Art Journal Caravan - Page 11

Well this came out a bit different to the page I had in my head, LOL, but I still quite like it! I wanted to create a  cosy womby, watery feel to this, with a bit of light to show the 'creation' being watched over and loved. This is a bit 'heavier' than I saw it in my head but I think it still works!

TFL!
Bernie x

Credits: Camel: Tangie Baxter with Tree: Suddenly Artistic;

B/G papers (blended): Createwings: Feathered Friends; Litterbox Creations: Carribean Blue;

Baby: Far Far Hill Blog;

Moon: Feli Designs: Kingdom of Ice;

Light ray: Bits n Bobs;

Scattered Hearts: Nanny Bernie: I Do I Do;

Textures/Overlays: Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen: Waves; Nick's Scripts & Scraps: Oil Paint overlay 1; Marisa Lerin grunge border;

sparkles: Piccolini Angelini: Eternal Amour;

Splats: Fei-Fei's Stuff: Crazy Beauty;

water textures: Secret Garden Creations: Sultan of Soil; Jennifer Labre Designs: The Lakehouse.

Font: Jenna Sue.

CT LOs for Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen using new kit - Flower Creek Lane!

Beautiful new kit from Karen! You can find it HERE at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LOs for ViVa Artistry using new collab with Paula Kesselring - Child Play

Such a cute new collab.!! You can fnd it at The Digichick HERE!!

TFL!
Bernie x

CT LO for ViVa Artistry using Otaku!

Gorgeous kit! Available at Scrapbookgraphics - HERE!!

This is my gorgeous DD1!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LO for VVa Artistry using new kit - Tough Love!

Such GREAT news - ViVa Artistry are guesting at Scrapbook Graphics!!! This is their new kit - Tough Love - and it's even on sale atm!!! You can find it HERE at SBG!

TFL!
Bernie x

CT LO for A-Liya using new kit Look AT Me!

Beautiful, beautiful new kit! Find it HERE! at Scrappity Doo Dah!

My 2 DDs and my DN!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LOs for Maguette Scrap Design using new kit - Le Monde Merveilleux de Noeline

Beautiful kit! Find it HERE!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT Pages for ViVa Artistry using new kit - Bollywood Dreams!

Gorgeous kit again!! Such fun to play with!! You can find it HERE at The Digichick!

DD2 - growing up so fast!

TFL!

Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Page 10

TFL! 

Bernie x  

Credits: B/g papers: 2 papers and a tag from Creative Victorian Designs: Combolulated;

B/G paper: Far Far Hill blog freebie: 004

Bricks & glitter: Creative Victorian Designs: Winter's Deep;

2 textures (used multiple times with diff blending modes): Shadowhouse Creations' Flickr Freebies: Chaos 7 & Difference Maker;

Texture: Elodie: Texture 7;

Lady: ViVa Artistry: Blue;

Font: Dead Secretary

CT LO for Feli Designs using new kit - Gentle Spring!

Beautiful new kit that really captures the feeling of Spring! You can find it HERE at Digiridoo Scraps!

TFL!

Bernie x 

CT LO for Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen using new kit - Take Me Away!

GORGEOUS new kit from Karen! You can find it HERE at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio!

TFL!
Bernie x

CT LO for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using new kit - Clearly!

Stunning kit from Aimee! And just LOOK at the SILLY price at the moment!!! Find it HERE at the Digital Scrapbooking Studio! Bundle available too for even BIGGER savings!!!!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Clearly by Aimee Harrison Design Studios available at The Studio here https://www.digitalscrapbookingstudio.com/store/designers-aimee-harrison-design-studios-c-13_243/clearly-scrap-kit-p-11065?zenid=35426ce588f7997fd7d5d2e07054364e

CT LO for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using new collab. kit Winter Woods!

Beautiful new collab. by Aimee Harrison Designs Studios, Deli Scraps by Min & Piggy Scraps!

Find it HERE! at The Studio!

TFL!

Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - March Adventure Quest

I found these words when I connected my wish to sell my artwork to a dream, and loved the picture in my head they inspired, of a waking angel...I've realised what I'd like to do, I just need to find a way to achieve my wish and get those castle gates opened!! If I get the time I may work on this theme during the month and make some more pages to form a set...IF, LOL!!!!

So this is my waking angel...walking towards those big castle gates and hopefully getting closer to the outside world - reality!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: B/G papers, blended: Piccolini Angelini, Se Souvenir; BenthaiCreations, Oh Mazing Papers; ANDesigns, Gold Paper Pack;

Texture Overlay: Creative Victorian Designs Overlay 14;

Texture from Lost & Taken via Jessica Sprague;

Textures from Shadowhouse Creations: Difference Maker and Chaos 7 - Flickr Freebies;

4xsmoke brushes by Creative Victorian Designs CU;

2xcloud: Creative Victorian Designs - Aethernautical and Winter's Deep;

Angel Wings: Creative Victorian Designs: Fantastic Realms Wings Set 2;

Sparkles: Bits n Bobs: Summer Spritzer;

Camel: Tangie Baxter with Tree: Suddenly Artistic;
Angel: Extracted from stock photo by guile135

Font: 4990810

Gallery Standouts Blog...

Yay! I have been mentioned on the Gallery Standouts Blog for my LO for Annie using the new mini kit from Creative Victorian Designs - Aetherial!!!
Thank you to Claire on the blog for choosing my page to be honoured, and also to Netta for such wonderful stash to work with!!!
http://gallerystandouts.com/fingerpointing/
Bernie x

CT LOs for Creative Victorian Designs using new kit Aethernautical and new mini kit Aetherial!

Two stunning kits from CVD today, and fun too with their steampunk and airships!!!

You can find them HERE and HERE!

TFL!
Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Page 8

Well! This page is a bit different for me!! (Although there's still some blending going on in there with the brushwork of the waves and sky!!).

When it was done I sat and looked at it and thought 'where on earth has THAT come from' rotfl!!!!

I think it was after I found those words...they really just hit home to me how everything we do should be done with decency and honesty. The things we have discovered about the lengths the stables where my daughter was injured last year will go to to hide the facts - even giving false information to an Investigating Health and Safety Officer and on the accident report sheet written on the day of the injury..it's beyond belief, really!

If people can't do the little things in the right way, then such enormously important things won't be done right, with morally rich actions from everyone being the norm!

I think our family lives in a bubble sometimes, when we talk about what happened to DD1 and how she was treated (terribly injured and no ambulance was called by the staff, and then they left her alone and suffering for 1.5 hours and didn't call me for an hour, and then didn't tell me the truth - just a small sample of the things we have discovered happened that day!) and we expect people to behave honestly and decently - is it us or is it them LOL?!!!!

(There could also have been a subconscious viewing of these people as some lowlife beetle, treading a kinda tightrope of thorns atm and us as the butterflies, circling around and waiting to see if they will fall off!!!! I'll be honest and admit that LOL!!!!)

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Camel: Tangie Baxter with Tree: Suddenly Artistic;

Paper, beetle, butterfly, barbed wire: Colour Splash Freebie from Deviant Scrap;

Wave brushes 1: Creative Victorian Designs CU

font: 4990810 (that's the name!!)

CT LOs for ViVa Artistry using new kits Blue and Ureshi!

Two gorgeous new kits from ViVa Artistry! Blue - available at the Digichick HERE! - and Ureshi - available at Digiridoo Scraps HERE!

TFL!
Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan - Page 7

One of the definitions was soothing...loved these words as being out and about in the fresh air always seems to relax me!

TFL!

