Creative every day - the weekend!

I am loving the new free Strathmore online workshops and thoroughly enjoyed these doodling techniques from Traci Bautista and especially using the Indian Ink to outline!

Creative Every Day - a birthday special

You will remember me telling you about my lovely friend who lost her mother just before Christmas and for whom I made my very first prayer shawl sending it off to her with a little prayer card.

Well, she has a very special birthday coming up with a 0 in it so I did some thinking  and came up with an idea based on one that my very talented and inspiring daughter no.4  came up with for one for her design projects at uni - sewing brown paper bags!  My take on the idea was to use a zigzag stitch and to use red thread with the brown paper.  I wanted to make 6 in all for I had 6 little gifts to go inside.  I thought about decorating the bags with stamped images etc but in the end decided to go with (my favourite!) tags and I am very pleased with the result.

Each tag has a word stamped on it which comes from the list of the fruit of the spirit in the Bible as my friend shares my Christian faith.  In fact we were prayer partners for years when she lived here in the UK and we would get up early to meet at her house for 7am to pray for 30 - 45 mins or so.  It was a special time as things were very difficult for both of us just then (a previous recession!) and supporting one another in this way was such an encouragement.  She now lives back in the US.

It is such a joy to put this all together for her just now.  I've put them all in a shoe box together with this card which I made

and wrapped it in beautiful paper (sorry no photo - got carried away with wrapping!).  So I am off to the post office this morning to send it on its way to the US with lots and lots of love.

Creative Every Day endeavours

I've found myself needing to 'spill' on to the page recently in a variety of ways

with a variety of media

It's been a lot of fun and has felt releasing in many ways....  there are a lot of ideas inside that are just

bursting to come out......

and I've had some expert help from here

which has pages like this

and Diana's blog can be found here and her artwork is featured on the latest edition of this

I absolutely love it!

Creative Every Day moments

A collage for my art journal (to be cut up into different shapes)

A journal of words and quotes I find inspiring

some of the inside pages

a walk in the sunshine yesterday in a local park, watching the birds on the lake

and this little fellow who just seemed to love to sing his heart out for us!