Simply Lovely Again..!!

Hello Creative Friends 

Another Summertime show of recent Alison Bomber stamps by 

PaperArtsy.. The Hydrangea is one of my favourites and in 

real time they lap up the sun even during a heatwave.. 

Stamped and embossed on a watercolour tag scrap I coloured with 

watercolour and pencil stamping text to fill the bare background. 

With a craft knife I carefully cut around random leaves to lift 

and add dimension popping dots of glitter glue in each centre 

as that's where the Hydrangea flower magic really happens 

Co-ordinating buttons and lace embellish with a trio of machine 

stitch colour edges it all.. simply lovely again 😊

Stay safe & creative everyone 

Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing today with: 

Four Seasons ~ July Summer Season Challenge 

Tagalong and ATC's ~ July Challenge Favourite Colours/ATG

We Love Stamping July Challenge ~ *Summertime* 

Simply Lovely...

 Hello Creative friends 

It's been a while since I've treated myself to newly released stamps 

when I saw the Paperartsy sets from Alison Bomber I couldn't resist. 

Just look at this delightful rose, stamped and fussy cut.. 

The roses are really in full bloom this Summertime.

On an Aall & Create die cut tag filled with offcuts, torn 

papers and washi there's paste pushed through a TH flourish 

stencil brayered with vanilla paint and random text stamped 

around that texture. Edged with gold I find it's a go to 

colour combo of mine, a vintage favourite that loves 

a tickle of pastel blue or pink.. 🫠

Stay safe and take care especially if your dealing with 

yet again another heatwave like myself here in the UK..

 Happy crafting 

Hugs Tracey xx

Sharing today with: 

Allsorts Challenge ~ #853 Stencils

We Love Stamping ~ July: Summertime

Tag-along and ATC's ~ July: Favourite Colours or Anything Goes

Creative Artiste ~ #117 Anything Mixed Media Goes

Hello Creatives 

It's time for July's challenge @ Creative Artiste 

our theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes.. 

The weather has been so hot already on our second heatwave 

as we tiptoe into Summer, Spring gave us so little rain, 

landscape/gardens have suffered but the wildflowers still bloom.

Here's my mixed media creation to display their beauty... 

On a gel print background stencilled and layered with washi tape I 

stamped wildflowers and leaves. Painted with acrylic paint I added 

die cut flowers found in my stash whilst having a micro tidy 😊 

already with a tickle of watercolour I exaggerated their 

presence with pencil, pen and gems.

 

The large purple flower reminds me so much of Malva which 

shows up in my garden no matter the weather and the 

pollinators love it. Finished with a word strip from TH 

paying homage to the wonder of wildflowers.. 

Come share you mixed media magic with the design team HERE

@ Creative Artiste ~ #117 Anything Mixed Media Goes Challenge 

and please remember to MIX UP YOUR ARTY MEDIA...

Take care & stay creative 

Tracey xx 

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Art Journal Journey ~ Halle's Hobbies Botanicals

Try it on Tuesdays Challenge *FANTASY* ~ Guest Designer

 Hello Creatives 

Delighted to be invited to be Guest Designer for 

Try it on Tuesday and a real pleasure to create a 

project for their Fortnightly challenge theme. 

Over the next two weeks their theme is *Fantasy* 

The Try it on Tuesday Design Team explain all HERE 

My project is a Fantasy Forest journal page with the background 

sketched, painted with watercolour overlaid with coloured pencils. 

Dots of acrylic paints create a woodland carpet of wildflowers...

The Fairy is taken from a colouring book coloured with pencil 

cut then pasted onto my journal page. To complete my Fantasy 

project I added mystical orbs dancing around the woodland Fai...

Do pop on over HERE to see what the 

Try it on Tuesday Design Team have created to inspire you 

They look forward to seeing your *Fantasy* projects...

Thank you again to the Design Team for inviting me to be 

Guest Designer this fortnight and to all who stop by.

 

Stay safe and creative 

Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing with: 

Art Journal Journey ~ Valerie's Theme Geometric shapes 

(my dots. spots and Orbs) 

Simon Says Stamp ~ Monday Challenge Feminine

Creative Artiste ~ November Mixed Media Challenge #99

 Hello Creative Friends 

May I introduce you to Creative Artiste November Challenge #99 

where our theme is ALWAYS *Anything Mixed Media Goes*

This month my journal page is created around a watercolour ink wash 

background, acrylic scraped paints, stamped, coloured and die cut 

elements with pen doodles stickles glitter glue and enamel accents. 

