Jane Davenport Blog Hop!! 3 Creative Journal Inspirations!

Hello Inkies!
It has been quite the quiet corner over on here on my blog, but I thought I'd jump right back into the hot seat and throw some creative spark starters at you using the new Jane Davenport Artomology Range.

Today I want to show you three simple quick creative ways in which I've tweaked Jane's wonderful stamps for my journal pages. I love to look at stamps in a different light, how can I make it look quirky and a little weird because that's what I like to create and draw.

This is probably the most 'normal' way I've used the ADORABLE Narwhal.

I grabbed a blank project life card and the shade Scallop Shell! (by far my favourite shade) I stamped this at the top of the project life card and just cut around the top part of our Narwhal's body so that my tip in has a nice shape, which is a cute feature when all the items around it are straight lines. I've used the Smooth Markers to create a bright pink boarder and some sketchy lines for Journalling at a later date.

Very simple and instant gratification which I am ALL about when it comes to journal keeping, we only have so many hours in a day, we want quick yet beautiful way to add things to our memory keeping books.

Speaking of quick ways to add things to our journals, sometimes we only have time for the highlights! We want to get down the daily highlights just so we have a record somewhere, short on time and want to make note of one thing that happened that day. I saw this stamp in Jane's range and again looked at it..with my sort of eyes heehe.

 Grabbing my Smooth Markers again, I coloured in her hair bright and crazy knowing full well I will be giving her a haircut and separating her locks from her face changing the entire look.

I wanted to create a cute and colourful way to capture daily highlights. The little things that stick out from the day, when you don't have a large chunk of time this is a great way just to get the important forget me not highlights! I LOVE how this came out and have already made several more to shoot across my pages in the coming months.

Last fun way to use Jane's stamps is a cute little bug girl! I love creating creatures and whimsical takes on things. When I saw these little droopy flowers I instantly saw bug antennas! I then wondered how I could create the wings for our bug, and a flower cut in half would do just the trick! I grabbed a simple girls head with the same floral motif to make it look like a bug head wear.

I took inspiration from an oddball version I created in a pocket art journal that I work in from time to time. So I decided to create a bit of a bug sisterhood on my page. I think the Jane's version is the fancy well traveled bug sister. I used a fine tip black pen to create the line work on her bug body and the page boarder.

Stamp Sets:
Unicorn Sparkle
Relaxed Narwhal
Hair Lines
Poppy Girl
Flower Girls
Marker Sets:
Smooth Markers Feathered Friends
Smooth Markers Mermesmerising

Ink Pads

Squid Ink Scallop Shell

Squid Ink Cave Black
Other Supplies
Black Fineliner
Blank Project Life Cards
Red Copic Marker.
Glue Stick

I hope you've enjoyed my 3 ways to play with your Artomogy stamps! There are so many more ways to play with these! I shall make sure I create some more for you very soon!
Pop on over to Jane's Blog where the hop begins. but if you have started with her then pop on ove4r
to see the lovely Zinia Redo
The other blog hoppers are below:
Kate PalmerMona TóthAnna Komenda
Spellbinders
 

There is also a giveaway for US Davepeeps! If you're interested jump over to the Jane Davenport Artomology Collection Bundle Sweepstakes

Have an AWESOME ARTY DAY Guys!
xx Courtney

The Artful Journey Day 13 - portrait practice

In the nook tonight, there isn't much happening, today's been filled with too much 'real life' stuff such as sorting out day care for little ones (which still isn't sorted) and also ringing around for removal quotes.

But in between it all, I did get a minimal amount of work done. I started my faces homework for my Jane Davenport Supplies Me course. which is such a beautiful refreshing course.


and on the gulfsprite journal class, the prompt is text! now I've been mulling this one over, and I only got a start on it late tonight so there isn't much to see yet! but slowly slowly I'll get there, I always do.

I'm going to snuggle up and cuddle into my man while I draw some more faces and plan my text page
xx sleep well my darlings
x C

Sunday Snippets

Playing along with Tinnie Girl in her Sunday snippets. Today has been a long day indeed, the boy leaving at the crack of dawn, and the little ones being rather pushing of mumma's buttons. but alas, here are the pictures from my day...

adding graphite to my girls face, and giving her more defined hair.

I worked on a new journal today for myself..which resulted in me unpacking a box I'd already packed to get to my font stamps.

that simplest thing like the curl on my girls forehead...

elijah..playing hide and seek in a cupboard...(before the tantrums lol)

binding my first journal by hand... from scratch.

the cover of the journal...when you fold the covers out to size, its a dripping rainbow, I am slightly in love with her.

so that is my Sunday, Im worn out, drained and a little bit emotional after the day the kids put me through..but its all ok...because I have a new art journal.
xx Courtney

Creative Space Thursday

Another Thursday creeps in with creative vibes, and this week I've spent my afternoons and late nights at the dye pots dyeing the last yarn before I take alittle break to just enjoy knitting and relaxing! It will only be a short break but I need it after dyeing so much yarn! In preperation for sending off this last lot of orders, I now custom make my tags cause I think its sweet when someone goes to that effort to make their tags, takes a little more time but its worth it.

As well as stamping my tags, I also stamp my parcel envelopes! mail art is a lost cause sometimes, but I always love it when an envelope has a little bit of artwork on the outside, so I sat down to stamp all my goddies, attach ribbon and descriptions and away I go!

Back to trying to get the last of the yarn dry, with all this rain and overcase weather, nothings drying the way its ment to this is day 4 of wet wool!

for more creative spaces, pop on over to Kootoyoo's Blog!

Tea and Yarn

Courtney xx