Friday Art

 Hi everyone. It is just about the weekend. This week has flown by, hasn't it? (Or at least it has for me.)

The other day I finally set up my new work table in the spare bedroom redo. I still have some bins to unpack or clean through that you might be able to see behind the work table, and my workbench is still covered in things I need to put away, so my room is not quite finished. BUT, I really needed to make some art as it had been a few weeks since I had done much of any creating (except for some challenge projects).  

I pushed all the still needed to do bins behind my work table and said the heck with the mess.

Boy did an art day feel good. 

Today I have some art to share.

I'll start with Sandie's Holiday/Travel theme at Tag Tuesday

Wanda is keeping her travel plans a secret, but I bet she is off on a plane someplace exciting as she told me to add a few air mail stickers to the tag.  And she also said I should use the silver dot and star paper scrap, as well as making the tag blue like the sky.  Hopefully Wanda will let us know when she gets home about her journey.

 I was inspired by this tag and Wanda's secret travel plans to make a  spread in my art journal. Actually Wanda dropped a few hints about where she might be going. Smile.

I love how these TH people come in multiple sizes.  I used the small photo version of Wanda up against the door on my journal page.  The door to the world is about to open for her. 

I am linking up my spread to Wendy's Doors and/or Arches theme at Art Journal Journey.

When I was cleaning through supplies I went through my scrap paper box which was just about to overflow. I threw out about half of those scraps and saved the ones I really liked. My journal page is made from some of those scraps, except for the birds which are actually a 1/4 of a small napkin and the gold butterflies which are a metallic paper embellishment.

The flowers and leaves are cut out from a scrap of printed paper. The "check" design on the left is from an image I had printed out on sticker paper. I also cut the balloon and the kiss definition out of some scrap paper. The background on the right as well as the horizontal paper strip on the left are scrap pieces. All of the world's city names are cut out of an old Hard Rock Cafe bag. And for some reason I still thought the pages needed something else to make them a "spread" so I used a black paint pen and added some dots. 

This month's Country View Challenge has a theme of Travel, so I am linking my spread up to that challenge.   I am also linking up my page to Creative Artiste Challenge Blog. This is for challenge #84, and the theme is Anything Goes as long as you use various types of materials on your page.

And since today is about linking up to different challenges, let me also link up to Nicole's Friday Face Off. I hope you're feeling better Nicole.

Here's a face that I sketched in my daily journal (a combo of writing and little quick sketches). I use a LePen black pen because it won't smudge  or change the color when I fill  in my drawings with my Faber-Castell markers. 

And finally, I'm linking up my entire post to Gillena's Friday Lunch Break.

There's a lot going on in this post. Thanks for reading all the way through if you made it this far. Have a wonderful start to your weekend.