August Is Here

 Hi everyone. It is hard to believe that July has already come and gone.  Time is flying for certain. I'm hoping August here in New Hampshire is a little less wet than July was.

And speaking of it being August, it is time for a new challenge at Art Journal Journey. I'm sending big thanks to Alison of Words and Pictures for her wonderful July challenge and also to all you who joined us during the month. It was great to see all the different takes on Alison's Summer Countryside challenge. And July was the perfect month for the countryside.

For August at Art Journal Journey I'd like to introduce another new host, Neet.  You might also know her from her blog Hickeydorums. You might also have noticed all her fun Dyan Reavely pages every Thursday at AJJ, but this month she is here with a challenge I think we will all love, TYPE.

I  made my background with some type printed tissue paper, and that tissue paper got me thinking a little bit Victorian and a little bit steampunk as well as a little bit railroad. Plus it was a great opportunity to take out and use some old stamps sitting on my shelf.

I used some blue reactive ink and also a bit of black and green nonreactive inks to color my background. Then I cut the big train image from a sheet of steampunk scrapbooking paper I had in my stash.  I cut out the words from another sheet of paper in the same pack,  and I stamped the railroad crossing sign, the woman and child waving goodbye as well as the Victorian man.

The waving woman and child  image is an ancient rubber stamp from the long defunct Cornish Heritage Farm stamp company. I love that image, and even though it looks great colored, I left it black and white to work on this page. When I decided to use the train image this stamp jumped into my head, and it was great to be able to use it once again. I stamped the 2 small quotes on the top of the train paper. The "til we meet again" phrase went with the waving women set, and all other stamped images are from  TH sets.

I finally finished the page with some black rubber rings from a long ago hardware store purchase and some shiny little plastic stars which I put inside each.

I'm looking forward to seeing all your amazing journal pages with TYPE this month at Art Journal Journey. Don't forget the dreaded rules. Cards, tags, ATC's, dimensional art and other non-journal pages are not accepted. However, we love seeing your journals pages from all types:in journals or altered books, on fabric, sketching or even digital. Or any other kind of journal page you can think of. 

Thanks for visiting my blog.