Some Art Before T

Happy new week everyone.

I thought I would share a little inspiration for the challenge this month at Art Journal Journey. The new theme for January is Let's Face It. All you need to do is use a face (or more than 1) on your journal page.

My page today is pretty basic and is about how the dogs make me smile and often laugh.  

I started my page with some blue paint and a stencil. Once that dried the page felt like a cold winter day. I think its the color of the blue as it reminded me a lot of the blue in a bright  winter sky. 

The lady is a Funky Fossil stamp. I have a summer set which is lots of fun to use, and  so when I saw they had a winter set, I thought it would be good to pick it up. I've had it for awhile and am finally using it on this page. What I really like is the set (just like the summer set) comes with 3 heads and 3  bodies so you can mix and match. The dog image is  from my stash and except for the shape of the tail,  reminds me of Maddie. The lady is stamped, colored and fussy cut, while the dog (Maddie) is stamped directly on the page.

I finished off the page with a piece of gold metallic paper trim, a stamped quote and some plastic snowflakes.

It would be just like Maddie to tell me I should take them or let them out. Pete would only ask if he really needed to relieve himself.   Maddie's leash is in a cabinet and she can't get to it otherwise she might remind me all day long. When she is bored and wants to be entertained, she comes up to me and starts glaring at me with her death stare, then if I don't respond, she makes some grumbling noises from her throat. These noises only get louder as time passes, and if the grumbling doesn't work, she finally gives me the full on bark.

What a dog. 

Hope you like my page. 

I also have a tag for you today. 

The latest challenge at Tag Tuesday is Time and Clocks, hosted by Michele.

I have some winter stamps out and saw the snowman and sun stamp and knew I just had to use it for this challenge. If you look carefully at the background, you can see the word block image with  the word spring.  I added the clock and the time quote, to finish it off.

Right now spring seems a long way off, but to use the quote from my tag, it is just a matter of time and it will be here. Somehow it still seems like a long way off. Smile.

Have a great start to the first full week of 2021.