Anyone who visits my blog will know how inspired I am by nature, 

I love creating my own scene influenced by what I see around me.

In the midnight sky the owl makes a mighty statement in the 

spotlight of the silvery mica moon, surrounded by dots of glitter 

glue stars she flies above the changing landscape of her world.

A die cut skyline silhouette lies in the distance of acrylic trees 

outlined with dots and dashes of posca pen and enamel accents 

adding highlight and detail to this night time journal scene.

If you love to mix up your media please come and share YOUR 

creativity with us @ Creative Artiste November Challenge #99 

The team look forward to seeing your Mixed Media Creations HERE 

Stay safe and creative 

Hugs Tracey x 

Sharing today with:

Art Journal Journey ~ Jo's Theme NATURE 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Sparkle all the way

Mixed Media April Challenge ~ Creative Artiste #92

Hello creative friends 

Time again to welcome you ALL to 

Creative Artiste April Challenge #92 

our theme is ALWAYS *Anything Mixed Media Goes* 

My April project is a mix of left over paint and paste scrapings, 

stamps and doodles, recycled packaging, fibers and plant waste. 

The glitter paste mosaic circle holds a rainbow of watercolour as 

washes of colour seep into the unprimed areas of my journal page. 

Acrylic leaves and flowers painted on cereal box waste are fussy 

cut all given a doodled edge then glued down to frame the pages.

Finished with a stamped and coloured funky fossil bunny 

peeping out from the long grasses created using leftover die cuts, 

fibres and cuttings from salvaged and pressed house plant leaves. 

If you love mixing your media why not share your own creations 

and join in with Creative Artiste's April #92 Challenge 

remember *ANYTHING Mixed Media Goes*

Whatever you are all up to this weekend

I wish you all a Happy HAPPY Easter 

Stay Safe and Keep Creative 

Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing today with: 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Hello Spring 

Art Journal Journey ~ Recycle, Reuses, Repurpose 

Grow in Grace

Hello Creatives 

Welcome to Creative Artiste's March Challenge #91 

our theme is ALWAYS *Anything Mixed Media Goes*

My March DT project is bright and cheerful to 

greet the coming of Spring. Created using a mix of torn 

papers collaged on top of messy mop up journal pages.

a stamped and acrylic painted tulip fills one corner,

where a quote stamped and embossed on vellum is stitched to 

the page to act as a pocket and hold a handful of watercoloured 

Tim Holtz Modern Floristry die cut Flowers all now waiting to 

brighten up a forthcoming Spring project..

Pop over HERE to see more mixed media projects from the 

Design Team and please give a warm welcome to our 

new member of the Creative Artiste Team Fiona.. 

We look forward to seeing your own 

*Anything Goes Mixed Media Creations 

@ Creative Artiste's March Challenge #91*

Wishing you all a bright and cheerful month. 

Happy Crafting everyone

Tracey xx 

Sharing with: 

Art Journal Journey ~ Valerie's theme *Anything Goes*

Creative Artiste February Challenge #90 ~ Anything Mixed Media Goes

Hello Creatives 

Please forgive my absence It has been quite 

some time since I last stepped into blogland. 

The past few months have taken me on a different journey 

and extra care duties made life very difficult to balance. 

Creative time just got smaller and smaller but I'm really 

hoping 2023 will be a little more generous with me time.. 

I have missed seeing your inspirational creations..

So let me welcome you to Creative Artiste's #90 February Challenge 

our theme is always *Anything Mixed Media Goes* 

This February I'm sharing the love with a journal page layered with 

rice paper and old gelli print strips. Gesso and watercolour washes 

are stamped with french script. Red hearts cut from a magazine 

page are fashioned with machine, hand stitch and lacey strips. 

Here's a peep at what the brown paper envelope holds, 

ATC's created using the very same mixed media supplies.

I hope you will join the Creative Artiste Team HERE 

and share your very own Mixed Media Creations. 

Creative Artiste's #90 February Challenge 

Take good care everyone

Creative wishes for 2023

Tracey xx

Creative Artiste #84 JULY Mixed Media Challenge

 A warm welcome to JULY Creative Friends 

and Creative Artiste's JULY Challenge #84

our theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes 

Sharing a random double page selection from my junk diary.

Used envelopes scraped with gesso, bubble wrap stamped and 

texture paste stencilling. Embellished with a large Brown 

water coloured Butterfly (White Admiral) & washi tape strips  

with gouache painted Hydrangea encircled with scribble script. 

 

That's my random mixed media junk diary selection.

