Art Journal Caravan 2011 - Page 53

just liked the words, LOL! TFL! Bernie x Credits: B/g paper: One Fine Day by Studio Manu; grungy mask by Suddenly Artistic; Textures 4 & 10 by Lost & Taken via Jessica Sprague; Texture 4 by Elodie; Oil Paint overlay by Nik's Scripts and Scraps; Camel by Tangie Baxter; Font:Scorchflash

Art Journal Caravan 2011 - Page 52

This is a follow really to my page the other day - Your silence will not save you - about people's attitudes...putting a more positive spin on things! If people could just get more involved in any way they can - even just talking; it doesn't have to mean big sweeping gestures! Just taking the time to actually listen and engage in conversation with someone...it can mean so much! TFL! Bernie x Credits: Feathered Friends by CreateWings Designs Camel: Tangie Baxter; Font: Stamp Act

Art Journal Caravan 2011 - Page 51

Thought these words were perfect for the theme and the time of year! TFL! Bernie x Credits: B/G paper: Silent Night by Booland Designs; Mary: Candlelight Carol by SKDesigns; Star: Believe by Scrappy Cocoa; Wise Men: Little Donkey by Ambowife Designs; Texture 123 by Kim Klassen; Font: Promises Broken Dream

CT LO for Creative Victorian Designs using new kit First Noel

I asked Netta for a Nativity kit and she obliged! LOOK what a fantastic job she's done! This is one very special kit! TFL! Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan - Page 50

I decided to go with the theme of review here, and ty to sum up a little of what I have discovered along the way with the Caravan! Looking back, I think some of my best pages were ones where either something had happened that inspired a feeling within me, or where the quote I found resonated because I had lived through something similar. So I chose these words for myself! TFL! Bernie x Credits: 4 b/g papers (blended)& Sparkle: Velvet Spice by Feli Designs & Lisete Scrap; Tree & snowflakes: Santastic Season by Feli Designs and Studio 4 Designworks; Texture: Texture 17 by Creative Victorian Designs; Star: Silent Night by Booland Designs; Lady (Mary): Candlelight Carol by SKDigitals; Camel: Tangie Baxter; Font: Pieces of Eight

Art Journal Caravan - Page 49

Found these words, and it was just what I've been saying and thinking this past day or two, LOL! So HAD to go with them! TFL! Bernie x Credits: B/G papers (blended): Helly: Moulin Rouge and Star Cross’d (Collab with Creative Victorian Designs); Butterfly: Remember Always by Creative Victorian Designs; Camel: Tangie Baxter; Font: Kolkata Hotelroom

Art Journal Caravan - Page 48

LOVED these words, and how my page just came together so easily! TFL! Bernie x Credits: 3x papers from Combobulated kit by Creative Victorian Designs (used in various blending modes/opacities); Flower: Floral Imprint Brushes by Creative Victorian Designs; Lady & text: Kallah by ViVa Artistry; Texture: She Loves You Yeah by Kim Klassen Camel: Tangie Baxter Font: Typewriter

CT LOs for A-Liya Designs using new kit - Winter Is Here!

Beautiful kit! You can find it HERE at Scrappity-Doo-Dah! TFL! Bernie x

CT LOs for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using new kits Home for Christmas and Kitschy Christmas!

Two absolutely stunning Christmas kits from Aimee here! AND they're on sale at the moment for silly money! You can find them HERE and HERE at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio! TFL! Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan - Page 47

Several thoughts behind this one...over the past months, and all the worry we've had with DD1's knee and operations, physio etc etc it's become evident that mostly people don't like to talk about that kinda stuff very much...they may ask how things are going but then the conversation quickly moves on! Plus, I think seeing the things that are happening both here and around the world has been quite shocking, and yet no many people are capable of talking about what is perceived as politics, although really is not! And especially at this time of year, nobody is supposed to talk about sad things that are happening in case it breaks into the happiness that it seems almost compulsory for everyone to feel!! Honestly, I'm not a bah humbug type, LOL, and I do love Christmas - just not for all the froth and materialism and commercialism! I also like a good conversation IRL about things that matter and it is becoming harder and harder to find people who want to bother!! Yet it seems to me that no matter how much people try to NOT talk about anything, it won't stop bad things happening all around them, and one day these things may well affect them directly. Hopefully not, but at least I've had some tiny preparation for what has happened with DD1 and the stable owners treating her the way they have by being the more serious kinda person I probably am! Hope that doesn't come across as too nasty...I just worry for some people close to me who tend to think and act as though if they don't talk about a problem, and try to ignore it, then it doesn't actually exist! Sadly that won't always work!!
TFL!
Bernie x

