I love how you describe the individuals in the photos as looking upwards as hopeful. I live in the U.S. and this week has been one of the most dreadful weeks of my life. I feel such sadness and despair that I can relate to your beautiful collage. Thank you for sharing your words and artistic talents. It is a balm for my broken soul. ✌️
It's a very difficult time to find joy for those on one side of the political spectrum. And the impact is going to be far-reaching, not least here in central and eastern Europe... I was grateful for a few minutes of creative distraction, that's for sure. Thank you for your company and for sharing your thoughts.
Take care of yourself and don’t let despair from keeping you from moving forward in the fight to save this country. It’s been difficult in our family and friends life, however, we’re not going to show the opposition that we are in despair, nor shall we give up.
Me too in the us so sad, still hoping for some kind of miracle to maybe happen. Trying to watch Alison to feel better, also waiting for the new stamps to be available.
That's a lovely thought, thank you - happy to provide a little bit of distraction in difficult times. It's going to have far-reaching effects, not least here in central and eastern Europe. Working hard on hopefulness at the moment. Thank you so much for watching and for your thoughtful comment.
‘Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” Vaclav Havel “We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King Jr. Lovely pages Alison! I love the shining, hopeful faces in the photographs. 🙂🍁❤️🇺🇸
I feel like this won’t be the most eloquent comment, I’m struggling for words lately…I truly appreciated your honesty about how you were feeling today, Alison. Watching you create on UA-cam has opened new doors of inspiration for me. You are so warm and have a passionate heart. I really appreciate that you share so much here on your channel. I’ve been struggling with anxiety and panic attacks recently and I find that when all of that is happening, my brain goes offline and I can’t find joy in the things I love. I really admire that you still came to the craft table and turned the camera on despite not feeling your best. The result was really beautiful. You continue to inspire me in many ways, like today. Thanks so much. Best wishes, Niki 💕
That all seemed highly eloquent to me. I can completely understand the speechlessness and anxiety. It's hard to know how to process everything that is going on in the world right now. I'm so happy to have offered up even a few minutes of distraction. Thank you so much for your generous response to this week's video, and for sharing your thoughts and your vulnerability. Wishing you well.
This art journal page is amazing! As always, I truly enjoyed you walking through your thought process and describing things. I was absolutely amazed in the first video, when you added the spritz and then softened it out with the brush to make it like shadows from the leaves. At that moment, with you describing the shadows, I could literally see the leaves, their shadows, and a tree emerge right there on your page. It was fabulous! Thank you for generously sharing your creativity. 💙💙💙
Oh, thank you so much for sharing that experience you had watching the tree emerge on the page. I'm delighted you are enjoying the fun here - thank you for that beautiful comment, and for your company on this creative journey.
I just got some leaf dies and I so look forward to watching your leaf making video one again and get to it. I have LOVED your work for years! You have lots of colours inside to take the place of the outdoor ones. 😊
So happy that you are enjoying the fun and inspiration here... I hope you'll have a lovely leafy time with your new dies. How exciting! Thanks so much for your company on this creative journey.
I truly admire your intuitive and free-ness in your process Alison. I wonder if this has always been for you or something that has emerged over time and your creative practice? Love this so very much🥰🤗
Hard to say... I think it's likely a lesson learned from the world of words, where I have had much longer to discover that freedom and playfulness get far more interesting and rewarding results than rigidity and trying to get things "right". That sense of the joy of creative flow is one I have brought with me from the world of theatre, probably, and I'm always hoping to lose myself in the process at the craft table as a result. Thank you so much for that thought-provoking question - and your warm words.
@ it truly is a beautiful pleasure to observe you at play, and so very aspirational for me. I believe my career choice restricted those attributes within myself. Where I once wrote poetry and music, I was then in an environment that demanded only factual accounts of observation, no expression of emotion permitted. Where I thought I was working for the greater good, it was counter intuitive to my creative nature. I’ve been striving to dig deeply and be willing and daring enough to open up again, a lot of undoing/unlearning after working in a restrictive and regimented environment for so long. My creativity focused on helping others that were lost and helping them find their light in the darkness they found themselves in. It was very rewarding in that aspect, although the cost was personally very high. Words are so very powerful, and can change people’s lives when they are spoken with integrity and grace. 🤗🙏🤗
I really hear you on the costs of helping others find light - but what a profound contribution to those lives you will have made. It sounds as though you are on a truly enlightening journey for yourself now... wishing you joy on that path. I hope the poetry and music is on its way back to you. Thank you for sharing your thoughts here.