The Creative Artiste Design Team hope you can 

join us during the month of JULY and share your 

*Anything Goes Mixed Media Creations HERE*

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx

Plants, Paint, Purple..

 Hello everyone, 

Completion on my Mother in Laws house sale draws closer but 

I'm still juggling time between houses, there's honestly not 

much creative time. I strive but more than most struggle 

to create anything other than in my traveling junk diary. 

Nature is always inspiring and at present I have the best of 

both gardens, documenting in snap shots how everything thrives.

My Sempervivum's continue to have babies (hen's and chicks) 

can you spot the common blue who has come to visit? 

Documented in watercolour and gouache in my Junk Diary..

My MIL's Purple Rhododendren has flowered like never before..

This bush is over forty years old and stands 7 feet tall 

does that it makes it a tree? It's really showing off this 

year with a magnificent display. I hope the new home owners 

take good care of her.. If I could uproot her I really would..

A continuous pen face drawing of MIL an early month 

reminder to get that hair appointment booked

finishing with a photo of Freya supporting her recent Grandma cut 😁

Wishing you all a safe & creative weekend 

Hugs Tracey xx 

Sharing with: 

Sparkles Monthly Challenge ~ #154 Things with Wings

Rain @ Thursday Art Date ~ PURPLE 

Nicole @ Friday Face OFF

Paperbabe Stamps ~ Anything Goes #170

Happy Friday everyone 

It's time for Paperbabe Stamps Anything Goes Challenge #170

Today I share two Summer themed ATC's in watercolour...

Created using stamps from the JPAD Die and Stamp Portrait Head Set 

with traced Misty and Taura hair accessorised with fussy cut flowers 

from the co-ordinating Dinky Sugar Skull set. 

For the chance to win a Paperbabe Prize why not share your creativity 

HERE and join in with Paperbabe Stamps Anything Goes Challenge #170 

We've a mini heat wave here in the UK with temperatures set to soar today 

then cool over the weekend, where ever you are in the world keep safe.

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx

Sharing with Nicole @ Friday Face Off

Creative Artiste ~ MAY Mixed Media Challenge #82

Hello Creative Friends 

Welcome to Creative Artiste's May Challenge #82 

where our theme is always Anything Mixed Media Goes

This month my MAY DT project is a mixed media journal page.

Pushing texture paste through a Stamperia stencil I painted 

the raised flowers with watercolour, acrylics and enamel accents. 

Gluing stamped, coloured and fussy cut Bluebells next to the Scabiosa, 

a large stamped and pencil coloured Monarch Butterfly stops to rest..

If you love mixing up your media be it paper, paint and stencils, 

collaged tags, journal pages, cards or creating projects from scratch 

please come and share your handmade creations with the team HERE 

and check out what the DT have created this month to inspire you... 

@ Creative Artiste May Mixed Media Challenge #82

We look forward to seeing your Mixed Media creations. 

Stay safe and creative 

Hugs Tracey xx

Leaves and branches, April Junk and Heart of Glass ...

Hello everyone 

I hope you are all keeping well?? 

Another month where life stuff again absorbed me..

so here's a photo heavy end of April post from me

Watercolour studies of Photinia *Little Red Robin* 

for Rain's Thursday Art Date ~ Leaves and Branches..

Some pages from my April Junk Journal.. 

Mini eggs they were in short supply 😒 

Face doodle created from a paint spillage on package waste.

Caramel Kraft paper with stitched rice paper Butterfly

Painted night forest scene from a tutorial by Danielle Mack and 

a stamped scene titled *Morning has Broken* what a beautiful Hymn. 

and finally...

for Alison's *Play it again Sam* Theme @ Art Journal Journey 

Another found face journal doodle and the attempt to turn this one into 

Debbie Harry, lead singer of the group Blondie using pencil and paint. 

As a 9 year old I remember singing Blondie songs into my hairbrush 😂

*Heart of Glass* was always a favourite track. 

Wishing you all a great weekend 

Creative Hugs 

Tracey xx

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge ~ #165 Anything Goes

 Hello everyone 

It's time for Paperbabe Stamps Blog Challenge #165 

the chance to win a Paperbabe Stamps prize over HERE 

for one randomly selected winner when you share your 

*Anything Goes* crafty creations @ Paperbabe Stamps.

Easter is nearly upon us so here's an early treat a sneak peek 

of something coming soon, Paperbabe Stamps Dinky Bunny face.

With the popularity of the White Rabbit template and Rabbit face Stamps, it 

was only a matter of time before Kim produced this cutie on a smaller scale.

