Artful August Challenge - in January! Week Two

The challenge continues with 'Round', so my brain went straight to the song 'Windmills of your Mind' and I incorporated some of the lyrics with just a few of my circle stamps.

'Box' had me thinking but I ended up trying out a new die set from Sizzix and creating boxes for the images to sit in.

'Stitch' was hand stitching over collage.

'Foliage' was made using my hand carved stamps which gave a good 'imperfect ' look to the page.

'Paint' sent me off to my acrylic paints for the background and the stencilling on top, finished off with  words from my favourite book for found words,  'The Trojan Horse' by Hammond Innes, which never fails to provide some suitable words and phrases. 

I used a vintage postcard from my Great Uncle's collection as the focus for 'Building' and some Italian stamps in the background.

I created a background for 'Ink' using walnut ink and then used distress inks for the pocket and little file folder inside...

...including some of my favourite stamped sentiments.

Two more weeks and a bit to come.