk here is the last of my cog brads!

On the other side is an image from I love Paper Digital & AI and some of my Temu mushroom dies. Again some cog stamps with the grunge image.

The word and hand stamps were already on the tag when I started.

Here I go completely off-piste for week 3 of the Seek Gather Create challenge, although there are cog diecuts as part of the collage under the paint.

Items to use were:-

1) Bubbles - 3 vellum diecuts and white circles

2) Ruffles - lace edging

3) An Eye - from a magazine

4) Colour: Fuscia - paint and ink

And yesterday in response to the MultiMediaMonday prompt of Large Numbers over on Express Your Artsy Soul facebook group

Stencilled and stamped some cogs.

Think that is me for the week, really need to get a wiggle on with the scrapping again... Ho Hum.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

WOYWW #793 - Full Steam Ahead...

Here's my desk with the next 4 journal days prep.

My little steampunk art journal is coming along nicely although a tad "off-piste" in places. 

I am including images I love so I guess it is more of an "image" month, truth be told.

I've discovered adding a light layer of my current craft glue on top of the images enhances them so I have revisited all previous pages doing so. It seems to be more matt than gloss which is good too.

Also on my desk is my new scrapbook having added 20 pages to the 10 included to make the 30 I usually have in my 12"x12" albums. It is Album #20 of my day to day albums.

Here is the last page of #19, got round to it at last, Yippee.

I did my Bible watercolour in my original bigger Bible this week as it was OT. 

It is all about Othniel who was the first major judge for the Israelites and there was peace for 40yrs.

So to the journal pages.

Day 7) is my entry to the current (August) Steampunk Challenge over on the Gecko Galz Blog.

Day 8) Images from the Nahum 1:7 kit from Bible Journaling Ministries 

Days 9 & 10 are on the tag in the pocket of page 8.

Day 9) At last a tag to do the Gecko Galz tag Challenge. The clock stamp was already there so I worked around it. I guess she's not entirely steampunk!

Day 10) Ah Fussy Cuts Freebies posted a set of steampunk images for me and this is the first I've used. Did print them a tad too big but going with it...

So to days 11 & 12 which are quite "off-piste" to say the least.

Day 11) this for week 2 of  SeekGatherCreate over on Instagram. Fortunately Casey is keeping me up to date as I find Instagram quite confusing.

Day 12) is using an image from a previous Gecko Galz challenge month on their blog. I am getting the feel that images are available for a month to down load then replaced. However on their challenge FB group there is a "Bejewelled" section so I entered this one there.

I wasn't planning on all these challenges but is makes life interesting.

Happy WOYWW Everyone.

Gecko Galz Steampunk Challenge

To add to my steampunk journal this week I did the Gecko Gals Steampunk Challenge for August

WOYWW #792 - Steampunk

Here's my desk this fine morning, it was actually cool enough to go dancing last night so I completely forgot to write my post yesterday!

I finished off my July journal last week with "Celebrate". 

Loved doing Junk Journal July but looking forward now to a month without any specific prompts.

Here are my monthly journal's for this year so far.

What a mixture! All handmade journals except for February which was from my mate's crafty hen do back in January.

I painted Simeon in my Bible for week 5 of Devotion in Action's Summer series on Witnesses.

Simeon was there at the the dedication of Jesus at the temple. Luke 2:25-35.

Then pondered my August journal and fortunately came across a Steampunk one which was gifted to me many years ago.

I even have the 12" and 6" papers it was made from so I added a couple of tip-outs to make up 31 sides for use in August. Some are full sides and one is a tuck spot. There are some tags, big and small too.

Here's a flip through on my YouTube Channel

So I've gone all Steampunk using images from various Facebook groups:-

I love Digital & AI  and Gecko Gals challenge group & their main page and Fussy Cuts Freebies

Page one had a big pocket which I decorated with a Gecko Galz steampunk image from back in May.

The card inside the pocket has days 2&3

I added the sheet on the gear flap for Day 4 which has a tuck spot.

The tuck spot piece is a challenge for SeekGatherCreate over on Instagram.  

They are doing a challenge each Sunday for August.

!!!Burning book pages over the kitchen sink was interesting!!!

Days 5 and 6 are challenges too.

Day 5 is a Treasure Hunt hosted by Fussy Cuts Freebies

I went all 1924 Olympics which were in Paris too, love the poster from that time so used that.

Day 6 was from Tutorial Tuesday over on Express Your Artsy Soul 

The tutorial used a napkin and I had a balloon one so used that. Slight deviation from steampunk (except the backing paper!) but it seems to fit.

I did my Bible Journaling Ministries 

August page 

and their Faith Inspirations one too.

Oh and I'm just a couple of weeks into a new "lifestyle" no sugar no carbs diet. I've known I have high cholesterol for a couple of years so I'm actually doing something about it at last. Lost 2.25 lbs in 2 weeks, slow but steady and I can eat cream!

Happy WOYWW Everyone.