I really like this spread, Alison with the punched out leaves remnants and the embellishments. I just received my tiny attacher, amazed with how the staples are even smaller than the small stapler I had for 50+ yrs from my high school days. I love how nicely it works, also. Enjoy the chilly sunny days and taking care of winterizing your garden.
I do love the tiny attacher (even if it runs out at just the wrong moment!) - and that little touch of metal it adds to a project. Hoping to get some garden work done tomorrow... it's been very cold and foggy the last few days, so I've been waiting for slightly better weather! Thanks for watching and for your lovely comment.
It was lovely to see this all coming together so well, especially as you weren't really in the mood for this at the start. We all have those times and it was great to see how you got through yours. As you know, I really enjoy your story telling.
Very happy that you enjoyed the journey of these pages... it was great to lose myself in the process and the story for a while. Thank you for your company on this creative journey.
I'm happy to leap outside my comfort zone now and then... I know where to come back to when I want my happy place! Sounds like you've got that sorted too... Thanks so much for your company on this creative journey.
Watching your videos always brings joy to me. I truly love everything you create. I'm starting on decorating jars today (I got the inspiration from your amazing tutorial) to give to friends and family before Christmas. I love hearing about where you live. I live in South East of England (Portsmouth), and it's a typical grey day today outside. I'm staying home today in the warmth, and fun doing my arts and crafts. Have a lovely weekend. Take care, xx❤❤😊😊
That sounds like the perfect antidote to grey weather - enjoy your art and craft time. I'm delighted you are finding joy and inspiration here on the channel - thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
Looking for the light, looking for the hope... and yes, I love that now-you-see-it, now-you-don't of the shimmer too! Thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
It never fails. The stapler runs out at the most inopportune moment!😂 I love how this turned out! I have to admit, when you started this project, I was unsure but I love it!!!❤
Yes, those casually selected photos from last week's video suddenly took on whole new and vital meaning after Tuesday's events. Stay strong, stay hopeful. Thank you so much for your company on this creative journey.
Beautiful finish for those journal pages. The blue brightened up the pages and the shimmer just super. I am cutting up copies of pages from my mother's high school year book, she had done these when she sold the original (because of Warren Beatty) I have not yet gotten the courage to actually use her yearbook pages and I can't quite figure out why, it is not like anyone wants these except to maybe tear it apart for pieces. Thanks for the wonderful inspiration.
Work with the copies for now - you may find there comes a time when the real thing calls to you, and somehow becomes "necessary" within the creative process. Or you may not! I agree the blue was an uplifting touch - much needed - and the shimmer will be even better in sunlight than artificial light... we just haven't had any in the last few foggy days! Have a good weekend.
AmyR at Prairie Paper and Ink uses her phone flashlight to shine on the shimmer stuff to try and show more closely how it looks IRL. This spread is lovely - thanks for starting when u didn’t wanna!
Hello Alison! YAY on autumnal art journal FUN… I love the idea of this couple looking UP into the future with hopeful expectations despite their bug infested surroundings they’re having to endure while waiting. =) I’m sorry I’ve mostly been absent the last couple of weeks or so… I don’t do scary, creepy, crawly at all - so I don’t even want the picture of it in my mind - I never have… so between the spooky Halloween content and your excellent story telling being SO good that I couldn’t get past the first couple of minutes of the last two Books, Books, Books episodes. (I know most people LOVE Halloween as much or more than Christmas so I’m sure most viewers loved the videos). So…I ended up checking out the PaperArtsy Blog that I hadn’t seen lately and was excited to see the you are the focus of the current topic especially since anymore to me, Nature = Alison Bomber… I enjoyed the Q&A and the photos of all those beautiful projects. I’m really wanting to create some of those beautiful houses from Fodder School 3… Although I haven’t been being as creative as I would like to be, I’m glad that at least I’ve been doing some collage pages. Inspired by one of your answers in the blog post my focus this weekend will be backgrounds. Thanks for all you do to encourage and inspire. Take Care and have a wonderful weekend!!! ❤🙂🌻
That's great to hear that you found your way to the PaperArtsy Q&A (and yes, I completely get it about the spooky stuff!)... and found some background inspiration there too! I'm going to be bobbing up on the PaperArtsy blog myself this coming week - so watch out for that. Thank you so much for your always thoughtful comments.
