With most of the World in lockdown, quarantine and isolation, I thought it would be a good time to collate a list of links, ideas and resources to keep you busy, creative and to occupy your minds during this period of 'downtime'.

​I will be covering free art classes, Facebook groups that promote creative journaling, the best of You Tube tutorials, ideas for children, hand lettering freebies and the best free resources and entertainment from my blog and online.

​​Hi all, well what a week! I hope that you are all staying safe. I am thinking of each and every one of you xx

Today I am creating vintage collage sheets using a variety of ephemera, die cuts and papers. These can then be used as master boards that you can scan and print and reprint as you wish. You could also edit them in image software to make them black and white or sepia toned. They make great happy mail to send out or to use in Junk Journals, creative journaling and art journals.

These were created for a challenge over in my Facebook Art Journaling Group 

• Kerrymay Makes A Mess

For free vintage ephemera downloads have a look at my blog post here

• Free Vintage Ephemera Sites

I hope that the video inspires you to create your own. 

​It's been a while since I updated my 'Happiness' junk journal and there were a good few pages that I still hadn't done any journaling on. I decided to dust it off and get some creative journaling done on some old book pages using ​this months kit from the Lollipop Box Club.

For ​these first two pages I used gesso to cover the pages with a thin layer. This is not something I would usually do, but I was trying out the gesso, hahaha. I do actually like the effect it gave and it did make the pages more sturdy.