Dare like no other

Today on the That's Crafty! blog I have a journal spread to share.  Details can be found on the blog.

Grunge Bird

The theme today over on the That's Crafty! challenge blog is Grunge.  This is my make a grungy bird using texture paste, a That's Crafty! Dinky stencil, Prima Art Alchemy Paints and Pebeo Dyna paint with lots of keys and pins for metal feathers.

Why not pop over to the challenge blog and see what my DT mates have made and for details of how you could win a £20 Gift Voucher

Discover Life

This is my make today on the That's Crafty! blog. I always keep at least 2 pages clear in my journal to wipe up left over paint, check what stamps look like and use up texture and crackle paste and once they start to look interesting I work into them.  This is a case in point and I noticed that most of the paints I had used were pearlescent or mica based so decided to keep with that feel.For more details of what I used and how I made it please pop over to the blog

Hunter's Moon

Last Weekend on Sunday night we had a “Hunter’s Moon”.  The Harvest Moon is the full moon nearest the autumn equinox and the Hunters Moon is the first full moon after that.  Both moons are close to the equinox and appear in the sky earlier than usual. You can usually see the moon rising in the sky around the same time as sunset, and because it’s near to sunset, it can take on a red or orange colour. The orange hue is because when you stare at the horizon to watch the sunset and low moon, you are looking through a thicker layer of atmosphere than if you are gazing straight up. The atmosphere scatters blue light but allows red light through to our eyes. Whereas the glow of the Harvest Moon helped farmers to gather crops as the daylight hours got shorter, the Hunter’s Moon gave extra light to hunters looking for deer, boar or other prey destined for dinner. This has inspired my picture this week.

I have chosen a Wolf as my hunter as October is Lupus awareness month and as some of you may know I have SLE form of this disease, and Lupus means Wolf chosen originally as people with Lupus often have a skin rash which was thought to look like they had been attacked by a Wolf.  The butterfly is the official symbol of the disease because the face rash is the shape of a butterfly with open wings, but for this October I am embracing my inner Wolf. 

For more details of what I used and how I made my picture please pop over to the That's Crafty! blog 

The Planetary Sea

It’s my turn today on the That's Crafty! blog and I have a little abstract piece to share.  In my head I was doing something underwater and seaweed inspired but hubby says it looks like a planet surface, maybe Mars or Jupiter.  So perhaps it is both, a planetary sea? For more detials of what I used and what I did pop over to the That's Crafty! blog.