Yes a very beautiful page that I was looking forward to see finished! It’s always exciting to see you work and makes you want to do the same, thank you
Happy that watching leaves you wanting to play yourself - hope you'll have a few minutes of fun of your own very soon. Thank you for watching and commenting!
It's interesting, isn't it... sometimes I'm drawn to them, sometimes not. And wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same thing in any case?! Thanks so much for watching and for your thoughtful comment.
I love how you describe the individuals in the photos as looking upwards as hopeful. I live in the U.S. and this week has been one of the most dreadful weeks of my life. I feel such sadness and despair that I can relate to your beautiful collage. Thank you for sharing your words and artistic talents. It is a balm for my broken soul. ✌️
It's a very difficult time to find joy for those on one side of the political spectrum. And the impact is going to be far-reaching, not least here in central and eastern Europe... I was grateful for a few minutes of creative distraction, that's for sure. Thank you for your company and for sharing your thoughts.
Me too.
Take care of yourself and don’t let despair from keeping you from moving forward in the fight to save this country. It’s been difficult in our family and friends life, however, we’re not going to show the opposition that we are in despair, nor shall we give up.
Me too in the us so sad, still hoping for some kind of miracle to maybe happen. Trying to watch Alison to feel better, also waiting for the new stamps to be available.
Big hopeful hugs. The rest of us have veen watchibg with fingers crossed.❤
Watching you create is a balm for the soul after a tough week here in the States. Thank you for the gift of your time and your talents.
That's a lovely thought, thank you - happy to provide a little bit of distraction in difficult times. It's going to have far-reaching effects, not least here in central and eastern Europe. Working hard on hopefulness at the moment. Thank you so much for watching and for your thoughtful comment.
‘Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” Vaclav Havel
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.” Martin Luther King Jr.
Lovely pages Alison! I love the shining, hopeful faces in the photographs. 🙂🍁❤️🇺🇸
Very excellent quotes, thank you. Food for thought. Thank you for sharing those, as well as your warm words about the pages.
I feel like this won’t be the most eloquent comment, I’m struggling for words lately…I truly appreciated your honesty about how you were feeling today, Alison. Watching you create on UA-cam has opened new doors of inspiration for me. You are so warm and have a passionate heart. I really appreciate that you share so much here on your channel. I’ve been struggling with anxiety and panic attacks recently and I find that when all of that is happening, my brain goes offline and I can’t find joy in the things I love. I really admire that you still came to the craft table and turned the camera on despite not feeling your best. The result was really beautiful. You continue to inspire me in many ways, like today. Thanks so much. Best wishes, Niki 💕
That all seemed highly eloquent to me. I can completely understand the speechlessness and anxiety. It's hard to know how to process everything that is going on in the world right now. I'm so happy to have offered up even a few minutes of distraction. Thank you so much for your generous response to this week's video, and for sharing your thoughts and your vulnerability. Wishing you well.
@ Thank you very much for your kind reply and your wishes, Alison. I hope you are having a lovely week and are keeping warm.
This art journal page is amazing! As always, I truly enjoyed you walking through your thought process and describing things. I was absolutely amazed in the first video, when you added the spritz and then softened it out with the brush to make it like shadows from the leaves. At that moment, with you describing the shadows, I could literally see the leaves, their shadows, and a tree emerge right there on your page. It was fabulous! Thank you for generously sharing your creativity. 💙💙💙
Oh, thank you so much for sharing that experience you had watching the tree emerge on the page. I'm delighted you are enjoying the fun here - thank you for that beautiful comment, and for your company on this creative journey.
I just got some leaf dies and I so look forward to watching your leaf making video one again and get to it. I have LOVED your work for years! You have lots of colours inside to take the place of the outdoor ones. 😊
So happy that you are enjoying the fun and inspiration here... I hope you'll have a lovely leafy time with your new dies. How exciting! Thanks so much for your company on this creative journey.
I love the way you create a whole story around these pages. I would nearly believe that these people have existed. Lovely 😍
Happy you enjoyed the story woven through the pages - thank you!
