Ok we are not oldies but we have been on the DT for some time & are staying, These are the very Tallented ladies staying with us on IACW :) The ladies are lucky I was going to put a photo of them up but my emails are not working so they have been let off lightly (unless i add them later)
CAZ - Creating memories
DEBBIE- Rainbow Poppy
JAYNE- Paper Thoughtz
LYNNE- Lindyloo Crafts
KAREN- Dollys dreamings
ELEANOR- Highland House Keeper
MANDY- ichthusfish
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Hello, Eleanor here again, with another circle journal entry, this time it's the very last one in the circle called Take One Stamp.
Hard though it is to be the tenth person to think of a fresh creative way to use a rubber stamp, for me, as soon as I saw this particular stamp...
I knew it could only be one lion, who else, so I stamped the image onto the centre of one of my trusty 20 cm squares of cream cotton curtain lining, and fished out this messy pile:
Some many hours, no, maybe days, actually, it was weeks, later, I had to restrain myself from adding just one more stitch, (more's the pity, see below) and declare, in the words of C S Lewis:
“It was a lion, huge, shaggy; and bright it stood facing the rising sun.”
On the facing page, I embroidered a quote from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
Letter by letter, in a single strand of embroidery thread.
I enjoyed this immensely, and I hope the owner is pleased with my version of her lion stamp, even if, in my haste to finish my entry, and post the journal off to her, I didn't give him any whiskers. I wonder if she will add some. I hope so.
If you have an unusual rubber stamp and can't think how to use it, try some freestyle embroidery.
Cheerio.
Hi Joy here for the first of my visits in December.
I know that most people in December are looking towards Christmas but I have been turning my thoughts to the New Year. And in particular New Year's Resolutions. My main resolution is always to make more "me time" but as a mother to four that is not always easy. When pondering this thought I came across this circle journal that I made in 2005! It is pristine, untouched, unsent! I felt that 2010 was time to send this little book on its way.
All the instructions are there. The tags are ready for people to sign in.
I decided to take the first step and fill in my own resolutions.
So now all I have to do is send my little journal off into the world. I have a bubble envelope standing by and I have my address book at hand. I will let you know how it goes on it's travels.
I hope all your Christmas plans are going well and you all have time to be creative.
Take care Joy xxxx
Hello, Eleanor here.
Looking back over past Christmas projects I remembered making an entry in a circle journal. The journal was called a 'Calendar Circle Journal' organised on the old Canny Crafts Forum.
Whichever month you received a journal in, that was the month your entry was based on, so by the time 12 months had passed, your completed journal, now returned to you, had a fabulous piece of work by a fellow forum member for each month of the year. For December in Cal's CJ I chose to highlight Christmas through the senses, with stitched pocket pages, and tags.
Here are the 6 tags:
And on the back of each, my personal association of that sense with the Christmas season.
Have a go at thinking about Christmas and what it means to you in terms of touch, taste, smell, sight, hearing and that special inner sense.
Bye for now.
Hello, Eleanor here.
I'm involved in another circle journal, this one involving rubber stamping.
Each of the ten or so members of the circle chooses a stamp, makes a journal and completes an entry in it, then sends it off around the circle, complete with stamp, for each member to 'do their thing'. Usually anything goes, but as the months go by, entries seem to get harder and harder, as most of the more obvious choices have been taken.
The latest entry I completed used this stamp:
as chosen by jo.bee on UKS. Some beautiful and fanciful entries are already in her journal, which is about 6x6 inches, mostly using the stamp 'as is' and I pondered for a while, until finally, loving the seaside as I do, I settled on 'Wish You Were Here'.
I made a background simply with sandpaper and patterned paper to represent sand sea and sky, used stripy paper and scored cardstock for beach huts, echoed the hanging letters on the original stamp by downloading a similar font (BackTalk serif) for the title,
and finally had an opening door, behind which was standing my 'altered' fairy.
Her body I recut plain, and drew a bikini top with fineliner, her sunglasses I made from tiny white wire hearts, backed with black cardstock and infilled with diamond glaze, and her sarong hanging over the door was originally one of her wings.
Finally I completed the back of a sign-in tag, which is about 4cms tall, and got carried away on the front of it with more sandpaper.
Now I'm off to the post office to send my beach babe on her way.
Wish you were here, and see you soon.
x
