This Time Last Year............

........ I was in New York with hubby, celebrating our 30th Wedding Anniversary, I can't wait to go again, hopefully next year. 

 Here's a few photos from our visit.

 Macy's, a great place for your handbags...... lol

 View from the Empire State Building - Spectacular!

 WTC Freedom Tower 

WTC Memorial Pools - A very emotional place 

 Lady Liberty, isn't she fab!

The Flat Iron Building, beautiful!

Bright Lights of NYC!

 I used Aquatints for the background on this card, sprinkled onto wet water colour card.  I also splashed some plain water over the top and dabbed off to reveal lighter speckles.  Then I stamped over with a stamp from Altenew.  The set is called 'Sketchy Cities America'.  I think this stamp works well with this background, the bright lights of New York! (yes I'm still in love with NYC)

Some news............

.......... I've been itching to mention this since Saturday.......  I've been asked to join the fab DT over on Visible Image, after applying to their DT call a couple of weeks ago.  So I'm thrilled to bits to be joining them and using their fab stamps, hoping to bring fellow crafters some inspiration.  I've used their stamps for a long time now, starting from when I used to run the I Love ProMarkers blog and they became one of our sponsors.

This card uses just one of their sentiment stamps, the image is a stencil and the background was made with just one shade of Aquatints, I think they're brilliant.  Lady Liberty, looks like she's got a lovely blue sky behind her.

And the real thing..... 

 ........taken in September last year when we were in New York for our wedding anniversary.  She's lovely isn't she........

First Steps into Art Journaling......

I've always said I don't see the point of journaling........ now I'm dabbling in it....... never say never eh!

I started of just testing some paint dabbers I bought recently, oh it's so much fun making splats with them...... lol.  So then I carried on and added more with ink splat stamps and finished of with a bit of random stamping with a Tim Holtz stamps.  I printed the wording of and cut it up.

NEW YORK, NEW YORK

I'm so in love with this place after spending our 30th wedding anniversary there, back in September, and I'm not a city person!  Now I can't wait to go back.......

I cut Lady Liberty, the skyline and the I♥NY shapes on my Cameo, which I then painted with acrylic paints. I made my own texture paste (pva glue and talc) and added it through a stencil.  I then added red and blue ink sprays, stamped randomly.  

Individual looks of each page.

Am I getting the hang of art journaling or what.  Seems a bit like scrapbooking to me..... lol.

Winter Wonderland - Just One Designer Paper

Oh, I'm late posting my DT card for Winter Wonderland......  Our theme is 'Just One Designer Paper, and our sponsor is All Dressed Up, who have 2 digi image up for grabs for the lucky winner.

Here's my DT card.

The image is of course from our sponsor and coloured with ProMarkers.  All the dies used are by Sue Wilson.  The bp is from a DCWV paper stack, can't remember which one though, sorry.

Winter Wonderland - Fussy & FAncy

This weeks challenge over on Winter Wonderland sees the start of challenges when your entry doesn't have to be a Christmas Card, though you can of course still enter with Christmas cards if you wish,  The theme for this one is 'Fussy & Fancy' and will run for 2 weeks!

We have 4 fab sponsors who are -

The Hobby House whose prize is a £10 voucher

Wild Orchid Crafts whose prize is a £10 voucher.

Crafters Companion whose prize is a £10 voucher.

Crafty Sentiments whose prize is a choice of 3 digi images.

Here's my DT card.

I used a mixture of dies from the Sue Wilson range from the New York collection for the main part of the card, the flowers are also Sue Wilson dies.