I've created a journal page all painted in watercolour with a colony of 

Spring time bunnies or a Fluffle which I much rather prefer (so cute)..  

Come share your Anything Goes creations HERE

Creative hugs and best wishes 

Tracey xx 

Sharing with: 

Country View Challenges ~ Spring is Coming

Art Journal Journey ~ Alisons Theme Play it again Sam

Rabbits and Bunnies always remind me of the film Watership Down 

When I was 10 my Grandfather took me to the cinema to watch it...

It had a huge impact on me, encouraged my love for illustration, 

respect for nature, habitat and the environment.. 

Creative Artiste ~ April Mixed Media Challenge #81

Hello Creative Friends 

Welcome to Creative Artiste's April Challenge #81 

our theme is always *Anything Mixed Media Goes* 

Today my Design Team project is different from past makes, 

created earlier this year for a very dear friend going through a 

really tough time right now. This piece I never intended to share 

hence just one photograph... but today with permission I do.

*I walk with you*

 

On a tiered photo frame mount I painted a Spring woodland scene in 

watercolour, acrylics and inks, dotting Bluebells in gouache along 

the waters edge as golden sunshine peeps through it's cloudy sky.

The boot a hand drawn mini version from an art journal piece created 

last year is painted and detailed with coloured pencils, cut out and 

simply suspended in the corner of a painted wax gilded frame. 

.........

I hope you will join our Creative Artiste March #81 Challenge 

and share your *Anything Mixed Media Goes* creations HERE.

Creative hugs and the 

warmest of wishes to you all

Tracey xx

Paperbabe Stamps Challenge ~ Anything Goes #164

 Hello Creative Friends 

It's Paperbabe Stamps blog Challenge #164 

come and share your art and creativity with us 

HERE our theme is *Anything Goes*

Today I share a page from my March Junk Journal 

a recognition of Mothers Day celebrated in the UK in March. 

Stamped flowers using the Dinky Sugar Skull Set I stamped and fussy cut 

a few extra's. Onto an old book page I traced around the Tea Cup from the 

Clockwork Substrate cut out and layered up along with those extra flowers. 

Finished off with the word MOM from the Fun outline set it completes 

my watercolour Tea cup in full bloom for Mom.

Dedicated to all that take on that Mothering Role.. 

it's a very precious thing... 

Please share your *Anything Goes* creations  HERE

Creative wishes 

Tracey xx

Sharing today with: 

Try it on Tuesday ~ Say it with Flowers 

Art Journal Journey ~ Valerie's theme *Spring* 

Country View Challenge ~ Mother's Day

Make your mark..

 Hello everyone 

October it's speeding along so I'm sharing a 

twofer today for my theme @ Art Journal Journey

two masked pages washed with my Autumnal watercolour palette.

 

Gathered leaves placed randomly into the watercolour area, 

painted over then just left to dry. A slow process this time of year 

but very much worth the wait when you peel back those dried leaves...

Something unique every time..

This page is destined to become bookmarks.. don't you agree??

Wishing you all a safe & creative week 

Hugs Tracey xx

Lovliness

 Hello everyone 

the weekend was unusually warm in my little part of the world 

walks have been even more pleasurable collecting a variation 

of leaves and rose hip berry sprigs.

Sharing another page inspired by my finds and forage 

@ Art Journal Journey for my favourite colour is October theme.

Sketchy leaf doodles on my art journal cover, leaf veins 

added with liner pen all painted with vibrant watercolour. 

The rose hip berries reminded me of a group of Ladybirds/Ladybugs 

sometimes known as a *Loveliness*... now how lovely is that. 

Wishing you all a wonderful week 

Stay safe & creative 

Hugs Tracey xx

WoywW #627

 Hello everyone, 

Desk sharing day @ the stamping ground 

let me start by sharing some happy mail I received from our 

hostess Julia. Thank you so much for your thoughtfulness, 

just the boost I needed after a tiring week, I love them 😘 

So what's on my workdesk this Wednesday..?? 

Finished and framed those needlework pieces shown last week. 

They are patterns from Rowandean Morti, I know the first can be 

found in Katrina Wittens Landscapes & Flowers embroidery book.

apart from that there's been plenty of this when care duties are done. 

Those aquarel studiolight flower books are a great way chill out after 

a busy day and it's a treat to be sat outside in my blooming garden.

WoywW #627 

Thank you for your kind words last week regarding my MIL, 

she's still on a very slow road to recovery. 

Take care everyone & 

Happy WoywW... 

Tracey xx