Holiday Whimsey

 Happy Friday!

I really don't know where the weeks go. This one, like all the others, flew right by. Time slow down a bit please! Christmas is only 2 weeks away. I guess I need to write my cards and wrap my gifts. Smile.

Today I have a whimsical fantasy page for Valerie's When One Door Opens Another One Closes challenge at Art Journal Journey. I am also linking up to challenge #78 at Creative Artiste Mixed Media challenge blog.

I used to have a couple of mushroom house rubber stamps, and in my various cleanings and purgings, I had passed those along.  The memory of them however inspired this page. I began by drawing this giant mushroom house with a Sharpie on a sheet of watercolor paper.

I used paint, markers and stamps to create the basic house. While the paint dried I took a sheet of snowy scrapbooking paper from my stash and glued it down onto some watercolor paper. I then painted the bottom white to make it the snow covered ground.

I attached the mushroom house to my background paper. Then I drew in the chimney and used some Stabilo pencils to create the smoke. If you aren't familiar with Stabilo pencils, when you wet them they get all smudgy.

I then used both  very watered down white paint and only  slightly watered down white paint to add some accumulating snow onto the house.  I also added some details such as the die cut and glittered Christmas lights around the mushroom cap, as well as some die cut winter branches in the base of the window box. I also drew in the details around the door and window.

I added the little trees, a vintage Santa image, and then used paint and Stabilo pencil to make the little stone walkway.  Finally I stamped the quote and added it to finish my page. 

That's all for today. Have a great start to your weekend! And thanks so much for visiting my blog too.