Bernie x 

Credits: B/G papers: Bits n Bobs: Back to Nature (also tiny butterflies); ViVa Artistry: Generations, Life Composition & Gidget's Beach;

Flowers: ViVa Artistry: Muse;

Face: ViVa Artistry: Blue;

Camel: Tangie Baxter with Tree: Suddenly Artistic;

Font: Georg

AJC - Page 6

Well, I went on a bit of brain journey with this one, searching for a definition that inspired an image in my head. I think it was after seeing the definition absurd that I ended up with this quote...which may seem odd as it's Mother Teresa, LOL!!

It's what she said...the feeling of being unwanted. That just seemed to absurd, sad and absurd, that in such a large world, filled with people, with more ways to communicate than ever before, and more people doing charitable work and good deeds, that there should still be people inhabiting this world who feel unloved.

I don't doubt it, not at all...it just seems absurd...wrong...that in this day and age people should feel like that....is anyone with me?!!!!

I wanted a bleak feeling to the page, but still with a feeling of hope to it. Hence the dark bird - feelings of being lonely, unwanted, unloved perhaps - swooping down on unseen people and lives; then hopefully a feeling of lightness in the 'sky'...textures across the top and bottom that (to me!!) suggest it could be sea not sky...just a little hint at things not always being as they seem! Is a person I'm in contact with either IRL or online actually as happy or feeling as good about themselves as they appear...?

Maybe too much thinking, LOL, but this is where it all ended up!!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Camel: Tangie Baxter with Tree: Suddenly Artistic;

B/G paper, mask (used in centre and around edges)  and 'bubbles': Paprika Black and Blue Part 1;

Clear 'world' and bird: Ptitesouris: Le Bal des Sorcieres

Font: Brush Tip Texe Trial

CT LOs for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using new kit Cottage Garden!

Gorgeous new kit from Aimee! YOu can find it HERE at the Digital Scrapbooking Studio!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LO for Creative Victorian Designs using new kit Heartsong!

Stunning new kit! You can find it HERE!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LO for Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen using Cheez!

My DD1 with our Great Niece! This gorgeous, fun kit was just right for the photo of these 2 beautiful girls! You can find the kit - and bundle available too! - HERE at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LO for ViVa Artistry using Lost World kit!

Our trip to Woburn Safari Park- this kit from ViVa Artistry was just perfect!! You can find it HERE at The Digichick!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LO for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using Tylann!

DD2!

Gorgeous kit here - you can find it at the Digital Scrapbooking Studio!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LO for Netta Riss using new kit - Nostalgia!

Beautiful kit here with wonderful colours! You can find it HERE!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT Los for Maguette Scrap Design using new kit You Forever!

Absolutely beautiful kit here! You can find it at ScrapBird!
TFL!
Bernie x

CT LO for A-Liya Designs using new kit Blessed Time!

Absolutely beautiful new kit here...this really is a stunner!

My beautiful Great Niece!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Blessed Time by A-Liya Designs available HERE at Scrappity Doo Dah! 

CT LO for Feli Designs using new kit - Ever So Softly!

This is one stunningly beautiful kit!

RAK for my sister's friend Caroline x

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Ever So Softly by Feli Designs available at Didgiridoo Scraps HERE! 

CT LOs for Creative Victorian Designs using new kit - Fond Memories!

DGN!

This is an absolute stunner of a kit! Love it! You can find it at Netta's store HERE!

TFL!

Bernie x

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - February Adventure Quest

This quest really threw me at first, but something just came to me today! In my head I saw the changing of myself from when I started last year's Caravan, not knowing where my art would go - or how, LOL! - into what is happening now with me creating pieces I really love and some other people actually like too!! The dark is the old me - possessing potential but not knowing what to do with it, and the bright colours represent the me now!! I think this may be one of those pages that I love now but am not as keen on further down the track, but am going to stick with it anyway, LOL!!! TFL!

