"The Incomparable Book" Third in a series of 4 Hand Made Journals.

This is the third little journal I have listed in a series of four. It is the same size as the journals ""Understanding and "A Way of Seeing. " Have a look! You can see it described more fully on my Etsy shop. There is a link on the right of this post.

Cover, gelprint, torn digital tag (designed by me) and ephemera. 

Library card on left and paint and ink on right with drawing. 

Intuitive painting, gel print  and ephemera. 

Gel print on left and painting on right. 

Gel print with embellishment, intuitive drawing and painting on the gelprint 

Gel print and ephemera on left, gel print and torn image on right. 

Gel print and ephemera on left, ephemera on right. 

Found paper and ephemera on left, gel print and torn digital tag on right. 

Stencilled gel print on left, distressed paper on right. 

Ephemera and digital print on left, gel print and stencil on right.

Painted paper with torn digital tag and digital tag attached. (Tags designed by me)

Gel print and ephemera with stamped image. 

Gel print with stencilled butterfly, drawing and ephemera. 

Painted page with tissue and painted page with digital tag (designed by me)

Gel print and drawing with ephemera. 

Cut envelope with gel print and ephemera. Torn tag. 

Torn digital tag and ephemera on gel print. 

Gel print and ephemera on left with torn digital tag (designed by me) and intuitive painting on right. 

Collaged image with my digital image and ephemera. 

Intuitive image and ephemera and library card on right. 

"A Way of Seeing", Hand Made Journal

This journal is a companion to the previous one listed called "Understanding." It is an intuitively designed journal including images made with gel prints, stencils, ephemera, painting and drawing.
Here is a peep!
I have described it more fully on my Etsy shop. There is a link to this shop to the right of this posting.

"A way of Seeing" Hand made Journal.

Library card on left. Gel print and ephemera on right. 

Painted background, torn digital tag and ephemera. 

Painted background on left with paper dragonfly on left. Digital print (designed by me) and painted background on right. 

Gel print and painting with ephemera. 

Gel prints and ephemera.

Gel print, painting, stencil and writing. 

Gel print, drawing and stencil with torn digital print (my design) on left. 

Gel print and drawing on left, ephemera and digital printed tag (designed by me). 

Paper, drawing and torn digital tag (designed by me). 

Painting, stencilling, and ephemera. 

Painting, torn digital tag (designed by me) and hand made tag. 

Gel print and drawing with torn digital tag (designed by me).

Gel print on left. Cut envelope with gel print stuck on. 

Gel print.

Gel print and ephemera. 

Gel print and ephemera. 

Gel print and drawing, torn paper on painted background. 

Image transfer and ephemera. 

Painted background, torn digital tag (designed by me) and ephemera. 

Gel print and drawing. Digital tag designed by me. 

Painted background and ephemera. Library card on right. 

Front cover, gel print, stencil, ephemera. 

Missing in Action and Some new Journals.

I feel like I am just getting started with 2018! Where has it slipped away to so quickly? I had a trip to visit my family to celebrate my dad's BIG birthday! I will spare his blushes by not saying which one, but it was a great time! I enjoyed being in the Northern Irish countryside in mid winter, and I was not sad to miss the super hot days in South Australia when the mercury climbed up to over 40 degrees. It is so special to be in familiar scenery where you know every nook and cranny and to visit people you have known since you were a child, "my ain folk" as the Ulster Scots would say!

I come from County Fermanagh which has more water than anywhere else I can think of! This winter it even had a little snow! Here is a little snippet of my trip.

The snowy view out of my bedroom window

The bridge over the flooded Colebrook River in my parents village

Lough Erne at Castle Archdale on a freezing day.

Some lovely white sheep at Crom Castle

Enniskillen, the main town in Fermanagh

I brought some journal pages with me on my trip but didn't get much done to them. At least they had a holiday! This is the first of the finished journals, entitled "Understanding". It can be written on or drawn on or simply kept as a wordless book as it is. I have described it more fully on my Etsy shop listing. There is a link to my shop to the right of this post.

Front cover next to matchbox for scale. Gel print, torn digital image, ephemera.  

Old library card on the left. Gel Print on black paper on the right.

Gel print on left with attached tiny paper and ephemera. Gold tissue on right on black paper.

Gel prints stuck on black paper.

Digital tag (designed by me), gel print paper and ephemera.

Gel print on black on left, and digital print (my design) on right with embellishment.

Gel print, embellishment and ephemera

Gel print and butterfly collage on right.

Gel print and white pen embellishment.

Gel print and  custom made dragonfly stamp. 

Tiny book stitched in with blank pages.

Gel print on left, collage on right

Gel prints.

Gel print and collage

Gel print with original digital printed tag collaged. Gel print on right on black paper with white pen drawing.

Original digital tag (my design), gel print, gel print on right with torn digital tag.

Gel prints and drawing.

Gel prints and drawing with ephemera collage.

Gel print with ephemera on left, digital print on the right ( my design) with drawing embellishment.

Left, digital print (my design) collage with gel print, library card.

Thanks for looking. I will post some more journals as soon as possible.