A 10K race and a journal page

Morning all! How are you today? I hope you have a great day and thanks for your comments on yesterdays post. You're all very kind!

Last night I went in for a 10K race at my local athletics club - well when I got there I wondered what on earth I was doing there! It was full of very young (mostly) very fit looking club runners - oh well I thought to myself - somebody has to come last! Anyway - after 62 minutes I didn't quite come last - about 215/222 I think - lol! Still I managed it! Here's a picture of me and my friend Julia once we had finished!



Compare this to the last 10K we did in April at the same club - where the conditions weren't quite so good:

This one took 63 minutes! This was the before picture!  Lol - the finish picture is even worse! The camera got all steamed up in the damp conditions!

Anyway! Onto today's make - its for the Journalling facebook group that I'm part of  - the brief was a different view....

To be honest I had no idea what to do - so I just played and this is what happened! I used Paperbabe stamps and stencils to do the lady, paperartsy paints throughout although I think I used some older pebeo paints to do the hair. 

I used a number of TH stencils and distress inks in the background.

And the fluorish stencil was from Indigo blu.

I would like to enter this into the challenge at paperbabestamps-challenge-16-hair. 

Hope you have a great Thursday - we are having the last day at school today - what fun!!!! Then its going to be the big summer break!

Big hugs

Rachel xx

time for some journalling

Hello there - how are you? Hope you are doing good - we're enjoying half term and will hopefully continue to do so! I made a card on Tuesday night that I was going to blog today - but I'm not so sure about it - I'll decide what I'm going to do with it soon! So I thought I would catch up with showing you a couple of journal pages that I did for the journal Art 15 group that I belong to on facebook.  The prompt for the first one was doodling - we were encouraged to include some doodling or zentangle on our pages:

I wanted some white space in this set of pages - I find it quite intimidating and wanted to see if I could incorporate some. The doodles are all mine apart from the girl which is a stamp from Lavinia. 

The next page is from this last week - the prompt was something old - my distress inks, something new - fish stencil from clarity, something borrowed (the stick stamp used at bottom is actually a violin handle from a violin stamp I borrowed from my mum a wee while ago), something blue - thats clear I think!!!!

I do enjoy journalling and look forward to the new prompt every Thursday - I wonder what todays prompt will be?

I hope you have enjoyed your visit - thanks for any comments you choose to leave! Big hugs rachel x

Back to my Journal and my new cut n boss

Hello Lovelies - hope you are okay and thanks for your lovely comments on my canvas yesterday - I really appreciate it. I also got my cut n boss yesterday - first thing was it wouldn't emboss so I phone crafters companion and they gave me a different sandwich and it worked perfectly. It cut well according the instructions in the manual - so I'm happy at this stage. Its got a long way to go but happy just now!

Today I want to share my latest journal page - I made it using distress inks and stencils - the brief was your fave two colours plus black and white. I chose green and yellow. I like all colours but chose these as its fresh and zingy and makes me think of spring.

there's a whole combination of stencils on there - paperartsy, andy skinner, clarity and tim holtz.

colours used are fossilised amber, mustard seed, mowed lawn, shabby shutters, peeled paint.

The lettering is from clarity.

I would like to enter this into the following challenges:

theartisticstampercreativeteam mays-creative-challenge-journaling-your

to be updated.

Big hugs and see you soon!

Rachel xx