A Fabulous Day

Today I was invited to a gelatin printing and monoprinting workshop hosted by the folk who have set up the Cloth Paper Scissors UK network (CPSUK) which I have joined!  What a wonderful day it was.

 Everything was so well prepared and set out - and the sun was shining!

 Our host had prepared the gelatin prints already for us to use - 56 sachets of gelatin for 6 printing plates!!!  She had been very busy indeed!

 Not only that but she had prepared a fantastically yummy lunch

 with cute items for the table

 down to personalised names on stones (my name is actually spelt Sheila but it often gets spelt this way and who worries about such things on such a lovely day!!)

and one of the other attendees brought some amazing cupcakes

And look what I came home with....

You might need to zoom in on some of these to see the detail - I love the one in the top right which I did using leaves and a heart Indian wooden block - these were all with the gelatin printing plate.

these were the mono prints using oil based paint - a different technique and one that needs a little more experimentation I think but I like the results so far

 My little contribution to the day were some homemade junk journals

popped into some lovely wax bags with fabric and paper labels.  Oh, and I also made some lavender cookies which I failed to take a photo of but which I will make again and post the recipe.

I came home having made lovely new friends, eaten beautiful food, with lots of paper and fabric prints to use in future artwork projects - what more can a girl want????

Thoughtful Friday 137

"To be perpectually thrilled with life

need not detract from the solidarity

of your goals or the soberness of your purpose."

Anon

Latest Index cards....

Delight, you may remember is my word for the year so it had to appear somewhere in these cards!

The one below I tried using tacky glue as a resist and it produced an interesting result

From a Royal Acadamy leaflet I cut out a painting and had a go at reproducing it in chalk pastels

the one below i the view outside the window of a log cabin I was in last week!

playing with chalk pastels and watercolour crayons here on the the first two

the lower one is some fun paper collage

Using watercolour pencils, collage, reminder of a journey

More tacky glue resist here on the left, doodling on the right and practising lettering below

and on we go.....

Home Alone with slate!

Last weekend I found some pieces of slate in the garden - left over from an old fishtank we gave away which was no longer needed.  There were some nice big pieces and some smaller ones too.  As I saw them I had this thought about how fun it would be to paint them and so..... that is what I did....

this was the first one I had the inspiration for - the quote is a special one for hubby and I

this one is in progress and will probably have some words on it like "because she chooses to see the world in bright bold colours"

this one is destined to have the quote from the Little Prince "It is with the heart that one sees rightly, for what is essential is invisible to the eye" - love it!

here is my trusty companion who insisted on being right by my side on the floor with all the mess!

we are alone this week as hubby is away working!

This one takes the quote from Mary Anne Radmacher (whose name will appear at the bottom on black)

I love all her quotes and words and writing.  I'm reading her book "Live with Intention" just now and it is terrific.

and this one I had no idea about until I picked the palette of colours and then just started to paint.  I do like what emerged.

I still have a couple of pieces left so I'll see where the inspiration takes me....... and let you see the result.

more index card a day designs

favourite quote from Confusius

experimenting with duct tape

rubber stamping and distress inks

stickers

ink and stamps

more ink and stamps

stamps

favourite podcast from Steve Maraboli at Empowered Living

inks and favourite stamp

more ink and stamps

collage

doodling

fun quote from Pret a Manger!

Washi tape

fun stickers

Thoughtful Friday 136

"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; 

ask yourself what makes you come alive. 

And then go and do that.

 Because what the world needs

 is people who have come alive."



Howard Thurman

Thoughtful Friday 135

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, 

how much a heart can hold"

Zelda Fitzgerald

(image courtesty of google)

More index cards

Japanese tape, gold and white paint and black paint marker

felt pads left over from the Ranger blending tool for alcohol inks

New alphabet stamps

distress inks, pastels and lace stickers

Teal acrylic paint and foam stickers

blue masking tape, alphabet stamps and gold and white paint

rubber stamp

black paint marker

blue spray paint over a doilley and violet and blue pastels

aubergine paint and various pastels

rubber stamp

spray paints and pastels

music tissue tape and cath kidston sticker