Another one of the Paperarsty birds with the spiral clock as a body. I am making an altered book with all of these pages with an old geography book from my dad's teaching days. Now I know why I have kept them for nearly three quarters of a century. They make lovely altered books. I have done the covers all ready.
'Pack your bags we're going on a guilt trip' are the words this week for our Thursday journal.
I used the last of my old backgrounds and stamped a few clocks and a saying on it.The saying is 'take time to enjoy the small things in life'
Emma and her young cousin Tina were on holiday from school and were beginning to get bored with shopping and meeting friends for coffee. Spending another two weeks of it was not something to look forward to.
"I know , how about doing something different" asked Emma.
"Like what ?" replied Tina.
"Well we could learn to ride a horse, or take the dogs on that behaviour class we keep talking about" said Emma
Absolutely not, I'm terrified of horses and the dogs are too old to train, we should have done that when they were puppies" replied Tina.
They both went away to think of something. The next day they met up again and Emma was so excited.
"I've thought of something, I have booked us on an adventure trip in London, I have the tickets already" said Emma, pack your bags we're are going on a guilt trip, and you will not know what we are going to see or do until we get there"
So off Tina went to pack her bags.
I am linking this to my theme of A moment in time on Art Journal Journey.
This time or my theme on AJJ I have combined some sayings with different types of clocks, all on a sprayed background for a touch of colour.
A page for my theme on Art Journal Journey. This time I have used a sprayed background with a few poems and stamped images, I have also used a couple of embossing folders.
This week the words are ‘As far as I'm concerned, I'm delightful' I have used an old background and stamped some clock images onto tissue paper and stuck them on the page.
Eva and her friend Serena are having a conversation about their friends at college and how different everyone was. Different backgrounds, families and education, every one had a story to tell and some of the girls were just like the girls they had grown up with. Sone of them who had gone to what the girls called posh schools who had very rich parents seemed to be very different from the rest of them. They drove around in expensive cars and lived in expensive flats, whereas Eva and Serena shared a small flat in town, and were perfectly happy to do so. It helped them save some money after college to help them on the next step on the job market.
Eva said "Do you ever regret not having enough money, because it would be nice to have a bit more.
"No not really, I'm perfectly happy as I am. As far as I'm aware I'm delightful". replied Serena.
I am linking this to my theme on Art Journal Journey of 'A moment in time'
Another page for my theme on Art Journal Journey of 'A moment in time'
This time I have used an old Paperarsty stamp which fits my theme of 'a moment in time' on Art Journal Journey The bird is going to fly away with the clock. I must admit time does seem to fly, the older you get the faster it seems to go.
Unfortunately Neet is still in hospital but getting better, so on my own again.
The words this week are 'I regret every single nap I passed up as a child'
I inked a background and then used a few time stencils over the top, using the same colours. The girl is one of the newer of Dylusion stamps and they are great to use. Not quite so way out as some of the others.
Emily has a new job and comes home really tired, she has to see to Squiggles her little cat, do the housework and get herself a meal. She couldn't wait to get her own place, it seemed such a good idea. At least her mum doesn't have to wait up for her if Emily goes out in the evening. Mind you she wishes she wasn't too tired to go out. Apart from that Emily is finding it very tiring, and could really do with a nap when she came home. The trouble with that is she wouldn't be able to sleep when she went to bed. lunch time would be ideal but she was pretty sure her boss would not be amused.
"Honestly Squiggles I regret every single nap I passed out on as a child" Squiggles wasn't impressed as he could go to sleep whenever he felt like it, humans he couldn't understand them at all.
I am linking this to my theme of 'A moment in time' on Art Journal Journey.
I have used a double page that I had already done the background on. As it had circles on it I stamped watches on some them. The story is also about a moment in time.
The words this week are ' Sorry I hung up on you...I din't mean to answer.
When Faith went round to see her friend Glenys, she was a bit puzzled as to why Glenys had phoned her up and then put the phone down as soon as Faith said hello. Perhaps she phoned the wrong number and put the phone down straight away. Anyway Faith was a bit put out and decided to go round and see if she was alright.
When Faith arrived at Glenys house, Glenys invited her in. and Faith asked what was going on.
"Well explained Glenys, Sorry I hung up on you...I didn't mean to answer. I thought if I put it down quickly you would't have time to answer. The thing is I have a new phone and I put all my friends numbers in and gave everyone a number, so I was ringing the number I had allocated to them to see if it worked"
"Don't be daft Glenys, how would you know it was them if they didn't answer it" explained Faith.
"Oh I never thought of that, it's a good job you came round to tell me that, as I was just about to try the other numbers" Glenys giggled at how silly she had been.
I am linking this to my time on Art Journal Journey where my theme is 'A moment in time"
A page for my theme on Art Journal Journey, this time featuring a few mice and a little elf. They taking time to sleep, or dance I used an illustration of an elf and stamped some images of the house mouse series.
I am hosting Art Journal Journey this month with the theme of 'A moment in time' This can encompass many different aspects of time, being a moment in actual time when something happened, a collection of ephemera, sayings, poems. In fact anything that reflects a moment in time.
For my first one I have used a card background with a section of corrugated card in the centre. Around and on it are several types of ephemera : clock faces, cogs, numbers, and some shrink plastic stamped images, which denote a different Age (or moment bin time) I am using this page as the cover for my art journal.
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