Doors

 Hi everyone.

Happy Thursday. Another week is flying right by, isn't it?

Today I have 2 art journal pages to share with you. One is for for Valerie's challenge at Art Journal Journey and the other is for Second on the Second over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

This month the new ART JOURNALING  challenge at AJJ is When One Door Opens Another One Closes.

I call this page What Goes On Behind Closed Doors. It is my new page to share.

I used a stencil and some light modeling paste to create a bit of texture in the background. Then I used a few colors of spray paint.

I found the doors in an Art By Marlene punch out booklet. I glued them down in the middle of the page. I also found the rainbow image and added that. Of course we want everything going on behind closed doors to be good. I added the gold metallic paper sun to the rainbow just to make sure all is good, and of course the sun adds lots of warmth also.

I added some white paper trim as a place for the doors to sit, as well as a few small plastic pearls too. Then I stamped the keys underneath for a bit of interest. I also stamped the quote on the top of the page. 

Finally I stitched the border around the page. That didn't completely show up in the top photo. In this next view you can see it better. At least some of it is easier to see. 

Don't forget we only accept art journal pages of any size. No cards, tags, ATC's or dimensional art please.

And here is my second look.

This is a spread from a journal I made in 2018. Here is the link to the original post: Merry Christmas. Noticed I picked a couple of pages with lots of doors.

This was a great journal  for the holidays because I made the whole journal in advance, leaving spaces to write in my daily story.  I could even sit on the couch, watch TV and fill it in. I'm going to try to remember this for next year because it would be a good November project. 

I hope your week is going well. No complaints about my week. So far it's been relatively quiet, as I've been busy putting out holiday decorations, making art, and reading. I did get to see some friends last night, which was great as it's been close to a month since I've seen any  friends. Hopefully my walking friend Jo and I can get back into a weekly walking routine. With my trip and the Thanksgiving holiday, it's been several weeks since we've been able to do that.  Today we have rain, which did start off as snow. It's just a dark dreary morning as I write this.

Thanks so much for stopping by my blog.