Art For Friday

 Hi everyone. Happy Friday to you. 

Today I have quite a few pieces of art to share. First of all, I have a tag for this latest challenge at Tag Tuesday. This  latest challenge is hosted by Michelle and her theme is Fairy Garden.

I used some left over ink to make my background and stamped the rest of the images. A few images were fussy cut and colored, the rest were stamped directly onto the tag and colored.

I also completed the challenge for Day 11 at Creative Jumpstart. The teacher for this lesson was Riika Kovasin.

We were asked to use sales receipts ( or online order receipts in my case) to create squares. I used 2 left over receipts  that came in holiday gifts I had ordered online. I painted one with various colored watered down acrylics and the other one I stamped with various repeated images.

 Instead of mounting my punched out squares on an envelope as the class instructions, I went my own way mounted them right in my journal. I actually loved the envelope idea and writing a letter to ourselves for the future, but I am also trying to complete some other class lessons as well as some challenge art, and I want to have these pages for future idea reference. I was afraid an envelope in the mess I usually create would get lost.

After we created our squares, we were to make an artistic person to put on them. We could use photos, magazine cut outs, stamped images, drawings, you name it. I drew a body and then used an Art by Marlene punch out for the face on my first page.

I had some left over squares and decided to use them on another journal page. This time I used all Art by Marlene punch outs (you sure get a lot  in a booklet for not a lot of money) and made a slightly different type of page. 

As I've said before, I am picking and choosing what I actually make, depending on whether it's something that interests me. I am watching all the videos though as they are all really good. I really needed this little art tickle the class has given me. That is one of my favorite things. It feels good to be trying out or retrying new techniques instead of doing the same thing over and over.  I am linking up to Art Journal Journey and my favorite things challenge. 

I noticed on Jo's (Let's Art Journal) blog she mentioned  the square challenge Country View Challenge, so I thought I would join in with these pages too.

That's all for me today. I hope everyone has a great day and start to your weekend too.