I truly admire your intuitive and free-ness in your process Alison. I wonder if this has always been for you or something that has emerged over time and your creative practice?
Love this so very much🥰🤗
Hard to say... I think it's likely a lesson learned from the world of words, where I have had much longer to discover that freedom and playfulness get far more interesting and rewarding results than rigidity and trying to get things "right". That sense of the joy of creative flow is one I have brought with me from the world of theatre, probably, and I'm always hoping to lose myself in the process at the craft table as a result.
Thank you so much for that thought-provoking question - and your warm words.
@ it truly is a beautiful pleasure to observe you at play, and so very aspirational for me.
I believe my career choice restricted those attributes within myself. Where I once wrote poetry and music, I was then in an environment that demanded only factual
accounts of observation, no expression of emotion permitted. Where I thought I was working for the greater good, it was counter intuitive to my creative nature.
I’ve been striving to dig deeply and be willing and daring enough to open up again, a lot of undoing/unlearning after working in a restrictive and regimented environment for so long.
My creativity focused on helping others that were lost and helping them find their light in the darkness they found themselves in. It was very rewarding in that aspect, although the cost was personally very high.
Words are so very powerful, and can change people’s lives when they are spoken with integrity and grace.
🤗🙏🤗
I really hear you on the costs of helping others find light - but what a profound contribution to those lives you will have made. It sounds as though you are on a truly enlightening journey for yourself now... wishing you joy on that path. I hope the poetry and music is on its way back to you. Thank you for sharing your thoughts here.
@ thank you for Alison for showing me the true joy in being openly and authentically playful in our creative spaces 🤗
I really like this spread, Alison with the punched out leaves remnants and the embellishments. I just received my tiny attacher, amazed with how the staples are even smaller than the small stapler I had for 50+ yrs from my high school days. I love how nicely it works, also. Enjoy the chilly sunny days and taking care of winterizing your garden.
I do love the tiny attacher (even if it runs out at just the wrong moment!) - and that little touch of metal it adds to a project. Hoping to get some garden work done tomorrow... it's been very cold and foggy the last few days, so I've been waiting for slightly better weather! Thanks for watching and for your lovely comment.
It was lovely to see this all coming together so well, especially as you weren't really in the mood for this at the start. We all have those times and it was great to see how you got through yours. As you know, I really enjoy your story telling.
Very happy that you enjoyed the journey of these pages... it was great to lose myself in the process and the story for a while. Thank you for your company on this creative journey.
Lovely video! I’m a blues girl and though I attempt to move out of my comfort zone, I’ll always return to a variety of peaceful blues. Thank you.
I'm happy to leap outside my comfort zone now and then... I know where to come back to when I want my happy place! Sounds like you've got that sorted too... Thanks so much for your company on this creative journey.
Lovely. I am always looking forward to your weekly minutes of fun!
That's lovely to know!!
Watching your videos always brings joy to me. I truly love everything you create. I'm starting on decorating jars today (I got the inspiration from your amazing tutorial) to give to friends and family before Christmas. I love hearing about where you live. I live in South East of England (Portsmouth), and it's a typical grey day today outside. I'm staying home today in the warmth, and fun doing my arts and crafts. Have a lovely weekend. Take care, xx❤❤😊😊
That sounds like the perfect antidote to grey weather - enjoy your art and craft time. I'm delighted you are finding joy and inspiration here on the channel - thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
Love how this page turned out, thank you so much for sharing
Happy you enjoyed the process - thanks so much for watching and commenting.
Gorgeous design and I do like the shimmer because you don’t see it unless you tilt the page! We are all searching for hope these days!💕🇨🇦
Looking for the light, looking for the hope... and yes, I love that now-you-see-it, now-you-don't of the shimmer too! Thank you so much for watching and for your lovely comment.
“Live with what you got” Best quote from you today! What a beautiful,process to watch💙💙💙
Very happy you enjoyed it - and glad you found some words of wisdom too!!
Another beautiful layout.
I keep learning new things from you every time I watch your work ❤
That's so great to hear that you are finding inspiration and new ideas here. Thank you so much for your company on this creative journey.