Credits: Camel: Tangie Baxter
B/G Kim Klassen Textures: Paper Stained Light, Autumn Wonder & Natures Beauty;
Birds: Empty Nest by Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen;
W/A Delicious Moments by DSP Designers;
Grunge: True North by Aimee Harrison Design Studios (Girlboheme Studios);
Cracked texture by Elodie;
Oil paint overlay by Nik's Scripts & Scraps
Tree brush: Dreamwood by Elbereth-de-Lioncourt
Font: Serial Publication

Art Journal Caravan - Page 46

Loved the starkness of this quote, and so my page echoes this I think :)
TFL!
Bernie x

Credits: B/G: 2 layers of Kim Klassen's texture 'Storm';
Bird: Winter Magic by Carola @ GoDoigital Scrapbooking;
Splat: So Studious collab by Aimee Harrison Design Studios (Girlboheme Studios) and Caged Bird;
Swirl: Wonder of Christmas by Studio Manu
Font: Requiem

CT LO for Creative Victorian Designs using new Mini kit - Frosted Christmas

DD2

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Frosted Christmas Mini kit by Creative Victorian Designs available here!

CT LOs for Creative Victorian Designs using new kit Tis the Season

DD2 bundled up against the cold!

TFL!
Bernie x

Tis the Season by Creative Victorian Designs available here http://creativevictorian.com/boutique/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=129&products_id=1994

CT LOs for Feli Designs using new collab. with LouCee Creations - A Christmas in Gold

DD1 and DN! You can find A Christmas in Gold by Feli Designs and LouCee Creations available at Digiridoo Scraps HERE!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LOs for Maguette Scrap Design using new kit En Attendant

DD2 all dressed up at Christmas! You can find this lovely kit at ScrapBird HERE!

TFL!

Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan - Page 45

I think the word cling usually has rather negative feelings attached to it, so I loved these words that give it a more positive spin!

This is one of my own pics of my Advent candles...I loved it so much as it was, I almost didn't texture it up, but when I added a second layer of texture, I loved the effect!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Camel: Tangie Baxter;

Texture: Kim Klassen (123);

Smoke brush: Creative Victorian Designs

Font: Willing Race

Journal Your Christmas 2011 - 5th and 6th December

About our Advent calendar and lessons learned from past years!
TFL!
Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan 2011 - Page 44

After the few months we have had with DD1 after her injury, sometimes waking up each morning with such a feeling of dread, I thought this quote was so true!

Things are on the up now injury wise and school-wise as well, (after DD1's new school wanting us to provide copies of her appt. card each time she gopes to physio and hydrotherapy because her attendance figures are not as high as the Government targets would wish for! The system does not allow for children to have any serious illness or injury - so more fighting for us against this insult!) but there is still a long way to go - DD will prob have her second operation to reconsruct her anterior cruciate ligament around February next year - IF the knee is more freely moving and flexible backwards and in straightening. Thanks for all the good wishes and Prayers - it means so much to us all xoxo

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Camel: Tangie Baxter;

B/G Paper & web - Star Cross'd kit by Helly & Creative Victorian Designs;

overlay, splat & wire: Antisocial Distortions CU Freak Show;

Lady: Moulin Rouge by Helly;

Red card in b/g: SherrieJD, The Haunted;

Font: Artistamp

Journal Your Christmas Days 3 & 4 - Cards and Antoinette's Birthday!

Antoinette has given me a whole new take on the theme of Christmas cards this year, for which I am very thankful! Another year of explaining how I will fail as I never get around to writing the cards I really should would just have been too much to bear, LOL :)

4th was Antoinette's 15th Birthday, so she got her own page here too!!!

TFL!
Bernie x

CT LO for ViVa Artistry using new kit - Tea Garden!

GORgeous new kit from the ViVa gals! You can find it HERE at The Digichick!
TFL!
Bernie x

CT LO for Maguette Scrap Design using new collab kit with Le Petit Scrap - Waiting Christmas!

Gorgeous kit this one, and so generous! You can find it HERE at Digiscrapbooking.ch!

TFL!
Bernie x

CT LO for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using new kit Lollipops and Gumdrops!

DD2! You can find this scrummy kit at The Studio HERE!

TFL!
Bernie x

JYC 2011 - December 2nd - Weather

Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot, we'll weather the weather, whatever the weather, whether we like it or not! Says it all really, LOL! I'd far rather have snow, as happened last year by this time, but can't do much about it not coming, LOL!

TFL!

Bernie x

JYC 2011 - December 1st - Manifesto

(Template by Armina)

TFL!
Bernie x

CT LOs for Creative Victorian Designs using new kit Winter Bitten, and new minis Spiced Cider and Holiday Drama!

All this gorgeousness is now in store for you!!!! Winter Bitten is a beautiful full kit, and Spiced Cider and Holiday Drama are minis...all are just perfect for scrapping the wonderful times over Advent and Christmas!
Yuo can find them all at Netta's store HERE!
TFL!
Bernie x

CT LOs for ViVa Artistry using new kits 12 Days and 8 Nights!

