Art Journal Journey - A Door

Over at Art Journal Journey it is coming to the end of Valerie's theme of 'When One Door Closes Another One Opens" and today I am entering a page in my new (old really as I have had it a long time but never used it) Journal.  It is a small one, around 4" x 6", and each page is of hand made paper, or it looks like it is.  It is divided into five signatures, two slim ones back and front and three thick ones in the middle.  It has a leather cover and a neat little closure.  It also has a canvas bag that it sits in but I left the bag at home (I am at the caravan in The Lakes) and just brought the Journal away with me.

I also brought a couple of images with me to the caravan and this one was of a doorway, especially for Valerie's theme

This doorway (the stamp says it is a doorway) is an image from Aall & Create which I stamped with Acorn ink.  I then used my Zig Color Pens in shades of brown and greys to colour it with a tiny bit of blue to represent sky.  I had no idea what else to do for the background but found a piece of card with Citron Distress Ink on it and some leaves stamped and coloured in with Forest Green ink plus a bit of white pen.  This conveniently was the size of the page and so here we are - my latest entry for Valerie's theme at AJJ.

Hopefully my Dylusion page will post tomorrow and I will be posting another one in my tiny journal on New Year's Eve.  So see you over at AJJ soon.

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Hope you all had a lovely Christmas, if you celebrate it, and Father Christmas was very generous to you with his gifts.  Any crafting products?  I got one polymer stamp which was the only one on my list and I think someone probably thought I had enough craft stuff and they should not add to the clutter in my room.  I did have a storage thing on my list but didn't get it, wasn't sure if I had anywhere to put it should it arrive so maybe that was not a bad thing,

Well, Christmas is over and we are awaiting New Year to come in now although there is not that much to celebrate with this damned Covid/Omicron about.  I guess those of us who are 'free' from it should celebrate that fact and be glad we are ok.  

Now I have a different desk for you

I am working in a different journal.  This is one I have had years but never used it because it is small (about 4 x 6") and now that Art Journal Journey have changed their rules and accept small journals I am starting to use it occasionally.  It will be a very mixed bag, no particular theme or anything.  It's a shame you cannot see it as it is quite an attractive book, leather bound and it has a nifty closure on the front.  There are three images, the top one is the stamp I got amongst other gifts from my bff.  

As you can see I am working on the dining room table - in the caravan.  yes, we came away for a couple of days between Christmas and the New Year.  Even though the site is not closing we are draining down for the next couple of months just in case the weather changes.  We don't want to risk burst pipes or anything.  The pens live up here and are part of my craftroom (the spare room - and one of the beds - the mattress has never been used and is piled up on the other bed.). Here is my 'craft room':

I have lots of storage boxes and each is full of various crafting materials.  Those nappy boxes are from my cake icing days and the grey curver box was a freebie from my bff not long ago.

Well, it is a beautiful day so I am not spending time inside.  The painting of those bits can wait until tonight when it goes dark and then it's back home in time for new year coming in.  I would love to see what you all have to show us on WOYWW and I do hope you all had a Blessed Christmas.

This was the view from our door yesterday morning as I looked out and to my right (well lunchtime really, I slept until 10 in the morning (shock horror) - it is holidays).  It looked as if the trees were hanging in jewelled ornaments but you will have to expand the photo to get the effect.

It did look pretty special

Happy New Year to You All and God Bless