Super pretty layout , love how it all came together 💕
Happy you enjoyed the journey - thank you.
very interesting page. it's a beautiful day here in the USA. tfs
Happy you're enjoying your day. Thanks for watching and commenting.
It never fails. The stapler runs out at the most inopportune moment!😂
I love how this turned out! I have to admit, when you started this project, I was unsure but I love it!!!❤
Staples galore now! Happy you enjoyed the journey from uncertainty to a more hopeful place... thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Love the colours and the story. Hopeful...that has to be the word going into 2025. Thanks kindly for sharing your process Alison❤️🇨🇦
Very happy that you enjoyed the hopeful journey of these pages - thank you so much for watching and commenting.
Beautiful spread! Love it and your pages. Hopeful is certainly going to be a word used here frequently in the next few years.
Yes, those casually selected photos from last week's video suddenly took on whole new and vital meaning after Tuesday's events. Stay strong, stay hopeful. Thank you so much for your company on this creative journey.
Gorgeous 🍁🍂
Thank you very much.
Beautiful finish for those journal pages. The blue brightened up the pages and the shimmer just super. I am cutting up copies of pages from my mother's high school year book, she had done these when she sold the original (because of Warren Beatty) I have not yet gotten the courage to actually use her yearbook pages and I can't quite figure out why, it is not like anyone wants these except to maybe tear it apart for pieces. Thanks for the wonderful inspiration.
Work with the copies for now - you may find there comes a time when the real thing calls to you, and somehow becomes "necessary" within the creative process. Or you may not! I agree the blue was an uplifting touch - much needed - and the shimmer will be even better in sunlight than artificial light... we just haven't had any in the last few foggy days! Have a good weekend.
AmyR at Prairie Paper and Ink uses her phone flashlight to shine on the shimmer stuff to try and show more closely how it looks IRL. This spread is lovely - thanks for starting when u didn’t wanna!
@@99zanne Ah, well my phone is busy doing the filming, but having a little flashlight nearby shouldn't be impossible - that's a useful tip, thank you!
Lovely pages
Thank you very much.
Thank you for sharing.
Happy you enjoyed it, thank you.
Hello Alison! YAY on autumnal art journal FUN… I love the idea of this couple looking UP into the future with hopeful expectations despite their bug infested surroundings they’re having to endure while waiting. =) I’m sorry I’ve mostly been absent the last couple of weeks or so… I don’t do scary, creepy, crawly at all - so I don’t even want the picture of it in my mind - I never have… so between the spooky Halloween content and your excellent story telling being SO good that I couldn’t get past the first couple of minutes of the last two Books, Books, Books episodes. (I know most people LOVE Halloween as much or more than Christmas so I’m sure most viewers loved the videos).
So…I ended up checking out the PaperArtsy Blog that I hadn’t seen lately and was excited to see the you are the focus of the current topic especially since anymore to me, Nature = Alison Bomber… I enjoyed the Q&A and the photos of all those beautiful projects. I’m really wanting to create some of those beautiful houses from Fodder School 3… Although I haven’t been being as creative as I would like to be, I’m glad that at least I’ve been doing some collage pages. Inspired by one of your answers in the blog post my focus this weekend will be backgrounds. Thanks for all you do to encourage and inspire. Take Care and have a wonderful weekend!!! ❤🙂🌻
That's great to hear that you found your way to the PaperArtsy Q&A (and yes, I completely get it about the spooky stuff!)... and found some background inspiration there too! I'm going to be bobbing up on the PaperArtsy blog myself this coming week - so watch out for that. Thank you so much for your always thoughtful comments.
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Thank you!
Yes a very beautiful page that I was looking forward to see finished!
It’s always exciting to see you work and makes you want to do the same, thank you
Happy that watching leaves you wanting to play yourself - hope you'll have a few minutes of fun of your own very soon. Thank you for watching and commenting!
Have you used the Infusions Colored Stains from Paper Artsy? They look so intriguing!
Yes, I have, and they are great fun to play with. That's a lovely idea for a Few Minutes of Fun in the (near?) future, thank you!
Nice
Thank you.
I love all the nature elements and colours but I am not so keen on the photos but that's just me!
It's interesting, isn't it... sometimes I'm drawn to them, sometimes not. And wouldn't it be boring if we all liked the same thing in any case?! Thanks so much for watching and for your thoughtful comment.