Gorgeous kits detailing the 12 Days of Christmas, and the 8 Nights celebrated during Hanukkah - you can find them both at The Digichick HERE!

TFL!
Bernie x

CT LO for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using new collab kit with Digilicious Designs and Studio Berna - Winter Folk

DD1 would like her hair coloured (temporary only as her school doesn't allow it!) over the Christmas holiday!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Winter Folk collab. by Aimee Harrison Design Studios, Digilicious Designs & Studio Berna available at The DigitalScrapbooking Studio HERE!

CT LO for Feli Designsusing new collab. with LouCee Creations - Winter Romance

DD2 - all wrapped up!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Winter Romance by Feli Designs and LouCee Creations available HERE!

CT LO for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using new Monthly Mini Kit December's Turquoise

DD1 and her bestie!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: December's Turquoise Monthly Mini Kit by Aimee Harrison Design Studio available here

http://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=13_243

CT LO for ViVa Artistry using new kit Heart of the Ocean!

My home town - & DD1 a few years back now! - supposed to be birth place of the bathing machine!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Heart of the Ocean by ViVa Artistry available at The Digichick here http://www.thedigichick.com/shop/Heart-of-the-Ocean.html

CT LO for Feli Designs & Studio 4 Designworks using Santastic Season

Gorgeous kit, just perfect for the upcoming season!

You can find it HERE at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio!

TFL!
Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan - Page 43

Not sure how this one came about, LOL! Think I saw a landscape in the piece first with a face's features showing through, so enhanced the face, and added my camel, as if he's walking along a path there...think my subconscious thinking here was about how I'd like to *use* my art as well as just *make use* of it for pleasure....hmmmm! Well, it is what it is, but I like it anyways!!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: My PSE crashed before I'd noted down the credits, so, from memory, the b/g is from Tangie Baxter, the lady and ths shadow's face - SherrieJD (Jetsam kit); light rays from Bits n Bobs, grunge brushes: Spinky Dink Scraps; b/g paper blended - Le Peitit Scrap; Plaster texture from Elodie, and think that's about it :)

CT Los for Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen using new kit All Wrapped Up!

GORGEOUS new kit from Karen! Now I do struggle with 'cute', but these little characters are SO easy to use, even for me, LOL! You can find this great kit - bundle available too! - at Digital Design Den Sbick!

TFL!
Bernie x

CT LOs for Maguette Scrap Design using new kit - Rustique

DD2!! GORGEOUS new kit - you can find it at ScrapBird HERE!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan - Page 42

here's mine...in my head was more that creeping kind of fear when situations are turning badly wrong and you realise it's all out of your control...but then that can turn into a positive to get you through these things, once you realise that, it's easier to accept things and then to cope with things....in my experience anyway...esp. recent ones with my DD1!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: My PSE crashed before I'd noted down the credits, so, from memory, the b/g is from Tangie Baxter, the lady and ths shadow's face - SherrieJD (Jetsam kit); light rays from Bits n Bobs, grunge brushes: Spinky Dink Scraps; b/g paper blended - Le Peitit Scrap; Plaster texture from Elodie, and think that's about it :)

Digi Dares Blog LO

All about my DD1 and how our new dog helped her through a terrible time that is still ongoing, but not quite so terrible now :)

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Staples: Royanna: Lucky Me;

All other stash: ViVa Artistry: Generations, Gidget's Beach, Misfit, Kallah, Vincent's Room, About Him, Brushes from DIY kit, & clip and mask from On My Desk by ViVa Artistry & Etc. by Danyale

Art Journal Caravan - Page 41

LOVE this page! Not sure where it came from, or why this kinda scene was in my head, LOL, but that's the way it goes!!

TFL!
Bernie x

Credits: B/G papers: Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen Celestial paper, Creative Victorian Designs Inner Storm, Texture by Elodie & Nik's Scripts and Scraps, waves, splash and dolphin by Feli Designs - Sail to your Dreams, Scatter - Creative Victorian Designs, Sun - KNC Scraps, Framed texture by Lost and Taken from Jessica Sprague wave brushes - various - from Creative Victorian Designs.

Art Journal Caravan - Page 40

well, I'm back and trying to catch up before Advent hits, LOL! Not sure my mojo is firing on all cylinders, but I want to move forward with this!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Flower, one background paper, paint texture and clock all Maguette Scrap Design: So Happy & Passion kits;

Two other b/g papers - all blended - Charity kit for Japan from Digiscrapping.ch by MaChabine & EenasCreation

Child & squirrel: Dingbat font: Silhous Two

CT LOs for Creative Victorian Designs using new kit Gypsy Magic!

This is the first in the new "Expressions" line of Creative Victorian kits. This line of kits will be perfect for both art journaling and regular layouts. Gorgeous!

TFL!

Bernie x

Crredits: Gypsy Magic by Creative Victorian Designs available here http://creativevictorian.com/boutique/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=129&products_id=1978