Last of the circle journal

Hello and welcome to my room . Hope that your day has been a pleasant one and that you are ready for the week ahead. I had a wonderful afternoon  crafting with friends,  There  was  lots of laughter and chit chat .
Tonight,  though , I completed the last of my contribution to the circle journal . This one is from Colleen .

This is  a picture of her cover . sorry that the scan is not so good .
Hopefull my pages will be clearer as they are  not so bulky.
My quote is   "An unhurried sense of time
                      is in itself a form of wealth "
                                 -Bonnie Friedman

I used stamp set Share a Cup  and Sense Of Time , SU.Coffee bag image is from Judith G-87.The two larger lady images are cut from old dress pattern packets . Ladies sharing drinks is from stamp , Art Impressions and moments greeting is from Hero Arts , while friend to friend is from set Teen Tiny Sentiments SU.

Time spent with my friends today inspired my work tonight . So thank you Jane , Sandy and Fran .

I am expecting my own journal to be arriving home very shortly and can't wait to add pages and share all with you . Look under label My Entry to a friend's journal for other pages

Till next time cheers for now , Shirley-Anne

                              

Clocks and Chooks

I had another Circle Journal arrive today .

This one from Elizabeth from Victoria .
This is her front cover .
I think that these are doilys .
Love the pearl string around centre  lighter shade of lavender.
Elizabeth has indicated that her journal is about two of her favourite collectables. Those being Clocks and Chooks .













It was easier to do the clock page I think .

But all in all quite happy with my two pages .

Page one .

Page two



Hope that Elizabeth will like these pages . Can't wait to get mine back .
Only waiting on two more journals  I think , then the circle will be completed.
I hope that you have found the shared pages interesting .

Angela's Journal

Remember an earlier post on  the Circle journals that I and a few friends are creating pages for? Well  Angela's turned up today with a request for "fashion Pages" please.

Now this would have to be my hardest challenge of all time ! For three reasons ..
1;   I am not a scrapper
2;   I have no fashion sense at all
3;    I am not an embellisher, or  a great colour coordinator .
But this is for fun and my friends are KIND .

Here is the front cover of Angela's Journal.
So artistic . So flowery and lacey.

Now for the pages I 've just completed . The first page was reasonably easy as I had several really old dress patterns stored in the back of the linen press. Now I can't swear to their age but I think its late 60's early seventies. I cut out the ladies from the front of the packets . The papers and ricrac  are from my stash of scraps and the buttons are from SU..

Now the second page was harder. I had some vintage photos and papers , flowers and stickers . . I  love the corner embellishments . This page was more about the hats of yesteryear . Before my time of course but I love these hats . They are femininity personified . I meant that this page was harder because there is a need to add more embellishments and try as I might dingly , sparkly or loopy things just arn't me! But I love seeing them on other people's creations .   I certainly hope that Angela likes them .                    And I hope you do too.                            

Another travelling journal

I received another travelling journal the other day .
I had to wait untill I had some photos taken and printed before finishing my  pages. A while ago I packed up all our photo albums and sent them to
our Daughter . So I do not have any of our family
or ourselves here at all .
Any way , here is Andre's journal cover .
Stunning , I thought.

Now here is my first page .
Actually,  it has been a blessing in disguise for me to be involved with this project as I get to have current photos taken . I don't know about other husbands but getting a photo of my Doug is like finding teeth in a chook!
And this one was taken only a few days ago out the front of a small cafe we visit for coffee . Doug and I gopher [ I walk] about 6 or so ks every day for coffee and shopping . Just in front of Doug  on the gopher is our dog , Jacki, who comes with us .


Another good thing about participating is that I get to scrapbook , something I don't do much. Adding bling and more than one embellishment is something I find challenging  as well.

For the 2nd page I used vellum and my PC to write a short message . I layered that onto Lavender card stock with brads. I had some vintage paper [unknown source ] to cover page first and then added a couple of flower embellishments

This is really a fun thing to do .

Can't wait for the next journal to arrive .






Hope you like these entries  and find them interesting . Please leave comment so I can visit you too.                 

My pages for Jacinda's journal

Today I received Jacinda's Journal and quickly completed my two pages .
Not too clever at scanning and uploading pictures in right order . But it's not life threatening so I will carry on .
This first picture is actually second page .
Introducing Doug. And acknowledging that he supports my love of paper art.

      The first page , the second picture ,is including a photo of us at a cafe enjoying our morning coffee .

                                                                        

We do a lot together and this tradition that we have started is just one of the many activities we enjoy sharing .

Hope that you like the pages not that I am a scrapbooker by any means but I do like writing !

My journal page for first of our group

Desley is the first of our group to send me her journal . I am the first to place a page in it.

Her theme is "My Family and I" Here is my contribution .

Actually we are placing 2 pages in each. My first page is an introduction of my Husband , Doug, and myself . Then the other page is a journal entry . The images at the bottom are supposed to represent my hobby . One is a miniture card and the other a scrapbook page .

On the first page I used a background of "faded flowers '' SU dsp. All the leaves in Autumn tones as I tried to convey that we are in the Autumn of our lives .