Bernie x 

Credits: B/G papers: ViVa Artistry: Tea Gardens and Muse;

Splats of coloured paint & flower: ViVa Artistry: Spring Garden, Vincent's Room & Muse;

Mask: ViVa Artistry: On My Desk;

Face: ViVa Artistry: Tag from Generations;

Numbers: ViVa Artistry: Gearhead;

Ink/paint splats: Dawn INskip: Innocence, Bits n Bobs; Magical Reality Designs: Schoolkid; Suddenly Artistic; Tangie Baxter: Gesso Splatter & She Journals; Creative Victorian Designs: Gypsy Magic Gesso; Gesso & Dots: Tangie Baxter: Parcels 3 & 4;

Texture: Shadowhouse Creations: Chaos 2: Flickr Freebie;

Sun rays: KimB: Sunshiney Day;

Dragon: Tangie Baxter AJC 2012 stash:

Camel: Tangie Baxter with tree: Suddenly Artistic

Font: Griffin

CT LO for Aimee Harrison Design Studio using new mini kit - Age of Innocence!

Gorgeous new mini kit - such lovely colours and patterns!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Age of Innocence by Aimee Harrison Design Studios available HERE! 

CT LO for ViVa Artistry using new kit - Gearhead!

DD2 was determined to make a big snowman when we got snow this past w/e!!!
Loved blending loads of stuff for that b/g...this is a great kit to play with!!!

You can find it HERE at The Digichick!!

TFL!

Bernie x

CT LO for Aimee Harrison Design Studios using new collab with SKrapper Digitals & Snips and Snails - Everlasting!

Our Great-Niece!
Beautiful collab. from these three talented Designers! What a combo!!
TFL!
Bernie x

Everlasting Collab by Aimee Harrison Design Studios, SKrapper Digitals & Snips and Snails available at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio HERE!

CT LO for Snickerdoodle Designs by Karen using Artist In Me!

Take a look at this gorgeous kit - perfect for more traditional pages or more 'arty journally' ones like this!!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: The Artist In Me by Snickerdoodle Designs available at The Digital Scrapbooking Studio HERE! 

Art Journal Caravan 2012 - Page 5

I think I was over-thinking this, LOL, and worrying that my mojo has gone walkabouts while I have this head cold...almost walked away from the PSE again today, LOL, but then decided to simplify things and LOVE what came out of that!

It's a mystery for sure, rotfl!!!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: Camel, gesso and water droplets: Tangie Baxter with tree: Suddenly Artistic;

Texture b&w : Lost & Taken via Jessica Sprague;

Coloured textures: Chaos 2,3 & 7 by Shadowhouse Creations (Flickr freebies);

Fonts: Artistamp & Before the Rain.

SALE!!!

Click the ad to go to the store :)

Bernie x

Hummie's World Themed Thursday Challenge

made for a challenge at Hummie's World! To illustrate the word 'music'. Hopefully portrayed the right feeling for the words :) 

TFL! 

Bernie x  

Credits:  Oil paint overlay: Nick's Scripts and Scraps; 

Feathers: Creative Victorian Designs - Winter's Deep; 

More feathers: Feli - Winter Romance; 

Blue sky paper: Spicy Lily; 

Face: free image from clipartpal by renijpeg; 

font: Before the Rain

lots of blending here to get the sun's rays coming out and over the tree...FUN!!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: b/g papers, blended: Maguette Scrap Design (CHange of Air); Tangie Baxter (By Magic Sampler); and 2 others I've lost the name of - will come back when I fnd it in my picasa!

Sun: KNC SCraps;

Rays: Bits n Bobs;

Lady: Far Far Hill blog freebie;

Font: Janda Apple Cobbler Solid.


If you'd like to see what's on offer at Hummie's World - all the friendliness and inspiration there, not to mention fantastic tutorials, just have a look HERE!!!!

CT LO for Feli Designs using new kit - My One and Only!

...once removed actually, LOL!

Absolutely beautiful new kit from Feli - perfect for any kinda page!!

TFL!

Bernie x

Credits: My One and Only by Feli Designs available here atScrappity Doo Dah 

CT Los for ViVa Artistry using new kit - Libris!

Gorgeous new kit from ViVa Artistry! You can find it HERE at The Digichick!

TFL!

Bernie x