And she lets out a sigh of relief.....

I feel starved... of creating that is! I've been slogging away on an assignment "Principles and Theories of Learning" for my teacher training course. Well I handed my whole TPP in last night so that's my first year over! After I left college, we had a drink and a treat...look away now Carmen....



I deserved it! It has been hard work...I enjoyed the learning, just struggled to convert all that knowledge into the essays. But it's done now, so today I took myself into my room and PLAYED....
A couple of months ago, I made a journal after watching a Teesha Moore You Tube video. I have also made something similar at Dyan's where I bought this gorgeous hanging adornment to embellish the journal when its finished. I haven't really attached it yet otherwise I won't be able to lay the pages flat to work on but I wanted to show it off...is it not lovely?




I used borders by Marsha at Tumblefish Studios, I followed a link from Kate and was hooked, a girl can't have too much choice you know.
Anyway, this is the title...



Andy thought it said 'A journey into the unknown, but I like the play on words here....



I added the little Stampotique guy 'cos I like the stamps, they are full of expression and you can make them 'fit' all sorts of situations...I guess Pat will approve, I think she has more than 50 of these stamps!



The colour isn't great here but I've also used a few collage images from Crowabout Studio ... you know, those weird one eyed people that kinda grow on you... I am really beginning to like 'different'. It's expression, and I want to express myself. (Although I don't think I'll be venturing into the spooky doll heads just yet Kate!)




AND, I am rather proud of this vine...I've seen other people do these after art journal workshops at Dyan's but never had a tutorial myself..can't wait to see what Dy thinks of these! Actually, I'd better not boast too much here, all I did was draw the 'vine' then I used Dyan's leaf stamp from the flower plate and coloured them in! I still I think it looks good though.



I used a couple of ART quotes for the journaling, lettering from a tutorial by yes, my buddy and mentor, Dyan



And looky here...more pages to create art on...and a whole Summer ahead of me to do it in!



I am going up to AFTH tomorrow, so I will be coming back with the new Altered Original spray inks that Dyan has just released, I can't wait to have a play with all those delicious looking colours.
I'm going to check out all the blogs I've been missing for the last month - I tell you what though, it was hard to discipline myself not to go blog hopping when I should have been researching for that assignment...are we blog addicts??!!