Midweek Art and A Walk

Hi everyone. 

Today  I have a journal page and a tag to share with you.

Back over the Thanksgiving weekend I bought a few Black Friday marked down craft supplies from Joggles.com . When they send you your order, it comes wrapped in some printed tissue paper. 

My order came in this fun and slightly retro looking house and car holiday tissue paper. My first thought when I pulled the wrapped supplies out of the box, before I even opened the tissue paper, was that there are lots of doors in the design. I used some of the tissue paper as the background on this page for Valerie's When One Door Opens Another One Closes challenge at Art Journal Journey. 

If it's slightly wrinkled that's because I am recycling it from my package.

I covered a piece of watercolor paper with the tissue. Then I added some colored baker's twine I had, and I used my sewing machine to stitch it down onto the page. 

One of the items I bought on sale was this fun clear stamp of truck/van with the tree on top by Studio Light. I stamped it on some already painted green paper (I wanted it to stand out against the busy background), and then I rough cut around it. Once I attached it to my page, I used the white Posca paint pen that was also in the package and added the snow effects around my stamped image. I had ordered a yellow Posca paint pen too, and I added in the headlights. I filled in the windows of the truck/van with the blue paint pen in the package. If you can't tell, I was very excited to see the paint pens on sale, so along with a couple of stamps, I  bought a few paint pens too. 

 I  used a black Sharpie and doodled in the driver.

I finished my page with a few TH holiday images from my stash.

It's sometimes hard to use a busy background and add images, but I think this page works. 

And the newest challenge at Tag Tuesday is Pinky's Anything Christmas. Here's a tag.

I die cut a tag from a blank time card and then stamped the pretty winter greenery image on it. After coloring I added this dapper man, a bit of trim and some silver metal paper bells. I colored the bells for a bit of contrast. Finally I stamped the believe word.

And our weather has been cold and then slightly warmer and then cold and then slightly warmer. It's been a weird weather month. This week the temperatures have been milder, and its been a good week for walking. I'm taking advantage of the weather when it's here.

One day, almost 2 weeks ago when my daughter was home, she and I went for a walk along the rail trail in the next town.

Someone was feeling festive and had decorated part of the trail.

The big lakes were not frozen yet.

But Back Bay was getting there.

We sat on a picnic table at the beach  ( on the big lake photo above) for a awhile and enjoyed the view. The sun was warm and the trees blocked the wind.

I hope no one was crazy enough to go swimming though as it was only  30 degrees F (about -1 degrees C) outside. Life guard or not.

There was one duck looking for his friends. He would not be quiet until they appeared from around a little bend in the lake. I think he was worried about them. I was happy when he found his friends, and they paddled off together.

A beaver had been by since last time I'd walked on this trail a month and half ago.

It was definitely good to squeeze in a walk (a few more this week too) before the snow comes.

That's all for me. Have a great middle of your week.